The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Highlights . On BBC Radio Four this week: Did immigration transform Britain by accident? [1] Continuing a series of programmes raising imp...

“Don’t believe the worst that you hear about South Africa,” reads a tagline to an article at Comment is Free . [1] Truly, so as not to let ...

There has been raised a horde of men, if so honorific a title may still be retained for them, who cry out “sky-fairy!” whenever they hear th...

Some liberals say that, in order to defend the West, we must defend “western values”, by which they mean “liberal values”, by which I unders...

“[W]e are pitted against an enemy swathed in religious and political certitude and we have only the ghost of a notion to sustain us: the not...

“The political buffoons who want to rule us cannot even revolt properly.” [“Nicht einmal mehr richtig putschen können die politischen Hans...

It is funny when ministers and parliamentarians make a promise of treating the voting public like grown-ups and responsible adults; it is ju...

“I am very happy to affirm that I am not a giant expert on climate change: I know a bit, and I know that there’s not yet been a giant global...

“Staggering across the fringes of the [Copenhagen] summit are the people who will see their countries live or die on the basis of its delibe...

Edward Feser has touched on the matter of haughtiness in philosophy [1] and how it may overwhelm rational commitment and truthfulness, such...

“Copenhagen is poised to achieve a profound historical transformation: reversing the road we have travelled for 200 years.” [1] I regret t...

“Queenie understands the drabness of Britain without immigration and grabs her chance of excitement, defiant of the heart-breaking consequen...

Today the Lisbon Treaty came into force, and so, in a humble way, I should just like to mark this great occasion by swearing undying enmity...

“[Rajendra] Pachauri said the large number of contributors and rigorous peer review mechanism adopted by the IPCC meant that any bias would ...

As received and written down in the year 1850 by “Sauerteig”, aka Thomas Carlyle:— 1. The Universe, so far as sane conjecture can go, is a...

Apparently there has been much screeching by feminists in opposition to the establishment of so-called men’s societies at English universiti...