Discussion point: changing people’s beliefs by physical means
No, I don’t mean torture. Torture will make people say they believe whatever will make the pain stop, but what I am talking about here is using physical mechanisms to make people truly believe...
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Freedom and free movement
Some propositions: 1. Freedom is a good thing. It is good in itself and it leads to good outcomes. 2. Freedom includes “free movement”. 3. Free movement is a bad thing. It leads to bad outcomes. I can...
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What Tommy Robinson thinks
Tommy Robinson. EDL. English Defence League. Racists. Racism. Racist. Case closed, yes? A few years ago at a loose end – in full knowledge that the above was true – I was browsing YouTube and I came...
View ArticleSeeing the world through vitriol-tinted glasses
One of the big stories over the last couple of week has involved an attack involving a corrosive substance. The fact that the perpetrator appears to have been an illegal immigrant has not gone...
View ArticleCan Abdul Ezedi beat this?
A week or so ago I posted about the case of Abdul Ezedi – the corrosive liquid attacker – and compared it with a similar case from a hundred years ago. Ezedi would appear to have been found in Mayor...
View Article“Farage is a snake, but if we were honest on migration he’d have no fangs”
I do not know the exact political views of Matthew Syed, but I assume he stands at some “sensible” position in the spectrum from Blairite to Cameronite. All the more credit to him, then, for naming...
View ArticleImmigration and the libertarian
Natalie writes, That loss of trust is one of the things that has made me much less pro-immigration than I once was. If that means the loss of my Libertarian purity certificate, so be it. Amen to that....
View ArticleMisinformation flows into the vacuum created by official and media obfuscation
I was going to write a post about the riot in Southport that followed the random knife murders of three young girls in that town carried out by Axel Rudakubana. Prior to Rudakubana’s name being...
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Who are the far right?
Earlier this week three girls were stabbed to death in Southport. Several others are still in hospital. A 17-year-old of foreign ancestry has been arrested. This has led to protests which in turn have...
View Article“Swiss colonial exploitation”
I have just returned from a holiday in Switzerland, where I often go to do deplorable things. While visiting a country, I try to keep an eye on which news stories are trending there. The almighty...
View Article“The progressive moment is over”
A good article by “The Liberal Patriot”, Ruy Teixeira: “The Progressive Moment is Over”. The four main points he addresses to his fellow Democrats are: 1. Loosening restrictions on illegal immigration...
View ArticleAn odd line to take
This video shows a group of women on a London tube train chanting, “Settlers, settlers, go back home, Palestine is not your home.” A minute later the racism is even more explicit. They chant, “Israel...
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