Divide and conquer

Leg-iron, assisted by Gary the Bastard, on the divide-and-conquer techniques of the bloody awful government.
Worth reading the whole thing, I’d say.
Though of course nowadays we’re not allowed to say ‘the shit will hit the fan’, particularly not on the internet. We say ‘the well-rotted organic farmyard manure will choose to share its space with the [...]

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Damn-right department

In brief:
Counting Cats in Zanzibar:
You know what the fastest growing ethnic grouping in the UK is? It’s “mixed race”. Forget about receiving fire-safety advice! We are also happy to have babies with people of different colours. And that has happened despite them. But then us Brits have been doing this since the year dot. This [...]

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Sour grapes

I am much obliged to Trixy at Is there more to life than shoes? for her clarification and trust that my habitual whingeing on this technicality is not becoming unduly tiresome. I would still like to contribute if a suitable address can be contrived, and wish her the best of luck with what I would [...]

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Suffer little children, etc.

Via Trooper Thompson, this very, very nasty story from the Daily Mail (caveat lector) about ’social workers’ and their priorities.
I am reminded of Mr. Alexei Sayle, the celebrated Liverpudlian comedian, who says that his favourite charity is called ‘Help A London Child: Kill A Social Worker’.
Of course the victims in this case are Christians. [...]

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Yet more horrid child abuse

Bishop Hill explores the persecution of those who choose to educate their children at home.
Some means will certainly have to be found to prevent such abusive parents from thus denying their children the manifest benefits of state conditioning. Erich Honecker wouldn’t have stood for it; Nicolae Ceaucescu wouldn’t have stood for it; and Pol Pot [...]

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More on the Olympics

An hysterical raving from the Daily Express, via It Is Better To Be Free, about how by the time Britain hosts the next Olympics, there will be only one team for the whole of the EU, and all the gold medals will be hung up in the office of the EU President.
On this basis the [...]

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Playing catch-up

The RSS thingie was well into three figures this morning, so instead of the customary ramblings a short, controlled burst:
An excellent article by Dr. Sean Gabb on the ‘Gary Glitter’ case, to be compared and contrasted with one on a related topic by Nightjack.
A few words of plain common sense from leg-iron (underdogs bite upwards) [...]

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Street football

It is not often that I disagree with Ken Frost, the proprietor of the famous Nanny Knows Best.
He takes issue with a local council which threatens to prosecute and fine children playing football in the street.
I have to point out to Mr. Frost, with whose views I usually concur wholeheartedly, that there is a matter [...]

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Complicated foreign wars

Trooper Thompson, at England’s Freedome, Souldiers’ Rights, says:
…we should generally try to resist the instinct to pick sides in complicated foreign wars…Most likely it will not be good vs. evil, but evil vs. evil, black hats on either side and civilians in the middle…
Quite.

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The compulsory Olympics post

Once upon a time, before shooting was banned, I used to know the best fullbore pistolsmith in the world. He has since gone into the shadows, so no names and no packdrill, but there are those who will remember a certain establishment in Hertfordshire. We (still no names) used to foregather in his shop on [...]

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