Samizdata quote of the day – Ask “what would Cochrane do?”
Standing at the fence I found myself asking what a Cochrane would do now, and the answer is uncomfortable, because the need for one is so plain. Our age has its Basque Roads, victories thrown away by...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – remembering Ann Widdecombe
She was funny in a register entirely her own. On day one in the Strasbourg parliament I stepped out of an office into one of those interminable corridors to see her at a distance, walking in lockstep...
View ArticleA Quarter Millennium of American Greatness
Despite all our present problems and challenges, aggravated by so many daunting divisions, how awed, thrilled, and grateful our Founding Fathers would be to see just how extraordinarily well our...
View ArticleHow much should we “separate the Artist from the Man”?
For a record number of Americans in this ever more secular era, their real religion is politics, their faith is their political ideology, and their church is their political party. This seems...
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Charlie Kirk: free speech martyr
Let me say this upfront: I was not Charlie Kirk’s biggest fan, nor was I a bitter detractor. I saw him in cynical terms and still do, as an ally of convenience on some issues, an opponent on others. As...
View ArticleThis precarious life
Douglas Young ponders how close to the edge our lives are. In the wake of the near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally, a large number of Americans have wondered if he...
View ArticleAnd what happens next, after the cataclysmic labour government?
As I have often stated I am keen to see the ‘Conservative’ Party not just lose but be annihilated, I was asked the very reasonable question: And what happens next, after the cataclysmic labour...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“We often read critics of either ideological stripe bemoan the lack of originality in our art, our music, and most certainly, our movies. Old franchises suffer from Woke narratives smuggled into...
View ArticleHopefully this is curtains for Roger Waters, but I doubt it
Former Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters, who has spoken about the Russian invasion of Ukraine (he has excused it, so it looks), is a regular critic of Israel, and so on, thinks it was going to be a...
View ArticleIdeology and Insanity on the New York subway
The first few dozen grownup books I read were an odd selection. As I sampled them almost at random from my parents’ bookshelves, I became dimly aware that my parents were different people from each...
View ArticleBrief reflections on Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson, one of the great figures of post-war British journalism, has died at the grand age of 94. He was the author of about 50 books, and I read several of them in my youth. Of all the books,...
View ArticleThe more anti-carbon governments become, the madder protesters are
Seen on a friend’s Facebook page: I’ve regularly said that Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil types are the most ridiculous people in society right now – their combination of intellectual...
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Thoughts on the death of David Trimble
I first became aware of David Trimble some time in the early 1990s. I was impressed. He was way more impressive in his media appearances than any other unionist of the time. I was so impressed that –...
View ArticleHow not to convince people
I am an atheist – I don’t even seek any cover in the “foxhole” of agnosticism, or pull the “religion isn’t true but it keeps the plebs in line” sort of argument that I have sometimes come across. Full...
View ArticleOn Friendship
One of the first things I was told on being diagnosed with lung cancer was ‘you are going to need your friends’. That was said to me by the doctor who diagnosed me and the point is that it was true. I...
View ArticleIdeas are more powerful than armies – a tribute to Brian Micklethwait
I have often disagreed with Steve Baker as of late, but I must say this is good to see.
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
I saw this via Instapundit and have to share: “Tweedy party-at-the-Verso-loft n+1 leftists aren’t making money. 33 year olds who follow Tik Tok trends for a living and communicate in slang that’s...
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Chris Tame (1949-2006): A personal memoir
In an earlier posting here just after Christmas, I solicited compliments, to cheer me up after I’d been diagnosed with lung cancer. Commenters on that posting said nice things about my blogging here...
View ArticleOn the British National Health Service imbalance between lethargic diagnosis...
Yesterday I sent out a mass email to a list of my nearest and dearest, as many of them whose names I could remember, telling them that, just before Christmas, I had been diagnosed with lung cancer, and...
View ArticleCould you live in this socialist country?
Is the challenge from YT Vlogger ‘bald and bankrupt‘, in this video, filmed recently in Cuba. ‘bald’ as he is referred to, appears to be a chap from Brighton (if you watch his oeuvre) who walks around...
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