A View From The Wasteland

Yah !

2011-11-14T17:19:00.000Z

As an old GUU man , sometimes my worst fears are confirmed .

2011-08-17T01:35:00.000+01:00

Read Old Holborn's post here and see what you really think about multiculturalism and the predatory beasts we have allowed into our country .

English Riots ?

2011-08-13T16:18:00.000+01:00

The SNP and various commentators have been a pain in the neck this week in trying to distance Scotland from the riots down south .

I was out and about in Hamilton last night and there was a very visible (and unusual) police presence .
A good few more hoodies on the streets , as well . In fact , a good number of them recognised me as I staggered between pubs - "Awright , Sur ! When you coming back to Holy Cross ?"

Not only that , but , at about half 11 , two police cars , with sirens and lights on , sped down towards the area of the town where all the large electrical shops are located .

Could Currys be light of a few plasma screens this morning ?

No ! That's only the English who do that !

How The Riots Could Have Been Avoided

2011-08-10T06:53:00.002+01:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-29T01:47:00.000+01:00

From Norman Tebbit in The Telegraph -

I have not become rich on politics as Blair, Mandelson and the Kinnocks have done.

Can't say fairer than that .

Brigadoon

2011-07-28T02:08:00.001+01:00

Readers from the West of Scotland may recognise the railway station whose new sign is shown above . It serves the Glasgow East End community of Bridgeton , formerly a town in its own right , which has existed in the area since the late 18th Century . A hot-bed of Orangeism and Loyalism , containing the HQ of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland , it is very much a product of Lowland Scotland and the Industrial Revolution .

Scotrail , however , have decided that it is , in fact , Grannie's Heilan Hame , former seat of the High Kings of Teuchterdom , founded by Aoanghas of the Angry Red Beard in 426 (before the arrival of the Gaelic Irish invaders , like Scotland as a whole , it had no inhabitants) . It has merely been squatted in by the evil Sassenach incomers these past few years , the evil colonists who must be driven from this pure stronghold of Gaeldom .

At least , that would seem to be the only fantasy world in which it could possibly justify translating the name of a Lanarkshire town into Gaelic . It has never been written in Scots , where it would be "Brigton".

Here's mair of their p**h

I've already seen another one at Rutherglen , but can't find a photo .

Why not have them written in Urdu or Polish ? That would fit the demographic a lot more snugly .

Or could it be that Anti-Scottish professional Gaels wish to impose their language upon we natives as part of an opportunistic cultural power-grab ?

Ochone ! Ochone !

Scots is the language of Lowland Scotland , augmented by Scottish Standard English for formal occasions . Gaelic has been nowhere in sight since the early Middle Ages (unless you were hanging about in certain isolated villages in Galloway , of course).

They're getting me angry , these people . And I used to sympathise with their efforts to hang onto their own culture . They should let us hang on to ours .

A Tale Of Two Photos

2011-07-18T22:08:00.000+01:00

Gordon Brown savages Rupert Murdoch and News International for invading his privacy and employing " known members of the criminal underworld" to spy upon him .

Gordon Brown showing his disgust at the time of the alleged incidents , when he was only Prime Minister and had no power to deal with them .

The Party Line

2011-07-03T00:42:00.002+01:00

Oh , dear !

My mate the Unison official won't be very proud .

On Thursday, Ed Miliband gave an interview to ITV about the public sector strikes. To say that it wasn’t a success is an understatement. Not since George Brown used to go on television smashed out of his wits has a Labour politician made such a hash of things.
Miliband was asked six different questions about the strikes. He replied: “These strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are under way. The Government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner. It is time for both sides to set aside the rhetoric.”
Fair enough, you may think – but he gave the same answer six times, irrespective of the question. His voice was robotic, his eyes glazed; even his interviewer, Damon Green, was freaked out, as he later confessed. At any moment, you expected a hypnotist to step forward, snap his fingers, and say: “You’re back in the room now, Ed.”
For the Tories, truly this is the gift that keeps on giving. Treat him gently, Dave.

So says The Telegraph's own Torquemada .

Never A Truer Word

2011-06-20T19:35:00.002+01:00

Lies , Damn Lies and BBC Statistics .

2011-05-07T13:39:00.000+01:00

While gloating over the election results I chanced upon this table on the BBC's website .

(click to enlarge)

I was looking to see how many seats our former masters in the Labour Party had lost . As I was scanning the table , I saw that the Conservatives are down as losing 5 seats , holding 15 .

Haud on !

The Conservatives had 17 seats in the last Parliament (if you include Alex Fergusson , the Presiding Officer , or Speaker).

I make that only 2 losses .

Further investigation shows that something strange has happened with these BBC statistics . They have both Dumfriesshire and Eastwood down as Labour gains from the Conservatives .
This is not the case . Both seats were Labour-held before the election .

Why would our National broadcaster wish to maximise Conservative losses and minimise Labour ones ? Are they not bound by law to be impartial ?

PS. I notice that even The Daily Telegraph is using the same dishonest graphic presentation .
It is identical to the BBC one and seems to have been copied from the same source .

Result !

2011-05-07T12:57:00.002+01:00

Just sobered up enough to post this .

While Labour managed to cling on to the marginal seat of Motherwell and Wishaw by a whole 587 votes , our fellow Lanarkshire men across the Clyde have finally thrown off the oppressors' yoke .

The Labour Party machine has been decisively defeated , though it would be foolish to imagine it has been destroyed .

Another victory for freedom .

PS . I noticed that John Swinney couldn't bring himself to pronounce the name of the hated Larkhall when welcoming his victory there . I wonder why ?

Gone To Join Mahoun

2011-05-02T13:53:00.000+01:00

A victory for freedom !

Arab Feminism

2011-04-13T03:23:00.000+01:00

The Guardian And Race

2011-02-28T23:31:00.000Z

Having read this egregious article in The Guardian , I was drawn to the inescapable logic of the following comment

A friend of mine's son is a plasterer. Since 2004 his income has declined seriously because he cannot compete with Eastern European workers who live 6 to a house and save money to send home. He cannot afford a place of his own. He is concerned about immigration.

In the world of CIF this young man is a racist.

John Galliano gets drunk in the Marais and tells people that he believes to be Jewish that "your mothers, your forefathers would all have been gassed" and says that he "loves Hitler".

In the world of CIF Galliano is "a bon viveur, yes, racist, no."

The chasm of coherence, logic, ethics and justice between these 2 positions is why the left is disintegrating.
Can't say fairer than that .

The Mither Tongue

2011-02-28T01:42:00.001Z

I've aye thoucht a masel as a Scots speaker who writes in English . Often this is a disadvantage . Our middle classes and aspirant middle classes have turned their backs on their heritage in the name of snobbery . Our lower classes now prefer to talk like American Negro gangsters , so enamoured are they by the broadcast media and divorced from their true culture . One of my closest relations now says "Yeah" instead of "Aye" . Quite why , I am unsure , he is in his 60's , although I can identify it as a form of cultural surrender .

Many in Glesca refuse to recognise that they speak a dialect of Scots and deride those from outside a 10 mile radius as "teuchters" (highly inaccurate) or "jist fermers" (partially , but not significantly , true) .

Yet ours is a rich language , spoken by plain men and men of learning for many centuries . John Barbour wrote in Scots for the Scots King when the English monarchy and aristocracy spoke French and English was regarded as a rural patois . Let it be remembered that , such was the strength of the Renaissance in this country , The Aeneid was translated into Scots before it was into English . This is no ill-spoken rustic dialect .

It would be tragic were it to disappear . Or , worse , be killed by the onslaught of meejah culture and aggressive Gaelic promotion .

I am a Scotsman . I speak Scots , not Erse .

