As one who has consistently criticised the Guardian newspaper in Britain for its left-wing collectivist argument, I must bring to your attention yet another bizarre article, not from a Guardian commentator but from its news section. The Guardian would never have missed this one – in keeping with its tradition ...
Read MoreResponse to Decca Aitkenhead’s Guardian article
I guess this is simply what happens when the Left are presented with a major world event in the news (like the tsunami) whose principal cause cannot be construed to be the result of free enterprise or right-wing politics….. —————- Decca- Your article demands a truly liberal response to homophobia ...
Read MoreBBC – more comedy
Consider the following: A) The BBC have pledged to make cuts to its schedule and trim back programming to create a better example of quality public service broadcasting. One of its primary areas of development will now be its COMEDY output. B) The culmination of the farcical BBC Charter Review ...
Read MoreResponse to Ros Coward’s Guardian article: "Phoney Populism"
Ros- Your article betrays your real point of view – not with speeding or dangerous driving, but a typical liberal obsession with cars in general and a leftist dislike of them, as indicated by your subtitle, “Don’t pander to the ordinary bloke’s addiction to cars”. Yet none of your arguments ...
Read MoreOsbournes burgled
Ozzy and family have had their share of trouble: a quad accident, kids through drug rehab, colon cancer; now a burgalry. And the commentary in the news across America and Britain has been consistent: “Osbournes offer reward”, “Osbournes plead”, “Brit bobbies laud Ozzy for battering burglar”, “Thief sent flying at ...
Read MoreMore about nannying
There appears to be a concerted trait right now among lefties to be unusually explicit in their fight-talk. Liberal commentators are jumping on the bandwagon in support of Labour’s ever-expanding arena of influence in even bolder ways…. as demonstrated in the press again today with Polly Toynbee’s Guardian article, “Why ...
Read MoreWithout a bit of nannying, we’ll never eat properly
“WITHOUT A BIT OF NANNYING, WE’LL NEVER EAT PROPERLY.” Who, you may quickly ask, subscribes to this statement? This tripe, this exercise in illogic, this utter trollocks embodied in literal form by human flotsam and jetsam extrordinaire, Anthony Worral Thompson, appeared in today’s Independent newspaper, the same rag whose contributor ...
Read MoreResponse to Sunday Sequence on Jim Wallis of Sojourners: interview
Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners Magazine, left nobody in doubt as to which side of the left/right political divide he occupies when talking about the election during your telephone interview with him last week. He seems to believe that the conservative Right have hijacked the political system, pushing their agendas ...
Read MoreChurch & State: 4 more years?
I’d like to respond briefly (as time is short) to a fresh wave of debate in the light of this election on the issue of church and state. The 2004 election has proved one thing: Americans still vote strongly on moral issues, mostly due to the influence of evangelical Christianity. ...
Read MoreYasser Arafat: BRAINDEAD
Claude Salhani, World Peace Herald journalist, has reported that medical sources in Paris have confirmed that Palestinian leader Arafat is in a coma, on life support. It is “now a matter of time — more when, rather than if — his death becomes a reality.” Arafat was the guy who ...
Read MoreMargaret Hassan’s pleas for her life
All who saw today’s harrowing tape of Margaret Hassan, the CARE worker based in Iraq, pleading for her life on video after being abducted by insurgents, could not fail to be outraged. This woman has devoted her life to working FOR the Iraqi people. She has spent 30 years in ...
Read More1 Coke short of a 12 pack
Coca-Cola has given in to the European Union in a 5-year anti-trust case, over an important sales practice which has been attributed to making the company so successful. The practice is this: Coca-Cola offers incentives to retailers who choose to take a Coca-Cola refrigerator and stock it with Coca-Cola Company ...
Read MoreHands off!
Another depressing piece from the BBC; this time an online survey asking for comments on their website on the subject of chocolate. The premise is that confectionary firms are to stop making some of their king-size chocolate bars as part of a drive to combat obesity. Are smaller chocolate bars ...
Read MoreDoes capitalism contradict God? Part II
This longer and much more coherent response to Sunday Sequence on the above question was submitted by my good friend and co-polemicist Stephen Graham. Personally I’m not sure what was more of a concern: the results of this poll or the fact that they asked the question. GRAHAM: ———————————- Dear ...
Read MoreDoes capitalism contradict God?
RESPONSE TO SUNDAY SEQUENCE WEBSITE POLL: Dear Sir/Madam, In what possible way could capitalism contradict God? Did not God establish free will in man to begin with? Capitalism is only the natural result of such freedom, as human beings seek to survive by reaping the fruits of their own labour. ...
Read MoreResponse to Daniel Ellsworth, Suite 101 on "foul language"
Daniel- As a fellow christian I read your article “A Fair Look at Foul Language” and found it less than fair. I found three major problems with your argument: 1) The division of “foul” words into a separate category in the first instance 2) Your defense of what exactly it ...
Read MoreTony Blair: free healthcare for all!
Tony Blair’s answers on the National Health Service in yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions were a surreal but poignant indicator of his mind on these issues. The questions from Michael Howard, leader of the opposition, were part of a wider critique by the Conservatives of the way the NHS is funded ...
Read MoreResponse to BBC Sunday Sequence on climate change
Sirs, I found the discussion in last week’s edition of ‘Sunday Sequence’ on climate change and “The Day After Tomorrow” shockingly unrepresentative of the spectrum of opinion on this complicated issue. While I can understand the limitations of an invited panel in this regard, I felt that listeners were presented ...
Read MoreAbuses in Iraq: ONE QUESTION
Q: Why is it that the liberal establishment (and others) in the West are currently displaying more outrage about the revelations of the stag party-style abuses of Iraqi detainees by stressed-out US soldiers last year, and even FAKED photos of British troops doing the same, than they are about the ...
Read MoreFile sharing: a libertarian response
I thought I’d spend a few moments setting out my take on the whole internet music file sharing thing. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and its European allies continue to be affronted by the technology and its users, regarding their peer-to-peer downloading networks as blatant breaches of copyright ...
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