I mean there’s enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world – within the EU, between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It’s hard to see.
– Julian Assange
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In the run up to the election I was constantly told my intention to vote UKIP would do more harm than good by diluting the Conservative vote and potentially allowing Labour to remain in office. My response to that threat was to point out that if Cameron was elected his statist policies and abandonment of what many still regard as Conservative values would be vindicated, thus exposing the country to the risk of a second Cameron term, and the certainty of a centre left, statist monopoly in politics. If Cameron failed, especially if UKIP could claim the credit, the Conservative party would tear itself apart in a very messy but exciting orgy of blood letting before the traditional Conservatives (the Thatcherites if you like) joined UKIP supporters to form a new, electable centre right party and we would have a real choice at the next election. Cameron and his allies would no doubt have joined their friends in the Labour party. The Conservative name would have died, being soiled beyond recovery. I fear the coagulation has saved Cameron and cost the country dear. – Commenter MarkE November 23rd, 2010 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Here is Alex Singleton’s take on what could happen to Cameron’s chances of a second term, if he continues surrendering to the EU:
Given how statist Cameron is, that is a delightful thought. November 21st, 2010 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
Some have asked how the Tea Party movement hopes to pressure Republican leaders or influence the party. That’s the wrong way to look at it. The goal is not to pressure Republican leaders but to become the Republican leaders. The goal is not to influence the party but to become the party. November 3rd, 2010 | 48 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 24th, 2010 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. October 23rd, 2010 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Soooo…when Ken Loach makes a movie about Islam? – Commenter Lucklucky October 16th, 2010 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 10th, 2010 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
This gave me a bit of a laugh:
No, I had never heard of Ian Somerhalder before either… and that was not what made me giggle… it was one of the comments on this article:
Hehehe. September 26th, 2010 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
I’ve commented this before, but I can’t help thinking there’s something wrong, some undiagnosed mental condition, afflicting people who exhibit an unnatural interest in the private lives of others. Perhaps at some point in the future this condition will be identified and a treatment devised for it, but until then the appropriate response to someone who thinks a bar of chocolate or a “fat goose at Christmas” is a sign of moral decay is to point them out in the street and utter the traditional condemnation “‘Ee’s a nuttah!” – Commenter Roue le Jour, who is on a SQOTD roll it seems September 23rd, 2010 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
Socialism is communism designed by capitalists. By redistributing income rather than wealth, it meets the proles expectation that somebody else’s money will be given to them, the truly wealthy’s expectation that their capital will not be touched and cripples the higher earners who are only going to be anti-government trouble makers anyway. – Commenter Roue le Jour September 22nd, 2010 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Oh, it’ll change. We must always strive to avoid the common misconception that we live at the end of history. Humanity has a very long time ahead. In the shorter term, there will be a reaction against the current hegemony. The key thing for us now is to strive to be the ideologists of it when it happens; last time that role was grabbed by the marxists. We’ll win this thing one day. Not next week. But we will win. We will win because liberalism is the only ideology compatible with sustainable advanced civilisation; all the competing ideologies, of Left and Right, are holdovers from more primitive social/technological stages of existence. We may never see it (but we may; history moves faster than we think) but our descendants surely will. Without running away anywhere. – Redoubtable serial commenter Ian B September 17th, 2010 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
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