Pre-election Britain is currently going through a self-evaluation in such a way that, were it retail goods brought over a shop counter, there could be an action brought under the UK’s Trade Descriptions Act of 1968. This piece of legislation replaced the Merchandise Marks Act of 1887 with “fresh provisions prohibiting misdescriptions of goods, services,... Read More

Economics is tailor-made for technocrats. It revolves around systems, and systems are everything for our current hyper-managerial class of social engineers. Once a system is in place, whether it works or not takes second place to its complicated maintenance. The subsequent problem for the technocrat task force is how that system is presented to non-specialists,... Read More

In December of last year, Gaza’s oldest mosque was largely destroyed by Israeli air-strikes. The Omari mosque dating back to the seventh century and named for Umar ibn al-Khattab, Islam’s second caliph, and so is much mourned. It is worth noting in passing that Islam does not separate religion and state as the West does,... Read More

The phrase “special relationship” to describe the links between the US and the UK came to prominence in the 1980s, when the countries’ heads of government were Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The expression was in fact coined by Winston Churchill in the 1940s but resonated once again due to the obvious historical links between... Read More

'In Dublin’s fair city', runs the first line of the Irish folk song Molly Malone, ‘where the girls are so pretty’. Dublin lives up to that description, or at least it did. Since its prime, however, and victim as it now is to a nationwide political program in which its famously friendly people had no... Read More

Mass immigration is often rightly described as an invasion of countries, but cities can suffer the same ill fate. Successful occupiers don’t invade a country in one fell swoop. They take key cities first, then join the dots. In London, invasion is underway using a proxy army. The commander’s name: Sadiq Khan, the Pakistani Muslim... Read More

The American term “intersection”, what the British call a “crossroads”, is both a practical solution and a hazard. Aided by traffic lights and signage, it allows the flow of traffic travelling in different, non-parallel directions, but the fact that these differing streams have to traverse common space is what gives it a greater element of... Read More

Above, left, one of the thousands of all-white street parties during the Coronation Year of 1953—above right, the Muslim Mayor of London turns on the Ramadan lights. Better one thousand enemies outside the house than one inside—Arabic proverb. In 2006 a powerful British Leftist gave a speech in Cairo that strongly defended Islam. Commenting on... Read More