Trump and his Mini Me
The entry and the rapid rise of Mike Bloomberg in the Democratic primaries is something to behold. The Democrats at the moment are dealing with a double Trump-like outsider insurgency …
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Brexit happens
It’s entirely coincidental that as the United Kingdom is finally leaving the European Union, I’m reading Boris Johnson’s “Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the stump”, his retelling of a (successful) …
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On dating woke women
British actor whom I’ve never heard of, Laurence Fox, has caused quite a stir as a result of an appearance on a TV show “Question Time” last week. Fox apparently …
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Hurry up and die, you Tory scum
The old communists, if they didn’t like you, would simply kill you. The new woke left merely wishes you would die to make a way for a better, more caring …
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Disunited Kingdom
With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results, let me sound a characteristic Daily Chrenk note of caution: …
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The Great Malaise continues
At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …
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The Deep State and the Shallow State
As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night (and woman’s, one might add). The same can be said about politics – …
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Revolution 2.0
Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up and overthrew the bourgeoisie. Because Marx has also foreseen that …
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The Ys are a lost cause but with the Zs there is hope
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. I blogged previously about the …
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Looking at the world through politically coloured glasses
There are facts but your perception of these facts differs depending on your values and beliefs. There is nothing new or startling about this observation, except the perception divide is …
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PiS pisses off progs as Poles go to the polls
The 12 things to note about Sunday’s parliamentary election in Poland: 1. It’s status quo, with the populist/nationalist/conservative PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, or Law and Justice) government getting reelected. 2. …
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Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy
I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …
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The misogyny of climate change denial
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In case it wasn't clear from the type of harassment that climate leaders like Greta Thunberg & Alexandria …
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“Stone cold loser” uses WW2 commemorations to preach against Brexit
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised – you send a B-grader to represent a country at an international event, you get a B-grade display. Here are the excerpts from the …
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Here come the eco-fascists
“The Washington Post” beat me to taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried out this year by two white supremacists against Muslim …
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A tale of two angry young men
Two mass shootings in the US in two days, two very angry and disturbed young men. In El Paso: A manifesto posted online shortly before Saturday’s massacre at a Walmart …
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Is this the weather or is this catastrophe?
Caught in a panic, there’s no escape for reality. Or is there? Democrats are far more likely to believe droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms have become more frequent …
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Polarisation takes us back to the 19th century
We seem to be on the cusp of another age of sharp tribalisation, where people of different beliefs and persuasions increasingly lead different lives and share different spaces, passing each …
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Where are the songs of freedom?
A discussion at PJ Media and then Instapundit, about music and the end of the Cold War, which we should be celebrating throughout this year, but we won’t be very …
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Who’s Who at the EU Zoo
So the people of the European Union have voted – the 51 per cent of them, at least, which is a considerable reverse on the long term trend of a …
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