Dutch Liberals fight back to save Ayaan
Another Dutch blogger Zacht Ei has further details on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali affair. The Dutch immigration minister Rita Verdonk is now in serious trouble and her political career is probably over even if she is not forced to resign in the next few days (Verdonk has been one of two candidates for the leadership [...]
The Dutch Surrender
Very dispiriting news indeed from the Netherlands, where the heroic Dutch MP of Somali descent Ayaan Hirsi Ali finds herself stripped of Dutch citizenship, ordered by a court to leave her home, and about to leave the country for America, if indeed she is now permitted to do so, as effectively a stateless person. Ayaan [...]
The scourge of the bin-bag fascists
Tim Worstall in the Adam Smith Institute blog notes the rise in violent attacks on refuse collectors by householders angered by restrictive local government policies on refuse collection. Bin men in many areas are under orders not to take rubbish which is not adequately bagged, sorted or otherwise processed by householders in order to comply [...]
The biggest threat to Human Rights is the Human Rights Act
The word “fiasco” seems hardly appropriate to the case of the convicted sex attacker Anthony Rice, released on licence from a life sentence because of concerns for his human rights, who subsequently murdered Naomi Bryant, thereby denying her all of her human rights.
It might be more appropriate to the case of the nine Afghan hijackers [...]
The “A” Team
This week, amidst much fanfare (well, a small fanfare), the Conservative Party launched their “A” list of candidates for the next election upon an unsuspecting nation. Given that these people are to be given preferential access to the most winnable seats at the next election, and will therefore constitute a sizeable bloc within the Conservative [...]
Revolutionary Defeatism
Here’s an interesting essay from Western World Politics, in which the author investigates the phenomenon of Revolutionary Defeatism, by which he means the method employed by leftists in advocating causes in the full knowledge that they will lead to social implosion. This is of course the self same tactic advocated by the Gramscian revolutionaries who [...]
If this was World War Two we’d be losing
In a comment on Mark Steyn’s recent piece in Jewish World Review on prosecuting the War on Terror via the legal system, Melanie Phillips comments as follows:
[I]f we were fighting World War Two now, we’d lose. The problem is that what’s happening corresponds neither to criminality nor to war, as conventionally defined, but lies stranded [...]
Could David Cameron be Britain’s Luckiest Man
Could David Cameron be Britain’s luckiest man? The latest opinion polls show the Conservatives with variously a six point or an eight point lead over Labour, who are now becalmed in the low thirties where the Conservative Party has itself been languishing for almost all of the last fifteen years.
Let’s assume for the sake of [...]
Rearranging the Deckchairs
Not much left to say about the local election results really. It was pretty bad for Labour, though in the circumstances it could have been worse. David Cameron is understandably chipper, but still the results could have been better: about half of the Tory gains were in London, where a reaction against Ken Livingstone (who [...]
The country that dare not speak its name
Or indeed, fly its flag. Scott Burgess of the Daily Ablution tells us why Barking firemen are not allowed to display the England flag during the World Cup.
today’s Telegraph reveals … England – to be unique among the world’s nations in its capacity for self-abasement, which seems to know no bounds.
From the “In Brief” [...]