Intellectual and viewpoint diversity and literary festivals.
One of the things I like about living in the more central part of England is that it’s not impossible to get to the…
culture
Cheshire Police enter Clown World
For a police force to be accepted and respected by a population and if the public’s cooperation is needed to prevent crime, then that…
From Elsewhere: Well it’s an interesting variation on Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.
There’s an interesting story over at Tim Worstall’s place about a new robot being developed by Elon Musk. The original story is paywalled at…
From Elsewhere: Anti vaccine activists cross the line that divides campaigning from violent nutbaggery.
In a free society people should be allowed to campaign for whatever policy they want, even if the campaign is for a policy that…
The violent lunacy of transgender extremists and their threats to author JK Rowling
I’ve met plenty of transgender and transsexual people in my time on this earth. The vast majority of them just want to be left…
From Elsewhere: It’s difficult to disagree with this
Helen Joyce a senior writer at the Economist has come out and criticised the concept of gender self identification. I believe that she is right…
From Elsewhere: What a surprise. Imagine my shock.
I ironically uttered the words ‘what a surprise’ when I found out earlier via the Guido Fawkes site that one of the campaign groups…
From Elsewhere: Ivy League? More like Bindweed League it seems according to this writer.
I look upon what has happened to Universities both in the UK and the USA and I look on them in horror. No longer…
A brilliant parody worth reading – Woke Rabbi
As a non-Orthodox Jew I’ve met a great many Rabbonim from the various Jewish movements that exist outside of Orthodoxy. A lot of these…
From Elsewhere: The tyranny and dishonesty of speech codes.
While spinning through the New English Review’s blog recently I came across an article by Theodore Dalrymple. In it he pointed out that the…