The Census , due on the 27th of March , asks questions about our fluency in the guid Scots . It is incumbent on all who love our country and its heritage to answer truthfully and support oor mither tongue .

This fine website is of great assistance and will help many who are culturally unaware .

We must , Nationalists and Unionists , stand up for our identity . I would suggest .

Quote Of The Decade

2010-12-31T03:06:00.001Z

Junior Chuckle Brother and blood-drenched terrorist godfather Martin McGuinness has commented on the burst pipe crisis in Northern Ireland .

"People should be held to account"

I pass no comment , yet a couple of pictures may speak for me .

Is that a Luger , or are you just , etc., etc., .

And in his days as a knitwear model .

Grauniad Lies

2010-12-31T00:48:00.000Z

Hat Tip and extra haggis to EU Referendum

Quote Of The Day

2010-12-30T17:13:00.001Z

From a comment on this article in The Daily Mail

i can't believe how homophobic some of the DM readers are

Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha !

Personally , I can't believe how precious these homosexualists are , but I don't want to get them sacked or put in gaol for being so .

Julian and Sandy , Yesterday .

Literary Hypocrisy

2010-12-29T19:05:00.000Z

I love books , me . I may have mentioned it before .

Look ! I even have a house full of them (although none are by Karl Marx , Antonio Gramsci or Chairman Mao) . And , no , I don't just have this one set of shelves in the photo , books are piled up throughout my untidy flat and stacked in the bottom of the wardrobe .
When the Leftist establishment allows me , I devote my working life to promoting literacy , culture and the love of books and learning .

That's why I can't take the effete whining over the Government's suspension of a £13 million bung to fake charity Bookstart all that seriously .

Let's look , firstly , at the Guardian's emotive picture covering the story , for no particular reason other than that leftie publications love showing such sentimental images of the young , while ignoring their real needs and enslaving them in later life . (Check out the Times Educational Supplement , they do it so well ).

This child clearly can't read . He is too young . The book has no words , only large , colourful cartoons . He appears to believe it is a hat (sensibly enough , he is only a small child ). His nose has been smeared with some grubby substance in an attempt to further sentimentalise the scene : "Little scamp gets up to all sorts of hi-jinks!"

The message - Evvilll Torreee Scuumm Drown Puppies !
The effect of the taxpayer not purchasing this child's colouring-in book ? The child's hair will get wet when it rains .

Indeed , it is instructive to look upon the Left's sentimentalisation of the sub-literate ramblings of the very young , compared to their hostility to the promotion of real literacy and culture amongst older children . Look for anti-intellectual , anti-school sentiments amongst the young and you will find that they are inspired , encouraged and propagated by the leftist culture and its adherents both within and without education .
For every acultural impulse encouraged by leftist media there will be a young leftie teacher mis-spelling instructions on the blackboard and telling "the kids" it would be "cool" if they performed some menial task which would have been an insult to the intelligence of a primary school pupil 20 years ago .

Schools are well-resourced with books . Teachers are well-paid enough to buy extra copies of texts for interested pupils (I know I have given away dozens of my own books in this way over the years . I have even had to supply the text books for small classes which the school refused to buy ).

Why is it a catastrophe if £13million is saved by a bankrupt country by cutting this unnecessary scheme ?

Old Holborn has some of the answers .

Check out , especially the biography of the writer of the Guardian's piece , the one that ends

My old dad always said this country was only interested in educating the top 10%. Everything this mean-minded government does is proving him right.
Self-important , semi-literate , multiculti dross . It is the Left who wish to retard the education of all , especially the bright , in my direct experience .

Real education : Shakespeare and Dickens for all ; Homer and Horace for the brighter .

Socialist education : colouring-in and Party propaganda .

Here I Stand . I Can Do No Other .

2010-12-04T01:29:00.000Z

I am always amused , and sometimes inspired , by the Anglo-Catholic and Roman Catholic bias of The Daily Telegraph . I was disappointed , therefore , by this hatchet-job on the reputation of the great Reformer Martin Luther in a review of this book (one which I intend to buy , having several others in this excellent series ).

Luther , in the very title , is inspired merely by "A Hatred of Turks , Jews and Papists". This is presumably in contrast to the Roman Catholic hierarchy and feudal Establishment who were motivated by a hatred of Turks , Jews and Heretics , so that's alright , then .

As well as subjecting Luther to criticism based on Multicultural piety the author seeks to link all Protestant theology to Islam .

Rejection of the cult of saints and the virgin Mary is Islamic . Concentration on The Word , rather than superstitious hocus pocus , is Islamic . I only wonder that the reviewer does not see belief in a monotheistic God as peculiarly Islamic .

Revolting review , devoid of any awareness of the reformation .

The jewel , however , comes in this comment posted under the article .
"I suppose you could say that Martin Luther was to multiculturalism what haemorrhoids would be to Lord Mandelson...

Would that we had a cleric with clangers such as he in our religious hierarchy today......"
Can't say fairer than that , except to quote Luther further -

"Who loves not women , wine and song , Remains a fool his whole life long ."

Our Future King and Queen

2010-11-16T20:29:00.000Z

Welcome news . Good luck to them both , and to Our Country .

(Those who recently , on Remembrance Sunday , no less , described Our Troops as "Murderers" need not comment .)

Deficit Denying Dinosaurs

2010-10-23T17:02:00.001+01:00

Another good one from Guido .

Vaclav Klaus Strikes Again !

2010-10-20T18:23:00.002+01:00

From Samizdata (aptly enough)

Presenting the climate changes we've been experiencing in the last decades as a threat to the Planet and letting the global warming alarmists use this bizarre argument as a justification for their attempts to substantially change our way of life, to weaken and restrain our freedom, to control us, to dictate what it is we should and should not be doing is unacceptable. Their success in influencing millions of quite rational people all around the world is rather surprising. How is it possible that they are so successful in it? And so rapidly? For older doctrines and ideologies, it took usually much longer to get such an influential and widely shared position in society. Is this because of the specifics of our times? Is this because we are continuously "online"? Is this because religious and other metaphysical ideologies have become less attractive and less persuasive? Is this because of the need to promptly refill the existing spiritual emptiness – connected with "the end of history" theories – with a new “noble cause," such as saving the Planet?

The environmentalists succeeded in discovering a new "noble cause". They try to limit human freedom in the name of "something" that is more important and more noble than our very down-to-earth lives. For someone who spent most of his life in the "noble" era of communism this is impossible to accept.

Vaclav Klaus

A! Fredome is a noble thing
Fredome mays man to haiff liking.
Fredome all solace to man giffis,
He levys at es that frely levys.

John Barbour "The Bruce"

A Forgotten World

2010-10-20T17:49:00.000+01:00

Reading quite a bit about Austria-Hungary recently . It strikes me that , un-enlightened though some of it's authoritarian methods were , Central Europe is and was immeasurably poorer for the collapse of this monarchy . Ask the Germans of Budweis and Klausenburg , the Magyars of Komarom , the Italians of Istria and Dalmatia or the Jews anywhere .

Here's their national anthem "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"

Words here .

A window on a world utterly , utterly gone .

Sad .

Climate Nazis "Miss The Mark"

2010-10-01T18:28:00.000+01:00

Mrs. Dale has put up a video originally released by absurd climate-alarmist group 10.10 .

Tasteful , isn't it ?

Here's the group's feeble response when they realise that not everyone finds the evisceration , maceration even , of political opponents all that acceptable .

Many people found the resulting film extremely funny

Yes .

Extreme political ideology can make all sorts of things amusing .

Great fun , eh ? And all so very amusing .

"Spud" Murphy for Shadow Cancellor ?

2010-09-29T01:49:00.000+01:00

Who said that building an RC school in Clarkston was a bad idea ?

