“So what can Britain learn from Pakistan about fighting home-grown terrorists? Newsnight interviews President Musharraf”
– Martha Kearney.
Let us hope Gordon Brown was not watching, eh?
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August 8th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
 “The Central American Free Trade Agreement is just at the beginning of a century of trade liberalisation, more significant and powerful than any previous wave of liberalisation. Europe and Britain can either choose to follow the path of America, Asia and China, or it should prepare for a century of decline. If the EU is to avoid long-term economic stagnation, it has to welcome globalisation – not fight it.” – Alex Singleton writing in The Business newspaper. August 6th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Lords Chancellors are political appointees, and certainly should not be idealised. But our Dear Leader is widely believed not to know or care about the past. So that the following dialogue is fiction should not be a problem.
— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons Or is it more important to look tough and caution be damned? August 6th, 2005 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
The key to the intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx is at bottom a simple one: Karl Marx was a communist – Murray Rothbard (via Mises Economics Blog) August 3rd, 2005 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Economic freedom begets political freedom. Democracy alone, a la elections are not enough, we need a liberal democracy that circumscribe the domain of government to what Martin Wolf says “Under liberty, the state protects everybody from predators, not excluding itself”. Property rights begets individual ownership and that in turn promotes individual as well as economic freedom August 2nd, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
If anything, it is the failure of multiculturalism to generate real reciprocal respect and provide legitimate avenues to social participation that provides the psychotic self-justification the murderers indulge in as part of their vision of nirvana. – Andrew Jakubowicz, a sociology professor, explains to Australian newspaper readers that suicide bombers have nothing to do with Islam. July 24th, 2005 | 42 comments - (Comments are closed)
We maintain that the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ is not only inevitable but imperative. – Hizb Ut Tahrir (as quoted by the Daily Ablution) And there we have it: something that a radical Islamic group has said that I totally agree with. July 21st, 2005 | 76 comments - (Comments are closed)
“…my great grandparents who were Manchester free-trade liberals who read the Manchester Guardian, which was a liberal free trade newspaper, would I think be astonished to pick up the modern version of the Manchester Guardian to find that it has leapt the fence from being a free trade newspaper to being a luddite newspaper.” – Alan Beattie, World Trade Editor of the Financial Times, in this speech. July 20th, 2005 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
The journalist who is determined to give proof of his objectivity often succumbs to the temptation of maintaining silence with regard to concrete facts, because these facts are in themselves so crude that he is afraid of appearing biased. – Arthur Koestler July 17th, 2005 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
The troublesome [American] underclass is not huge, but its influence is much greater than its numbers. It is a visible problem if one goes to the wrong part of any city. It is much more in people’s minds than it is present in their lives. Indeed, it may be the lack of everyday acquaintance with the underclass that makes it all the more threatening. It’s a little like terrorism. The British have lived with it for thirty years. It hasn’t touched many of us very directly, but we have always known that it might, and have always seen evidence of it out of the corner of our eye, as it were. We are, to that extent, ready for it when it comes much closer. July 12th, 2005 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Burning in fear??!!? Ha!! Not this Brit. With my upper lip fixed stiff, I hoot and mock these jihadis. Wankers one and all. I’d like to see ’em on Celebrity Terrorist Island, the IRA’d make mincemeat of them. July 10th, 2005 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Two decades ago, Sir Bob was at least demanding we give him our own fokkin’ money. This time round, all he was asking was that we join him into bullying the G8 blokes to give us their taxpayers’ fokkin’ money. July 5th, 2005 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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