From the ‘No Shit Sherlock’ Files…
Well well well, would you look at that? @RishiSunak @thetimes pic.twitter.com/Kydk68drLx — Nazarin Veronica (@nazarinveronica) August 25, 2022
UK Politics
Thoughts from a Troubled Land
August 23rd, 2022. Lots of things appear to be happening as I have been on my midsummer break. Unusually for the UK, in which August is known as the “Silly Season” as nothing ever happens and the media scratch around for stories, there has been an abundance of news, much
Road Maggots Are Above the Law
Well, bugger me dead — The Guardian has finally found a nanny state measure it doesn’t like. Surprise, surprise, it’s about trying to hold road maggots to account. That’s right, the very people who want the rest of us to be taxed for breathing, and tracked on everything
The UK Slides Down the Slope to Chaos and Anarchy
August 18th, 2022. My summer hiatus has been interrupted by events in the UK that I find difficult to comment on but cannot ignore. A period of violence saw 6 people murdered in 4 days, with the nadir being reached with the knife murder of an 87-year-old busker whilst sitting
Truss More Analytical, Sunak More Authentic and Emotional
Eugene Sadler-Smith University of Surrey Eugene Sadler-Smith is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School. His first degree was from the University of Leeds (School of Geography), and His Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (Thesis title ‘Individual differences and the design of instructional materials’, 1988-1992, part-time). His
4-Day Week Trial Shows First Successes in UK
Kontrast.at scoop.me The social democratic magazine Kontrast.at covers current political events, both in Austria and in the rest of the world. We view society, state and economy from a progressive, emancipatory point of view. Kontrast casts the gaze of social justice on the world. The world’s
Is Race an Issue for Rishi Sunak?
Paul Whiteley University of Essex After studying economics as an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield Paul Whiteley obtained Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of Essex. His first academic post was as lectureship in Politics and Statistics at Kingston Polytechnic in West London before moving to the University
Holding Her Breath and Stamping Her Feet
You know, most of us grow out of the “Give me what I want or I’ll hold my breath till I die!” gambit by the time we’re about four. But not the fagscisti. The Waffen-SSM are tanty-throwers extraordinaire, who use infantile emotional blackmail to get their way, every
Is New Zealand Morphing into an ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ State?
August 4th, 2022. I was recently researching elements of fascism for a paper and for some reason began to think of New Zealand. What is fascism? It is difficult to get a definition of fascism. George Orwell once complained that “fascist” had become nothing more than a synonym for “bully”
Don’t Take the Freedom of Speech We Enjoy for Granted
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. Hardly a day goes by without some viral international incident reminding us why we’re so lucky to have the First Amendment. The latest such lunacy comes courtesy of the United
Worker Wins Case Against Dismissal for Gender Views
As I reported recently, the dismantling of the Tavistock clinic in the UK is just another sign that the tide is turning on the gender wars. The Stonewaffen is suffering yet another defeat: their right to bully and cancel is slowly, quietly, being withdrawn. And now, The Guardian is turning
The Uk’s Transgender Castle Comes Tumbling Down
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Halfway through her investigation into transgender medicine for children in the UK, Dr Hilary Cass has shut down the only gender clinic in the country, radically reorganized the provision of transgender medicine and cast
Olympic Shooters Out in the Cold
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc New Zealand athletes are making their mark at the Commonwealth Games and we wish our Kiwi competitors every success. On past history, more success would have been expected, had the shooting sports been included in these Commonwealth games, but a decision of the
How Enforcing Equality Led to Woke Totalitarianism
Jess Gill mises.org Jess Gill is a British libertarian political content creator. She is the creative director of Reasoned UK. Jess creates political and economics videos on TikTok and YouTube where she has gained a following of over 30,000. From the Equal Pay Act 1970 to the Equality
The End of the Beginning?
Is this the beginning of the end of the “transgender” lunacy? It’s not the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Parents in the US are pushing back against radical Queer Theory indoctrination in schools. Groomers are being hounded out of story hours. The Mama Bears
China Steps up Campaign Against Pavlou
It was only a matter of time before the Chinese Communist Party really came for Drew Pavlou. Pavlou is the Australian human rights activist who first came to attention when he was a student, subjected to an extraordinary campaign of harassment from University of Queensland, after he organised protests against