UK Politics
A Genuine Islamo-Nazi
“Islamonazi” is often a favoured pejorative, on the right especially, for jihadist Muslims. Anti-Islam activists argue that the violent intolerance of Muslim extremists is little different to that of the Nazis or Fascists. It’s not just supposedly “Islamophobic” righties, either: the late Christopher Hitchens was assaulted in Beirut after
Making Cars Green Means Closing Engine Plants
Sir John Redwood MP johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non-executive chairman of
Move over Bill Cosby. Here Come the COVID Criminals
Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and
Well, That’s a Turn Off!
Many commenters here on The BFD have raised valid questions following the release of the recent Climate Change Commission report. This report suggests that the way forward for New Zealand is for everyone to switch to electric vehicles and for all gas cooking, gas water heating and gas home heating
UK Copies Hotel Quarantine – What Could Go Wrong?
It was not Albert Einstein, alas, but some (Alchoholics) Anonymous wit who coined the phrase, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. Regardless of its provenance, we see the truth of the adage borne out nearly every day. Especially in the era of
Letter from the North
8th February 2021 Well, I received the command and turned up for my COVID-19 vaccination yesterday. On arrival, marshals checked my credentials and my appointment time and directed me to the car park. I joined the queue, and everyone was socially distancing. So far so good. Unfortunately, we were queuing
Green Zealots Want Your Granny to Die
As I’ve written several times, our collective approach to the Chinese virus might be called the “Moloch Option”: sacrificing the health, wellbeing and, in the form of increased suicides, the very lives of the young, in order to save the elderly most at risk from the Wuhan plague. The
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EU Miracle Workers In an unprecedented act of political stupidity, the EU Commission managed to produce something that has never before been achieved. In one swift act they united the Irish Government, the DUP and Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and the UK government. Faced with a shortfall in the
Mr Plod Stops a Snowball Fight
West Yorkshire Police sure have quite the track record. They couldn’t catch the Yorkshire Ripper even when one of their own PCs had him dead to rights. They politely ignored gangs of Muslims raping underage girls on an industrial scale for decades. But snowball fights? They’re all over
MP Launches Bill to Protect Freedom of Speech at University
righttolife.org.uk A Conservative MP is advancing a Bill to protect freedom of speech at universities from a “corrosive trend… that aims to prevent anybody from airing ideas that groups disagree with or would be offended by”. Last week, David Davis MP offered an impassioned defence of the importance
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Why Carbis Bay? More on the G7 meeting in Carbis Bay. It just gets stranger by the day. It transpires that Carbis Bay is where Boris Johnson’s grandmother went into labour before being rushed to Penzance where she gave birth to Stanley, his father. The next issue is the
Jihadi Freed – What Could Go Wrong?
“De-radicalisation” seems to be about as effective as taking homeopathic medicine to mend a severed limb. The list of supposedly “de-radicalised” swivel-eyed Islamic fanatics who went on to get all jihad-y is longer than an arm and a leg piled up in the rubble of a suicide bombing. Parsons Green
Letter from the North
Where’s Carbis Bay? As a welcome diversion, we started off the week with the announcement that the June G7 meeting of world leaders will be held in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. In typical Cornish fashion, the news was greeted with self-congratulations by local politicians and total disdain and apathy by
The Long and Winding Road
January 11th 2021 A happy new year to all my readers (both still in the North Island). Well, what has happened since my last letter on Christmas Eve? Brexit came and went, and the UK has a trade agreement with the EU. The apocalypse promised by the remainers failed to
UK Nixes Diversity Training for Vaccinators
The Victorian government, as reported by The BFD, seems to have learned nothing from its disastrous hotel quarantine regime. One of the most glaring failures exposed by the otherwise ineffectual Coate inquiry was that the diversity-hire quarantine security guards were given absolutely no training in infection control or PPE. But