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Mount Rushmore

A Question of Confidence 

“I think this is probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house, “ JFK told his dinner guests one night. Those present would probably have agreed – there were 49 Nobel Prize winners in attendance. The President, however, did not, for he finished his sentence with the words, “apart from those times

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Gun reform

Australia Does a Dunblane

There are few things worse in governments, corporations and societies than the mentality that ‘something must be done’. Mostly because nothing needs to be done or that which is done is entirely the wrong thing. Following the dreadful shooting incident in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996 – tennis star Andy Murray was one of the children

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Backyard comedy club

Comedy Like It Ought to Be

My jaws are still aching this morning following the Free Speech Union Comedy Benefit at the Backyard Comedy Club last night in Bethnal Green. This was comedy like it used to be: offensive, insightful and most importantly, hilarious. The Free Speech Union, the brainchild of Toby Young (now Viscount Young of Acton), was formed after

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Old books

The War of Omission: How the West is Forgetting the Grammar of Liberty

A spectre is haunting the West—not of revolution, but of forgetting. It is a quiet, insidious amnesia, not of dates or battles, but of the very intellectual grammar that built the free and prosperous world we inhabit. The syntax of liberty—the complex, humane arguments for limited government, spontaneous order, and individual sovereignty—is fading from the

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Mass immigration

Crowborough Sits Tight 

‘Tis the week before Christmas, and Crowborough awaits with bated breath a sign, an announcement, a star in the East. Will some wise men appear or, more likely, will Crowborough only learn its fate when coaches are sighted rolling into its training camp? A camp which only two weeks ago hosted 114 eager young cadets for a

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Post box

The Post Office

After being thrown out of my job in publishing by mediocre tyrants in thrall to a twisted ideology, I went four months unemployed but recently secured temporary work at the Royal Mail doing Christmas sorting. Echoing Charles Bukowski, here’s what I’ve found there. Everyone is very nice. Or at least, they are real – unlike

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