Good Night Stories for Boys and Girls
I was a post-war baby-boomer raised in a family in which my mother played a more dominant role than in most other households at that time. This was not a reflection of anything innately lacking in my father, he was badly injured fighting during World War 2 and was left partly disabled as a result, and when we encountered issues that my father struggled to cope with, my mother naturally stepped up and handled things…
American Pie & The Proof of the Pudding
It is now more than two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to become the next President of the United States and during that period there has understandably been much rejoicing among nationalist, traditionalist conservative and radical right-wing circles. If he is to be believed, Donald Trump does show great promise and his presidency may well represent a watershed moment in the history of our people. A notable feature of Trump’s period as President-elect, apart from the predictable…
Crimean Referendum – 95% Want to join Russia
By Max Musson: With over 75 percent of the votes already counted, preliminary result show that 95.7% of voters in the Crimean referendum have answered ‘yes’ to the reunion of the autonomous republic with Russia as a constituent unit of the Russian Federation and less than 4% want the region to remain part of Ukraine. The overall voter turnout in the referendum on the status of Crimea is 81.37%, according to the head of the…
Give My Regards to Fleet Street
By Kasredin: I never buy national newspapers. I cannot recall when I last bought a national newspaper, but it must have been years ago. For me it is a matter of principle, and let me explain why. The Daily Express has recently reported that Malala Yousafzai has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time of writing, this report has attracted seven comments – none from me, I assure you – of which…
We White Mutants
by H. Millard : European men (that means Whites) have grown 4″ in the last 100 years: see here. Other studies have shown that White heads are also changing. They are getting larger by becoming longer and narrower: see here. So what’s going on? Scientists aren’t sure. Some scientists, as seen in the first article linked to above, chock up the changes in body height to better health care. Others have other ideas. As a…
The Storm Clouds Gather
By Max Musson: Until just a few years ago, the government of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, was widely regarded by Western governments as progressive and modernizing and it is therefore curious that a coalition of Western powers including Britain, are now plotting military intervention aimed at bringing down that regime. Assad came to power in July 2000, following the death of his father, Hafez Al-Assad, who had ruled the country over the previous thirty…
Eugenics and the Search for a British Obama
By Max Musson: Writing in the wake of Barack Obama’s re-election as US President, for ‘The Voice’, the black community’s newspaper and online news service, Duton Adebayo shared with his readers part of a telephone conversation he had with a fellow black journalist who asked him, “When will we get our first black leader here in Britain?” Adebayo’s answer was “2020!” and in the article for The Voice, he went on to express his belief that…
“Astonishing” Cost of Afghan Conflict
As Prince Charles opens the new Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) for wounded service personnel at Headley Court in Surrey, the focus of public attention falls once again upon the unacceptable number of deaths and casualties being sustained by British troops serving in Afghanistan. Upon meeting the large numbers of amputee troops cared for at the new £16.9m centre, the Prince of Wales said: “So often people don’t hear about the number of people who…