Muslim savages setting fire to a helpless captive. Did that happen in the Middle East in 2015? Yes, it did. But it also happened in Scotland in 2004. It was perhaps the worst and most sadistic hate-crime ever committed on British soil, but the mainstream media paid it little attention and long ago ceased to […]
Some people want to understand the world and some want to control it. But some want to understand the world in order to control it. Science is offering better tools to tyrants, but this means that tyrants may be better able to deny science. If certain facts about the world are ideologically unacceptable, modern technology […]
If you had to pick one man and one woman to represent the spirit of France, a good choice would be Voltaire (1694-1778) and the film-star Brigitte Bardot (born 1934). They stand for brains and beauty, wit and style, irony and compassion. First consider Voltaire, that icon of free speech and the unfettered mind. He […]
Liberalism is not so much an ideology as a psychiatric condition. How many ordinary Whites have been murdered, raped or injured for life by Third World immigrants in the past fifty years? Who knows? Who cares? Certainly not the Guardian. But dead left-wing cartoonists – now that is serious. In response to the massacre in […]
Here’s a word that deserves to be better-known: cratology. It means the study of power. Who has power? How is it exercised and extended? How is it protected? These are dangerous topics, because one way to protect power is to forbid criticism of the powerful. The best scientists win Nobel prizes. The best cratologists win […]
To understand the present, study the past. The Bolshevik Revolution is a good place to start. This is what the Russian writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) said about the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924): Lenin is a gifted man who has all the qualities of a leader, including these essential ones: lack of morality and […]
In the modern West, you can see and you can say, but you can’t sew. That is, you can observe certain facts and record your observations, but you can’t stitch the facts together and make sense of them. After UKIP’s second election victory in Rochester, the conservative journalist James Delingpole said that the victory struck […]
