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Central to Michael Moore’s ‘documentary’ Bowling For Columbine was his theory that Canada is so much safer than the United States because of its laws restricting gun ownership and requiring tighter control, and his implication that firearms should be therefore restricted in the same way in the United States. That ...

New York CitySeptember 11th, 2001 We must never forget.

1) Labor Day and the New York Times Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, an annual, national dedication to the social and economic achievements of America’s working public. In an age when the science of economics seems to mystify the Left, an age when some popular ideologies seem ...

The leader writer for the Guardian must be a Fat Bastard incapable of controlling his or her urge to buy and eat food. Last week Fat Bastard lamented that government wasn’t doing enough to help people stop eating too much and claimed that “there is a great deal the government ...

In a blog recently I was challenged for being inconsistent in my views. Yeah, I know: blasphemy! I had criticised the Roman Catholic Church for it’s policy on condoms, and my intention had been to criticise the inconsistency, incoherence and factual inaccuracies of the RCC’s moral policy. However, perhaps due ...

“And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddlin’ kids!” There are two main points I wish to make about the capture this morning of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). The first is to ...

Tony O’Neill, head chef of the Merchant Hotel in Belfast, was absolutely mauled by Andrew Tyler, a representative of the organisation Animal Aid, during a debate about the culinary delicacy foie gras on Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence Programme. The mauling was brutal and bloody. It was real tiger and zebra ...

You’d think the Robin Hoods of the political left would be content with stealing money from the living, but oh no. They just love to mug the dead too. And oh such pleasure they take in it. I speak of course of inheritance tax: the tax on the dead. Stephen ...

Earlier this week Jenni Murray, a BBC radio 4 presenter, made plans with three friends to assist each other to die if any of them is diagnosed with a debilitating and incurable disease or disorder. Assisted suicide is illegal in Britain, so this certainly raises interesting points. And, of course ...

A few weeks ago, media reports surfaced which accused Apple Computer of employing children in Chinese sweatshops to manufacture its iPods. The reports also alleged that working conditions were well below acceptable standards and that the workers were overworked and underpaid. The headlines were typically vicious: ‘China’s young make them, ...

Trees blocked out the sky and made me feel safer. Obviously the branches of trees would do nothing to stop or slow a Katyusha attack. But when you’re under rocket and missile fire, the sky feels like a gigantic malevolent eyeball. When you’re underneath trees, the gigantic malevolent eyeball can’t ...

AIDS kills. There is no vaccine. Condoms help prevent the spread of AIDS. Sorry to state the obvious, but it seems that these basic facts still need to be proclaimed. The 16th International AIDS conference is meeting in Toronto this week, and it has emerged that the Bill and Melinda ...

Hummer and McDonald’s: two of the most hated names in capitalism. How appropriate that they should team up together. My wife and I had lunch today with our three-year old son in the friendly, comfortable environs of a local McDonald’s restaurant, a welcome interlude in the middle of my workday. ...

I’ve been amazed at the amount of scepticism over the recent terrorist scare in Britain. Many, mostly left-liberal, commentators and huge sections of Muslim opinion don’t think there really was a terrorist plot at all. Nothing inherently wrong with that, except the bizarre rationalisations of their evidentially-challenged position that have ...

News broke earlier this week that companies bidding for government work contracts face possible rejection if they fail to employ enough black and Asian people. A committee, which includes 7 government ministers, has made proposals requiring businesses to provide the racial profile of their workforce compared to the racial profile ...

THIS is what we pay our governments to do. THIS is the reason we have government at all. And THIS was the government doing a terrific job in its primary role as protector of its citizens. Just last night I was at the first day of Oliver Stone’s World Trade ...

Another massive scandal about the use of drugs in sport has broken out recently with the spotlight on the US sprinter Justin Gatlin and some guy who rides a bike whose name I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to look up. But just what is the problem with sportsmen ...

The concept of personal responsibility is making a gradual exit from public discourse. To emphasise it these days typically brings a raised eyebrow in response. But it’s a concept that every single libertarian must fight for as that notion is one of the those lying at the very heart of ...

It may amuse the more school-boy-humoured men amongst us to think of one’s penis as a “deadly weapon.” Hee hee hee. Unfortunately for some men that literally is the case. An article in the Guardian on Thursday, 2nd August brought my attention to the case of a man about to ...

Today, I part ways with Time blogger Andrew Sullivan on the issue of global warming. I like Sullivan, and I don’t think he’s the kind of guy to plod clumsily into a left-liberal environmental credo. That said, his article in today’s Times entitled ‘Wanted: a practical guide to saving the ...