Full rumour here .

Pat Condell And The Obamamosque

2010-08-30T22:50:00.000+01:00

Hysteria

2010-08-17T20:36:00.001+01:00

Some interesting stuff by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian about Obama , B.P. and politically convenient hysteria generally .

"Hardly a day passed without the president castigating BP, the hated "British Petroleum" – never its American site operators, Transocean and Halliburton, or his own regulators. It was a field day for xenophobes. The president used the sort of language normally visited on global terrorists. He was going to "get BP" and make them "pay for this". It was another Hurricane Katrina, but one that could thankfully be blamed on foreigners. A Louisiana seafood supplier declared: "If I had a bomb, I would put it on London" – which would have him in Guantánamo Bay if he were Muslim and speaking of New York. Foreigners had raped America. It was they, they, they …

Now, mysteriously, Obama speaks of we, we, we … who "have this thing under control""

........

"The imperative to exploit public fear is as old as power itself, but modern media give it a new menace. It enables leaders to suppress the dictates of reason and, however briefly, mesmerise the public into obedience. In 2003 Tony Blair decided to show off by sending 400 Household Cavalry in tanks to Heathrow "to counter terrorism", as a preliminary to a blitz of legislation curbing civil liberty. The image of a city under siege wiped millions off Britain's tourism account, but Blair got his legislation."

.....

"There was no threat to Britons, or the world, proportionate with the response to last spring's ash cloud, swine flu, Osama bin Laden or, for that matter, to liquids in carry-on flight bags. Europe's airport giants are even now wrestling with the question of whether a camembert is a "liquid".

The great conflation of fear – often egged on by "the science" – is the result of government gladly allowing itself to go mad for a day, to raise a fear, glean a headline or win a budget rise. Obama grotesquely exaggerated the oil threat to advance his personal and party cause. He is now struggling to downplay it."

Moderate Islam in Egypt

2010-08-16T01:59:00.000+01:00

Muslim Attacks On Copts In Egypt
From Assyrian International News Agency

Muslim Cleric Calls for Jihad, Coptic Christians Attacked in Egypt

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(AINA) -- On August 13 Sheikh Tobah, Imam of the village of Shimi 170 KM south of Giza, called during Muslim Friday prayers for Jihad against Christians living there. As a result the Christian Copts living in the village were assaulted over two consecutive days. Eleven Copts were hospitalized and many Coptic youths were arrested.

The assaults begain a couple of hours after the Sheikhs incitement. An argument between Copt Maher Amin, who was washing his taxi, and Mohamed Ali Almstaui, a Muslim extremist from the village, escalated into violence as Mohamad assaulted Maher. The altercation was stopped by bystanders. However, after the evening break of Ramadan fast, Ahmad, the brother of the perpetrator Mohamad, who is reported to belong to an extremist organization, together with twenty other men, went to Maher's family home, breaking down the door and assaulting him and his family with batons, including his old mother and his paralyzed sister, injuring them and breaking their furniture.

Security forces came and took away the Christian victims and kept them at the station in spite of their wounds, to pressuree them into accepting "reconciliation" with their attackers. None of the Muslims were arrested.

Saad Gamal, Egyptian MP for Elsaff, phoned from Gaza, where he is on a visit, and gave orders to the police to force reconciliation on the Coptic parties.

"I was against reconciliation, because I know that the culprits know that they can assault Copts, and in the end it will boil down to Copts giving up all their rights with the reconciliation sessions," said Reverend Ezra Nageh of St. George's Church in Elsaff.

"I was told by the security authorities that for the sake of the Holy month of Ramadan, everyone ought to make peace."

The next day, after the compulsory reconciliation between the Amin family and Almstaui family, a large number of Muslims were gathered by the Almstauis and attacked again the houses of the Copts, beaten the inhabitants, and went to the fields and assaulted the Copts there also.

"Why should they not do that, when they are told that the MP will defend them," said Rev. Ezra, adding the police have yet to issue a report about the incidents, because they were afraid of the MP. "So to whom should we go for help? MP Saad Gamal hates Christians, and President Mubarak pretends that he is not present or unaware of our plight."

Ghali Tawfik, one of the Coptic victims, said "We are forced into reconciliation and in less than 24 hours, we are assaulted again."

In an aired audio interview with activist Wagih Yacoub, Maher Amin said "they have humiliated us. We were beaten and we could not do anything about it. We are weak and helpless and have to accept reconciliation. They will next come to our homes and rape our women, and we will not be able to do anything about it."

Karam Bebawy, another Coptic victim, said the arrival of strangers to the village two weeks ago "with long beards and wearing short dresses like the Islamists" have a hand in poisoning the atmosphere in their village and inciting the Muslims against the Copts. He said that his Muslim neighbors have turned against him without reason since then.

Police today released the assaulted Copts who were detained on Friday and arrested three new Coptic youths in their twenties on charges of having some old cases against them. They were transferred to State Security. However, Rev. Ezra said that State Security is using the same old trick, which is detaining innocent Copts and fabricating crimes against them, to twist the arm of the church into accepting a forced reconciliation.

The village mayor, Sheikh Saad contacted Rev. Ezra on August 14, regarding a second reconciliation, but he flatly refused.

"They attack us today and force reconciliation on us. Are they waiting for us to be killed tomorrow and then they would think about the rule of law?" asked Reverend Ezra.

By Mary Abdelmassih

(The Iconoclast)

The Religion Of Peace

2010-08-16T01:56:00.001+01:00

(The Iconoclast)

The Luckiest Bear In The World

2010-07-30T02:39:00.000+01:00

The End of Britain ?

2010-07-15T14:28:00.003+01:00

FrontPageMag in the US has a clearer view of the Lib-Dem proposed electoral reform than many have dared express in our country .

The changes that the parties have agreed to will transform the British government from a decisive decision-making machine into a morass of compromise, half-measures and deadlock. Gridlock will be exported across the ocean to the United Kingdom.

and
The Liberal/Social Democrats are pushing this change in the hopes that there may never again be a parliamentary majority for the Conservatives or Labor and that they will always hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.

Why does no one talk like that here ? Is it the effect of being nice to coalition partners ? Or is it that the Loyal (ha , ha) Opposition favour a similar hare-brained scheme ?

World Cup - Part 2

2010-07-12T20:47:00.008+01:00

Well done , our Spanish friends !

Although , beautiful as their young women are ,

I still marginally prefer their Dutch equivalents ...

and their interesting undergarments .

(Hat Tip to www.worldcupgirls.net)

World Cup Final

2010-07-11T00:55:00.000+01:00

In the absence of Brazil ...

Germany v. England

2010-07-06T16:28:00.002+01:00

German fans after their (obviously flukey) victory over our English countrymen .

One guy starts singing in English about 2/3 of the way through . It had me laughing .

Marching Season

2010-07-06T16:17:00.000+01:00

This one is for Dark Lochnagar and all the other Loyal bears out there .

Teacher's New Year

2010-06-25T15:11:00.003+01:00

Yippee !!

Seven weeks without the ankle-biters and trainee criminals !!!

All police leave cancelled throughout Scotland , but I don't give a flying f**k !
I'm away to the pub !

Bookshelves

2010-05-29T14:35:00.003+01:00

Ooooh ! Bookshelves !

Ikea . £29.95 * 2 .

All these books were on the settee , so now I have somewhere to loll around when shouting at BBC News .

Labour's Not-So Hidden Agenda

2010-05-26T15:08:00.002+01:00

From The Telegraph's blogs

1) Labour ruin economy and lose election
2) Tories win election and repair economy
3) Proletariat revolt
4) Labour win election
5) Repeat 1-4 (since 1945)

Still . What are decades of misery and deception when it comes to the forward march of "The Project" ?

