
The saddest graph of the year
In a year full of sad graphs, most of them one way or another connected with COVID, I came across this one the other day: COVID, whatever its origin turns …
Read MoreIn a year full of sad graphs, most of them one way or another connected with COVID, I came across this one the other day: COVID, whatever its origin turns …
Read MoreIs your fish demeaning to others? Worry not, there is always a bureaucracy ready to step in and right the wrong: The Asian carp is getting a new name from …
Read MoreYou have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one or two – how everything now seems to problematic. The …
Read MoreWe all have certain preferences about appearance, certain characteristics we find attractive in others. It might be the age, height, body shape, hair or eye colour, complexion, muscle tone, hair …
Read MoreLegal Insurrection reports from the frontiers of Market Marxism: It’s no secret that the Black Lives Matter movement and its co-founder (and self-identified “Marxist”) Patrisse Cullors has long accused American …
Read MoreTwenty-twenty is providing a much needed reminder of the absolute importance of essential workers and first responders. In times like these, it’s quite courageous for celebrities of all kinds to keep …
Read MoreAs many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing world continue to migrate to Western countries, which we are …
Read MoreIt’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian journalist at ABC, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and I cut and pasted it because I’m very likely to …
Read MoreThere is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
Read More* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter. To me certainly, a black life matters as much as my white life. However to say something like that, or that “All Lives Matter”, is now considered …
Read MoreDebate continues to rage about the rights and wrongs of Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw a handful of US troops from their posts along the Syrian-Turkish border, where they have …
Read MoreWhen people say that members of other races all look the same to them, are they just being lazily racist or is there some truth behind the observation? Commonly referred …
Read MoreA very good piece from Andrew Sullivan about “The New York Times Magazine” and it’s “1619 Project”, which dismissed the entire history of European settlement in North America as a …
Read MoreNick Kyrgios is a dick. I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him – not that he particularly cares what I think of him – …
Read MoreDonald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …
Read MoreSeems like Republicans are not welcome in beauty contests anymore: Miss World America's State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive. They stripped me of my Miss Michigan …
Read MoreThe old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the Chronicles of Fire and Ice can hardly be criticised for …
Read MoreThe mainstream media – and the social media – are so good at generating instant outrages that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new …
Read More…because it’s getting revoked, you traitors and mindless enablers of white patriarchal supremacy! I’ve written a while ago about the Asian (specifically Asian-American) people being revoked their minority victim status …
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