The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Radicalism is the outstanding achievement of the mediocre.

Few organisations are as comically batty as the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist). Consider the following, for exa...

Our intellectuals hold truth in contempt because it too often makes them look like fools.

It has been a matter of great importance to madmen that it be seen that there is nothing between madness and sanity but social prejudice. Th...

I'm beginning to suspect that a moderate Muslim is a man who wouldn't dream of condoning terrorism before breakfast.

Most on the Left have abandoned Marx’s idea that a transformation of the economic base would change the “ideological” and cultural superstru...

The trouble with cynics is not so much that they assume that behind every avowed ideal lies a material and selfish concern, but that they fa...

Future-orientated persons – those who consider posterity – are less likely to fall in line with the orthodox falsehoods of the age; for if t...

Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will pro...

These days it is not enough that a man observe the laws; he must also express outrage at the truth.

I have come under criticism recently for the spelling of the word "behove". It seems that a chap has been stung into looking the ...

Many a man is so impressed with the idea that the next despots will be wearing jackboots, that he fails to hear the gentle flap of sandals....

In The Sunday Times yesterday, Matthew d'Ancona had the following to say: Multi-culturalism - often presented as a sinister Left-wing c...

Of the revolutionary triptych Liberté , Egalité , Fraternité , the third has received the least attention from intellectuals. This may refle...

Judging by the way the media are carrying on, anyone would think this was Hug a Muslim Week . ..... The BBC seems to have become a propagand...

If we are to speak de mortuis nil nisi bonum , then it behoves us to say nothing much about some dead intellectuals, for about them there i...