Monthly Archives: March 2009

Original.

After all the photographs of Jihadis demonstrating in the streets of Britain with impunity, it’s refreshing to see then enjoying the hospitality of the people of Luton yesterday. It was right that the police protected their sorry asses, just as … Continue reading →

Hybrid vigour – the new strength that comes from mixing of blood, race, culture and music. It’s the reason American music has been so important. Here’s a lovely example. I play the guitar very badly, and rarely, but among other … Continue reading →

Here. From here originally, but it’s cut out to keep here. Really. Read it. Now.

It’s a week or more old, but not for the first time Shuggy puts his case very well: the demand for limited government has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with a belief in the essential goodness of human nature. No … Continue reading →

This post might be disturbing, and it is explicit in parts. I don’t think the subject can be properly addressed euphemistically. Something over ten years ago, I spent an afternoon with a police Child Protection Unit in East London. I … Continue reading →

I think John Band is showing considerable intellectual integrity in these two posts.

Interviewed on the Today Programme, Gerry Adams said, of the Sinn Fein response to the shootings of British soldiers in Northern Ireland a couple of days ago: “We have been fairly successful in having brought the broad republican community to … Continue reading →

When I first saw this headline, I thought maybe he’d just taken some time out to chill. But no, it’s the other meaning: George Galloway stoned in Egypt

This is just stunning. Not only was the Telegraph’s website open to SQL injection – which is one of the main things you try to prevent if you’re designing online systems – but they also stored the users’ passwords in … Continue reading →