Britain's human history revealed
This is interesting stuff. Apparently several waves of human settlement were driven back by extreme climate change from what is now Britain before our ancestors finally succeeded in establishing...
View ArticleLeaked memo suggests how to package glorious farewell - Britain - Times Online
What an appropriately lame way for Blair's career to fizzle out. He will be remembered by history for one thing. He stood with the USA on Iraq, the opening, incompetent battle of Western Civilisation's...
View ArticleThe freedom paradox
I read this article from The Economist on my way to work this morning. I think it sums up, in moderate language, the general point I have been trying to make on this blog for a year and a half. H/T...
View ArticleMan jailed for speed camera blast
I am afraid that, for most of us, young Mr. Moore comes into the same category as John Hampden or Clarence Henry WillcockConsidering that burglars can plunder our homes with impunity, it's, to say the...
View ArticleBlunkett urges Brown allies to 'back off'
This is not only to avoid our opponents exploiting the impression of disintegration and division, but also to avoid the split of our party, which would have lasting consequencesHow I love the idea that...
View ArticleBlair's leadership goes into meltdown
How ironic that Blair or his entourage should use the phrase "seize the crown" in this context. It has been obvious for some time that this vain and undistinguished little man has entirely forgotten...
View ArticlePolice accused of inaction as anti-Jewish alliance emerges - Britain - Times...
Years ago, I dismissed a Jewish colleague's suspicions of anti-semitism in the City of London by saying that, in my whole life, I had "never heard an anti-semitic remark" in Britain. It was true and I...
View ArticleDrinking From Home: BBC Screencaps from 1943
This may be the best British political blog post yet. And it's not even about the delightfully agonising public demise of Blair. Well done, DFH.Drinking From Home: BBC Screencaps from 1943
View Article"I would prefer to do this in my own way"
"The next conference will be my last as Labour Party leader... I am not going to set a precise date... The precise timetable has to be left up to me.""I think it's important for the Labour Party to...
View ArticleDunderheadedness: Swinging from the gallows pole...
Dunderheadedness is a new blog to me, but this post is a cracker. Dunderheadedness: Swinging from the gallows pole...
View ArticleThe UK Daily Pundit: Boris the Buffoon Strikes Again
This sort of thing p****s me off. By all means attack a man for what he says or does. Politics is a contact sport. But don't attack him for the things he has no control over, like where he went to...
View ArticleCall to ban pro-suicide websites
There has been a steady flow of such stories and "calls" over the last year or so. Life is hard and suicide is legal. If people want data on how to kill themselves, then they should be able to get it....
View ArticleProdicus: The Islamisation of European anti-Semitism
This post goes into many details which support my view, expressed a couple of days ago, that the revival of anti-Semitism in Britain is almost entirely attributable to our Muslim community.Prodicus:...
View Article2,996
This is a brilliant idea. On this fifth anniversary, I recommend that you head to the 2,996 site and read the tributes by volunteer bloggers to the fallen of 9/11.God bless America. 2,996 List of...
View ArticlePrison threat for drivers who kill
The government, even in the middle of its internal political warfare, continues to pander to the prejudices of the ignorant.For someone justly to be convicted of a crime, he should have criminal...
View ArticleFirst double jeopardy killer jailed
From Joshua Rozenberg's report, one might think the Government's decision to repeal the "double jeopardy" rule had been vindicated. Yet the logic of the rule was, in part, expressed in Blackstone's...
View ArticleMenezes police officer promoted
This woman should be ashamed.BBC NEWS | England | London | Menezes police officer promoted
View ArticleBlair condemns anti-US 'madness'
As he prepares to leave power, Tony Blair understandably tries to focus on the one thing history will say he got right. We can argue over how well it is being fought, and whether we have chosen the...
View ArticleBrussels on trial over staff treatment
In the courts this week, a scrap of evidence in support of my thesis that the EU is more like the USSR than the USA; the use of psychiatry as a way to suppress dissent. You need an expensive FT...
View ArticlePope 'sorry' for offence to Islam
I cannot help but smile at the violent reaction of Muslims to the Pope's innocuous remarks. The religious are different, of course. For those who take pride in belief without proof, it must be child's...
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