The Joy of Curmudgeonry

“All we’ve got to do is wait a few generations. At which point there won’t be any ‘races’ to have any problems about.” [1] It is no shock ...

The common man is never so clever as the politician says and never so stupid as the politician believes.

“They spoke much of tolerance , because they needed the very same for themselves, but already at that time there was no-one more intolerant ...

“The suicide bombers’ targeting was deliberately provocative — and the Russian authorities’ response is equally predictable”. [1] If predic...

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...