…it’s now illegal to build reasonable sized houses on a decent garden. Minimum density rules mean you just can’t. What was considered a “Home for Heroes” in the 1920s is illegal to build in the 2020s. Sorry, but that really is it.
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 The BLM lobby is still dominated by Afro-Caribbeans. More Africans have sympathies with the Conservative Party than Afro-Caribbeans (even if they donât necessarily vote for them) â just look at Kemi Badenoch. Now, like most Pimlico Journal readers, I have no time at all for her. However, she does have the potential to help obliterate any future prospect of reparations. All she would need to do is ask that Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Somalia, and Saudi Arabia foot half the bill for reparations, and black solidarity would immediately dissipate. Very suddenly, the Fulani will see themselves as tanned Tuaregs; the Somali as Cushitic; and Leroy from Montego Bay will forgo his chicken shop Shahada because Moroccan poon tang just isnât worth that sort of money. Once you distract them from the easy punching bag that is the white man, they can start fighting each other; meritocracy sorts the rest out. December 11th, 2024 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
Whether Jaguarâs new electric car flops as a result of all this remains to be seen. It would hardly be surprising if Jaguarâs traditional audience â the people who actually buy its cars â give up on the company in response to all this insufferable virtue-signalling. After bending the knee so readily to the trans cause, that would be the least Jaguar deserves. December 5th, 2024 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
Macroeconomic management doesnât work because the data available to do detailed macroeconomic management is shit. Therefore letâs not try doing detailed macroeconomic management. Get the basics right, the incentives, markets, then leave be. Of course, this then leaves a paucity of jobs for economists but then as Iâm not one of them why would I give that proverbial? December 1st, 2024 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
The meltdown of the centrists is a wonder to behold. This is Americaâs âdarkest dawnâ, cried rhyming-slang-in-waiting, Ian Dunt. Emily Maitlis yelped on live TV that Trump is âbatshitâ, which is rich from someone who is essentially a Halloween version of Princess Diana. The Guardian put out a news notification that said, âTrump becomes the first convicted criminal to win the White Houseâ. This really is all they have left, isnât it? Sly asides to titillate depressed posh people on X? Smug jokes aimed at tempting suicidal liberals off the ledge? Utterly incapable of understanding Joe Public â both here and in the US â the Guardian opts to become the court jester of the cunterati instead. – Brendan O’Neill is in rip-roaring form đ November 7th, 2024 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
I assume many of you will have seen this but just in case you haven’t… From the good people of VideoFromSpace. Launch is at 30:00… October 13th, 2024 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
Leftists weaponise these so-called âlocal identitiesâ by trying to emphasise their supposed distance from other âlocal identitiesâ in England. In the process of doing this, they (if only tacitly) also try to decrease the distance of these âlocal identitiesâ, and indeed Britain as a whole, from genuinely foreign cultures: âa Cockney, a Brummie, and a Pakistani; all totally unique, but all Very British in their own way.â An alternative, though slightly different, formulation of this strategy can be found in the attempt by left-wing Welsh nationalists to completely distance âWelshâ from âEnglishâ, while readily accepting people into âWelshnessâ, no questions asked, with zero connection â ancestral or otherwise â to the British Isles as a whole. It is telling that one of the favourite pastimes of these socialist deviants is to have ethnic minorities put on a performance for them, getting them to memorise a few words of their funny language, entertaining the Welshmen while also stroking their egos. This is quite obviously unethical behaviour, although no-one has called them out for it yet. September 24th, 2024 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
This is why the Whiggish calls you used to hear that ‘Islam needs a reformation’ in response to Al Qaeda, Hamas, ISIS, Taliban etc were very misinformed. Al Qaeda and co are the Islamic reformation. – Commenter Martin September 23rd, 2024 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
And yet, once the Ukrainians ask for long-range fires, all of a sudden their importance is downgraded and minimized. There was the widely-discussed piece in Foreign Affairs by Stephen Biddle which recently kick-started this argumentâbut it was an argument greatly amplified by Defense Secretary Austin a few days ago. During the latest Ramstein meeting of Ukraineâs partners in Germany Austin basically said long-range fires were not that important. As it was relayed by PBS: After the talks, Austin pushed back on the idea that long-range strikes would be a game-changer. âI donât believe one capability is going to be decisive and I stand by that comment,â Austin said. The Ukrainians have other means to strike long-range targets, he said. Its hard to know what to make of that extraordinary claim. Is he saying that the US Armyâs number 1 priority for modernization is not nearly that important? That would be bold of himâbut more than likely he is desperately searching around for an argument because he knows just how important long-range fires are in war. – Phillips P. OBrien (ÂŁ) September 10th, 2024 | 33 comments - (Comments are closed)
Consider Mark Zuckerbergâs revelation and its implications for our understanding of the last four years, and what it means for the future. On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels of information sharing are reluctant to admit it. The Fed admits no fault in inflation and neither do most members of Congress. The food companies donât admit the harm of the mainstream American diet. The pharmaceutical companies are loath to admit any injury. Media companies deny any bias. So on it goes. And yet everyone else does know, already and more and more so. This is why the admission of Facebookâs Mark Zuckerberg was so startling. Itâs not what he admitted. We already knew what he revealed. Whatâs new is that he admitted it. We are simply used to living in a world swimming in lies. It rattles us when a major figure tells us what is true or even partially or slightly true. We almost cannot believe it, and we wonder what the motivation might be. September 3rd, 2024 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
Have I or have I not done anything different here? I donât suppose they will be exhuming William Shakespeare any time soon, but what she said was no worse than this. It was words, nothing more. We are now firmly in an authoritarian police state. A substantial custodial sentence for hurty words is the kind of thing we thought was confined to the old Soviet Union, but it looks as if the ghost of that monstrosity is alive and well in modern Britain. September 2nd, 2024 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
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