Happy Christmas

Yow Min Lye

Thanks, guys, and Merry Christmas.

You truly have been 'champagne for the brain' this year.

Chuck Unsworth

Thanks, chaps. And a very Happy Christmas to you. I really don't know how you managed to keep up with events throughout the year, but it's been informative, entertaining and much appreciated. Well done!

Anoneumouse

Waes hael

Moraymint

Merry Christmas to one and all!

And here's to another year of applying unremitting pressure on our next-to-useless politicos - in the hope that, eventually, someone or some political party will tune in to the needs of the great British people!

And raise a glass too to the end of Marxism - for destroyed it must be, before it destroys thee and me.

Gawain

Definately the finest political blog site on the web and the coffee is always a tasty brew. Congratulations and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thomas Cussans

No wonder I despair. Even the Spectator, still fondly imagined by me as one of the few bastions of semi-sanity left in our despoiled world, wishes us a 'happy holiday'.

What is wrong with wishing us all Happy Christmas?

Learn To Read

Thomas Cussans: And the headline of this post is...? Might be worth engaging your brain before you slip into "Angry of Tunbridge Wells" mode next time.

Grumpy commenters aside, this remains the best political blog out there. Merry Christmas to Fraser, Pete et al. More of the same next year please!

Beer Moth

'Barring major political catastrophe'?

The catastrophe won't be ending anytime soon but sod it, you lot have a Merry Christmas anyway.

Amadeus Plonquer

One question: Is it true that Fraser Nelson turned up to the Speccie Xmas Party wearing a kilt in the Barclay Brothers tartan? I understand that this tartan is distinguishable by its small checks.....

A Happy Christletoe and a Very New Year to you all.

AndyinBrum

Here's to a very interesting new year.

Merry Christams/Winter Solstice/Happy Holidays/Etc

Naomi Muse

As the year turns we wish you to be surrounded by all love and kindness as well as respect and joy for your unique qualities.

Have a wonderful and peaceful time, with all success and happiness in the new year.

And we keep up the pressure on those awful politicians. Doing the right thing ought to be their chosen option and not the one they avoid.

Tiberius

May Santa find easy passage down your chimneys, everyone.

Frank P

Just in case anyone decides to take the kiddiwinks to see 'Avatar' as a Christmas film treat, I suggest that you read this piece first:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/avatar_camerons_contradictions_1.html

The culture war proceeds apace replete with the contradictions of the hypocrites who use to best advances in civilisation, in their attempt to destroy it for the rest of us.

AndyinBrum

its a film - dont take it seriously

EC

Frank P,

An informative review. It appears that the Spectatabot obscured your Avatar link. I've made it smaller:
http://tinyurl.com/yf8aj5g

I know people who have seen the film and they were totally overwhelmed by:

"The new technology combining digital modeling, motion capture, CGI, IMAX, and cutting-edge 3-D presentation."

However when I read,

"In the 22nd century, humans come to the planet Pandora to mine a precious metal called unobtanium."

I decided that my money was staying firmly put - in my wallet.

A question of "Never mind the bollocks just look at the special effects" - it's bound to be a blockbuster!

I went to the cinema to see the environmental disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow." It was a similar propaganda effort. However it was, unintentionally, one of the funniest films I had seen. Worth every penny. I roared with laughter all the way through!

God I hate "worthy" films.

Jeremy

It's Christmas eve....hurrah!!

I wonder what's in my stocking? Probably one of my own legs...^^

This Christmas, I am mainly watching films directed by Pedro Almodovar...

A Merry Christmas to you all!!^^

Verity

Thanks, Frank P and EC for the link.

I knew with stone cold certainty, even before I read the review, that this was one movie I would never see. Not even free on cable.

Another lefty 10th-rater. A planet called Pandora. A metal called unobtanium. Strictly Fourth Form referencs as every skule boy kno.

Also, when they want to class up their crappy products, why does Hollywood always reach for the spirituality of India? "Avatar", indeed! India must be getting sick of it. On the other hand, perhaps they regard this trash incorporating one word, but not the thought, of the Hindu religion is fair does for their own cultural Irish stew of Bollywood.

Frank P

Andy in Brum

We have 'not taken seriously' most of the subliminal propaganda that has been pumped into the minds of the credulous, in particular the innocent minds of children, for many decades by the leftist culture- vultures of Hollywood and their associates around the world. That's why we have had diabolical infestations at No.10 for the past twelve years and now an even more serious abomination in the Oval Office.

The manifestation today, of the first step in the socialization of American Healthcare - the Trojan Horse of the neo-Marxist puppeteers, is just the beginning. The mendacious propaganda that spewed from the mouths of Harry Reid and his corrupt henchmen this morning ('we will take no questions') was a clear indication of future modus operandi: "Ve hef vays of imposing socialism on you, vether you vish it or nein".

