Islington Newmania (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Been arguing here are some bits ... ….migration was in balance until the mid eighties the net inflow then increased to 50,000 a year. Since 1997 British emigration multiplied by four . Net foreign immigration tripled from 107,000 in 1997 to 333,000 in 2007 .It is therefore cobblers to suggest that ”tendencies” under any Conservative Government can be used to demonstrate anything...
Fora (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently the BBC's Question Time gained a lot of controversy by including on its panel the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin. Before the programme many asked what he was doing on it, and whether it was wise to invite him; afterwards the issue seemed to be whether the programme, by spending about 90% of the time on him, did him a favour, on the grounds that there is no such thing as...
No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Two articles in two days that that don't demand an end to all immigration or mass deportation or Alan Green to be made PM or the burka to be banned or all 'foreign criminals' to be hung or birched or castrated. What is the world coming to? First we have Vince Cable slumming it and being very reasonable and very liberal: " The politics of immigration is a minefield. Most politicians, therefore,...
Peter H. Donnelly's Mental Health Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
As fascist, and similar racist political parties like the BNP, have gained some popularity, during these times of economic recession and unemployment, I thought it was important to write about fascism, and to understand why it has gained some popularity. It’s sometimes assumed, by people of a liberal political persuasion, that fascism, is similar to socialism, and has a strong element of socialist...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Anglo Noel writes: So, with more of a whimper than a bang, the 'cast-iron' pledge for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty by 'Call Me Dave' Cameron has bitten the dust. I am a bit surprised, as I thought he would abandon the pledge AFTER the General Election (to keep the Lib Dems onside), not before. Obviously he does not think the 'fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists' of UKIP (as he once called them)...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Both the hard left and the hard right have lacked a substantial figurehead of the intellectual depth and popular appeal once personified by the likes of Tony Benn and Enoch Powell in the post-Thatcher era. Could Daniel Hannan be the one to step up to the plate for the 'serious' right?
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Mainstream voters routinely tell researchers that they are both angry and mistrustful of Labour over the surge in immigration levels since 1997. Hardliners see the record as a deliberate attempt to impose a multicultural society on a nation that hadn't asked for one. Enter stage left, Alan Johnson, trying to lower tempers in his speech on Monday. Angry talk was hardly new 41 years ago when Enoch Powell...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Nick Griffin didn’t speak to many Scots when he visited Glasgow last week Two men in crisp suits are standing outside the stylish Corinthian bar, nodding in a string of men and women, chatting to some as old friends. The pair are not bouncers – not any more – but members of the British National Party. Those entering are not regulars of the bar, but activists who have come to hear...
They're Joking. Aren't they? (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I hate being right sometimes. I hate it. Hate it. Almost everyone in the intelligentsia (you know: those brilliant people who’ve been in charge of the unprecedented successes of our glittering education, welfare and criminal justice systems over the past forty years) believes that traditionalist conservatives such as me are unimaginative, petty and petit-bourgeois: joyless souls slavishly dedicated...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Nearly 25 years ago, I shared a pot of afternoon tea at a hotel in St. James's with Enoch Powell, then on the margins
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
This is from some New York Times article about Miliband the elder : The foreign secretary called Blair “a great European” and spoke passionately of the challenges facing Europe, not least ushering Turkey into the Union. “I’m very pro Turkish enlargement,” he said. “And I think it’s a critical issue given the energy role of Turkey but also in showing that the...
Voice of the Resistance (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Yet another EU Directive: [The Equal Treatment Directive] is common hate crime legislation, which will turn disapproval for Islamic practices or homosexual lifestyles into crimes. Europe’s Christian churches are trying to stop the plan of the European political establishment, but it is unclear whether they will be successful. The media are silent on the topic. The directive applies to social...
If Sam Tarran Was In Charge (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
After returning home from a rather dead shift at work, I found I had the energy and the patience to watch (the majority of) Thursday's Question Time, my first full(ish) episode in a very long time. I tried watching it on Thursday, but gave up and switched to the brilliant In Treatment instead. I have to stand by my assumption that this would be the public trial of Nick Griffin, and he didn't come...
Heresy Corner (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Poor Bonnie Greer. The general, if not universal, consensus has it that the Newsnight Review regular did best in the bearpit that was Thursday's Griffin Time. I thought so (at least among the panellists: the best contributions came from the floor). Chris Huhne was quite forceful, but his attempt to portray the Liberal Democrats as uniquely tough on immigration (tougher than Labour, anyway) was deeply...
Paul Linford (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
All the media attention this week was on Nick Griffin and the BNP. But meanwhile, some possibly more significant developments have been taking place behind the scenes in the Labour Party. Here's today's Journal column. There is a widely-held maxim in our profession that all publicity is good publicity. But after Thursday night's Question Time on the BBC, I wonder if Nick Griffin would necessarily agree....
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