Why are lighthouses so fascinating? In part, it’s because they’re luminal zoons in liminal zones. And why is Tom Nancollas’ Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet (Penguin 2019) such a good read? In part, it’s because it doesn’t use pretentious phrases like “liminal zones” and “luminal zoons.” Instead, it uses clear prose […]
A simple headline. That’s often all it takes to spot HBD — Human Bio-Diversity — at work in a high-trust Western society like Britain. That’s because a headline is often enough to reveal that the norms of such a society are being violated in an extreme way. Brazen in Bournemouth The norms were obviously set […]
“The West is doomed!” “France is finished!” “Britain is over!” I’ve never understood expressions of despair and defeat like those. They’re obviously self-indulgent and harmful things to say, so how could people with any common sense and self-control utter them? Unless those people aren’t what they pretend to be, of course. No genuine friend of […]
“A lawyer is the larval stage of a politician.” It’s a good line, but whose is it? I’ve seen it attributed to Ambrose Bierce, but I can’t confirm that. Whoever came up with it, he wouldn’t have won the approval of the late, great Jewish writer Larry Auster. We shouldn’t liken human beings to animals […]
Barack Obama was the affirmative-action president. Salman Rushdie is the affirmative-action literary giant. Like Obama, Rushdie didn’t get to the top of his profession thanks to the depth of his talent and power of his intellect. No, he got there thanks to the color of his skin and the leftism of his politics. Separated by […]
The cracks are getting wider in the ugly and evil idol of transgenderism. A report has just been published in Britain pointing out some big flaws in the ideology that governs the “care” offered to confused children and adolescents. It’s added to the doubts increasingly being expressed about translunacy. For example, sixteen-year-olds aren’t allowed to […]
You probably missed one of the most horrible stories of 2023. Border-guards in Saudi Arabia were accused of firing on Black Ethiopian migrants with powerful weaponry, including mortars, and leaving the desert strewn with body-parts and corpses. Survivors were allegedly told “to choose a limb to be shot in” and one was allegedly forced to […]
