The Joy of Curmudgeonry

“The root causes of youth crime and antisocial behaviour need to be tackled first, before we focus on the symptoms and attribute blame,” [1]...

Nothing is as important as it seems at first — or: complacency wins in the end.

One will sometimes hear a feminist opine that she is just one more outraged woman struggling to be heard, but this strikes me as humbug; for...

“We speak much of Enlightenment, and wish for more light. But, my God, what help is light if people either have no eyes or wilfully shut tho...

The scepticism of intellectuals means that they are wont to look suspiciously upon any idea that does not first flatter them into believing ...

It is surprisingly rare to find atheism taken in earnest, even amongst self-professed atheists. More common is to find an airy sub-species o...

Many used to fear the seemingly ineluctable march of Prussianism, that “despotism of officials”, as Lord Salisbury called it, by which socie...

“[T]he anti-imperialist Boudica” [1] — only a cretin of the calibre of Johann Hari would dare make the Queen of the Iceni sound like a Leni...

It seems no western intellectual comes to espouse cultural relativism except through an ulterior ideological motive, as is revealed in the e...

I am back from my jollies, but am feeling quite lazy, and my mind is concentrated on the thought of cold gin-and-tonics. I shall write whene...

I’m off on holiday for a week or so. I shall return full of the joys and so forth.

It is good to spend an hour or two wondering how many of the faults and follies of the world have arisen and flourished because of the despe...

When radicalism enters men’s heads, the fear of change is not so much lost as overcome by the fear of seeming insufficiently zealous for it.

“There are people who believe everything is sensible that is done with a serious face.” [“Es gibt Leute, die glauben, alles wäre vernünftig,...

According to race-theorists Robin DiAngelo and David Allen, “a discourse on whiteness attempts to show not just how whiteness oppresses peop...

That nature does not conform to the sensibilities of mankind does not offend the sensibilities of most men, simply because it has not occurr...