“A resumption of normal service”
The Telegraph has a scoop. This might not go down too well in the working class areas: Exclusive: Philip Hammond tells business chiefs MPs will stop no-deal Brexit Philip Hammond told business leaders...
View ArticleRemoaner MPs
They dislike the treaty but fear a clean Brexit, They hope that – in more ways than one – they can fix it. Too statist to say, even at their most livid, “Take back control? Look at us, to whom you’ll...
View ArticleGoogling ‘Welsh evil’ (or ‘BBC stupid’)
They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding we possessed a French translation of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’. If that had been the only book they found, our doom would have been sealed. It is...
View ArticleGirl’s got a point
We need to be less ready to throw each other under the bus when the PC media tell us to. In London recently, Candace Owens of Turning Point talked about globalism versus nationalism, and was asked the...
View ArticleYou say that like it’s a bad thing, Mr Soros
The EU could collapse in the same way the Soviet Union did, George Soros warns Back in 1991/92, when the Soviet Union had just collapsed and the UKIP party had just formed to fight the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“A termite has about 100,000 neurons and we probably get through that number over a big weekend.” – John Searle, American philosopher.
View ArticleLess economy of truth, please: who kissed whom?
Punching back against PC lies – punching back “twice as hard” – is advice instapundit likes to offer. I wish I had a pound for all the times we instead push back half as hard, conceding one absurdity...
View ArticleThe Art of (No) Deal
Via Instapundit I came across this fine editorial from the New York Sun: “Sometimes You Have To Walk” The collapse of President Trump’s summit with the North Korean party boss, Kim Jong Un, certainly...
View ArticleLess economy of truth, please: who pays whom?
In today’s UK, we can only envy the US its first amendment, but Brits familiar with the PC narrative on race over here still find some US excesses hard to credit. Even Brits who hang out with lefties...
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Agreeing to disagree
Inevitably, a parliament that can agree on nothing can agree on a two-week delay. Hilariously, it’s the EU that protects us from longer delay – they disliked the last time Brits voted on them too much...
View ArticleOh, beware my Country
Build on the flanks of Etna where the sullen smoke-puffs float — Or bathe in tropic waters where the lean fin dogs the boat — Cock the gun that is not loaded, cook the frozen dynamite — But oh, beware...
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The balance of forces
Guido presents evidence that we have God on our side, along with the Queen, 63% of voters, a large part of an infuriated Tory party, and the army (or at least, the parachute regiment – I’ve lived next...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“When hedge-fund managers and the Communist Party see eye-to-eye on any question, it’s time to be concerned.” – Peter Oborne, writing in OpenDemocracy.
View ArticleElections have consequences – and so does arranging that they don’t
There’s a Snoopy cartoon that starts with Linus telling Violet he is running away from home. “I know a joke about running away from home”, says Violet. “A boy at a street crossing tells a friend he is...
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As annoying?
We’re confident that North Carolina’s politics will annoy us from the right as much as California’s does from the left, but we’re equally confident that center-right North Carolinians won’t try to...
View ArticleResisting ethnic prejudice by other means
Germany resists islamophobia. German law seeks to purge the public domain of such offensive views. Germany also resists anti-semitism. The German government’s anti-semitism commissioner has warned Jews...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“By stifling his criticisms of human rights-abusing regimes, what Donald Trump may see as the projection of strength is surely viewed by America’s adversaries as weakness. Turkish President Recep...
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Too Easy to Rebut the PC Ta-Nehisi / NYT
The long-suffering readers of this blog know that, like Bilbo Baggins, I occasionally inflict poetry upon you (in deference to this blog’s free speech convictions, I also allow the word ‘doggerel’ )....
View ArticleA logical danger in PC illogic
(Normal service – i.e. prose – will be resumed promptly. I promised a follow-up poem about its being too easy to rebut the race scammers – or ‘race hustlers’ as is, I believe, the US term. Here it is.)...
View Article“Does Britain have free speech?”
The title is quoted from a Quillette article (h/t instapundit) inspired by the following letter to author James Flynn from Tony Roche, publishing director of Emerald, explaining their decision to drop...
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