Remind any of your pals thick enough to vote for these scum of these salient facts at every opportunity .

Some guys I know actually still think they're voting to keep Ravenscraig open , rather than for compulsory buggery and the Police State .

Monumental stupidity .

The Hidden Truth

2010-05-21T00:14:00.001+01:00

Namibia knows the score !

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

2010-05-20T17:31:00.004+01:00

A Tangled Web has some good stuff on this , as does Mark Steyn .

Shame I can't draw .

New Job ?

2010-05-11T22:48:00.005+01:00

His Serene Highness The First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Council appears to have taken on some new responsibilities on his last day in office .

Also stolen from Biased BBC .

Maybe I should make up my own material ? Nah !

Rejoice ! Rejoice ! (But not too much).

2010-05-11T22:44:00.003+01:00

Stolen from Biased BBC .

As Ithers See Us

2010-05-08T11:56:00.001+01:00

Too bad the U.K. can't afford muddled governance. Its budget deficit will hit 12% of GDP this year, according to the European Commission, and markets are increasingly wary of governments that can't pay their bills. Britain badly needs a new burst of economic growth like the one that Margaret Thatcher's reforms sparked in the 1980s.

The Wall Street Journal's view of the hung Parliament .

Yvette Cooper

2010-05-03T21:54:00.002+01:00

I saw her being interviewed by Paxman (in the pub , with the sound down).

Without having to listen to her I was quite taken by the way she sat with her leg cocked up , as were my fellow drunks when I pointed this out .

Well and good , you may say .

However , let us remind ourselves of the full horror of her New Labourdom .

Nice Old Lady Meets The New Left

2010-05-03T12:53:00.003+01:00

And some folk out there still seem to think Labour is the party of the working , as opposed to chattering , classes .

The Daily Mash has the whole story .

"Meaning-wise, 'bigot' has been on shaky ground for quite some time and, like most bad things, it's entirely the fault of The Guardian.

"Guardian readers think anyone who doesn't love The Wire is a bigot. They think anyone who hasn't had an interesting experience in a two-star hotel in Ho Chi Minh City is a bigot. They think anyone who doesn't like Greco-Javanese fusion food is a bigot.

"Meanwhile, anyone who hasn't read a book about the right-wing media conspiracy against Hezbollah is the absolute worst kind of bigot and of course they now think I'm an appalling bigot for pointing that out.

"But perhaps most damning of all is that these are the sort of twisted, ruined people who will endure at least 15 minutes of The Kumars at Number 42 simply to prove that everyone else is intellectually evil."

Then it gets better

"Mrs Duffy said 'You can't say anything about immigrants... all these eastern Europeans are coming in, where are they flocking from?'. So let's just examine that one section at a time.

"Now, the first bit is factually correct. You can't say anything about immigrants and I'm fairly confident that we all understand that now.

"The second bit is a little tricky because it does seem to answer its own question - which Guardian readers have pointed out many, many, many times. But of course what she really meant was 'I'm just a normal old lady and I don't really know why any of this is happening'.

"But Guardian readers should continue to patronise her anyway because that just impresses the grade-A shite out of everyone."

Tom Logan added: "The really wonderful thing is that the original meaning of bigot was 'sanctimonious hypocrite', so in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary we're going to go back to our etymological roots and adjacent to the word 'bigot' it will simply say 'noun - a reader of The Guardian'.

"Fuckers."

To The Lubyanka For Him !

2010-05-02T13:43:00.002+01:00

Hat Tip to Constantly Furious .

Get Cameron Out !

2010-05-02T12:46:00.004+01:00

Philip Lardner , Conservative and Unionist candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran , was last week sacked and suspended from the Party for expressing views on Sodomy which David Cameron described as "deeply offensive and unacceptable" .

Here are these views -
“I will always support the rights of homosexuals to be treated within concepts of (common-sense) equality and respect, and defend their rights to choose to live the way they want in private, but I will not accept that their behaviour is ‘normal’ or encourage children to indulge in it. The promotion of homosexuality by public bodies (as per clause 28/ Section 2a in Scotland), was correctly outlawed by Mrs Thatcher’s government.

“Toleration and understanding is one thing, but state-promotion of homosexuality is quite another. Why should Christian churches be forced by the government to employ homosexuals as ‘ministers’ against all that the Bible teaches? They are being forced by the government to betray their mission – would the Equality and Human Rights Commission be fined for refusing a job to Nick Griffin? Christians (and most of the population) believe homosexuality to be somewhere between ‘unfortunate’ and simply ‘wrong’ and they should not be penalised for politely saying so – good manners count too, of course. The current ‘law’ is wrong and must be overturned in the interests of freedom as well as Christian values.”

No mention of persecution or imprisonment for homosexuals . Only moderation .

But Cameron thinks this is "deeply offensive and unacceptable".

Peter Hitchins has some excellent things to say about Cameron's PC agenda in this article .

I assume here that my readers mostly agree with me about what this country needs. It needs its independence back, so it can make its own laws and control its own coasts and territorial seas, its armed forces, its foreign policy – like a proper nation.

It needs to regain control of its borders and end the mass immigration which is neither necessary nor good.

It needs to stop the destruction of the married family and the undermining of adult authority.

It needs to use the law to restrain the grotesque abuse of alcohol and the dangerous spread of drugs.

It needs to restore the idea that crime and disorder should be prevented by a police force patrolling on foot – and where that fails, the criminals should be punished in austere and disciplined prisons.

It needs schools which teach proper subjects in orderly and peaceful classrooms.

It needs to shrink and reform a grotesque, unjust welfare state which rewards sloth and neglects the truly poor.

It needs – urgently – to defeat the politically correct fundamentalist zealots, who sneer ‘Bigot!’ at anyone who dares defend the reasonable beliefs and opinions which were normal a generation ago.

Some of you may also agree with me that it needs to reassert its debt and its allegiance to the Christian religion, on which our unique civilisation of orderly freedom is based.

David Cameron pretends skilfully to agree with these positions because he knows that is what you think.

But he does not really agree with you or me. He is himself deeply politically correct (he has just sacked a parliamentary candidate for having the ‘wrong’ opinions about homosexuality, a fact a grovelling media have not publicised).

His supposed ‘Euroscepticism’ is bluster which collapses when it comes into contact with reality, as over the Lisbon Treaty.

On Thursday night he ‘guaranteed’ he wouldn’t enter the Euro. He once also ‘guaranteed’ a referendum on Lisbon, a commitment he slithered out of as soon as it became difficult.

These ‘guarantees’ fly from his lips whenever he needs to please a crowd, but they are less valuable than Greek Junk Bonds.

His alleged support for marriage (dragged out of him under pressure) is a token and a gimmick, as convincing and genuine as a supermarket price-cut.

His pose as the foe of immigration is profoundly dishonest. He knows that, as long as we stay inside the EU, much immigration to this country is beyond his power to control.

Readers of this column over the past few years will have seen the many detailed instances of Mr Cameron’s duplicity that I have provided.

And, because there is not space for them all here, I have compiled a full charge sheet against Mr Cameron and his party, in which I show his true aims and opinions, and those of his colleagues.

It can be found on the web at http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk.

He is truly what he once said he was – the Heir to Blair.
If he wins, he will – as the first Tory leader to win an Election in 18 years – have the power to crush all his critics in the Tory Party.

He will be able to say that political correctness, green zealotry, a pro-EU position and a willingness to spend as much as Labour on the NHS have won the day.

He will claim (falsely) that ‘Right-wing’ policies lost the last three Elections.

