Free Speech? Who cares?
The British establishment really don’t like it when ordinary people get to speak out, do they? After this, now this.
The Embarrassing Church
I’ve had some not very nice things to say about the Church of England in the past, albeit that I remain a practising Anglican myself. However, it has to be said that the CofE is showing a few signs of life now (better late than never), thanks in part to our dynamic new Archbishop [...]
Steyn on Cameron
Mark Steyn interviewed by the excellent New Culture Forum regarding the Conservative Party Leader:
My view of David Cameron is that he is a total disaster. The big difference between Britain and the principal English-speaking countries is that Canada, Australia and the United States all have conservative leaders and Britain doesn’t. And those conservative leaders didn’t [...]
On Relative Poverty
Greg Clark’s conversion to Toynbeeism has not gone down well in all circles of the Conservative Party, but he has had plenty of support, for example from Daniel Finkelstein, Iain Dale and Boris Johnson.
Nevertheless, there are sound reasons for not focusing excessively on relative poverty. For a start, relative poverty is an [...]
Nothing had prepared me for this (photo opportunity)
I’m afraid it’s Dave Week at A Progressive Viewpoint. Now he’s been to Darfur and he wants us all to know how awful it was. That will be a surprise of course, as none of us ever read the papers or watch TV or anything. Fortunately it wasn’t so traumatic that he [...]
Tories to ditch Churchill
The madness continues: this not from the Great Leader himself, but from one of his minions:
One of David Cameron’s key policy advisers will urge the party today to abandon its Churchillian and “out of date” ideas about the welfare state, the Guardian has learned. Greg Clark, who is overhauling the party’s approach to poverty at [...]
Shrill? Moi?
An aide to the Prime Minister has been commenting on the downside of the internet in terms of its impact on democracy. Matthew Taylor doesn’t like bloggers very much:
“The internet has immense potential but we face a real problem if the main way in which that potential expresses itself is through allowing citizens [...]
Richard Dawkins: A Life Sentence in Legoland
I haven’t read Richard Dawkins’ latest book The God Delusion, and I won’t be bothering. I’ve read and seen enough in the past of the way Dawkins operates, and I don’t see the point in subjecting myself to any more of it.
What is interesting, however, is that even some people who share Dawkins’ militantly [...]
Le Pen aiming for “Third Round”
The leader of the Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen is gearing up for his fifth French Presidential Election campaign. Having managed to make the second round of voting last time (i.e. the final run-off in which he was runner up to Jacques Chirac), this time he says he is aiming for the third: the [...]
We will remember them (begrudgingly)
A friend of mine tells me of a Remembrance Day service she attended, where the sermon was slightly odd. The vicar suggested that those who died, and whom we remember with honour, had died because they were obeying orders. The apparent implication was that if they had a choice, they would have been [...]
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