Britain's Quisling party

So now we finally have the unequivocal answer to the question some of us have been insistently asking: what is the point of the Conservative party? The answer is, bleakly, there is none.

There is today one overwhelmingly important issue of issues, the meta-issue without the resolution of which it is pointless to address any other issue. It is the issue of whether the United Kingdom is to continue as a sovereign nation able to govern itself in accordance with its own laws, culture and traditions or not. The Lisbon constitutional treaty which, with the Czech Republic’s agonised capitulation, has now been ratified by every member of the EU does away with the sovereignty of member nations that it has been steadily eroding for so many years in pursuit of the goal of creating a European super-state.

This anti-democratic entity,...

Continue reading...

Email to a friend  |   Permalink   |   Comments (122)

The deep green sophistry of 'religious' equivalence

It’s official -- putting plastic bottles into the recycling bin or going on a Greenpeace demo is akin to having a religious experience.

Rupert Dickinson, who was made redundant by a London property company, claimed that it had discriminated against him on account of his subscription to the theory of man-made global warming and other environmental issues which he said constituted a ‘philosophical’ belief.

In any rational universe, he would be sent away with a flea in his ear for trying it on. But this is not such a world. At an Employment Appeal Tribunal Mr Justice Burton ruled that because of his belief in climate change Dickinson was entitled to the same protection against discrimination as someone with religious convictions.

How hilarious is this?! When sceptics like me observe that man-made global warming resembles religious zealotry because it is...

Continue reading...

Email to a friend  |   Permalink   |   Comments (70)

Britain's timid Jews

Isi Leibler has written a fierce denunciation in the Jerusalem Post of Britain’s Jewish community leadership for their supine and craven response to the way Britain’s political and intellectual class is throwing Israel ever more brazenly under the bus. I agree with all that he says. However, I fear that his hope that British Jews get rid of these leaders and replace them by individuals who are prepared to mount a proper defence of Israel in the face of this verbal pogrom is tragically unrealisable.

This is because Britain’s Jewish community leadership is, first, congenitally supine and, second, historically ambivalent towards Israel. Having always been terrified of the dread accusation of ‘dual loyalty’ – the bigoted taunt that has always been flung at Jews wherever in the diaspora they have lived, long predating Israel’s rebirth in 1948 – they...

Continue reading...

Email to a friend  |   Permalink   |   Comments (86)

Two-minute hate at the Guardian

Students of the psychopathology of Britain’s intelligentsia might find it educational to peruse this post by the admirable CiF Watch, the website devoted to monitoring the Guardian’s Comment is free website as a public service of rare devotion, on the readers’ comments that followed Ed Husain’s attack on me in Cif last Saturday (to which I respond below). Don’t miss in particular the contribution by one BellaM, a Guardian moderator of the site, to the verbal pogrom against me -- a contribution so outstanding that CiF Watch dedicated to her in addition a whole post of her own.

Email to a friend  |   Permalink   |   Comments (59)

Ed Husain and me

On Friday, I wrote about the confused message being put out by the various groups which were taking to London’s streets yesterday, including one led by Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, to oppose the ‘sharia now’ demonstration by al Muhajiroun. My post provoked an unexpected reaction – an extraordinary ad feminam attack upon me, on the Guardian’s Comment is free blog, by the ‘reformist’ Muslim Ed Husain which accuses me of displaying

zealotry and ignorance

and being filled with

anger, venom and hatred

not to mention also being

demented.

Such fame! It could turn a girl’s head.

The first question is why Ed Husain was so exercised by what I wrote. After all, this was not his fight; I had made no mention of him or his ‘anti-Islamist’ Quilliam...

Continue reading...

Email to a friend  |   Permalink   |   Comments (125)

A less than united front

This weekend there is to be a demonstration in London organised by the Islamists of the re-formed al Muhajiroun calling for sharia law to be enforced in Britain.

When they heard about this, various moderate, anti-Islamist Muslims started suggesting on Facebook and elsewhere that a counter demonstration be held. Within a short space of time, the moderate anti-Islamist British Muslims for a Secular Democracy decided to hold a counter-protest of their own. It was great news that reformist British Muslims were now getting it together to oppose the Islamists like this. But then things got a little bit complicated.

Alarmed by the threat that such moderate Muslims pose to the Islamist stranglehold  over public discourse, the Muslim Brotherhood moved swiftly to try to neutralise them. Thus a surprising article appeared on the Guardian’s Comment is free blog by Continue reading...

Email to a friend  |   Permalink   |   Comments (57)