The Joy of Curmudgeonry

If someone had speculated thirty years ago that thirty years thence a qualification might be gained by answering such questions as how one m...

Weekly Worker is the choleric organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) (CPGB (PCC)) , not to be confus...

How would you credit the idea that breeds of dog are an illusion, a social construct, and an outdated eighteenth- and nineteenth-century con...

There is scholarship and then there is sociology; the latter is alike to the former in the same way that a collage pasted together by the me...

I should not be surprised to hear it said that the bourgeoisie is also to blame for the occurrence of haemorrhoids.

Committees which thrive on problems should in all honesty adopt the motto: “We'll consider anything but a solution”.

I’m all for a noble serenity towards those regrettable but unavoidable facts of life, such as death. After all, there is no dignity nor anyt...

A fool believes that an extraordinary intellect says extraordinary things, and thus one has only to wait a short time before he says somethi...

Our journalists have been clinched by a queer mania that takes the form of a besetting urge to describe morons as “obviously bright”. I gath...

The rot of social inclusion spreads to Glyndebourne, “home of genteel country house opera and black-tie picnics”, which is “to try to update...

We moderns have a provocative way of dealing with our useless and talentless citizens: we make the conditions amenable to their shortcomings...

To call oneself educated, it is not enough to be able to read a book; rather, it is to be able to understand the history of thought that led...

It cannot be imagined how much misery has been caused by those who would make the world a happier and safer place. The reason such an avowed...

Hitherto we have deplored the incompetence of intellectuals, yet we might well be thankful for so clear a guide to knowledge; for what intel...

Quite often these days, there emerges from the close and sordid pages of an academic journal an anthropological report that tells of a dist...

It may fairly be conjectured that, if we sat an infinite number of French philosophers at an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite ...