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EU says your car can run but it can’t hide

EU says your car can run but it can’t hide

May 13, 2014 at 1:08 pm 0 comments

The word ‘totalitarian’ crops up in my pieces more and more often. It may be a simple reactionary paranoia. Or, and I prefer this possibility, having grown up in a totalitarian state I know what it looks and smells like. One telltale sign is a curtailed freedom of movement: forRead More

Your bank account isn’t really yours, says Osborne

Your bank account isn’t really yours, says Osborne

May 12, 2014 at 1:26 pm 0 comments

The Chancellor has announced plans to slit your freedom with Occam’s razor. Before philosophers among you accuse me of ignorance, I’m using the term in its colloquial sense, meaning that a simple solution is usually best. Dave and George clearly favour simplicity when it comes to reducing our suicidal budgetRead More

Further debasing education

Further debasing education

May 8, 2014 at 2:02 pm 0 comments

Russell Brand, Caitlin Moran and Dizzee Rascal are to be added to the A-level syllabus. Brand’s 2012 testimony on drug use to a House of Commons committee will be in an A-level in English language and literature course in a development dreamed up by the exam board and the educational charity, TheRead More

The British jihadists

The British jihadists

May 6, 2014 at 1:43 pm 0 comments

The war in Syria is coming home and the latest proof of this is the new video of a Muslim jihadist from London shooting dead a supporter of President Assad. This happened in Raqqa in northern Syria and the video was discovered by the International Centre for the Study ofRead More

With friends like America …

With friends like America …

March 3, 2014 at 3:24 pm 0 comments

Another day, another interview with Israel National Radio, another penetrating question that goes right to the core of the matter: “How does Russia’s aggression against the Ukraine affect the world in general and America’s allies in particular?” Since the interview kicked off at an ungodly hour of 5.30 am, myRead More

Whichever way the Ukraine goes, Putin wins

Whichever way the Ukraine goes, Putin wins

February 25, 2014 at 3:25 pm 0 comments

Normally I vary my topics from one day to the next, but the events in the Ukraine are so momentous that it would be frivolous to write about anything else. By and large, the press is treating the Ukraine as a proxy in a confrontation between Russia and the EU.Read More

Is Vincent Nichols actually George Clooney in disguise?

Is Vincent Nichols actually George Clooney in disguise?

February 15, 2014 at 12:31 pm 0 comments

It must be contagious. First George enlarged on the advisability of returning the Elgin marbles to Greece, a subject with which he’s manifestly and self-admittedly unfamiliar. Then Britain’s Catholic leader Archbishop Nichols accused the government of causing mass starvation by introducing some very marginal delays in processing welfare applications. InRead More

The Greeks have lost their marbles. Now what about George Clooney?

The Greeks have lost their marbles. Now what about George Clooney?

February 12, 2014 at 8:01 pm 0 comments

George is currently gracing London with his august presence. He’s here to promote his latest film that deals with Americans saving… well, not the world this time, but merely some art treasures looted by the Nazis. (The actual saving was done by an Englishman, but what’s an insignificant detail likeRead More

Smoking in cars is safer than state tyranny

Smoking in cars is safer than state tyranny

February 10, 2014 at 10:18 am 0 comments

Not smoking in cars full of children is a good idea. However, many good ideas result in awful laws, and the ban Parliament is about to pass is one such. Smoking in general is a rotten habit, as I can testify from 30 years of personal experience. It gives youRead More

The secular religion of the Left

The secular religion of the Left

February 10, 2014 at 8:00 am 0 comments

For most of human history, men and women have derived their moral dimension of life from the family and religion. Both of those are now dead or dying in the West under the influence of its new moral and ethical system. That system is one that we know in itsRead More