Entries by Tobias Langdon

A Prosoponic Paradox: Why Has the Proudly Progressive Labour Party Never Had a Female or Non-White Leader?

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Yuck! Stale pale males. They’re the worst of the wickedest, the vilest of the villainous. That’s what all decent and caring progressive folk are agreed upon. But this raises what you might call a prosoponic paradox (prosōpon is ancient Greek for “face”). In Britain, the proudly progressive Labour Party has traditionally been the home of […]

Contra Camera: On Photography, Film and TV as Engines of the Anti-Human, Unenchanted and Immoral

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Ich habe meinen Tod gesehen! That’s one of the most plaintive and poignant things I’ve ever read. Ironically enough, it’s also one of the most penetrating. In English it goes: “I’ve seen my death!” That’s what Anna Bertha Röntgen, wife of the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, reportedly said in 1895 after she saw an X-ray […]

The Premier and the Pedo-Pal: Thoughts on Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson, Firm Friends of Jewish Israel, Extreme Enemies of the White West

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Dying young. It turns performers into legends and politicians into footnotes. For proof of that, just compare James Dean (1931-55) with John Smith (1938-94). Seventy-one years after he died in a car-crash, the actor James Dean is still famous, still at the heart of a devoted cult. Thirty-two years after he died of a heart-attack, […]

Truthless Tongue: The Lie-Loving Language of Leftism

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Truthless Tongue: The Lie-Loving Language of Leftism I’m bilingual in English and English. That is, I’m bilingual in standard English and leftist English  — I’ll call the latter Lynglish to blend the concepts of “leftist English” and “lying.” Standard English and Lynglish look the same but often mean very different or even entirely opposite things. […]

Kosher Konservatives: Defections, Elections and Unnatural Selections

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Politicians lie. That’s a toxic truth of life across the world and through history. But the British politicians Robert Jenrick and Nadhim Zahawi will never lie on one very important matter. They’ll say that their proud patriotism and devotion to popular service will not alter one iota after their defections from the Conservatives to the […]