Peter Risdon

Reproduced with the permission of the author.

Steve has been looking at the proposed Equality Bill. There’s more to it than discrimination against white men:
Potentially more damaging, though less extensively reported, are the proposals on religious equality.
The Equality Bill will contain a new streamlined Equality Duty to replace the race, disability and gender equality duties, which will also cover gender reassignment, age, [...]

Why, asks Tim Worstall:
are we going ahead with wind? It doesn’t seem to solve any problems at great cost.
It’s even (in theory at least) possible that it will raise carbon emissions.
The answer is supplied in the comments, by John A:
“a catastrophic failure of leadership in the face of junk science and a reconstituted Marxism hiding [...]

A very good point from Trooper Thompson:
… new regulations for vetting adults with regard to child protection. One of the most pernicious aspects of the modern, ‘all-are-suspect’ approach is that it normalises something that is utterly unthinkable to the average person… Ordinary human feelings, wishing to protect and correct a child – as I was, [...]

Here’s one to savour:
THE Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a league of 57 Muslim nations, said a Danish court’s rejection of a suit against a paper for printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad could provoke “Islamophobia”.
A court’s judgement, in other words, should not be based on the merits of any particular case, but rather [...]

I like my spell checker. It knows the word Gurkha, but not burkha.

What I want to know about the “Big Sex” lobby, is what are they afraid of? There are a lot of problems with sex theory – and it’s only a theory! Why not let schoolchildren hear about stork theory?

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Well, of a few days ago – and a great neologism to boot: “de-evolution”. From the impeccable Zombie:
Living in the trees, throwing feces at predators, howling in fear — was I witnessing de-evolution in action? Could humankind return to the trees?

This made me laugh:

Big Mama Thornton died in a boarding house in 1984. She improvised a lot of the hit Hound Dog – “So I started to sing the words and join in some of my own. All that talkin’ and hollerin’–that’s my own.” – after Lieber and Stoller wrote it for her. Her income from that song, [...]