White, male, Christian, middle-class, gainfully employed and married, Edward Persimmon is going nowhere fast on the left’s Pyramid of Victimhood. He attends a traditional church. Persimmon's interests
The National Party’s leadership coup is proof if ever proof were needed, of how far to the left we have all travelled. I have written previously on The BFD about Peter Hitchens’ broken political compass, and how lost we are, not having the correct socio-political equipment to navigate by.
As with anything which is state-controlled, we have entered a twilight world of arbitrary diktats. We are told by Big Sister that those of us still having jobs may return to work. We must stay two metres away from strangers, but a metre away from those we know. It is
Well, we didn’t quite emerge blinking and spluttering, casting looks aghast, countenances set against a chill wind, to greet the new dawn. It’s been more of a slow-motion apocalypse. The changes wrought by COVID-19 appear to be as much social as they are economic. We have accepted the
I don’t know about you, but most of the people I meet these days seem jubilant. They have either discovered the joys of working from home or else have been on six weeks’ ‘annual leave’, paid for by the government. “Never before in my life have I had six
We cannot retain a Prime Minister who does not act constitutionally if we wish to remain a First World democracy In British Commonwealth countries the rule of law is a long-established principle relating to the way in which the country is governed, dating from Magna Carta in 1215 and the
Justice Minister Andrew Little declared back in March that a review of New Zealand’s hate speech law was in its final stages. It is only the COVID-19 outbreak which has prevented it from being enacted. In order to usher in any new religious blasphemy legislation the old must first
Anthony Blair acolyte and former Labour cabinet minister David Blunkett has written in The Telegraph recently that “to incarcerate people solely on age grounds is an outrage”. This, from a man who once described civil libertarianism as “airy fairy”, was given in response to suggestions that UK lockdown restrictions might
I have written in The BFD recently about the decline of western Anglosphere nations through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. And that how, through a collapse in confidence, and also in morality, we have meekly accepted the suspension in civil liberties deemed by governments to be ‘necessary’ under
When Great Britain emerged blinking from the rubble of the Second World War it was a nation hugely in debt and on the brink of a silent social revolution. The country’s war debt to the United States was in the order of $3.7 billion, and despite Harold Macmillan’
Anzac Day combines many of the elements of our shared national life which the left loathes. It celebrates the primacy of the nation-state and the nation’s sovereignty and independence maintained through the defence of its borders. It marks our closeness to our allies, with whom we are like-minded and
UK television and radio media are just as left-wing as they are in New Zealand. The Spectator highlights two interviews, each carried out very differently, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, of the Conservative party, got a roasting – as one would expect. The National Party,
In the year 1910, a law-abiding New Zealand citizen would hardly have been aware of the operation of the State. He would be aware of policemen walking the beat. He would probably use the Post Office. If a city dweller, he would ride on municipal trams. But that would have
Taiwan has had a challenging history. Having been colonised by the Dutch and Spanish the island nation, located 81 miles off the coast of China, was ruled by the Chinese Fujian province under the Qing dynasty until sovereignty was ceded to Japan in 1895. Following the end of World War
Sweden isn’t a country high on my list of places to visit. I went to Norway once and that was bad enough. Sweden is a country run by a commissariat of trades unionists, radical feminists and individuals who, by their own admission, are no friends of Israel. Every Swede,
As I write, the global death toll attributed to Covid-19 approaches 50,000. The Lancet puts the annual global death toll from flu in the year 2017 at between 250,000 and 500,000. [Editor’s note: COVID-19 has a higher fatality rate than seasonal influenza and is more contagious.
As everyone rallies round to defeat the new ‘enemy’, the government is largely off the hook and free from scrutiny. It’s a situation beyond the socialists’ wildest dreams. Watch them now destroy (left-wing academics term it ‘deconstruct’) the fabric of our shared values and loyalties in pursuit of the
