Hysterical historical ignorance.
I know that in Western nations there has been a sharp decline in historical knowledge but what happened recently in the Canadian Parliament must…
Politics
From Elsewhere: The social contract between parents and schools has been broken.
When Covid came along I was concerned about the closing down of schools and of the part played by teaching unions in abandoning children…
Worth A Read 24th September 2023 – The anti-Enlightenment world of Queer Theory.
I discovered the comment below when I was recently perusing the Wings Over Scotland website and it really brought me up sharp when…
Quote of the Day 21st September 2023
There’s been an enormous amount of discussion online about the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to put back the ban on the sale…
From Elsewhere: The left wing book burners.
Libraries, at least those libraries aimed at adults rather than children, should be places where freedom of information is the governing principle. If an…
I’d rather not clap for yet more public money being spent on NHS waste and wastrels.
Britain’s wasteful and too often incompetent healthcare system the National Health Service (NHS) which has over 10% of the UK’s population sitting on waiting…
An interesting debate question. Did the Weimar Republic’s hate speech laws impede or help the Nazis?
There are lots of people who have suggestions as to how the rise of the German National Socialists could have been prevented. Some of…
Quote of the Day 18th September 2023 (1) – The Pilfering Pillock of Peckham.
By now many people will have become familiar with the case of the pilfering pillock of Peckham, the Black woman who thieved goods from…
Quote of the Day 18th September 2023 (2) We are many, they are few.
This quote of the day is also the quote of the day from the Samizdata blog. It’s by the excellent Konstantin Kisin and concerns…
Britain’s bent justice system.
Many will remember the case of the religion of peace member Abdullah Qureshi who attacked Jewish people, including a child, in London’s Stamford Hill…
