Entries by Tobias Langdon

Hit by a Hate-Quake: Brexit, Saint Jo and the Liberal Elite

One of the most memorable stories in Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791) is about Johnson “passing by a fishmonger who was skinning an eel alive.” Johnson heard the fishmonger “curse it, because it would not lie still.” Boswell said the story was a “striking instance of human insensibility and inconsideration.” Those traits are still flourishing. […]

Roche Motel Revisited: The Comfort of an Atomized Society

There is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, which is ridiculous. But there is a Nobel Prize for Economics, which is risible. Mathematics is to economics rather as astronomy is to astrology. True, economics isn’t a pseudo-science, but it still offers plenty of room to charlatans and phonies. Exhibit A: the “charmless, pompous and mediocre” Jonathan […]

The Riddle of Rotherham: “Mad Ash,” White Trash and the Hostile Elite

The Yorkshire town of Rotherham, that hotspot of vibrancy, is back in the news. A gang of Pakistani Muslims (and two White women) have just been jailed for what the judge described as an “appalling catalogue” of sex-crimes against under-aged White girls. The ringleader, Arshid “Mad Ash” Hussain, received 35 years; his brothers Basharat and […]

Il Miracolo di Mamma Merkel

This is an Italian translation of Tobias Langdon’s “Mother Merkel’s Miracle: A Wonder-Working Woman Turns Cologne into Cairo,” from the website Resistenza Bianca. Quando è stato evidente per la prima volta che le politiche di apertura delle frontiere di Angela Merkel avrebbero causato problemi per la Germania? Circa 2000 anni fa: Caelum non animum mutant […]