What orthodoxies would a UK Pussy Riot bravely mock? It could start with the NHS
I really admire Pussy Riot, the Russian rock chicks who have been languishing in jail for five months for the “crime” of singing an anti-Putin song in Moscow’s main cathedral. Scurrilously and...
View ArticleSurvival International seem to think they're saviours of the 'noble savage'
Survival International, the eco-group that fights to keep the world's poor, isolated tribes preserved in aspic, has been caught out. It claimed there had been a massacre of tribespeople in Venezuela by...
View ArticleBlaming Hurricane Sandy on the greedy and industrious is just as mad as...
After every natural disaster that occurs these days, we do two things. First, we guffaw or shake our heads in stern disapproval at those religious freaks who blame said disaster on mankind’s sin. And...
View ArticleThe election is over and the elitists have won
Many observers, especially Obama-cheering observers here in the UK, will look upon Obama’s victory as a win for the little man over the big corporate interests that lined up behind Mitt Romney. Romney,...
View ArticleThe Guardian sneers at those who believe in the Mayan apocalypse yet...
Today, the Guardian guffaws in the faces of those "very silly people" who believe that, according to Mayan prophecy, the world will end this Friday. Even though the Mayans never made any such...
View ArticleMan sells canned fresh air in China. Welcome to yuppie capitalism, comrades
This is a story that shows how deliriously capitalist China has become (for good and bad). Rapid industrialisation has covered northern China in a dense pea soup of toxic chemicals. In the past, the...
View ArticleThe radicals who rage against Tory austerity called for austerity themselves...
You know what? The surge in radical agitation against austerity would be far more convincing if these self-same agitators hadn’t spent much of the past decade demanding… austerity. These days it seems...
View ArticleEric Pickles' solution to Britain's 'bin blight' proves that the Tories...
Eric Pickles' solution to Britain's 'bin blight' proves that the Tories aren't committed to small government You would think the solution to the blighting of Britain’s residential streets with more and...
View ArticleEnvironmentalism won't save people from typhoons like in the Philippines. The...
Here they come, the eco-vultures. Every time there's a natural disaster, especially one that causes massive death and destruction, cynical, hearse-chasing Greens gather on the rubble to crow: "We told...
View ArticleFive things that Brave New World got terrifyingly right
Today is the 50th anniversary not only of John F Kennedy’s death but also of Aldous Huxley’s. So amid all the Kennedy commemorating let us also mark Huxley’s passing with a reminder of how scarily...
View Article'Of course fracking doesn't cause your sex to change' writes Jane Delingpole
Rarely have I witnessed such rampant troll activity as I did on my gently snarky recent blogpost Global Warming Devastates America. There's a reason for that, of course. The alarmists are losing the...
View ArticlePublic apathy on climate change is a cause for celebration, not concern
The executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, has said scientists and UN officials should stop using "weirdo words" when talking about...
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