Category Archives: The UK

Goff Limits! Pantheon of the Persecuted or the Patronised?

As if membership amongst the officially oppressed wasn’t crowded enough, Greater Manchester police saw fit to induct goths, metalheads, and others of “alternative” persuasion into the Pantheon of the Persecuted last week. Attacks against goths, punks, emo kids, metallers and … Continue reading

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The Myth of Morality by Sidney E. Parker

Sid’s Note: A lecture given to the South Place Ethical Society on June 3 1990. A much abridged version appeared in The Ethical Record for February 1991. Morality is concerned with rightdoing and wrongdoing. Thou shalt cannot be separated from … Continue reading

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The Bulging Blindspot: Consent, Culpability, & Consistency

Last fortnight marked the twenty year anniversary of the murder of James Bulger and, as expected, media outlets opined and emoted on cue about the fatal events that marked the day and “shocked the nation”. Inevitably, the commemorations bled over … Continue reading

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“Get Your Tits Out (of Our Rags)!”

Beware, strumpets and reprobates—the femiternalists are back! Not content with slamming their stilettos down on strippers’ faces in Iceland, these especially noxious followers of the feminist faith want to get their killjoy claws into Page 3, the most intellectually stimulating … Continue reading

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April Fools Make Useful Tools

The fourth month of Annus Apocalypsis opened with another atrocious, though not astonishing, panorama of the end times: namely, the ConDem coalition’s proposal to play peekaboo with the nation’s online interactions. Others thought it a tragically unfunny April Fool prank; … Continue reading

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Tragicomedy: On Sale At A Newsagent Near You!

A newsagent excursion brought this Great British phenomenon back to my attention, a few weeks ago: Seeing this again, I did what I always do when confronted with it: I laughed. Nothing brings me joy quite like casting eyes on … Continue reading

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Off-Colour Remarks

Last fortnight yielded something of a surprise: black MP Diane Abbott being dragged across the airwaves for a racial faux pas. Given the recent emphasis on white wrongdoings (Emma West, the Stephen Lawrence trial), plus the downplay of violence perpetrated … Continue reading

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Halal & Hypocrisy VII: Corroded Justice

Justice consists in the recognition of equality and the rendering of equity. –Victor S. Yarros I had to roll my eyes at this one. A gang of Muslim girls who repeatedly kicked a young woman in the head walked free … Continue reading

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Akira: The London Connection

Scanning the reviews on Amazon can be good for a laugh, now and again:   Dishonest politicians, a city preparing for an imminent Olympics, street gangs, terrorist attacks… This could be a fable of our times, but this isn’t London … Continue reading

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The Clockwork Orange Dilemma! Riots, Reflections, and Ramifications…

  When folk get angry, why do they always piss on their own doorstep? Westminster is only a bus ride away.  –Tunnocks, Guardian Reader   But this I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish … Continue reading

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