16-Year_old delivers address to Labour Conference

Master Edward Milliband aged  about 16 in mentality if not years delivered a speech  appropriate to a fifth-form debating society.  Delivered in the flat panic-striken tones of an adolescent  making his first public speech, with the added distraction of young Milliband’s near lisp, and filled with every ghastly cliche and platitude from the NuLabour lexicon, it shrieked [...]

Oh my aching sides …Stop it MI6

The  public attempts by the police  to explain the death  of the GCHQ  operative Gareth  Williams on secondment to MI6 hurtle towards  absurdity.  Their latest theory is that Williams died in an sado-masochistic sex game in which he allowed himself to be locked (with a padlock) into  a holdall to role-play a situation of complete [...]

Public provision and a civilised society go together

What are governments for? The traditional  areas of government have been  defence, foreign affairs, policing, the provision of justice, the execution of legal judgements including criminal sentences, the collection of taxes and the  allocation of those taxes to the public enterprises mentioned above. But long before the rise of the modern industrialised state, the more organised [...]

A prayer and a reading for the laissez faire religionists

The Lord Mammon’s Prayer Our Invisible Hand Which art in the Market, Hallowed be Thy name . Thy economic Kingdom come Thy will be done In Earth, As it is in the Chicago School textbooks. Give us this day our daily profit And forgive us our losses, But allow us to dun Those who debt [...]

Patriotism is not an optional extra

Robert Henderson Contents 1. What is patriotism? 2. The roots of patriotism 3. Nations are tribes writ large 4. The importance of a national territory 5. The democratic value of nations 6. What the individual owes to the nation 7.  The liberal internationalist 8. How to move from multiculturalism to patriotism 9 No patriotism, no [...]

Intelligent Design is creationism in pseudo-scientific disguise

In the beginning was the argument from design.  This claimed that God’s existence was made manifest  by the intense intricacy, utility and beauty of the world, a state of affairs its advocates said could never have happened by blind chance but only through an intelligent creator. Analogies with God and watchmaker were most popular. The [...]

What is the rational position on religion?

With believers and avowed atheists energetically  locking horns as a consequence of events such as the Pope’s visit and Stephen Hawking’s latest offerings on  God to no certain purpose what, if anything, is an  objectively  rational position to take with regard to religion?  It is reasonable to dismiss all religions as man-made artifacts because (1) they all rely [...]

What is treason today?

A vital  part of the liberal internationalist  plot to destroy Britain as an independent nation is the destruction of the concept  of treason. They do this  the attempt through a tidal wave of propaganda about the joys of diversity,  the incessant reciting of mantras such as  that “we live in a globalised world” ,  the signing of treaties which embroil Britain in [...]

National Identity Theft

The Historical Association reports that history as a subject is dying in schools.  http://www.history.org.uk/news/news_869.html. This is no accident but the deliberate policy of all governments from the 1980s onwards. First, the idea of chronology was removed; themes replaced periods and children were  encouraged not to learn about  great figures from the past but to “empathise” with common folk [...]

Armed forces to defend Britain not to serve the New World Order

The current Government dithering over what cuts should be made to our already distorted and overstretched  armed forces  is taking place not in the context of what we need to defend Britain and her interests,  but by asking  how the cuts  can be made to allow the dangerous and  destructive fantasy which has been taken hold [...]