Socialism always leads to the killing fields
Being a former man of the Left, I have mixed with a lot of socialists over the years including those who could be described…
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Not politics now but a bit of old style radio anarchism – A brief look at The Laughing Policeman Wireless Society
As some may know or may have guessed from certain previous articles on the subject of dodgy Islamic community radio stations, that I have…
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
Today is ‘Battle of Britain Day’. It’s a day to celebrate the astonishing achievement of all those who young men who fought in the…
Blogging from the Hay Festival 2016 – How decadent and depraved were the early Roman emperors?
If you’ve been brought up with the impressive BBC adaptation of Robert Graves ‘I, Claudius’ then you will have been left with the distinct…
Blogging from the Hay Literary Festival 2016. AC Grayling – The Age of Genius.
Occasionally I’m lucky enough to be able to get to the Hay Festival and hear various authors, politicos and thinkers put their point of view…
From Elsewhere: It’s time to drop the ‘T’.
This is the first of two ‘From Elsewhere’ pieces that I’m putting up today that concern issues of sexuality and gender. The first, is…
History time. Tankies, trots and true believers
If there is one general difference that divides the political Left and the political right then it could be that too often the Left behaves…
A bit of historical enlightenment.
(An electronic translation of this article into Hebrew and Yiddish can be found below the English Language version – I apologise in advance for the…
From elsewhere: School History lessons become Leftist propaganda.
I find the Conservative Woman blog an interesting, if sometimes challenging read. It’s well written and even when I don’t personally agree with their writers,…
A tale of two cultures. Which one would you choose?
There is a joke that has been going round recently, which goes as follows: Question: What is the difference between the Western world and the…
