But, whatever the crimes of our forefathers, this is the country of Drake, Clive and Kitchener, not of Tipu Sultan, Shaka Zulu or the Mahdi.
– Max Hastings
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December 27th, 2005 | 49 comments - (Comments are closed)
 These whiners are the same people who complain of American cultural imperialism because people like Coke and Starbucks. [Yet] there is no more rigid, aggressive, ignorant bunch of cultural imperialists in the world than Muslims who, as a group, are intent on forcing their preposterous beliefs on the rest of the world. Give me Starbucks any day. December 24th, 2005 | 36 comments - (Comments are closed)
There are a variety of juicy multimedia files available on the Libertarian Alliance site, including some from Samizdatista David Carr (who is threatening to resume blogging on Samizdata when pressures of work permit). December 22nd, 2005 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
Seldom in the course of European negotiations has so much been surrendered for so little. It is amazing how the Government has moved miles while the French have barely yielded a centimetre. December 18th, 2005 | 34 comments - (Comments are closed)
There is an interesting post on Bjørn Stærk’s blog on his changing views of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. December 14th, 2005 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has announced that there will be no public inquiry into the London bombings of July 7th; instead the Home Office will publish what was described on the BBC 10 o’clock news as a “narrative of events”. Will this be formally known as the “official story”, I wonder? December 13th, 2005 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
Society is something emergent that occurs when people interact with each other, you cannot point at it and you cannot owe it anything. When any politician says the word ‘society’, you can be damn sure what he really means is ‘the state’. December 7th, 2005 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
December 1st, 2005 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Samizdata’s informal motto is “guns ‘n’ girls”, but in this post you get neither. Instead you get a picture taken in Brussels of a fine, hand-rolled cigar and an American flag:  The man is Richard Miniter and the photo comes from this interview in The Brussels Journal under the title “America Is Winning the War on Terror, Says Expert”. November 23rd, 2005 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Tony Blair, asking MPs to support police detention without charge for up to 90 days. Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. November 10th, 2005 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
As masters of their estates, the rioters cock their legs and piss molotovs to provide the reek of burnt plastic that serves as their territorial marker. November 9th, 2005 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Yes, you read that correctly. And moreover he states that presidents do not create jobs, entrepreneurs do… Mister Bleeding Heart himself, Alan Frigging Alda! Follow the link and read the whole thing, I kid you not. I am chastened as clearly I must reappraise my views of the man and repent a few of the things I may have said about him in the past. Any moment now I fully expect to see a flock of pigs flying past my window! November 8th, 2005 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)
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