As for our own benighted nation; we have reaped what we have sown, simply because we followed your dictum: "It's only a ----- (fill in whatever emerges of the latest insidious injection of social poison), don't take it seriously!" is the reason we are so deeply embedded in doo-dah.

If you don't mind, I shall continue to take seriously anything that emerges from the sewers of socialism. And if you haven't already, Christmas notwithstanding, I should read the critique I linked above:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/avatar_camerons_contradictions_1.html

(I hope the complete link appears this time!)

To all Hedonists - a merry syphilis and clappy gonorrhoea.

Austin Barry

I enjoyed Michael Caine's 'Harry Brown' as a corrective to left wing luvviedom, but it was overtly racist with all the Inner-London, gang-banging, druggie scum being hideously white with an Irish heritage. Yes, that vibrant Hibernian community is turning our cities into a dangerous Dystopian nightmare.

Merry Christmas chums.

London Calling

Merry Christmas To You All...

Enjoy :)

EC

He's been!

henry rogers

Happy Christmas to everyone, especially to Verity who challenges every lazily formed opinion and Tiberius whose quiet words of good sense bring one down to earth but also to the Speccie's editorial team who do their best to provide us with entertainment and enlightenment, despite our frequently ungrateful responses.

Maximilian

Nice picture up there of Big Ben glimpsed through the snow laden branches. I hope it's real, not photoshopped.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Verity

Frank P - Yes, only now, all these years later, do we see that Joe McCarthy was right, and was a very brave man indeed, to take on the toxic, and oh, so manipulative, Hollywood establishment.

I will go to the link you kindly put up.

JohnAnt

Not unconnected with Frank P's comment - why does Google's 'Happy Holidays' [ugh] logo today consist of a CND badge and a cartoon of what appears to be a bomb?
Is unilateral disarmament the next universally agreed orthodoxy, (now that we're all as of one mind about the need for western nations to commit mass suicide to prevent global warming)?

Koakona

Merry Christmas all.

FYI Verity I believe the Avatar name is reference to the naming convention for a character someone may play in a virtual world, popular in MMORPGs. My understanding of the film is one of the main characters is transported into an Avatar as a host on Pandora. Either way the rest of what you say is spot on, leftist clap trap all round and well linked by Frank P.

Anyway that is not enough to sour the season, Merry Christmas (again) all and hope you enjoy every minute with friends and family.

Verity

I think the only right winger in Hollywood today is Bruce Willis.

At the time of Joe McCarthy's investigation, for which he was viciously attacked by the lefty media wolf pack, John Wayne was a right winger, and I think Gary Cooper and Cary Grant were too. Among the women, I'm guessing Bette Davis. Given her affinity for the Kennedys, and that she was married to Arthur Miller, I think we can count Marilyn Monroe in as one of the lefties. Senator McCarthy certainly suffered for his 20-20 insight into the methodology of the lefties in that industry.

Avatar sounds like another preachy lefty dirge. Yawneroo with blue faces. Big deal.

Tiberius

A prosperous new year to you, Henty R.

egh

Yes. That marxist-deconstructionism is at work in every medium and controls publication.

I know, indeed, an 'anything-but-English' environment that teaches young adults: "You must 'underpin' your work with Theory; otherwise, you will not be published." They tried to teach it to me, but I'm old; and I despise the pretentiousness they infuse into their term 'underpin'! Apart from the nastiness of holding one's appearance together with pins, I doubt if any of them ever saw a tailor or dressmaker at work, let alone participated in the process of construction!! Then when you see that all they construct is lies, 'meconnaissance' and defamation ....

Anyway - at Church, a Midnight Service they at least retained some of the old words to the carols!! How much more beautiful and powerful they are than the neu stuff that's helping to drive people from Christianity!!

So I raise my glass with Moraymint: for fight the Anti-Christ we must. Thank you, Speccie Team ... for providing this forum and allowing us to say what must be said.

Hope you and Coffeehousers all had a wonderful Christmas; and that you will have the Best of Boxing Days - leading to lots of the Happiest possible New Years.

EC

egh @11:35pm

Language is a weapon. PC and all that. There is an interesting piece in January's Standpoint Mag. The drumbeat as been subtly altered to include "Civility." This, apparently, is being deployed as the new weapon in the struggle to stifle free speech and dissent.

http://standpointmag.co.uk/counterpoints-jan-10-civil-society-language-politics-civility

Also contained within the text is the 'Academic' meaning of 'Diversity.' Such nuggets were sadly lacking in the £5 Christmas edition of The Speccie.