A Bunch of Migrants
- January 28, 2016
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- Matt
No one should be surprised that our prime minister should have marked Holocaust Day to regale the nation with a contemptuous joke about how Jeremy Corbyn met with a ‘bunch of migrants in Calais’ and ‘told them that they could all come to Britain.. Contrary to Jonathan Freedland’s schoolmasterish suggestion that this jocularity was...
Davos: the sound of one hand clapping
- January 26, 2016
- by
- Matt
For those who like to follow the example of Brian and his disciples and always look on the bright side of life, it can safely be said that 2016 hasn’t gotten off to the most cracking start. The year began with the mass sexual assaults at Cologne, which have now become a cause celebre...
Luke Loy: Death by Government
- January 23, 2016
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- Matt
One of the most sinister achievements of the Tory government is the ease with which it has managed to condition the public to accept the most brutal victimisation of some of its most vulnerable and defenseless members as something normal and acceptable. In the last four years, benefit sanctions against the mentally-ill have gone up...
Learn English! The Vicious Idiocy of David Cameron
- January 20, 2016
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- Matt
I have to admit that when I hear the word ‘integration’ coming from politicians nowadays, it makes me want to reach for my revolver. By integration, I don’t mean the term that British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins famously defined back in 1966 when he said:
‘ Integration is perhaps a loose word. I do...
The Knights of Cologne
- January 14, 2016
- by
- Matt
As a sixty-year-old man I obviously can’t speak with a great deal of authority on what it’s like to be a young woman in Europe. Nevertheless I am the parent of a twenty-year-old daughter who likes to go out at night. Recently she was at a club when a stranger propositioned...
My Week as a Media Pariah
- January 11, 2016
- by
- Matt
‘When I first started a blog in January 2011, I did so as a rather hesitant experiment. I soon came to enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to write in an informal and sometimes polemical style, generally in response to immediate events, and it became something of a compulsion. To date I have written...
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