Those Tory MPs who agree with you and me will be cowed and silenced for good. The power will lie with the A-list smart set, modish, rich metropolitan liberals hungry for office at all costs who would have been (and who in the case of one of the older ones actually was) in New Labour 13 years ago.
And then where will you have to turn for help as the PC, pro-EU bulldozer trundles across our landscape destroying what is good and familiar and replacing it with a country whose inhabitants increasingly cannot recognise it as their own?

UKIP for me !

Thanks Be To Allah !

2010-05-01T22:52:00.001+01:00

Simon Hughes - the Straight Choice -

Vote LibDem .

PS You only need to watch the first 30-40 seconds for the full effect .

Going , Going .....

2010-04-29T00:54:00.002+01:00

Hat Tip to A Tangled Web .

The Black Stone

2010-04-26T01:18:00.005+01:00

The Blackstone exam (yes , the same Black Stone in The 39 Steps) , one of the most famous viva voce Latin examinations in the English-speaking world ,was competed for this year upon this ancient chair at Glasgow University .

Joel Leslie of Larkhall won the Cowan Medal , on this occasion .

Educated in the old , Scottish tradition , I attempted to compete for this exam in 1988-9 (the last time the competition was run) , but , fool that I am , I gave up half way through to concentrate on drink and slow women .

Having graduated , I trained as a Classics teacher at Jordanhill . Larkhall Academy was one of the schools in which I trained . The department there was murdered in 1997 , so Joel probably didn't have the opportunity to learn Latin at school . I know , I took many of the books to my then school in England .

The amount of work taken to study for this voluntary exam is equal to a whole year's additional coursework . Difficult even for the best of students .

Joel is therefore a very , very clever and motivated young man .

Scholarship is not dead , nor is Western civilisation .

PS In 1989 my colleague Alan Girdwood was a worthy winner and a better scholar , by far , than I .

Pat Condell Speaks !

2010-04-25T13:33:00.003+01:00

Never one to hide his opinions ...

Hat Tip to Fausty .

Forget The General Election ....

2010-04-25T13:25:00.004+01:00

Sent by Neviglen .

I will join my Rangers-supporting (and a few Sellik-supporting) brethren this afternoon to celebrate or commiserate , as applicable .

Update :

Rangers win the League and Motherwell sit at 4th place . Good season .

Vote Farage . Bin Bercow .

2010-04-24T11:30:00.001+01:00

Hat Tip to Faustie

Media Idiocy

2010-04-21T06:39:00.002+01:00

Some bint on Sky News has just referred to "military generals" .

Presumably they're the best kind .

Cleggmania Meets Emily Nomates

2010-04-20T21:23:00.001+01:00

THAT Debate

2010-04-18T22:43:00.002+01:00

Sometimes Constantly Furious isn't just a soft , Southern **** .

A Transvestite Comedian Speaks !

2010-04-15T19:58:00.001+01:00

Whores and comic turns , right enough .

Thanks for the laugh to Goodnight Vienna .

Willful Stupidity

2010-04-14T18:24:00.002+01:00

Ed West notices the Fairyland Fantasies of the Liberal Left

Clegg has once again trotted out the old chestnut about Britain being some jail-mad prison state, calling Labour and Conservative policy on crime “stupid”.

There are certain liberal myths that largely go unchallenged on television and radio, or in academia, and this is one of them. The others are, in no particular order:

Non-judgmental sex education programmes reduce the level of unwanted pregnancies

Holland has low teenage pregnancy rates because all the kids are given condoms for lunch

If you give more money to the poor in first world countries, they will not be poor anymore

Before the state took over health and education, most people had no access to health and education

Poor Americans are left to die in the street because they have no NHS. Paramedics check their credit cards before saving them

Britain is a nation of immigrants

Muslim scholars preserved the works of Ancient Greece

Willful stupidity on every count .

Western Democracy Derangement Syndrome ?

2010-04-14T12:36:00.004+01:00

If you still think the Obamessiah is one of the good guys , compare his subservient bow to the dictator of China

with his treatment of Stephen Harper , Her Majesty's Prime Minister in Canada .

What is his problem with democratically elected leaders who are good friends to his country ?
And why the grovelling , West-loathing sycophancy towards various despots and dictators ?
(OK he did bow and scrape to the Emperor of Japan as well , so maybe there's another motivation ).

Hat tip to Ezra Levant .

Scottish Labour - A Vision For The Future .

2010-04-14T11:45:00.002+01:00

Glad to see they've contributed to the debate .

I saw this in the pub a couple of days ago . The most positive comment howled at it was "What a load o'sh**e !"

Everyone's favourite line was "They even took our school milk". That raised a few laughs , although some of the ex-steel workers were still convinced that British Steel could have been kept going without markets and with huge subsidies .

I take the view that , if it had stayed Colville Bros. and not been nationalised by Harold Wilson , there would still be some steel making in Motherwell .

So whose fault was the closure ?

To the metrosexual house-husbands and part-time social workers of New Labour , everything is the fault of the evil English Tories .

Race and class hatred at the same time ? How impressively 1980's Scottish Labour !

Election News 1

2010-04-08T00:37:00.001+01:00

If you watch nothing else on this election , watch Guy News -

Multiculturalism

2010-04-07T17:21:00.001+01:00

Further evidence of the benefits of the salad bowl/melting pot/some-other-pish-culinary-metaphor of multiculturalism .

From Tesco's in Springburn .

Every Picture Tells A Story

2010-04-07T10:02:00.001+01:00

Chavez v. Havel

2010-04-03T22:52:00.004+01:00

Vaclav Havel is , sine dubio , a hero of freedom and Western Civilisation .

His opposition to the Socialist tyranny which blighted his country and the lives of millions has led others (OK , Bill Clinton) to compare him to Gandhi and Mandela .

It is good , therefore that The Guardian publishes his words condemning the vicious , Marxist regime of Hugo Chavez .

The arrest of Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a former president of Venezuela's Chamber of Deputies, governor of the Venezuelan state of Zulia, and presidential candidate, should concern the entire world because it demonstrates just how far President Hugo Chávez's regime is willing to stray from democratic norms. Standing silent as democracy atrophies in Venezuela is now not only immoral, but is becoming increasingly dangerous for all of Venezuela's people.

Álvarez Paz has a worldwide reputation for being an honourable man devoted to democratic principles. He has bravely sought to alert the world to the persecution that opponents of Chávez and his regime constantly suffer, as well as to the decline of democracy in his country over the decade of Chávez's rule. Indeed, his arrest on 22 March is compelling evidence of the truth of his testimony about the regime's nature, and of the danger that it poses to Venezuelans, whose freedoms apparently are being systematically stripped, and to Latin American more broadly, owing to Chávez's example to other would-be autocrats.

The seeming trigger for Álvarez Paz's arrest appears to have been his statements on Aló Ciudadano (Hello Citizen), a talk show broadcast by the private TV Channel Globovisión. Álvarez Paz commented on a resolution passed by the National Court of Spain (Audiencia Nacional de España) about alleged relations between the Venezuelan government, the Colombian guerilla group Farc, and the Spanish terrorist group Eta. Álvarez Paz rightly called for these allegations to be examined.

But, after simply calling for the law to be enforced and criminal activity investigated, Álvarez Paz was arrested on charges of conspiracy, spreading false information, and incitement of hatred. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

The arrest is important evidence of the promiscuous abuse of the legal system by Chávez and his functionaries in order to persecute, intimidate, and silence those who criticise his government. It also corroborates reports published by international organisations and institutions such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House about the increasing deterioration of political liberties in Venezuela.

Under Chávez's rule, a radical form of state-sanctioned lawlessness has taken hold in the country. You could say that Venezuela now exists as a "lawless legality", a political system within which officials deny that in making or interpreting laws they are bound in any way by the spirit of justice that underpins those laws.

