FEBRUARY 26th 2021 Why is it that when the UK does something well, it really is world-class and when it reverts to type it is a morass of bumbling, fluffing around obfuscation and mediocrity? The roll out of the vaccination programme in England has been a major success, albeit
Salman Rushdie famously said that without the freedom to offend, free speech doesn’t exist. If the Plod are to be believed, then there is indeed no freedom of speech in Britain any more. Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming “being offensive is an offence” as part of a campaign
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
“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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
