The year of being silenced
My blogging year started with a trade union official abusing and threatening me – twice. It ends with a lost December, during which the control over my blog was taken …
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Against secular blasphemy laws
So Donald Trump created quite a bit of a stir with this tweet suggesting flag burners should be punished with jail or revocation of their citizenship. No, don’t even try …
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Chrenkoff or Jerkoff? or the one in which I became a hashtag
So last night, both on here and on the Spectator blog I took to task an overenthusiastic contributor to Techly, and by extension two panelists on Monday night’s Q&A, who …
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Q&A and bullshit arguments for section 18C
Some guy on some website thinks some people on some show DESTROYED the case against section 18C. Or something like that. Riordan Lee on Techly was watching Q&A last night, …
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I’m an Austrian woman, hear me roar
In the 1980s, the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs proposed a definition of an Indigenous Australian as a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as Aboriginal …
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So much outrage, so little time
A few days ago, a 53-year-old resident of an affluent Rhode Island town (but I’m repeating myself) of Barrington, Alan Sorrentino, wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to his local newspaper (circulation …
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Should we ban the ISIS flag?
While it’s perhaps unfair to compare British apples with Swedish oranges, it’s interesting to note that while in the United Kingdom waving a banner with a slogan “F*** ISISâ€, and …
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Words will always hurt me so I’ll use sticks and stones to break your bones
Free speech is under assault everywhere around the world. In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother-of-five, has been under the death sentence for the past six years for blasphemy – …
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European Union’s Faulty Powers: Don’t mention the war (on terror)
A new report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has castigated Great Britain for increase in hate speech and racist violence, and has kindly offered 23 recommendations …
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The boy who cried fascism
By labelling every mainstream conservative extremist, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, and probably a fascist, the left has devalued these descriptions to such an extent that it’s completely unprepared to face …
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London’s Khan Hunts Trolls While Crime Soars
(I don’t know what it is about the UK, London and its new Lord Mayor Sadiq Khan that just makes me write tabloid headlines – see also my earlier post …
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Gosford Anglicans vs Party for Freedom – a plague on both your houses
Yesterday, a group of yobbos known as the Party for Freedom staged a noisy anti-Islamic protest during the Sunday mass at the Gosford Anglican Church. I wasn’t previously aware of …
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Let’s criminalise blasphemy so we don’t have to kill the blasphemers
I might be verballing some of the people quoted in the BBC reporting, but not by much. On 24 March this year, Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah was brutally murdered in …
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The Daily Outrage – three outrages for the price of one
From “what offends you today?” and “what would you like to ban today?” files: Item 1: From the files of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: On January 8, 2014, Complainant …
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F*** ISIS. And f*** PC too.
Who knew? Apparently waving a flag with a slogan “F*** ISIS”, and wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a man urinating on an ISIS flag amounts to “inciting racial …
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And the award for the Most Disgusting Quote of the election goes to…
I have been around politics for some 22 years and in my time I’ve heard some pretty disgusting sentiments being expressed by our elected representatives, but this observation from our …
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Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors
That pretty much sums it all up, I think. Missed anything? Tell me in the comments.
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Dear anti-Trump protesters
This election campaign is only going to get more serious the closer to November we get. Which means Trump will become even more unbearable, which means you will feel obliged …
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