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“During my years in family court, I have seen a dramatic deterioration in the lives of adults and children. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in expensive public programs. We are spending a fortune and the result is failure. The recipients of these monies are in ...

I am utterly and completely exasperated by the public sector, both here in the United Kingdom and in the United States. This stems from having to deal with these cretinous systems day in, day out in my job and elsewhere, and it merely cements my belief in a libertarian political ...

Sirs, Firstly, it seems prudent to mention that I am a devotee of BBC programming. The quality has always been of a high standard, and I remain influenced by the BBC in general, whether it be radio or television. I am not, however, a fan of how the BBC is ...

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. It tends to be a pretty big deal. But in Belfast, Northern Ireland, it is also something of a hot potato, seeing that the Republican movement seem to own everything which has to do with Irish culture in the North. Enter Republicans, enter everything Left; ...

What is with you, America? First, the conservative right holds US television in its icy grip, stunting creativity by means of censorship for years with the effect that rarely would one see even a hint of sexuality in the majority of its output. Then, Janet Jackson reveals a breast during ...

Today’s Guardian newspaper has an interesting interview with London pop princess Ms Dynamite. But of course no Guardian article is written uninfluenced by the snobby, leftist, middle-class, arty-farty liberalism which pervades its political position on a daily basis – and this one is no exception. Ms Dynamite just HAPPENS to ...

First apologies for the delay in posting – it has been caused by Extreme Pro-action. (Similar to Extreme Sports, only more dangerous.) I just couldn’t help myself today. A major lefty think-tank, The Institute for Public Policy Research, has published a report entitled “What is Religious Education For?”; presumably not ...

For those who are not yet aware, France is implementing a controversial new law to ban women and girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. And of course this is being taken as some kind of prejudice against the Muslim religion. (Everyone is out to get them, remember?) Please don’t ...

Well we must confront now an obvious favourite in a presidential candidate in the USA – Howard Dean for the Democrats. Today’s Guardian article on Dean is written by an old acquaintance who does not know him as a left-leaning liberal, but instead a pragmatist, who asseses each issue individually ...

Sorry? I should learn to “love” being nannied? By the state? Tessa Jowell’s article in yesterday’s Times is disturbing. Not because I didn’t think people actually held views like this, but it is disturbing that this lady is the Culture Secretary (no, I don’t know what that is either) and ...

This blogger is eating A LOT, so will not be posting again until next week. In the meantime, check out the unjust and unfair way that detainees are being treated by the American establishment right now. I’m sorry – and those who know anything about my politics will know that ...

I loathe to talk about the practical outworkings of left-wing policies rather than the principals behind them, as if they would somehow be right as long as they worked in practice. But on this occasion I can’t let the occasion pass to comment on how unjustified, even practically, they are ...

George Monbiot just gets stranger and stranger. For those who don’t know of this fertile writer, check him out at his own website www.monbiot.com. The Lefty Leftist of Everything Left, who used to protest against the construction of roads, has clearly wired himself to the moon with this latest bizarre ...

Further to my post of December 7th titled “Anti-globalisation? Read on”, I finally located the photocopy I made of the article in the Reader’s Digest by Johan Norberg, who is a reporter in Vietnam – giving the other side to the story of globalisation and international capitalism. The first significant ...

In today’s Times, I read the most weird criticism of the United States I have ever come across, by commentator Jan Morris. I will print the strangest section in full, so you can see what I mean: [Of life in the US from an Brit’s point of view] “There is ...

Tessa Jowell, Culture Secretary (whatever that is), opened a public debate Thursday on the above as part of a review of the BBC’s Royal Charter, by which the public will be invited to write to government officials directly and/or go to meetings on the subject of what, exactly, the British ...

Today the latest results from the British Social Attitudes survey is quite revealing about where people are on the issue of tax vs. freedom: the attitudes of young voters seem to indicate much LESS tolerance toward the ever-increasing taxation of New Labour than they would have before! Perhaps a wonderful ...

You may be interested to read the OTHER side of the story of globalisation – ie. the one that will never come from the mouths of those dreadlocked, anti-war, anti-capitalist, abundantly pierced types with plenty of spare time to wreck the cities on regular occasions like May Day. (The Great ...

Further to my post of yesterday re. The Lancet editorial (which called for tobacco to be made illegal); it seems that some other folks have similarly noticed the bizarrity in such a view. Today’s Times, for instance, in its leading article, makes the following statement: “A ban [on smoking] would ...

“Fat is now a political issue”; so says Minette Marrin in the Times on Sunday. She directly targets her argument at libertarians (such as my good self), saying essentially that she agrees with the government’s initiative to do something about the obesity of the nation. Marrin utilises several devices to ...