There was an interesting passage on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. Evan Davis was interviewing George Osborne, who has been making a point of using the words “progressive” and “fair” to describe Conservative policies. This is a significant trend in the approach of the current Tory leadership and must represent a deliberate tactic. Another [...]
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Daily Hitchens
If you like Christopher Hitchens, you’ll like this site.
The Peterloo Relief Fund Account Book
John Baker, 3 Pump Street. This poor man was beat by the Constables, but his principal injury was an overstrain by carrying Wm. Taylor of Boardman Lane off the Field, who was wounded & lost so much blood. 40/- final.
Perhaps less has changed since the Peterloo Massacre than we’d like. The above [...]
White liberal racism
30 Jul 2010 at 13:19
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Politics, religion, totalitarianism
Long, excellent post from Edmund Standing begins:
The white liberal is an unhealthy type of creature that you will undoubtedly have encountered, if not in real life, certainly via the media. By ‘liberal’, I do not mean simply someone who has a generally liberal outlook, in the sense of a ‘live and let [...]
Imagine
Tim says, of speculation in foodstuffs:
Imagine we had no speculation at all? Not even physical hoarding.
You don’t have to imagine. As I pointed out in a post a year ago, this was exactly the situation during much of the Middle Ages, when regrating was at times illegal and always condemned by the Church. Regrating means:
To [...]
Otherhood and apple pie
16 Jul 2010 at 13:51
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Middle East, WibbleWatch, self-refuting arguments
Queen of the Idiocracy, Judith Butler, has been trying to climb out of a hole of her own digging:
AVIVA-Berlin: How do you feel about the accusation that you have perhaps taken an anti-Semitic position concerning your statement about the Hamas and the Hezbollah as progressive social movements? (On: http://radicalarchives.org/2010/03/28/jbutler-on-hamas-hezbollah-israel-lobby/) Does that [...]
Did mortgage lender lobbying cause the recession?
No, according to the measured conclusion of this paper by Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Francesco Trebbi:
Moreover, given the nature of political influence and the complexity of government decisions, our results should not be seen as a “smoking gun”. Instead we provide suggestive evidence of the influence of subprime borrowers and lenders [...]
We do not have red bottoms
An adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism at the University of Illinois has lost his teaching job there, and he claims it is a violation of his academic freedom.
Kenneth Howell was told after the spring semester ended that he would no longer be teaching in the UI’s Department of Religion. The [...]
Right and left
The piece in the Telegraph today, suggesting that left wing people move right as a pack as they age, without realising it, so they are less left wing than they think, is interesting so far as it goes. But there’s a lot of confusion about right and left, as terms, and this piece might just [...]
Compare and contrast
This news story from today:
Prof Mike Kelly, the public health director at Nice, added: “This isn’t about telling individuals to choose salad instead of chips — it’s about making sure that the chips we all enjoy occasionally are as healthy as possible.
“That means making further reductions [...]