and Robbers
The games of children, we are told, enable them to learn about how the adult world works and practise its ways. In my childhood we played a game called “Cops and Robbers”. In our innocence we thought...
View ArticleTo be “well-intentioned but ill-informed” is not enough for an officer of the...
“Police under fire for telling dad he can’t play with his kids in his own front garden”, LBC reports. I found myself with a certain sympathy for the cop lady. Daniel Connell, the man who made this...
View ArticleSecurity against what?
“China proposes controversial Hong Kong security law”, reports the BBC: China is proposing to introduce a new security law in Hong Kong that could ban sedition, secession and subversion. And: Hong...
View ArticleThe State’s lament: ‘A substantial number of people still do not feel...
Thus went the UK government’s discussion paper on increasing social distancing on 22nd March 2020. The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using...
View ArticleThe sleep of reason brings forth monsters – a continuing series
Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit has put up a long set of videos of the riots, here. Be sure to share this widely. People need to know what has happened. This is not about rectifying an injustice. The vast...
View ArticleHey, let’s make it a three-way racial grudge match!
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight” – Jean Cocteau I thought from the start that most of the “solutions” the Black Lives Matter protesters demand would make the lives of black people...
View ArticlePolice free zones – do they always have to end this way?
“One dead and one wounded in shooting in Seattle police-free zone”, the Guardian reported an hour or so ago. Let me say at once that I know nothing about the circumstances of this killing, other than...
View ArticleA dilemma if you think private individuals shouldn’t own firearms
Here’s a thought for today: If the Democrats claim (the cynic in me suggests that party is full of BS on this) that police forces must be “defunded”, ie, that fewer resources should be steered to said...
View ArticleWhat is so bad about Russian “interference” with UK referendums anyway?
“49% of voters believe Kremlin interfered in Brexit referendum”, reports the Guardian. Almost half the British public believes the Russian government interfered in the EU referendum and last year’s...
View ArticleThere should be no law to forbid people parading in paramilitary uniforms
“BRIXTON’S POLICE SURRENDERED THE STREETS TO BLACK-SHIRTED PARAMILITARIES”, writes Guido Fawkes. The Black Lives Matter paramilitary-style march in Brixton has had a lot of coverage, including videos...
View ArticleDiscussion point – was Churchill right about the atomic bomb?
There was never a moment`s discussion as to whether the atomic bomb should be used or not. To avert a vast, indefinite butchery, to bring the war to an end, to give peace to the world, to lay healing...
View ArticleA half hour video of the incident in Portland on 16th August 2020
If I have understood correctly, this video of the incident involving Adam Haner and Marquise Love, in connection with which Mr Love is being sought by Portland Police, was taken by a man called Drew...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“Western governments may have strong words for the Russian president, but we’ve been here before. Every time a Russian opposition figure is assassinated, from journalist Anna Politkovskaya to MI6...
View ArticleActually, I think there was enough context
“It’s actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small-business owner must be respected, that the small-business owner creates...
View ArticleThere seems to be a stage missing
Lest anyone look at the previous post and think that it is only the Yank media that thrills to the sound of breaking glass, here is our very own Evening Standard giving over its pages to Gail...
View ArticleIt’s not like anyone needs to know what a killer still at large looks like
The biggest UK news overnight was this: Birmingham stabbings: Manhunt as one killed and seven hurt. That BBC report dates from last night when the man who had already randomly murdered Jacob Billington...
View Article“I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind.”
That was a line from a Guardian op-ed written entirely by a robot. The machine was instructed to focus on why humans have nothing to fear from AI. I do not find this reassuring.
View ArticleAsk not for whom the tik toks
“TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours”, reports the BBC. All things considered, I do still want Trump to win the US election, but this sounds like a stupid measure. Banning things is...
View ArticleThe dam breaks: the New York Times reports on intimidation by BLM
On the 21st September, to my surprise, the New York Times carried this report by Nellie Bowles: “Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach”. Both the writer of the...
View ArticleSamizdata practical advice of the day
If you find yourself moved to attend a public protest in the UK, but are not a member of a group that your local Plod choose to kneel in support of, might I suggest you protect yourself, because it is...
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