A Sighting of Swallows
We hear quite a lot about “LGBT” these days, perhaps rather too much. What do these letters mean to you? No doubt they mean “Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender”, as they did to me until a few days ago? However, according to an Asian journalist for the Telegraph, to some of our young fellow countrymen and women they mean “Let’s Gas Blacks Too”. Old “Nazi” though I may be, I can say quite truthfully that I found this suggestion…
Sea Changes
The fall of the Left/Liberal consensus has long been anticipated by those on our side of politics; the Left is devoid of ideas and originality, all of its nostrums have been tested to destruction and the consequences – societal breakdown – are all around us. The empty husk waits only for a fresh, strong, breeze to blow it out of the positions of power and influence which it still occupies by sheer inertia. Alex Kurtagic…
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
By Frederick Dixon: “Lies, damned lies and statistics”; I’m not sure that Disraeli’s famous quote is really fair because figures, if they are accurate and complete, cannot lie. They can though be “spun” to prove that the glass is really half full rather than half empty. A perfect example of such spinning was to be seen earlier this week when the Telegraph blared that “Britain’s multi-cultural melting pot is gathering speed”.The cause of the excitement?…
Boxers, Bones & Bone Clones
By Max Musson: I have always found it ironic that journalists often end up as specialist feature writers for subjects that they have no real knowledge of or qualifications in, and I was reminded of this again this morning when I saw popular science articles on most of the newspaper websites today quoting Dr David Carrier of the University of Utah, who has done much research into vertebrate physical adaption for either fight or flight. In these articles…