From Elsewhere – An interesting possible historical parallel.
If the various political gossip sources are to be believed, Donald Trump is due to be arrested over claims that he paid hush money…
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From Elsewhere: The sad death of journalism
One of the websites I try to regularly check in on is Harry’s Place. Out of all the left/centre left aligned outlets out there…
From Elsewhere: Tim Black on fine form about Iraq.
Is it really twenty years since the start of the Iraq War? Yes it is. Whether you supported it or opposed it it’s been,…
From Elsewhere: This is an amusing thread about how not to end up marrying your cousin.
Pakistani cousin marriage is a big big problem. It’s a problem not just for Pakistan where consanguinity is a massive issue with more than…
From Elsewhere: The dangers of Utopianism
For some the idea that a society or humanity itself can be perfected and therefore help to bring about a perfect world of justice…
From Elsewhere: The liberal narrative is under attack from reality.
There’s a good piece over at the Daily Telegraph by Sherelle Jacobs who has said that the Blairite, centrist consensus is ‘disintegrating under the…
From Elsewhere: Christians in public life hammered by the secular Left for their personal private beliefs.
The secular Left hates Christians and it seems that they hate Christians with a passion. Recently we’ve seen Kate Forbes the contender for the…
From Elsewhere: The death of working class representation in Parliament.
There’s a very good recent comment from the political writer Matthew Goodwin about how little the working classes in Britain are represented in the…
From Elsewhere: The mad, mad, mad, mad world of Prevent.
The Prevent anti-extremism project was created by the government of Tony Blair in 2003 to tackle one of Britain’s sadly now perennial problems, that…
From Elsewhere: Some sense about trophy hunting.
Having been an observer of politics for many a year I’ve found that I’ve had to come to the conclusion that legislation based on…
