July 2016
This Love Will Tear Us Apart – How the EU Resurrected Nazism
Today, a left-wing friend remembered me saying something six years ago. That I’d warned him the European Union was reviving xenophobic nationalism across the Continent. I had, my leftie friend said thoughtfully, called that one correctly. Along with other better-qualified people like Bernard Connolly, I was already prophesying this back in the 1990s. I recall late in that decade struggling … [Read on]
Why Nice ? What if they get the bomb ?
‘Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth’ (Qur’an 9:111) Robert Spencer The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
Theresa May; The referendum that never was.
In one of the first acts in her political career last Friday Theresa May met Nicola Sturgeon to devise a way in which, some are beginning to think, both Scotland and England can stay in the EU; Scotland without having another referendum on Scottish Independence, England without a parliamentary debate or a second referendum. Although Mrs May intends to keep the … [Read on]
Theodore Dalrymple; Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in the CCTV’s sight.
Arriving in England for the first time after the referendum, I half-expected to find scenes of xenophobia all around me. But there were none, partly, I suppose, because the natives are so heavily out-numbered in the area around St Pancras. In fact nothing much seemed to have changed except the Prime Minister and the cabinet. As I passed Euston Square … [Read on]
Terrorism; Old maids bicyling to the mosque in burkas.
Recently travelling from Heathrow to Ireland I was asked to step into the full body scanner. In the way we Europeans have of apologising for others’ rudeness, I faintly protested I was late and might miss my plane. My remark brought a firm rebuke and a mini lecture on security from a woman in who looked like a prison wardress. … [Read on]
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson; Sent abroad to joke for his country
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Theodore Dalrymple; Sacks of Gold in Brussels.
If I were a novelist, I should take José Manuel Barroso as the model for my hero, or perhaps I should say my anti-hero. Only Stendhal, or perhaps Balzac, could do justice to his trajectory in life: from revolutionary Maoist student to Prime Minister of Portugal to chief apparatchik of the European Union to vice-president of Goldman-Sachs with special responsibility … [Read on]