Monthly Archives: July 2011

Discipline and fear

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Matt

Nurses, teachers, doctors and all you other do-nothings who have been living high on the hog at the taxpayer’s expense:  be afraid, be very afraid.   The time is coming when you will be held to account for the financial … Continue reading →

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Bano Rashid RIP

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Matt

Bano Rashid, the 18-year-old Kurdish refugee and Labour party youth activist was the first of the ‘Marxist Hunter ‘ Anders Breivik’s victims on Utoeya island to be buried in Norway yesterday.  The funeral service was presided over by an imam … Continue reading →

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Free speech and straw men

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Matt

One of the interesting things about writing on the Internet, as opposed to the printed press, is that you very quickly become aware of the responses to what you have written.   This experience is not always particularly uplifting. Earlier … Continue reading →

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Simon Jenkins and the madman scenario

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Matt

There is a rather weak piece by Simon Jenkins in today’s Guardian which makes the argument that  ’the last thing Norway needs is illiberal Britain’s patronising.’   Jenkins has been good on terrorism in the past,  and has been one … Continue reading →

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