The latest from the EU Lexicon of Socialist Drivel was reported in today’s Times, relating to what will now be known as age discrimination. New European legislation aiming to stop people from discriminating against people because of their age may make it ILLEGAL to give someone a gold watch for X years served as [...]
Bill Winter’s excellent recent piece on global warming was so good I decided (in a rare moment) to reproduce it here, edited slightly for length. The author is news editor of the Libertarian Party in the USA.
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“Are [those who cite global warming as the next great disaster] correct? To answer that, we must first [...]
This blogger is eating A LOT, so will not be posting again until next week. In the meantime, check out the unjust and unfair way that detainees are being treated by the American establishment right now. I’m sorry - and those who know anything about my politics will know that there could not [...]
I loathe to talk about the practical outworkings of left-wing policies rather than the principals behind them, as if they would somehow be right as long as they worked in practice. But on this occasion I can’t let the occasion pass to comment on how unjustified, even practically, they are in the first instance.
Let [...]
George Monbiot just gets stranger and stranger. For those who don’t know of this fertile writer, check him out at his own website www.monbiot.com. The Lefty Leftist of Everything Left, who used to protest against the construction of roads, has clearly wired himself to the moon with this latest bizarre article which says [...]
Further to my post of December 7th titled “Anti-globalisation? Read on”, I finally located the photocopy I made of the article in the Reader’s Digest by Johan Norberg, who is a reporter in Vietnam - giving the other side to the story of globalisation and international capitalism.
The first significant truth in this article is this [...]
Miss Ireland became Miss World this week; Rosanna Davison from Dun Laoghaire, Ireland - crowned as, officially, the Most Beautiful Woman In The World. She is the first Irish woman to ever win the beauty contest, and naturally you would expect that her home town should be delighted that such fame and attention should [...]
In today’s Times, I read the most weird criticism of the United States I have ever come across, by commentator Jan Morris. I will print the strangest section in full, so you can see what I mean:
[Of life in the US from an Brit's point of view] “There is grossly too much of [...]
Tessa Jowell, Culture Secretary (whatever that is), opened a public debate Thursday on the above as part of a review of the BBC’s Royal Charter, by which the public will be invited to write to government officials directly and/or go to meetings on the subject. What exactly do people want out of a “public [...]
Q: Just consider this — WHY is it that, in the world of modern political debate, the only valid type of argument seems to be regarded as one based on pragmatism rather than principal??
A: I don’t know.
Libertarianism is so unfashionable, because it does not draw its argument from practical “this [...]
Oh the pure excitement - those pillocking countries who defied common sense by opposing the coalition’s military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq were yesterday DENIED any share of the reconstruction contracts by the Pentagon. How wonderful! I was so hoping they wouldn’t allow those vipers to get their greedy little fingers [...]
Today the latest results from the British Social Attitudes survey is quite revealing about where people are on the issue of tax vs. freedom: the attitudes of young voters seem to indicate much LESS tolerance toward the ever-increasing taxation of New Labour than they would have before! Perhaps a wonderful Dawn of Awakening [...]
You may be interested to read the OTHER side of the story of globalisation - ie. the one that will never come from the mouths of those dreadlocked, anti-war, anti-capitalist, abundantly pierced types with plenty of spare time to wreck the cities on regular occasions like May Day. (The Great Unwashed, we might [...]
Further to my post of yesterday re. The Lancet editorial (which called for tobacco to be made illegal); it seems that some other folks have similarly noticed the bizarrity in such a view. Today’s Times, for instance, in its leading article, makes the following statement: “A ban [on smoking] would defy the principle that [...]
The Lancet UK medical journal today printed an editorial entitled “How do you sleep at night, Mr Blair?”, to which I’m sure his reply could be “Not too bad, thanks”. Contained in this editorial was a call for the government to make tobacco ILLEGAL in the United Kingdom. It pointed to the unprecedented [...]
“Fat is now a political issue”; so says Minette Marrin in the Times on Sunday. She directly targets her argument at libertarians (such as my good self), saying essentially that she agrees with the government’s initiative to do something about the obesity of the nation. Marrin utilises several devices to argue for state [...]
That was a weasely thing to have done, Mr Blair. You invite George Bush over, show him the sights and have dinner. During this time, you have a mutual understanding over an issue you have talked about on many occasions - defense policy. Bush knew that the EU wanted to try and [...]
An opinion article in today’s Telegraph is a short but introductory insight to the Other Argument - ie, the growing number of scientists and other professionals who think that leftist environmentalism, ‘climate control’ (who really thinks we can control climate?) and the global warming theory is far from fact, and, more to the point, that [...]
Yes, they’ve done it - introduced ANOTHER pre-emptive law, like the ban on certain substances (you know, the notion that if we allow drugs like cannabis or cocaine then people may commit crimes and therefore we should pre-empt it by making the drug illegal - strange they never applied the same to alcohol). They [...]
