The simplest explanation for modern academics’ hostility to 21st century capitalism’s “structures of power” is their complete exclusion from them.
– T. Greer, from ‘History is written by the losers’.
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Good quality housing only seems less available now to people who pretend the housing stock is the same and household size is the same. Fifty years ago large families crammed into small leaky houses. Nowadays half as many live in the renovated versions of those houses. With decent plumbing etc. We frequently blow up fifty year old tower blocks because they are considered sub-standard. – the delightfully named Chester Draws May 9th, 2020 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Yeah, the reason the speaker can’t come here is because he promotes violence – by us, his enemies.” Quoted by David Thompson. May 8th, 2020 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Turning ourselves into China for any reason is the definition of a cure being worse than the disease. The scolders who are being seduced by such thinking have to wake up, before we end up adding another disaster on top of the terrible one we’re already facing.” The whole essay will, I bet, resonate with all you freedom lovers in the comments. May 2nd, 2020 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
[Judge-only trials] also misses the actual point of a jury. We might think they’re there to evaluate evidence, decide what is right or wrong, to decide upon guilt of the accused. But they’re not. They’re there to decide whether a crime has been committed. Which includes telling the law, the judge, the politicians and the entire system to bugger off as and when 12 good men and true decide that this isn’t a crime. Sure, the British legal system absolutely hates any mention of jury nullification. But that is what they’re actually there for. Which is why we shouldn’t do away with them. May 1st, 2020 | 48 comments - (Comments are closed)
Most white people (& indeed most people) aren’t obsessed with race. That is why the Identitarian obsession with racial taxonomies, and labelling everyone, just makes such folk seem like drunks peeing on a public sidewalk who then become indignant when others look at them askance. – Perry de Havilland April 27th, 2020 | 46 comments - (Comments are closed)
If no one will buy this oil then why is there a market price for it? And why are there transactions occurring at this market price? We can go further. This oil is owned by someone. That means someone has bought it. It’s entirely true that some of this oil – say maturing futures at Cushing – has a negative price. But that’s just an annoying market price, not the absence of a market nor a lack of a price at which someone will buy it. April 26th, 2020 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
About half the patients have managed to recover sufficiently to ‘earn’ a tracheostomy and be weaned off the ventilator. The damage to their lungs makes us all wonder if any will avoid being respiratory cripples. Despite this recovery, COVID is also leading to profound neurological dysfunction. Some patients are agitated and confused but for a significant proportion, the lights are on but no one is home. We wonder how families will react to their loved ones being different people. – Dr Smith at the Adam Smith Institute’s Despatches blog. Smith is an ASI supporter who has gone back to the NHS for the crisis and is reporting from the front line. We are lucky to have a reliable source of information at a time like this. April 24th, 2020 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
Swine Flu was never eradicated. It has hung around ever since it first emerged in 2009 but now goes by the name ‘flu’. It’s quite possible that coronavirus ends up seen as part of the viral furniture, lethal, but a manageable risk if the right preparations are there. April 24th, 2020 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
Overall it’s just that Birkenstock stamping on a human face, forever, again isn’t it? April 22nd, 2020 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
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