Reasonable people go elsewhere if a restaurant doesn’t serve what they want. We are not dealing with reasonable people; we are dealing with Islamists, and they are flexing their muscles. But, yeah, those of us who point it out are the problem.
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November 15th, 2026 | Leave a comment
 In April 2025, (a Free Speech Union) member — let’s call him Craig — was driving his four-year-old son home to Glasgow after a day out at an amusement park in Falkirk when another car cut him up as he was exiting the M80. Craig had to swerve to avoid a collision. He suspected the other driver was drunk and called the police from his car. Both vehicles eventually stopped, and the police arrived. They declined to breathalyse either driver, but took Craig’s dashcam footage to investigate whether any laws had been broken. A week later, officers contacted Craig to tell him that an offence had indeed been committed — by him, not the reckless driver. His “crime” was muttering the words “smelly black bastard” under his breath seconds after almost being driven off the road. The windows were closed, so nobody outside the car could have heard him. The other driver was not looking in his direction and could not have seen him say it. The only person who might have heard was Craig’s four-year-old son in the back. November 14th, 2026 | 9 comments
Martin’s views may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Critics have accused him of echoing Enoch Powell and of gesturing towards the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory, which has it that white Westerners are being deliberately and systematically ‘replaced’ by malign elites. Others say the projections are simply unrealistic. Whether these criticisms are fair or not, the Senedd’s reaction should make us very worried. For one thing, this is a case of blatant censorship. Martin was not shouting or using abusive language. He was guilty of nothing more than expressing, in ordinary English, concerns that many electors in Penarth clearly share, even if the liberal establishment does not. If it is now the position of the Senedd that the only views that should be expressed are those that don’t offend the Blob, the Senedd might as well not exist. November 13th, 2026 | 16 comments
When the racing driver Lewis Hamilton went to Rafah on the Egyptian side of the border with Gaza, what he saw there disturbed him. He wrote,
Those walls are indeed enormous and intimidating, and they were built to keep the Gazans in. But there was one detail about those walls that his hosts forgot to mention and about which Mr Hamilton neglected to ask. Drew Pavlou explains,
Hen Mazzig adds,
In this post I am using the tag “self-ownership” in its alternative meaning. * A related post from 2011: “Examples of spectacular historical ignorance”. The very first response to that fifteen year old post was from Michael Jennings and concerned the Arab-Israeli conflict. He wrote, “I had teachers who told me that Israel started the 1967 and the 1973 wars, in the sense that both wars were unprovoked attacks by Israel on the Arabs. Thinking back, I think that they genuinely believed this.” Of course high school teachers misinforming their pupils about the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars would never happen in this enlightened age. I doubt one in a hundred modern teachers even knows they happened at all. Edit: Another response to that fifteen year-old post that could have been written yesterday:
November 12th, 2026 | 16 comments
Both in France and internationally, the increasing alignment of Right-wing politics with voters’ key concerns leaves more moderate, centre-right politicians caught between a rock and a hard place. They can’t criticise Le Pen’s policy programme without downplaying the issues that voters care about most. But to express support or admiration for a campaign promising “rebirth” would amount to recognition of the abject failure of a decade of centrist rule. Le Pen’s is hardly the first challenge to the centre-right of this kind, with Meloni again a key precedent. Ahead of Italian elections in 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen took an overtly threatening tone, suggesting that the EU was preparing “tools” for punitive action against a future Meloni government. Meloni’s eventual victory showed that voters wouldn’t be intimidated; France’s much greater heft within the EU would make a similar “Project Fear” approach even riskier. November 11th, 2026 | 18 comments
People seem to be widely unaware of the scope of UK indecent images law. This is exacerbated, I submit, by the activist-prosecutorial language of “Child Sexual Abuse Material” in discussion shortened to ‘CSAM’ which in Britain covers any arguably indecent (undefined, indecency being a fact for the court, hence “arguably”) image, however generated, of a minor, real or entirely fictional. Despite connoting in the public mind the most horrific crimes that are included, no actual child, nor representation of sex, nor actual physical or psychological abuse, is required for images to be deemed CSAM in Britain. November 10th, 2026 | 11 comments
Where were you at 10:45 this morning? I expect some of you were attending one of the Remembrance Sunday services that take place at war memorials in towns and villages up and down the UK in order to commemorate the dead of the two world wars and other wars since then. By quarter to eleven the people attending such a service have assembled ready for the two-minute silence at eleven o’clock. In 1987, just as it did this year, Remembrance Sunday fell on the 8th of November. At 10:45am on that day, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at a Remembrance Sunday parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. There was no warning. Eleven people were killed at the time. Another victim died in 2000 after spending thirteen years in a coma. This video shows how the atrocity was reported on the BBC news that evening. One and a half minutes into the video, the newsreader, Nicholas Witchell, observes that “So far the IRA has said nothing, which is unusual”. I remember that silence, as if the bombers themselves could scarcely believe what they had done. I have read that even the IRA’s Russian and Libyan paymasters were appalled. As it said eleven minutes into the 1987 BBC report, the Soviet news agency TASS called the bombing “a barbaric act”, and film of the aftermath of the bombing was shown on Russian television. As I said, I remember noticing at the time that a whole day went by before the IRA admitted responsibility. But in 2026 I seem to be unusual in remembering the attack at all. November 9th, 2026 | 7 comments
Now look at his list. Black English, Asian English, Mixed English, “etc.” Every item is a prefix bolted onto English. English on its own never appears, and White English, the one I asked him about directly, is left out. I don’t think that was a slip. It’s what happens when a clever man has absorbed the official grammar of British ethnicity, the grammar in which English is not a people but a suffix, a flavour that attaches to the real categories. In that grammar the one group with no prefix is the one group that never gets named, because to name it would be to concede that it exists as a people at all rather than as the plain paper everyone else is printed on. Something that cannot, ever be allowed. November 8th, 2026 | 9 comments
I am not the first person to question the arrangements as they currently stand. The Labour peer and former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote, in his review of UK citizenship for the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2008, that “I do propose that government gives consideration to making a clear connection between citizenship and the right to vote by limiting in principle the right to vote in Westminster elections to UK citizens”, adding “it is right in principle not to give the right to vote to citizens of other countries living in the UK until they become UK citizens.” Unfortunately Gordon Brown ignored the report. So did David Cameron’s government and all its successors. But Lord Goldsmith was still correct. – David Frost (£) November 7th, 2026 | 16 comments
Sir John Cowperthwaite ran Hong Kong’s finances from 1961 to 1971 and treated regulation like a tax on discovery. Nobody in government can know which business will work, so he refused to pick, plan, or protect. Whitehall sent officials to Hong Kong to push for economic statistics, and he sent them home. When Milton Friedman asked in 1963 why he collected so little data, Cowperthwaite answered: “If I let them compute those statistics, they’ll want to use them for planning.” Numbers give planners a reason to act, and every plan arrives as a rule that tells entrepreneurs what they may not try. Asked what poor countries should do to grow, he said they should abolish the office of national statistics. November 6th, 2026 | 18 comments
This is not a change of heart. A change of heart is permitted to an honest man, and he announces it, and he takes the consequences. This is something else. It is a man who held one view in the pub in Ashton and holds the opposite in the Berlaymont, and who will not say rejoin and will not say no, because either word would cost him somebody. November 5th, 2026 | 13 comments
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