But the idea of arbitrary power exercised by any leader or political movement, no matter how much he or it claims to represent the poor and downtrodden – as Chávez does – is alien to all concepts of liberty. It is the legalism of the barbarian, and the instinctive political philosophy of all who are in revolt against democratic norms of behaviour.

The world must demand of Venezuela's authorities that they release Álvarez Paz immediately. The Organization of American States and other regional bodies must now forcefully insist on the effective restoration of constitutional norms in Venezuela. Only by doing so can they defend the principles established in the Inter-American Democratic Charter. The OAS needs to act soon, because Venezuelans are due to vote for a new parliament this coming September.

Last year, Chávez won a referendum that he had called to abolish term limits for presidents and other senior elected officials. Now, opinion polls are showing unprecedented levels of discontent over crime, inflation, and power and water shortages. There were big antigovernment protests in Caracas after a privately owned cable television channel, RCTV, was shut down. Venezuelans appear to be prepared to stop their country's steady drift toward dictatorship, which may also explain why Álvarez Paz was arrested.

Everyone who believes in and supports the democratic tide that swept Latin America following the fall of communism in Europe must affirm their commitment to monitoring the weak state of freedom of expression and democratic governance in Venezuela. It is not too late to recall Venezuela to the camp of free and democratic nations. To speak out for the freedom of Álvarez Paz is to defend the freedom of all Venezuelans.

Do El Caudillo Salmond and his henchman Jamie Hepburn know about these abuses in "The Bolivarian Republic"?

Multi-Culturalism

2010-03-29T22:35:00.005+01:00

Diane Abbot ? A big roomy woman .

Normally this would be very good , especially for we large bachelors .

However , Diane seems to have been developing the sort of crude and rudimentary personality cult which would put old Saddam to shame .

In a functioning democracy this would mean "curtains" for Oor Diane . Unfortunately , our corrupt political establishment , in the name of "equality" , thinks this is fine .

P.S. Don't you love the down-trodden status of "whitey" in this video ?
I was especially proud .

(Hat Tip to Oor Rab)

PPS . If they think there's not enough buses and trains in Hackney , maybe they should try Lesmahagow or Coalburn - they're pure hoatching with them .

UPDATE :

Diane has sought to sensor the above video , as you may be able to see . Fortunately , Rab has found a link elsewhere .

Children Of The Revolution
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Well . I Put More Lights On ....

2010-03-28T00:29:00.002Z

Earth Hour . What a load of sh**e !

"Switch off your lights so the baby polar bears won't drown "

P**h !

What does the BBC think ?

My charter doesn't say I have to be neutral , nor do I receive vast amounts of money through a highly regressive tax .

Their's does and they do .

(Hat Tip to Biased BBC)

PS . These guys keep coming up . Mark your target when it comes .

The Leader Speaks !

2010-03-20T10:02:00.003Z

Can't he take over from Cast Iron Dave at some point ?
A patriot in charge of a major political party would make a change .

(Courtesy of Faustie)

Gitmo Lawyer Traitors

2010-03-15T21:47:00.002Z

Read this in the Wall Street Journal and see if you believe all the leftie lawyers , protesters and well-known Ethiopian/kid-on Briton Binyam Mohammed .

Old Labour , Same Danger .

2010-03-14T19:51:00.002Z

Rab has a good post on Scottish Labour , linking to this fine report on totally unsubstantiated rumour .

Who would have thought that such things were possible in Scottish LabourLand ?

Viva El Caudillo Salmond !

2010-03-14T10:18:00.006Z

Reports that the SNP has become a responsible party of government , first undermined by Christine Grahame's lunatic ramblings have now been demolished by Jamie Hepburn (below) .

Hepburn has tabled a motion to the Scottish Parliament on
"The Achievements of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela".

The preamble states:

"That the Parliament considers that Venezuela has been transformed through the progressive policies pursued by the Chávez administration in the last decade…"

This'll be the same Bolivarian Republic led by Arch-Loon Hugo Chavez , not only dictator of his own country , but a man who has recently threatened ours' (i.e. Jamie Hepburn's hated British Oppressor-State) with war over the Falklands .

It goes on to express concern that Chávez has been undermined

"by reactionary elements in the United States"

and that America is co-operating militarily with Colombia; attributes the

"recent coup"

in Honduras to

"reactionary forces in the area".

Gerald Warner , in Scotland on Sunday , goes on to demolish the arguments (or should that be attitudes) far better than I could .

One thing he doesn't mention , though , does occur to me .

Both Christine Grahame and Jamie Hepburn are "list" MSPs . That means they are chosen by the party and not the electorate . They are not renegades thrown up by a fickle electorate ; they have been chosen by Salmond himself . It is safe , then , to assume that their lunatic anti-western views are shared off-camera by the great man himself .

Viva El Caudillo Salmond !

As Warner goes on to say

the whole scenario is redolent of an independent Scotland. A state-controlled oil industry haemorrhaging revenue, while the lights go out in the absence of any energy policy, and a president trying to bully his way on to television – that is a vision of Salmondland. No wonder Hepburn and his SNP colleagues identify so closely with Chávez, the paradigm of the Latin-American idiot.

Hugo Salmond (or Alex Chavez) Yesterday .

Fashion Page

2010-03-07T22:20:00.001Z

Nice frock !

Courtesy of Guido's commentors .

Maybe daytime telly isn't that bad after all !

State Power

2010-03-07T11:16:00.001Z

Mark Steyn on Canada , Scotland and the ends of state power -

In my piece on American decline for NR a couple of issues back, I tried to emphasize something that I think U.S. conservatives are too complacent about — the impact of Big Government on free peoples:

American exceptionalism would have to be awfully exceptional to suffer a similar expansion of government and not witness, in enough of the populace, the same descent into dependency and fatalism. As Europe demonstrates, a determined state can change the character of a people in the space of a generation or two.

And not just Europe. John O'Sullivan once suggested the entire post-war history of Canada could be summed up in Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song": The eponymous lumberjack hymning the manly virtues of a rugged life "leaping from tree to tree . . . down the mighty rivers of British Columbia" in the preamble has morphed by the third verse into a transvestite in high heels, suspenders, and a bra. From Canada 1945 to Canada 2000 in nothing flat.

Or take Scotland. Most anywhere you go around the planet, from Hong Kong to Hudson's Bay, almost everything that works was created and developed by Scotsmen. Now the whole joint's a statist swamp where government spending accounts for 75 percent of the economy and the menfolk idle away their days on a diet of drugs and fried Mars Bars with a life expectancy in the less salubrious parts of Glasgow getting down to West African standards. They'll never make any contribution to the world again.

Or consider Geert Wilders's address at the House of Lords today, a Dutchman citing Churchill, the Mother of Parliaments, desperate victims of Nazi-ruled Europe listening on their radios for the BBC's famous "This is London . . ." To a significant percentage of the British people and to the entirety of their ruling elites, these are not inspirational evocations of their glorious inheritance but something between a lost language and prima facie evidence of why Wilders is so dangerous he needs to be put on trial.

Second Amendment types insist the same thing could never happen here, but they underestimate the transformative power of government at their peril . . .

Cpl. Johnnie Moore

2010-03-02T22:20:00.001Z

Funeral tomorrow in Hamilton .

Ditch Spineless Cameron

2010-02-21T12:25:00.002Z

When can we get Sir John Major back ?

Slavery

2010-02-21T11:21:00.004Z

Gaze upon the hideous countenance of an enemy of freedom , a man who would enslave us all . Look closely at the sneer of hatred on his ugly coupon - you'll never see him without this expression , especially if you are a native Briton .

Aamer Anwar is a race-hustling lawyer and Socialist Worker . He is never far from the news when far-left agitators and/or terrorists are attempting to stifle freedom .

