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View Article  Death on the Tube

Today, the jury at the inquest into the accidental 2005 shooting by London police officers of the Brazilian Jean-Charles de ...   more »

View Article  Forest murmurs by Leslie Jones

Anyone who still thinks that under communism, “the exploitation of one nation by another [would]…be put an end to” (...   more »

View Article  The end of "the American Century"?

On 21 November, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) issued its influential Global Trends report, with disquieting findings for American ...   more »

View Article  Western whinging

The historian Thomas Macaulay once famously said that there was “nothing more ridiculous than the British middle classes in a ...   more »

View Article  Obamamaniacs II
A rider to the previous posting on Erica Jong's Obama fixation - according to ITV's American correspondent John Irvine, speaking ...   more »
View Article  Obamamaniacs

Why are so many people on the Left so hysterical, and so aggressive? Why are ‘liberals’ often so illiberal? These ...   more »

View Article  Leslie Jones on Alastair Campbell and GOP dirty tricks

Hooked up to Jumper Cables

 

Leslie Jones reviews two recent television programmes with an over-arching theme, to wit, mental ...   more »

View Article  Leslie Jones on religion and IQ

The Devil's disciples

Leslie Jones

 

Richard Lynn et al on atheism and intelligence

Richard Dawkins on altruism without religion...   more »

View Article  A weekend of ethnic attrition

Mass immigration allied to multiculturalism is altering the face of both Europe and America – and not for the better. ...   more »

View Article  Sharia courts - and woodwoses

Seven months ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury attracted criticism for saying that the adoption of Sharia law in the UK...   more »

View Article  Karadzic and the "international community"

The capture of Radovan Karadzic aroused diverse thoughts and emotions (apart from amusement at the chutzpah of a wanted fugitive ...   more »

View Article  Leslie Jones attends a colloqium on the origins and dangers of fascism

On the 20th of May, 2008, the German Historical Institute of London hosted a colloquium entitled “Controversies on Twentieth-Century Fascism”. ...   more »

View Article  25th April 2008

What is it about immigration that makes otherwise intelligent people have shivery panic attacks? Immigration-sceptics are often accused of “xenophobia”, as ...   more »

View Article  St George's Day

For the last few weeks, the British media have been full of Enoch Powell, who seemingly still exerts a powerful ...   more »

View Article  22 April 2008

Britain’s mainstream political parties are united not only by increasing ideological convergence and political myopia, but also by staggering ...   more »

View Article  8th April 2008

It is strange how political ideas can catch alight, after decades of being ignored or scorned. Just as volcanoes that ...   more »

View Article  On Hubris by Leslie Jones

On Hubris

 

Nick Cohen, What’s Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way, Fourth Estate, 2007

David Owen, The Hubris ...   more »

View Article  25th March 2008

UNION BLUES

An alphabet soup of ridiculous people and ridiculous organizations is having a immigration whine-in this coming weekend at ...   more »

View Article  17 March 2008

Vexatious viewers

Once he was ‘too posh’; now he is prejudiced too. The BBC’s Basil Brush Show has been accused ...   more »

View Article  4 February 2008
The boring views of Saffron Burrows, enjoyable crucifixion, screaming spires of Oxford, patriotism as a "controversial issue"   more »