In modern day Britain, we are allowed to mourn our murdered children, friends or relatives. We are free to be appalled. We are also permitted to lay flowers by the coagulating blood of our kith and kin, as our political leaders walk solemnly towards the farewell postcards and tear-drenched bouquets for a tight minute of […]
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There is an old joke about a Dubliner, who is lost in the Irish countryside on his way to his cousin’s wedding. He asks a random farmer for directions. The farmer sucks in his teeth and replies: “I wouldn’t have started from here.” Britain, like the lost Irishman, is where she is. Our country in
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Truth is now a crime. Little illustrates this more than a verdict passed in Verden Regional Court, Northern Germany, earlier this week. Marie Therese Kaiser, a budding young politician, was found guilty of using government statistics to point to a problem that officialdom would rather not talk about. As the Taliban took down the Pride flag from
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Eugenics is the new black. A bill to authorise medically assisted suicide is being introduced in the Scottish Parliament. The establishment appears fully behind it. In the Daily Telegraph, Lord Jonathan Sumption, a former member of our supreme court, backs the idea “on balance” as being “morally justified”. In the Times, Matthew Parris, that weathervane
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(Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Stephen Pike, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) We are being led by fools wrote Professor Matt Goodwin, the author of best seller Values, Voice and Virtue, an investigation into the growing societal chasm between an unaccountable and sanctimonious self-proclaimed elite, and the working people of this country, who pay their
