“Date of arrest: October 7th 2023”
Three years ago today, Gazan civilians – not themselves Hamas, just Palestinians taking advantage of an opportunity – abducted Shiri Bibas and her children Ariel aged four and Kfir aged nine months....
View ArticleGuidance on differing cultural norms
Here’s a topical joke from The Ministry of Wit: BREAKING NEWS: The UK government has sent Official cultural advice to Flydubai after the cockpit incident!! pic.twitter.com/lO7b8sixr8 — MinistryofWit...
View ArticleSomething to note about the 100 people murdered by terrorists in Great...
97 of them were murdered by Muslim terrorists. Here is a list of terrorist incidents in Great Britain this century, stating the ideology behind the attack, its date, the place it took place, the name...
View ArticleWhat Seamus Milne wrote in the Guardian on September 13th, 2001
“They can’t see why they are hated” wrote Seamus Milne two days after the 9/11 attacks. Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become...
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Ann Widdecombe’s death is being treated as murder
I was saddened but not particularly surprised to hear that Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative MP who later became first a Brexit Party MEP and then the Immigration and Justice spokesperson for the...
View ArticleWhere to start climbing the mountain
The mountain… According to the polling company Ipsos, 2 in 3 British adults (69%) would support a law that requires social media companies to use age-verification tools to ban children under the age of...
View ArticleIn the rush of breaking news today, do not forget 7/7/2005.
Lots of news today. Nigel Farage has stood down as MP for Clacton, stating he will seek to be re-elected in the resulting by-election. The Daily Mail has defeated Prince Harry and several other...
View ArticleThe government will protect your data like it protects its own
The government consultation document “Making public services work for you with your digital identity” gives its chapters aspirational names like “Useful”, “Inclusive”, and “Trusted”. Here’s the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – People are such rubes
And, btw, when it comes to words, Trump made one of his most astonishing public lies recently about how Putin did not help Iran in the recent war. Speaking at the G7, Trump went out of his way to...
View Article“Half of Belgium sees the US as a bigger adversary than China”
“Half of Belgium sees the US as a bigger adversary than China”, reports EuroNews. The poll also found that China is viewed less negatively than the US. Between 40% and 44% of respondents described...
View ArticleWhat is the point of the police appealing for witnesses to a racist attack if...
This is the whole text of a BBC report published forty minutes ago: Taxi driver victim of ‘unprovoked, racist attack’ Police are appealing for information about a racially-motivated attack on a taxi...
View ArticleWhen luxury beliefs turn lethal
“The people pursuing luxury beliefs are engaged in a kind of status competition. Who can épater la bourgeoisie with the boldest, most transgressive political statements? After Oct. 7, 2023, we saw this...
View ArticleSad about all those people killed in the Lockerbie air disaster. I guess the...
On the 35th anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster, First Minister @HumzaYousaf has expressed sympathies to those who lost loved ones on board Pan Am Flight 103 and on the ground. He also paid...
View ArticleScottish people pay taxes so that an Iranian-linked mosque can get £372k for...
The Times reports, A mosque which has been linked to the Iranian state received £372,000 from the Scottish government. Exiled dissidents claim the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre of Glasgow has become an...
View ArticleWhy you can be a free speech absolutist and still think the presidents of...
David Burge explains all: Fun facts: (A) calling for genocide against Jews, if not delivered to incite a mob to violence, is 100% Constitutionally protected speech- only in the sense it can't be...
View Article“Despite police not revealing the suspected knifeman’s identity or motive”
“Violence in Dublin after five hurt in knife attack” reports the BBC: There are violent scenes in Dublin after an earlier knife attack in the city centre in which five people were injured It is not...
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Lest we remember
In my recent post, “Peace-lovers love using the passive voice”, I asked you to supply particularly egregious examples of media attempts to downplay murders by Hamas and other protected groups. Ben did...
View ArticleTen years ago, Brian Mickelthwait predicted the response to Covid-19
Ten years and ten days ago, the sadly missed Brian Micklethwait wrote this: “What if there is a real collective disaster?” Brian quoted this article by Paul Murphy which said that the response of...
View ArticlePeace-lovers love using the passive voice
Soon after Hamas attacked Israel, Jeremy Corbyn made a speech. Kyle Orton noticed something odd about it: “young people who died in the Negev desert” “young people who’ve been killed by Israeli forces...
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What I did on my holidays
Switzerland is a great country. In most respects Machiavelli’s description of the Swiss as “armatissimi e liberissimi”, “most armed and most free”, still applies. But… It says, Mandatory shooting...
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