“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Extreme Stockholm’s Syndrome

I guess this is what Americans call a “heads you win, tails I lose” scenario: A student at Georgetown University wrote in an op-ed piece that he was ‘Not at all’ shocked that a recent mugging he suffered at gunpoint took place. Senior Oliver...

Enoch Powell on multiculturalism

On April 20, 1968, a British Conservative Party politician named Enoch Powell addressed the General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre. He stood up and proceeded to unleash a right barnburner of a speech, in which he warned of a cultural...

A Frenchist trollop on power

The former First Lady of France apparently has a few choice words for the state of politics in her native country: Former first lady of France Valerie Trierweiler has branded the country’s politics ‘misogynistic’ and said female politicians encounter...

Take your “law” and shove it

That’s the only appropriate response to the latest bit of nanny-state stupidity that has been proposed on this side of the Pond: Labour wants to stop drinkers having more than a pint of beer a day – sparking fresh accusations that it is out of touch with...

Blissful incoherence

The Liberal Mind I doubt very much that anyone who visits and reads this pokey little blog of mine is a liberal. (Well, maybe one or two people at a time are, but they rapidly become so appalled by what I have to say that they flee screaming in terror at what they...

Hail the Reaxxion

What, just thumbsticks with no D-Pad? Roosh just started up a new gaming website called Reaxxion, which already has some interesting and worthy content available for you to read through. If you’re a gamer, of any stripe, and you’re fed up of being told...

The anti-freedom party

The Conservative Party in dear olde Englande appears to be thoroughly rattled, and rightly so, by the rapid rise of the UK Independence Party. Unfortunately, the Conservative party’s nominal media backers appear to have serious problems understanding exactly...

The value of your vote

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. — Quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin “I find your lack of cookies disturbing” Today America’s voters went to the polls in one of the country’s innumerable...

The Speech

On October 27th, 1964, a handsome-looking former actor in his early fifties took to the stage of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. He was there to deliver a message that he, and he alone, had spent years of his life honing on the...

It is still murder

A woman who aborted her baby when she realised that it would be born with Down’s Syndrome tries to sound appropriately contrite and begs our understanding: One in 1,000 babies in the UK — about 750 a year — is born with Down’s syndrome. But with better...