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Samizdata quote of the day
Has this ever been an SQotD before? If not, here it is, and if it has, good and here it is again: Twitter presented this to me today. Here is what Wikipedia says about George MacDonald. Twenty four...
View ArticleWe are all Uighurs now.
The ramblings of our Prime Minister this evening, no data, no projections, no reasoning other than the projected incompetence of our nationalised health care system, no laws cited (but they are there),...
View ArticleWhat are the best arguments for libertarianism?
Coronavirus is dominating all our lives just now, but I have little to say about it other than that I, like almost everyone else, wish it all to stop, both the virus itself and the measures now...
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A new book by Anton Howes about the Royal Society of Arts is coming out soon
Yes, I learn from a tweet by Anton Howes, a young academic whom I greatly admire, that his first book, entitled Arts & Minds: How The Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation will be out on May 12th....
View ArticleIdentifying the socially-undistanced elements…
I read (iirc in one of Viktor Suvorov’s books) that in the Ukraine of the 1930s, a peasant who was not starving and thin automatically came under suspicion of food hoarding. Whereas, in besieged WW2...
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“Turning ourselves into China for any reason is the definition of a cure being worse than the disease. The scolders who are being seduced by such thinking have to wake up, before we end up adding...
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The signs of the times, they are a-changing…
England may soon have new road signs for pedestrians. We have some new signs coming out, to remind us about ‘social distancing’. Here are the samples taken from the .gov.uk website. What are these...
View ArticleMick Hartley on the politics of the Lockdown
I at first thought that I’d just wait and see, and avoid opining about Cornonavirus until the whole ghastly episode was over and we were all back to the new normal, whatever that turned out to be. But,...
View ArticleThe State’s lament: ‘A substantial number of people still do not feel...
Thus went the UK government’s discussion paper on increasing social distancing on 22nd March 2020. The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using...
View ArticleA list of abuses
I saw the following list of problems with the US legal and law enforcement system, which taken individually may not appear to be major issues in terms of it being a “systematically unjust” country, but...
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“Rather than aiming for a better future, woke militants seek a cathartic present. Cleansing themselves and others of sin is their goal. Amidst vast inequalities of power and wealth, the woke generation...
View ArticlePolice free zones – do they always have to end this way?
“One dead and one wounded in shooting in Seattle police-free zone”, the Guardian reported an hour or so ago. Let me say at once that I know nothing about the circumstances of this killing, other than...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“….the Americanisation of culture wars deserves resistance in itself. It homogenises national priorities, obscuring cultural and political differences, to such a ludicrous extent that British people...
View ArticleIt was the New Deal which put the Great in the Great Depression
The most significant thing about this Daniel Hannan tweet, I think, is not his praise of a Michael Gove speech, but his aside to the effect that FDR “turned a recession into a depression”. This idea is...
View ArticleThoughts on Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech
For me, the most important thing about President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech, apart from the splendour of what it says, is that, thanks to the internet, we can all of us, if we wish, read the entire...
View ArticleOn why feminists ought to be glad about skyscrapers
Asks the headline above this Guardian piece by Leslie Kern: Do cities have to be so sexist? Let me ask a similar question: Do skyscrapers have to be so tall and yet so comparatively thin? Do...
View ArticleMacAtlas shrugs
The well-known entrepreneur Mr Duncan Bannatyne has said – reports The Daily Telegraph – that he will never open another business in Scotland again. The Telegraph reports him thus: The Scottish...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“The country’s myriad cancelers emit the odor not of sanctity but of sanctimony, and of something more ominous: the whiff of a society decomposing.” – Lance Morrow, in the Wall Street Journal ($),...
View ArticleHow not to oppose the Scottish hate crime bill
The Courier‘s Jenny Hjul is on the right side. She knows the Hate Crime Bill (Scotland) needs to be opposed: JENNY HJUL: SNP’s hated hate crime bill would outlaw all controversial debate… it has to be...
View ArticleThere should be no law to forbid people parading in paramilitary uniforms
“BRIXTON’S POLICE SURRENDERED THE STREETS TO BLACK-SHIRTED PARAMILITARIES”, writes Guido Fawkes. The Black Lives Matter paramilitary-style march in Brixton has had a lot of coverage, including videos...
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