“The background and motive of yesterday’s attacks were unclear”
The above is a quote from a Times article with the title “Three dead after knifeman goes on rampage in Bavarian city of Würzburg”. At least three people were killed and several more injured in an...
View ArticleStealthing
Olivia Petter has written two articles for the Sunday Times about her experience of being “stealthed” that have generated much discussion. She explains the term as follows, “What happened to me, and...
View ArticleWhy were there so few spree killings in the UK in the early twentieth century?
The day before yesterday a man called Jake Davison murdered five people in Plymouth. In a pattern common with many spree killers he first murdered his mother and then went on to kill random strangers,...
View ArticleHere we go again
BBC News 17:16 BST: Taliban take over Presidential Palace – reports Conveniently, Afghanistan has had its own Samizdata tag for nearly twenty years. It is interesting, if depressing, to look at the old...
View ArticleWhy have a US government at all?
Mark Steyn wrote the other day, Indeed, what difference would it make if it closed down its military? Obviously, it would present a few mid-life challenges for its corrupt Pentagon bureaucracy, since...
View ArticleCtrl-F “frack” 0/0
The government has published this UK gas supply explainer. There has recently been widespread media coverage of wholesale gas prices, and the effect this could have on household energy bills. The...
View ArticleSteal Labour’s clothes, look like Labour
Britain’s electricity supply is in peril. On Monday (20 Sep) the Financial Times reported, Peter McGirr wanted to modernise the British consumer energy market when he founded Green three years ago,...
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse acquitted
“Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty after fatally shooting two in Kenosha unrest”, the Guardian reluctantly reports. Good. Not because it makes Guardian reporters cry, but because Mr Rittenhouse was...
View ArticleMeanwhile back in the EU
Old rules die, new ones are born. Belarus border crisis: EU suspends asylum rules to speed up deportations Omicron variant: EU should encourage compulsory vaccines, says Ursula von der Leyen Both Times...
View ArticleTomorrow I will wish peace and goodwill to all men
Today, however… Though I did kind of like the contemplative thief at 08:16.
View ArticleWould you let him out of the box?
Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried a story to break your heart: “‘Life in a box’: young autistic man confined in hospital’s former file room”. The first thing to say is that the headline is clickbait. It...
View ArticleHow long before we see “Deinsulate Britain” protestors?
“Insulation was supposed to save us money… but it ruined our homes: Millions crippling repair costs after botched green upgrades”,writes Chris Brooke in the Daily Mail: Getting Britain’s homes...
View ArticleCome to think of it, comrades, I do want Jones back
George Orwell, Animal Farm: “Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?” Once again this argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday...
View ArticleThe Guardian finds a few, a very few, Christians it likes
Christians in MP Steve Baker’s seat pray for him to quit role on climate thinktank Protesters gathered in High Wycombe on Friday to implore their MP, Steve Baker, to quit as a trustee of the Global...
View Article“The attacker was shot dead by a passerby”
“Four people killed in Israeli stabbing attack”, reports the Times: At least four people were stabbed to death in southern Israel today before the attacker was shot dead by a passerby, in one of the...
View ArticleGun rights are women’s rights
Terrifying moment an off-duty female police officer shoots dead an attempted robber who leapt out of a car and charged at her while she was walking alone in Brazil. Three years ago yesterday. Found via...
View ArticleIf it is OK to hit someone who insults your wife, is it OK to hit someone who...
The controversy on Will Smith hitting Chris Rock after the latter made a distasteful joke about his wife’s hair loss is interesting because it cuts across party lines. Though most politicians have made...
View ArticleWhen dangerous fantasies come true
Famously, while Nigel Farage was debating Nick Clegg in April 2014, the latter said that the idea of an EU army was a “dangerous fantasy”. Ed Miliband repeated the line a year later. Three days ago,...
View ArticleI post this to make an important political point
Welcome to my nightmarespic.twitter.com/3cA3GclBlt — Pardes Seleh (@PardesSeleh) June 7, 2022 Please tell me what it is in the comments. Via Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee, who offers one suggestion.
View ArticleThe president offers his condolences, but that’s enough about you
The president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, offered his condolences over the massacre of worshippers at a church in Owo, Nigeria. News Letter reports, Forty people were killed in the attack at the...
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