Here is what he said yesterday about Scots who don't agree with his opinions

Lawyer Aamer Anwar said that the march would serve as a warning to the SDL to "stay away".

That's right . Don't dare venture into a pub in Edinburgh , unless you've been cleared by the Central Committee of whatever grubby , anti-Scottish/British organisation Aamer Anwar is clinging to now .

Here's one of his leftie pals who give the word "student" undeserved and unwanted connotations
Student protester James Nesbitt, 23, from Glasgow, said: "We had spotters out across the city looking for fascists in pubs. We got here quickly but the police are doing everything they can to keep us away from them.

So who is it that are the Fascists , then , matey ?

And another of Anwar's chums from an impeccably liberal organisation
Another of the organisers, Osama Saeed of the Scottish-Islamic Foundation, said: "Today is a further humiliation for the SDL. They only got ten minutes in the rain last November in Glasgow. They didn't even get that today.

"This is only due to good people coming out in numbers to take over Edinburgh's streets. The threat from the far-right cannot be ignored and simply wished away."

Praise be to Allah , that the filthy kaffirs have been driven from the Holy Islamic streets of Edinburgh !

But who else was marching with these illiberal , totalitarian bastards ?

Kenny MacAskill , for one , the Scottish Government Justice Minister who was too "moral" to keep a mass-murdering Islamic terrorist in gaol !

Justice secretary and MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Kenny MacAskill, said: "This capital has a proud record of being open to all, and racism has no place here or in modern society.

"The vast majority of people in Scotland embrace equality, diversity and the idea of a one Scotland, many cultures.

"Today is about making a stand against those who would seek to divide and saying to them that their views are not welcome, as well as showing to the world that Scotland will not tolerate such views."

At least we can be sure that freedom is safe , protected by such a government .
A true democrat !

Perhaps the main Opposition party will stand up for the rights of our citizens to go about their lawful business ? Over to the Gray Man -

Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, who also attended the march, said: "The message from today's rally was up-beat and clear - Scotland will never stand by and allow hatred and bigotry to have its day.

"Scotland is an open, tolerant country. There is no place for - and Scotland will give no platform to - those who would divide our communities and attack our citizens.

There we have it . Truth , Democracy and Freedom in the new , Progressive , Scotland .

Think it's just a handful of shaven-headed Hearts and Rangers fans who'll get this treatment from a quasi-official , Government(and Opposition) supported mob ? Think again .

Be afraid . Be very afraid .

UPDATE

Old Holborn has some disturbing information related to this story .

Freedom !

2010-02-21T11:18:00.002Z

One for the Scottish Nationalists .....

... especially Christine Grahame .

PS Check out the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle .

Altering Consciousness

2010-02-14T14:36:00.002Z

An excellent article on Cultural Marxism by Janet Daley in The Telegraph .

Having lost the great economic argument of the 20th century, the Left had to switch its focus to society itself: if humanity could not be transformed through the redistribution of wealth and the socialist command economy, then it would have to be transfigured by altering social relations.

The object of the exercise was still to produce, in the words of an old Left-wing protest song, a "new world" based on a "new man". But now the new man (sorry, "person") would be formed not by changes in the power of capital or the ownership of the means of production, but in cultural attitudes and behaviour. The revolution now had to be confined to what went on in people's heads: to their values, their assumptions and their reactions to each other.

The phrase "altering consciousness", which had once meant awakening the proletariat to its own economic enslavement, now referred to raising awareness of social injustices, such as intolerance of cultural differences, social inequality, or discrimination against minorities. But the subtext was always self-examination and personal guilt: the indigenous Briton must be trained (literally, by the education system) always to question the acceptability of his own attitudes, to cast doubt on his own motives, to condemn his own national identity and history, to accept the blame even for the misbehaviour of new migrants – whose conduct could only be a reflection of the unfortunate way they were treated by the host population.

And there's much more than that . Give it a read .

One thought , though .

I thought the switch from courting the Proletariat to trying to destroy the culture and courting every "minority" in they could create or subvert came in the aftermath of the First World War ?

Islamic Dating

2010-02-13T14:09:00.001Z

Shamelessly stolen before Dark Lochnagar could put it up .

Lest We Forget

2010-02-09T21:44:00.004Z

In Memory of Corporal Johnnie Moore of The Royal Scots Borderers , and Strutherhill , Larkhall , Lanarkshire .

(Seen here on the left with his comrade , Private Sean McDonald , who died with him ).

Grievously wounded by Our Enemies in pursuit of their Evil Aims , Johnnie fought for life , but didn't make it .

The Lord Bless Him and Keep Him .

The Trial of Geert Wilders

2010-02-06T14:11:00.001Z

Hat Tip to Barking Spider

LibDem Wisdom On Our Constitution

2010-02-06T13:07:00.003Z

Nick Clegg has just been quoted on the BBC as describing the Bill of Rights as " a dusty law from the 17th Century" .

What a fudd ! ('scuse the language).

He has no concern for our history , traditions , laws and Constitution .
Much like the rest of the Federasts .

Why do we need shiny , new laws every 5 minutes ? Could it be something to do with the vanity of self-regarding "modern" politicians ?

Oh , No !

2010-02-05T20:40:00.001Z

Nothing more to say .

Democratic Totalitarianism ?

2010-01-30T12:25:00.003Z

State Of The Union Address used to brow-beat the Judiciary of the Supreme Court .

What next ? A show trial ?

He'll certainly use it as an excuse to shoe-horn in some more compliant Marxists .
Although the ones already there , including Judge Sotomayor , were not noticeably impressed by his disgraceful behaviour .

Oh . And if you're his political opponents , it's not his fault the public doesn't like his proposals . It's your far-right partizanship .
After all - he's a centrist , isn't he ?

Hat Tip to A Tangled Web

There Was A Lad Was Born In Kyle

2010-01-25T19:11:00.003Z

But whatna day o' whatna style,

Bookmark this one , if you're interested , to read in those few idle moments at work when reading books , even Burns' books , is impossible .

And enjoy the haggis and whisky tonight , or whenever else during the season you were or will be partaking .

Happy Australia Day !

2010-01-25T19:04:00.004Z

Our mates in another very important part of the Anglosphere have their national day today .

Let's help them celebrate !

(No , I've not got the date wrong , it's now the 26th in Australia !)

Obama Rationalised

2010-01-25T16:26:00.001Z

Bloodthirtsty Liberal brings us this welcome piece of news .

(Hat Tip to Obnoxio The Clown).

Cartoon

2010-01-24T14:12:00.001Z

Great cartoon in The Telegraph .

The Muslims Invented Everything

2010-01-10T16:34:00.003Z

India Knight has an entertaining justification for women being permitted to wear masks in public .

The Muslim world was inventing mathematics and architecture when the French were practically still trolls, grunting away in the mire and not looking forward to the annual rinse of the armpits. There are many things wrong with the Muslim world but the idea that its ordinary, non-bonkers, non-extremist millions need to be “civilised” into knowing what’s what sticks in the craw.

Perhaps , next year , she should go her holidays to Athens , rather than Marrakesh .

There , she will be able to gaze upon the Parthenon and reflect upon the fatuity of her remarks .

She may consider that the building was erected by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates , closely supervised by the famous sculptor Pheidias , between 447 and 432 BC , considerably before Mahoun hid in a tent and imagined his conversations with Allah .

She may also consider that the building did come under Muslim rule under the Ottomans . They turned this sublimely beautiful building into a mosque , complete with minaret ! Oh , the sophistication !

Later they used it as a gunpowder store , which , being hit by Venetian artillery in 1687 , is the reason the building now has no roof .

What fine custodians of culture they have been .

And don't get me started about Thales of Miletos and Pythagoras !

