Catching up with some news items I’ve meaning to bring you. Accusation that five members of Joe Biden’s family have benefited through him: one particular politician — Joe Biden — emerges as the king of the sweetheart deal, with no less than five family members benefiting from his largesse, favorable access and powerful position for […]
The Telegraph reprints another piece of social activism disguised as journalism: Christopher Eccleston has been praised for raising awareness after speaking out about his long battle with anorexia and how he once contemplated suicide. Literally half the article consists of praise for Eccleston for doing this: The actor has been praised by fans, with many […]
Writing a racist hoax note is one of the most important skills the modern Humanities or Social Science student can learn, but too many Universities are turning out students with sub-standard skills. Consider this recent case at the University of Kansas: A flier at a Kansas State University apartment complex bearing the very racist statement […]
Sam Duncan: “Once they were in control of moderation, they began purging every single non-leftwing non-SJW commenter from their sites.” And they’re doing it elsewhere, too. The actual story there – an open-source project adding a clause to its licence banning “ICE collaborators” from using its code – is of interest, but it’s the […]
The Conservatives, as they are now, are finished. Sure, they’re ahead in the polls, but they’re only just ahead of perhaps the worst people to ever be in charge of Labour, so that’s not saying much. What support they do have is mainly due to the fact that they are, however unwillingly, the party of […]
Here’s the latest RNLI press release. Good to get more clarity from the most important society in the UK on these important issues: Social media
Yesterday I blogged about Jonathan Pie’s plaintive but naive cry concerning the whereabouts of the comedians and the artists and the writers in face of the latest assault on free speech, and I noted that they’re no longer on the side of free speech any more because they no longer need it. Now this telling […]
Great post from Raedwald yesterday, where he proposes an updated version of the Birkenhead drill, which basically means ‘women and children first’ in a sinking ship, or in a similar emergency. The new list reads as follows: ORDER OF EVACUATION 1. Persons with protected characteristics in the following order – LBGT BAME female – LBGT […]
I’ve gone on before about how the leftists’ long march through various institutions is giving them a lot of power (see, for example, this piece). Sooner or later we’re going to see a ‘pincer movement’. Or a multiple pincer movement, where the police, the media, the civil service, the Home Office, social media, tame corporations, […]
Here’s a minor confirmation of my thesis in my recent Comment Central article ‘Social media and the place(wo)men’, that there is a symbiotic relationship between social media SJW outrage-mongers and the progressives who have got themselves into positions of power in multiple institutions, the latter being ready to receive complaints from the former and act […]
Another basic income proposal is making the media rounds. This one is a bit different, it involves giving people under 55 £5000 a year for two years at the time of their choosing, over the course of a decade. The RSA suggested that the money would benefit those left out of work by the increasing […]
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In times gone past I could have easily condemned the Poundland tweets for being unnecessarily crude and not family-friendly. But after years of humourless leftist hectoring and soft Stop Funding Hate-style fascism all we can do is applaud them. Well played sirs, well played. You’ve made the SJWs look like idiots, while getting them to […]
I thought I would finally give the new recipe Lucozade a go, following its battering from social media. I went to Tesco to buy some, but it wasn’t clear that what was on the shelves was the new formula Lucozade or not, because it said ‘Original’ on the bottle. Was this old stock of the […]
I tried to leave this comment over at Frank Davis’s blog, on a post of his about why Theresa May has said nothing about the smoking ban, but his comment system doesn’t want to let me. (Have I mentioned how much I hate modern comments systems?) [Update: It’s now got through.] I thought it was […]