This is an article by Stephen Jackson, solicitor principal at Jackson Osborne Employment Lawyers, here writing in his capacity as Editor for the lockdown website laworfiction.com, arguing that health and safety risk assessments present the best opportunity to resist social distancing. Fiction: Health and safety obligations require social distancing measures to be imposed in the […]
More Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here (up to week 25, week ending 19 June). NHS England data here. (NHS data is more recent, see dates on graphs). All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Data from NHS […]
Note: This is an update of my earlier post ‘This is what we screwed the world for‘. If you’ve read that one already you can just skip to the population-adjusted graph, which is what I’ve added in this post. So I have taken the ONS’s annual death figures for England and Wales and graphed them […]
Big day on social media today (ie. Saturday), which partly explains why I’ve got a bit behind here. Virtually overnight there was a massive grassroots push for all conservatives and libertarians and non-leftists to leave Twitter and move to a new free speech platform called Parler. The result was hundreds of prominent personalities who decided […]
From the comments: As a zoology undergrad & postgrad in Oxford from 92-99 I can confirm that Anderson was a first-class shit. Dick Southwood had created a world class group of ecologists and evolutionary biologists in the department. Giants of the field. Bob May, Paul Harvey, Bill Hamilton, many others. Being taught there was simply […]
The Telegraph: The MPs’ £500,000 estimate of allowing Big Ben to bong on Brexit night is more than 30 times more than the bill for sounding Parliament’s Great Bell on New Year’s Eve, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. The news risks undermining the House of Commons’s Commission decision not to allow Big Ben to […]
You may or may not have heard of the New York Times’ disgraceful attempt to rewrite history in its appalling 1619 Project (more of that anon), but in the meantime here are some damning admissions revealed in the New Criterion about what the New York Times got up to in its campaign to destroy Donald […]
Hey, I’m in good company: The latest book on Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a critical biography from two New York Times reporters that made new sexual assault charges that were immediately undermined, has suffered an epic sales crash, according to publishing insiders. Expected to sell at least 10,000-12,000 in the first two weeks and […]
So: guy literally goes crazy with Brexit Derangement Syndrome and has to be put away. The thing is, a lot of it sounds startlingly similar to what prominent Remainers are saying, particular one Carole Cadwalladr: ‘This was in the summer of 2016 and, as well as my own anxieties about Brexit, it was also a […]
This line from the Oberlin-Gibson case pretty much sums up the modern left: In an email to co-executives, Ben Jones, the school’s vice president of communications wrote, “I love how these Gibson supporters accuse us of making rash assumption decisions, but are totally blind to their own assumptions.” Turns out it was the ultra-liberals who […]
So the Telegraph tries to defend Turning Point UK from the left, but frankly the right could do without help like this: Critics have also invoked guilt by association – another common silencing tactic – by blaming Turning Point for the views of its more unsavoury supporters. The Guardian, bizarrely, links the group to (genuine) […]
Yes, Blithering Bunny is back, and he’s… me. Most of you won’t know what I’m talking about, but there may be a few old-timers who remember my original blog from the early-mid 2000s. Those were the days when the blogosphere was ruled by old whatshisname, and whatchamacallit, and doohickey something-or-other. (Actually, in those days the […]
From Jim in the comments: He’s [Parris] also being very disingenuous in saying ‘no-one voted for a confrontation with the miners’ because a) the government didn’t MAKE the miners go on strike, they chose to, its not like it was in the government’s power to force them on strike against their will, and b) the […]
Who could fail to love that quirky Telegraph goofball, Bryony Gordon? She’s so honest about her mental health problems, so funny about all the wacky things she’s done, so empathetic with all those women who struggle with their weight and their sanity? Well, I fail to love her. And here’s why: I was pleased, then, […]
I have terrible news. I went to a shop today, but crashed out without a deal. I had to walk out the door with nothing, my wallet still bulging. It was a disaster that I sleptwalked into. Metaphorically sleptwalked, that is, although nothing actually happened when I walked out the door, I just had to […]
Overnight the former Daily Mail has been taken over by aliens, and a fake newspaper set up with the same name. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU NEVER PURCHASE A COPY OF THIS NEWSPAPER, NOT EVEN TO WIPE YOUR BUM WITH. Social media
She’s threatened to do it if she doesn’t get her way. But how? According to the Parliament website, there are only two ways an early election can be called. The first is this: a motion for a general election is agreed by two thirds of the total number of seats in the Commons including vacant seats […]
From Jim in the comments: (concerning the attack on Roger Scruton): The first rule of dealing with bullies is come out fighting. Literally in the case of physical bullies, and intellectually in the case of the fascist Left. The attitude to have is ‘I don’t care what happens but I’m not going down without a […]
I’m well aware I’m entering Tim Newman territory here with this post about a woman re-entering dating in her 40s: My first dateback out there after 14 years had a noticeable limp, drooled when he talked and knocked a glass of red wine over my white shirt before leaving me to search for a napkin […]
I said the other day that the Telegraph’s Women’s section is an ‘odious cesspit’, and the Kavanaugh hearings have revealed this quite starkly. Here’s another disgraceful article, called “Brett Kavanaugh: Women are angry and here’s why“. This time it’s by Claire Cohen, who is one of the editors of the Women’s section. In many ways […]