Is Fascism Back in Europe? Did It Ever Leave?
Like all European Jews, I was taught about the Holocaust during childhood. The facts of the event are too staggering for even an adult to comprehend, let alone a child. But the explanation given was...
View ArticleThe Reality of Right-Wing Nationalism Hits Norway
75 years ago this October, my grandfather, the son of Jewish immigrants to London’s poor East End, took to the streets with thousands of others to stop the ultra-nationalist British Union of Fascists...
View ArticleHow #CreepingSharia Reminded Me Of My Love For Britain
Fascism was highly fashionable throughout Europe and North America in the 1930s, and Britain too was affected. Antisemitism and a desire to keep the “lower orders” in check were widespread beliefs...
View ArticleWTF Is “Radical Islam”?
Generally, sparring with morons online can be fun. Being told that I’m a pawn of the devil, or a self-hating Jew often makes me smile. But there are more disturbing moments. The ongoing fascist-style...
View ArticleGreek Man Admits Racist Murder on Facebook
As the global corporatocracy forces Greece into implementing austerity measures that are guaranteed to destroy the country’s economy, the inevitable outcome is a widespread collapse into poverty, a...
View ArticleIndian Rape and its Islamophobic Apologists
I’ve known S for over 20 years. When I first met her, she was 17, but pretended to be a decade older – and she could easily have passed for 27. Faking her age made it easier to explain the fact that …...
View ArticleThe Islamification of the Conservative Party
Regular readers of this blog will remember the day last April when much of Britain finally got bored with the far-right English Defence League and its anti-Muslim propaganda, and dealt with it in the...
View ArticleThe Rise of “Mixed Race”
As a dedicated numbers geek, I have a special love for statistics. Stats are what separate truth from myth, rumour and lies: in these interconnected times, it’s easy to spot a liar by their refusal to...
View ArticlePosing As Progressives
It’s been one of those weeks when I fall out with some of my, usually friendly, followers. When you’re a leftish political blogger, there are safe things to write about, and things you shouldn’t...
View ArticlePre-emptive Arrests In UK
With the upcoming Thatcher burial (or firing her out of a cannon, or whatever they’ll do with her), some people have been taken by surprise by suggestions that activists may be pre-emptively arrested...
View ArticleWho Bombed Boston?
Something HUGE happened on Monday. A multiple bombing, resulting in fatalities and many injuries, which received saturation-level media coverage. The bombs in Nasariyah, Kirkuk and Baghdad killed at...
View ArticleBritish Terrorists: the Dumbest of Them All?
An old, racist stereotype, popular in Britain, slurs the Irish as unintelligent. Yet, over a period of three decades, Irish terrorist groups successfully planted bomb after bomb in Northern Ireland and...
View ArticleUKIP: Playing Nazi Bingo
Fascism became a little bit discredited after the whole holocaust thing. Britain’s fascist movement had never got off to a great start, but after the second world war, Oswald Moseley’s attempt to come...
View ArticleIt’s Not Terrorism Unless It Happens To Us
For as long as I remember, the word Terrorism has been thrown around lazily and inconsistently, but never so much as today. The problem began when the United States was looking for a catchy name for...
View ArticleThe Loss Of British Culture
There are a number of approaches taken by the anti-immigration movement to demonstrate that mass immigration is a bad thing. One is economic: it stands to reason (dunnit) that the more people in the...
View ArticleThe Moron Media Loves Anjem Choudary
Islamist loud-mouth moron Anjem Choudary just loves publicity. He lives for the chance to say things in public that will in turn outrage morons of the “not at all racist, honest” Daily Mail and UKIP...
View ArticleMy Abu Dhabi Ramadan
The Muslim fasting period of Ramadan has been coming and going for centuries, but never before have Muslim minorities in the West been under such scrutiny. This year’s Ramadan starts tomorrow. The UK’s...
View ArticleOnline Free Speech: Sticks And Stones…
Barely a week goes by in which the British “left” doesn’t display its increasing disdain for free speech, but this past week has been especially troublesome. The idea that only free speech and rational...
View ArticleMaria Miller, the Expenses “Scandal” and the Assault on Democracy
Knives are out today for the Culture Secretary Maria Miller. Having been caught over-claiming expenses, and forced to pay back £5,800, her latest crime was to issue an apology that was only 32 seconds...
View ArticleWhy Am I Blocked On Facebook?
[NOTE: I have a major announcement to come… please join my mailing list to stay in touch] As I write this, I’m blocked on Facebook, and have been since last Thursday. My personal account, and three...
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