To understand an animal, you have to see it in its natural habitat. This also applies to words. The Yiddish word chutzpah means “shameless effrontery.” But to understand it properly, you have to see it in its natural habitat: Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the U.S. Mostly Hushed Up … Despite strident denials this week by […]
The current leader of the Labour party is Ed Miliband, son of the Marxist academic Ralph Miliband, who preferred East Germany to Britain and may have been a KGB agent. Marxists pretend concern for the working-class while working hard to immiserate and enslave them. So Ralph would have been very proud of his son’s work for […]
In Yiddish, a goyishe kop, or “gentile head,” is someone with a “dull mind” or “someone who thinks like a non-Jew.” I freely admit that I’m a goyishe kop in both senses of the phrase. That’s why I’m baffled by the behaviour of the ADL, or Anti-Defamation League, America’s premier Jewish organization fighting anti-Semitism, racism […]
You can trust someone who always tells the truth. But you can also trust someone who always lies. Mainstream British politics falls into the latter category. We have a Conservative party that hates tradition, a Labour party that hates the working class and a Liberal Democrat party that hates democracy. You can trust these three […]
Britain needs a new national anthem. I suggest Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” Just look at the vibrancy here, for example: An investigation is not Islamophobia Lutfur Rahman is Britain’s first directly elected [West] Asian mayor. On 22 May [2014], he seeks re-election. He says he aspires to the highest standards of […]
In Gulliver’s Travels (1726), the land of Lilliput is gripped by a furious controversy about hard-boiled eggs. Should they be opened at the big end or the little end? The opposing sides slaughter and persecute each other over the issue. Jonathan Swift was satirizing the absurdities of religious dispute in his day and the wars […]
OMG! Something appalling and unacceptable has slipped through the Filters of Decency and Reason at the Guardian. Earlier this year, feminist warrior Laura Bates penned another white-hot assault on everyday sexism for the Woman’s Blog there. So far, so Guardianista. But look at the photo the website chose to illustrate her item. It’s a scene […]
