The case against banning Page 3
On Tuesday evening I was part of the opposition on a panel debate entitled, “This House would ban Page 3″. Since then, I have received a few requests to publish my speech on the matter. I copy it for...
View ArticleTo annoy a conservative, tell a lie. To annoy a Leftie, tell the truth…
If there was one matter on which you could reasonably describe me as a “fundamentalist” on it is that of free speech. Apart from incitement to hatred or violence, everything should be unfettered. While...
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How queer our language has become…
I had dinner last night with a very gay man. Amongst the veritable rainbow of queer subjects we discussed were faggots, camping and how we have lost the use of some words; of how these words had been...
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Smash the BBC licence fee!
When I become Britain’s benign libertarian dictator, the very first thing I will do to make my people free is to abolish the BBC. Not abolish as in “Cartago delenda est”, poetically just though that...
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Review: Pizza East Portobello
With the sun now setting at 2pm or whatever I seem to be hungry and tired all the time. It’s possible I’m getting ready to hibernate. And part of that involves stocking up for a hard winter, which...
View ArticleTommy Robinson and the wrath of the multiculturalists
On October 8, Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, then-leaders of the English Defence League (EDL), announced that they were leaving the organisation they had founded to work with the Quilliam...
View ArticleReview: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire returns us to Panem, where Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) have survived the 74th games, and are now forced to undertake a...
View ArticleThe green morality-buoyed cycling lobby needs a new outlook
The recent carnage on the capital’s roads brings into sharp focus the reality of the cycling debate. The issue of rights keeps popping up driving something of a wedge between motorists – who pay for...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage campaigner threats reveal insecure intolerance
After I was sent a link to an article on ROAR!, A King’s College’s student rag type thing, I was impressed to see the usual ingredients of modernity fermenting on the page like effluence in a septic...
View ArticleNow I ain’t sayin’ she a gold digger…
I spotted this article today entitled: What Should I Do To Marry A Rich Guy? Being only half way through ravaging my sandwich I gave it a read. It’s quite good fun. Or some sort of post-bra burning...
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Appletizer cocktails?! Don’t mind if I do…
When I was little and everything fun from Ribena to white bread was banned in our house, and I had carrots instead of crisps in my packed lunch (I should have been the face of Childline): I lived off...
View ArticleChristians shouldn’t be afraid to stand up for Christmas
Well, as anyone who has been conscious for even a brief moment recently knows, Nelson Mandela died last week. I have to say, the mass selective amnesia exhibited by the right upon the occasion was...
View ArticleHuge new study finds “no clear link” between second hand smoke and lung cancer
A large-scale academic study has found no clear link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, undercutting the premise of years of litigation including a Florida case that yielded a $350 million...
View ArticleUpworthy’s “fat anchor” blog is painfully wrong-headed
I vaguely remember seeing this “Upworthy” post a while back, but was reminded of it last night when a friend shared it on Facebook. The text on the post, if you don’t want to click through, reads:...
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REVIEW: Saving Mr. Banks: A Movie about a Movie
If judged for the merits of each individual scene, John Lee Hooker’s Saving Mr. Banks is wonderful. There are a lot of surface-level detail that shouldn’t be ignored even if I’m about to criticize this...
View ArticleThrough a scotch glass, darkly: remembering Christopher Hitchens
There’s a lot of clichéd, posthumous crap written about Christopher Hitchens. Journalists and writers scramble for their thesauruses at the mere mention of his name. So I’m not going to attempt some...
View ArticleEnjoying a healthy Christmas
I can exclusively reveal some of the contents of the New Years Honours List. My liver has been awarded a C.B.E, for services to alcohol. Not Commander of the British Empire but Cirrhosis By Easter. If...
View ArticleUK politicians tweeted a record 922,000 times in 2013
Social media monitoring platform Yatterbox has today released information showing that British politicians recorded a total of 921,731 tweets over the course of 2013. The top single tweeter was Liberal...
View ArticleHipsters are wrecking the definition of good music
If ever there was a subject I feel well-versed in, it is music. My first, and to this day, strongest love, I cannot imagine life without it. From baroque to classical, swing to rockabilly, reggae to...
View ArticleEvangelising students create ill feelings and strengthen conspiracy theories
Two weeks ago, three Polish people made a sudden visit to me in my room in the dormitory of Lodz University, Poland. They introduced themselves as Jakup, Adam, and Josef. They said their names are from...
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