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I suspect current “progressive” thinking on racism and the white shaming and white self-loathing that comes out of it is doing more to set back racial harmony than neo-Nazis and the rest of the “white power” hate crew. I’m not alone in thinking this. July 19th, 2020 | 52 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing moulded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative. July 15th, 2020 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is ironic that this Cultural Revolution is being presided over by a Cavalier Prime Minister who is himself the embodiment of Libertarianism made substantial flesh. Boris Johnson faces the grim, unsmiling Roundhead figure of Sir Keir Starmer – perfectly typecast as a finger-wagging Puritan Witchfinder General. Ironic, too, that demands are being made to pull down the statue of Oliver Cromwell, the founding father of Puritanism made stone. But logic and consistency were never the hallmarks of the judgemental nay sayers to whom we must all now bow the knee. July 9th, 2020 | 66 comments - (Comments are closed)
Everyone should be uncomfortable taking about ‘race’ rather than ‘people’ – Perry de Havilland. – – – This was in response to a message from a friend: Work email with feedback from some diversity survey. “There were lots of comments about white colleagues being uncomfortable when talking about race.” No shit. July 4th, 2020 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
In a hotly contested race, this side of fusion power, Net Zero is a real contender for mankind’s stupidest idea since 1648. – Perry de Havilland July 1st, 2020 | 39 comments - (Comments are closed)
Just had to throw away some sausages, and it occurred to me: the same people complaining most about food waste are the ones who object to preservatives, aren’t they? Why’s every social movement a puritan cult? June 26th, 2020 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
SAGE minutes make it clear that the public was explicitly petrified in order to ensure compliance with lockdown. Mind-control is objectionable in itself, but has a real cost in lives: before a policy lever like lockdown was pulled, where was the cost/benefit analysis, or was SAGE only thinking of covid-19? Lockdown, after all, affects not just this thing over here (covid-19) but also that thing over there (cancer, cardiac, sepsis, etc.). Through lockdown, A&E cardiac admissions have been as much as 50% down, so around 5,000 people per month have not been turning up at hospital with heart attack symptoms; heart attacks outside hospital have only a 1-in-10 chance of survival. Same story with strokes. And downstream, many cancers are touch-and-go even if you catch them early; give them a two month head-start and Stanford’s Professor Bhattacharya estimates the impact of urgent cancer referrals running 70% below normal levels will be around 18,000 deaths. June 24th, 2020 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
Have I got this right? BLM are in no way responsible for the stabbings in Reading as it happened two hours after their “protest” ended. But somehow all of us white people are still responsible for slavery 200 years after it was ended. Is that about the gist of it? June 23rd, 2020 | 65 comments - (Comments are closed)
True, they were hypocrites. Jefferson himself was clearly aware of the ghastly contradictions. Pity they did not apply their own wise philosophies even-handedly, but they didn’t. That is was why Samuel Johnson hated them. And yet, their good ideas stand on their own merits. – Perry de Havilland in response to “How do you respond to people who say that the Founding Fathers were hypocrites for owning slaves?” June 20th, 2020 | 33 comments - (Comments are closed)
To be fair: I don’t eat food. Food here is so unsafe I decided years ago to subsist only on internet memes. – Perry Metzger, in response to this breathtaking absurdity. June 15th, 2020 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
Please stop adding fact Trump mentioned it to every article about hydroxychloroquine, making clinical efficacy a political issue is monstrous. Some people want it not to work. – Perry de Havilland June 6th, 2020 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
The Ferguson – or Imperial – coronavirus model is a load of Hooey. But not, or not alone, for the reasons generally given that it’s a tangled mess of code that doesn’t even produce the same answer each time. Nor because its output was so useless that even the originator wouldn’t obey the implied rules from its use when seeking a shag. No, Ferguson failed because his model failed to include human beings in it. Which is really very weird indeed when attempting to model, erm, human beings. May 25th, 2020 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
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