By Joe Priestly — It’s the question that’s on everyone’s lips, especially establishment lips. And the LibLabCons are getting their knickers in a terrible twist as they struggle to answer it: What does it mean to be British?
But since when did they give a damn about what it means to be British? The political elite [...]
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I don’t suppose Richard Littlejohn was the first to suffer but he was one of the first and he remains one of the most prominent. And as he’s been loudly exhibiting the symptoms for years, and making a damned good living out of it, it seems fitting that the syndrome should carry his name.Of course [...]
One of nature’s optimists.
I was in one hell of a state the other night. Crying, throwing up, and most bizarrely of all, I was laughing at the same time and a great big belly laugh it was too. And before you ask, no, I’d not been on the scrumpy. Nor had I been smoking strange [...]
Rector and son of the manse
The most remarkable thing about Gordon Brown is that he was ever taken seriously. Precisely what is it that he has that we supposedly need? But whatever his well hidden attribute might happen to be, there’s no doubt Brown was taken seriously, and some still are taking him seriously, in [...]
The levels of crime and disorder and the general malaise in this country have forced the establishment to focus its attention less on economic issues and more on the ’state of society’.
Its favoured position is that if the economy is ‘healthy’ then it will naturally follow that society will be ‘healthy’ too. Clinton’s “.it’s the [...]
One law for them.
On Sunday 17th of September this year a group of Muslims held a demonstration outside the Roman Catholic Westminster
Cathedral in London in response to the Pope quoting 14th century Manuel II of the Byzantine Empire saying that the Muslim prophet Mohammed introduced ‘things only evil and inhuman’. As the Christian congregation left [...]
Home Secretary John Reid arrived with the intention of smoking the pipe of peace; when he left the tepee was in flames. His peace mission to the Muslims of Leyton in Waltham Forest London had backfired magnificently.
Within a few minutes of taking the podium the Home Secretary had been intimidated and shouted down by Abu [...]
When he was Home Secretary, so-called ’straight talking’ David Blunkett called for “An honest debate on immigration.”
His successor so-called ‘political heavyweight’ Charles Clarke did the same. And the current Home Secretary John Reid, the so-called ‘bruiser’, called for it too. Yet we’re still waiting for this debate.
When it comes to the thorny subject of mass [...]
Off its perch
“Multiculturalism is dead. Long live interculturalism,” squawk the parrots. It’s official. Multiculturalism is off the twig. It’s kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible; it is an ex-ism.
In their report ‘Engagement with Cultures: From Diversity to Interculturalism’, which they launched on the [...]
In the name of freedom and equality
“The streets must be made safe. Criminals should be locked up. We need to build more prisons.”
Such is the logic of the new tough-talkers. Not long ago a good many of these very same tough-talkers could be heard going on about prison not working and about how we should [...]
“The streets must be made safe. Criminals should be locked up. We need to build more prisons.”
Such is the logic of the new tough-talkers. Not long ago a good many of these very same tough-talkers could be heard going on about prison not working and about how we should be more “creative” in our approach [...]
White voters are deserting us for BNP,” says minister
Well it’s not the sort of headline you ignore, is it? I’d be interested to know how many others bought yesterday’s (16/04/06) Sunday Telegraph on the strength of its front page; my guess is sales would be up.
Employment Minister Margaret Hodge had told the paper of her [...]
Sir Max Hastings - clapped-out Tory
I’ve read a couple of Max Hastings’ books, Victory in Europe (1992) and Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-5 (2004), and they were interesting enough reads, but he lacks the ‘unputdownableness’ of such writers as David Irving and Antony Beevor. Hastings is a journalist turned historian. He comes over as [...]
Cleft stick
A regular theme appearing in my articles is the fragility of the liberal consensus and the neurosis of its supporters. My argument is that the liberal elite’s hypersensitivity to criticism betrays its insecurity; those that are confident in what they believe look upon criticism as an opportunity to argue their case.
The difficulty for liberals [...]
Multiculturalism under attack - again
Leeds University Lecturer Frank Ellis featured on last Wednesday’s (8/3/06) BBC radio Five Live phone-in chaired by Victoria Derbyshire, the theme of which was whether or not Dr Ellis should be fired for expressing views that challenge the prevailing liberal orthodoxy.
Dr Ellis had dared to question the logic of multiculturalism in [...]
At a family gathering in November I had a long conversation with an elderly relative who during the Second World War had served in France, Holland, and Germany. When our conversation inevitably arrived at the subject of the war I was interested to hear him say that British society couldn’t be any worse than it [...]
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