United We Stand – (Not)
It’s happened again of course, as we learnt with shock but no surprise. The outrage was greeted again by the usual scenes of vigils, candles, flowers and so on and so forth; entirely understandable if such demonstrations help to assuage the sense of shock and grief, but in fact pitiable and useless. Useless because the only emotion which will serve us now is implacable anger fuelling a determination to rid our country of this curse which has been…
Yazidis & Others
By Frederick Dixon: There are lessons to be drawn from the unfolding tragedy in Northern Iraq. Some of these are obvious; the crass ignorance and arrogance of the “New World Order” elite which tried to remake an ancient society into a socially liberal western “democracy” safe for gay marriage (and is now tentatively wondering if might not have to go back in to clear up the mess which it created), and the savagery and cruelty of those Moslems…