This "Muslims invented everything" line is the worst form of ahistorical rubbish imaginable . Why has it now become accepted as fact ?

Our culture , however , goes back in an unbroken line to Greece and Rome , through the Rennaisance and the Enlightenment almost to the present day .

We should recognise that fact .

As individuals we are equal before God . Our Culture is better by far .

More Guardian Incongruity

2010-01-08T16:07:00.004Z

The Guardian also has a lovely obituary of this simple , decent man , Trevor Humphreys .

It occurs to me that the admirable things about this man's life are almost all at odds with the leftist mind-set espoused by the Guardian .

His war service was with the hated British Army , not the heroic International Brigades , nor was he a Communist agent .

He disliked the display of disgusting vengeance meted out on the bodies of Mussolini and his blameless mistress Clara Petacci by the Italian Communists . Was it not enough to shoot only him and dump the body in a shallow grave ?

A Christian fundamentalist and therefore enemy of The Project .

A stalker ("His technique was persistence. "He gave me no peace," said his wife of their courtship) and therefore an enemy of wimmin and The Movement .

One of the boss classes (chief administration officer) at the Coal Board , and therefore an enemy of the workers' struggle .

What a fine man !

How low the British Left have stooped !

PS . How low the British people have sunk (led by the British Left) .
Shame on them and shame on us all !

Guardian Talks Sense - On Beer !

2010-01-08T15:59:00.002Z

This article , deploring the attack on Britain's pubs and drinking culture in general , almost makes the Guardian sound like the Liberal paper it once was , rather than the Stalinist , authoritarian propaganda sheet it is in reality .

Homosexual History ?

2010-01-07T21:34:00.003Z

Further evidence of the homosexualists vociferous attempts to dominate public and private discourse over at the notoriously right-wing Medieval News .

The American Historical Association kicks off its annual meeting today, in San Diego, California, amidst controversy over the choice of location and problems in attendance.

Some of the events are being held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, whose owner contributed heavily to the campaign in the state against same-sex marriage. The 1,625-room resort has been the subject of a boycott by gay-rights activists since July 2008.

How shocking ! These bigots must be forced into penury for expressing their views !

Fortunately The American Historical Association has found a compromise solution .

Instead, the AHA voted for the addition of a mini-convention called AHA Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage, which will be held in the hotel. A local same-sex rights group is expected to hold a demonstration on Saturday at the hotel.

I can think of precisely no historical perspectives on same sex marriage .

Wait a minute . There is a passage in Suetonius where Nero is derided for going through a pretend marriage to one of his catamites .

And we all know how happy an ending that had .

TORIES WILL EXTERMINATE BBC IF THEY GET ELECTED

2009-12-29T00:48:00.002Z

Praise God ! John Reith would be pleased .

Hat Tip to Better Than A Dead Lion .

The Guardian And Irish Republicanism

2009-12-28T16:28:00.003Z

It had to happen . A Guardian article that tells the truth .

It has become customary amongst those who share my religio-political beliefs to laugh at this other manifestation of pure evil in Irish Republicanism (obscene and pointless violence being the other).

It's time we realised that that isn't good enough and that we should try to help our brothers and sisters in Christ to throw off the chains and banish these twin evils for good .

Our rejection of them fosters more of this depravity .

Children Are The Enemy

2009-12-28T00:56:00.002Z

Well , at least the Eco-Loonies of Al-JaBeeba don't hide their hatred of humanity .

'Twas the Night Before Christmas -- 2009

2009-12-24T23:09:00.001Z

From The American Spectator

'Twas the night before Christmas and at the White House;
Our Commander was sleeping, and so was his spouse.
They'd gone to bed early to ward off the blues;
In hopes that the new year would bring them good news.

Progressives were snuggled, asleep safe and warm;
While dreaming of government health care reform.
But I in my doldrums, and sleepless with fears;
Had just nodded off with a couple of beers.

When out of my TV there came such a clatter;
I put down my brewski to check out the natter.
Away to the boob tube I flew in a flash;
To watch a discussion of ill-gotten cash.

The smoke in the backroom was blowing quite thick;
And I thought that my poor mind was playing a trick;
When what to my sleep-deprived eyes should appear
But a panel of Democrats looking severe!

With a little old leader so ready to plead;
I knew in a moment it was Harry Reid.
More rapid than eagles his supplicants came
When he wined them and dined them and called them by name:
Now Sanders, Now Landrieu, Now Ben from Nebraska;
We'll give you the bridge that we scotched in Alaska!
To the chamber to vote;
Where we plan to play ball;
It's cash today, cash today, cash for you all!

As wobblers who'll alter their views so they'll jibe,
when they meet with a party that's eager to bribe;
So on went the plan to bewitch and bewilder
By paying the requisite pieces of silver.

And then in a twinkling, I heard in my room;
A voice that would fill any patriot with gloom.
As I peered through the darkness I saw with great dread
St. Hillary appear at the foot of my bed.

She was dressed in a trench coat, the collar up high;
And she wore a mischievous gleam in her eye.
A pair of dark glasses were perched on her head;
And she grinned as she pictured the glory ahead.

Her eyes--how they sparkled! Her manner--how airy!
As she thought of the treachery cooked up for Harry.
Her droll little mouth was stretched out in a smile;
And her angelic look gave no hint of her guile.

A tiny black book she held tight in her hand;
And she grinned like a bandit while hatching her plan.
She had a bright look and her cheeks grew so rosy
As she started to write down the deals of Pelosi.

She noted with glee the attempted extortion;
The cash to vote cloture and fold on abortion.
With a wink of her eye in the midst of my dream;
I realized that she'd let me in on her scheme.

She hoped that the papers would swallow the bait;
That they'd never suspect came from mistress of State.
She merrily felt that Obama was toast;
As she faxed all the dirt to the Washington Post.

She sprang to her feet, from my room she went winging;
And my joy was so full that I felt just like singing!
And I heard her exclaim, as my eyes welled with tears,
"Happy Christmas Barack, I'll be back in three years."

'Mon Santa !

2009-12-24T22:43:00.002Z

O Come All Ye Faithful !

2009-12-24T22:39:00.001Z

The Rotting Fruit of Multiculturalism

2009-12-23T01:42:00.002Z

A though-provoking article in the American Spectator .

Nothing To See Here ....

2009-12-20T14:49:00.007Z

I wonder what Noraid and various Plastic Paddies throughout the English-speaking world have to say about this ?

Archbishop Cranmer preaches on the same theme here , following the news that the odious Channel 4 is to allow Adams to make a programme on Christianity and forgiveness .

Best line comes from one of those cruelly bereaved by this evil man and his euphemistic struggle

Victor Barker, whose 12-year-old son James died in the 1998 Omagh bombing, said:
'Asking Gerry Adams to speak about love and forgiveness is like asking Myra Hindley to lecture on child-minding .'

Or how about this ?

Lord Tebbit, who was himself injured and his wife permanently disabled after the 1984 IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, burst out laughing when he heard about Mr Adams' programme.

He said:
'I wish him well. And I hope he also comes across the doctrine of hell and the consuming of pernicious unrepentant murderers and sinners in general by the fires of hell for all eternity. What will he do after that? A programme about pigs discovering cleanliness?'

Last word goes to an anonymous poster on Cranmer's blog

The Adams Family Values.

His sexually abusing brother must be forgiven, because he isn't a priest.
His father should be forgiven because he was a 'volunteer' who did 7 years inside for trying to murder policemen. This clearly traumatised him, so it really is the fault of the Brits.
And Gerry Adams must be forgiven because although he knew about his brother's abuse for years, family loyalty is a great republican virtue.
And it's Christmas, a grand time fro the family & all. Slainte!