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Matt Taibbi gets the Burke treatment
It’s always puzzling to people who value ‘the revolution’ more than its alleged benefits to discover that a former comrade actually cares what is true, so chooses a different side if they see the truth...
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Dying in the light
‘Democracy dies in darkness’ is on the masthead of the Washington Post. They say it as if it is their fear, but they behave as if it is their hope (for example, when hiding the story of Hunter Biden’s...
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View ArticleWhat was he expecting?
Last week, James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and President of the American Historical Association, published a very few, very cautious criticisms of the 1619...
View ArticleTrump Derangement Syndrome is writing a job description for Trump and not...
“I don’t think it’s a bad thing for the people who report to Putin to read that Westerners are outraged by what they’re seeing—outraged to the point of recklessness. Just as we’re wondering if Putin is...
View Article“If he were killing a mouse, he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.”
I offer two bits of the anglosphere’s past to help us understand two bits of the Russian present. Firstly, “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. … The fact...
View ArticleBehind Putin and Trudeau stands Xi
At the start of WWII, Britain and France imposed a blockade on Germany. They believed the blockade had contributed greatly to victory in WWI – and they liked the thought of doing it again far better...
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Example of racism against blacks in the BBC (P.S. Biden stole the election)
A 2016 BBC article describes how to spot vote fraud in African elections – in Gabon, Togo, Niger and suchlike places. ‘Vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs’ says to watch out for such things...
View ArticleCritical Race Theorist literally knows nothing
“They literally know nothing” was what Obama advisor Ben Rhodes said about the Obama-worshipping journalists he fooled into repeating his Iran-deal talking points. But those guys are left standing by...
View ArticleThe logic of absurdity
The authorities police their lockdown laws as if the virus was reliably woke and as reliably anti-Christian – as if PC protests had a mysterious immunity but a church service was sure to be a...
View Article‘Time’ to neutralise the truth
That many men were undone by not going deep enough in roguery; as in gaming any man may be a loser who doth not play the whole game. (Henry Fielding) The temptation to go just deep enough but not too...
View ArticleThat’s Niall Ferguson, not Neil Ferguson
North American academia is in the grip of a hideous mania, a cross between the early-modern witch craze and Mao’s Cultural Revolution, in which implacable zealots conduct grotesque show trials,...
View ArticleRead the story forwards, not backwards
The lie I hate most is the lie I once fell for. When George Zimmerman was charged with murdering Trayvon Martin, there was much I did not know till later. But from the day the story broke, I could see...
View ArticleWhy they fear their lying eyes
cult conversions … occur by using doctrine to resolve some core emotional vulnerability. … A… clear sign that one is dealing with a cult indoctrination … is making the mark live up to contradictory...
View ArticleHow the quality of mercy is strained
Prosecutorial discretion is a power jealously protected by prosecutors, who will tell stories about forgoing prosecution of 18-year-old guys for “rape” of their 17-year-old girlfriends, of not...
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Too Easy to Rebut the PC Ta-Nehisi / NYT
The long-suffering readers of this blog know that, like Bilbo Baggins, I occasionally inflict poetry upon you (in deference to this blog’s free speech convictions, I also allow the word ‘doggerel’ )....
View ArticleDon’t let them have a double standard about their double standards
Recently, the Daily Mail told me what the Guardian chose not to – research in the tapes made by the FBI of Martin Luther King suggest they were more embarrassing than just those impertinent recordings...
View ArticleWas I gullible to believe in Tory cynicism?
Ever since Gove messed up the election of a leave leader, my confidence that the Tories would nevertheless deliver Brexit rested less on the belief that the parliamentary party contained more leavers...
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Who got Hitler’s vote last month?
Vince Cable is the latest of many LibDem and Labour leaders and followers who are irrisistibly reminded of Hitler when they contemplate some Tory politician. Jeremy Corbyn is reminded of Hitler by...
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