The gender bender agenda

3:21pm

So what do you expect if you have something called an ‘Equality Minister’? She will impose gross injustice wherever she can in the interests of a coercive and preposterous ideology. Harriet Harman’s proposal that companies should positively discriminate in favour of women job candidates (ie discriminate against men) is yet another example of the way in which feminism got hijacked and turned from a campaign for fairness for women into an onslaught against men. Her proposal is not only totally unfair -- job candidates should be appointed on grounds of merit, not chromosomes – but is based on the false premise that the gender pay gap proves that women are the victims of systematic discrimination in the workplace.

But this is simply untrue. Granted that there are indeed specific instances of discrimination against women, the generalised claim is false because...

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A Caledonian caliphate?

10:55am

This blog post was originally duplicated on the site. The duplicate has now been deleted and the comments from it moved over to this thread.

Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, has been spectacularly canny and effective as Scotland’s first minister, moving his nationalist pieces across the British constitutional chessboard with stealth and skill. But there’s a dimension to this that has so far passed below the radar – the scimitar slung around the kilt. Tomorrow, the Scottish Islamic Foundation will be launched in Edinburgh in Salmond’s presence. But as the invaluable Centre for Social Cohesion tells us, the leading members of this group and many of those who lead its events are closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose aim is the Islamisation of Britain and Europe.

Its chief executive Osama...

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The jihad of the word

8:20pm

The signs have been ominous for some time but now it has become clear beyond a doubt that those who tell the truth about Islam, Islamism or Islamist terrorism risk having their career, livelihood and maybe even their liberty placed in jeopardy – and all in the name of human rights. In Canada, the columnist Mark Steyn has been arraigned before a kangaroo court for the crime of publishing in Macleans magazine an excerpt from his bestseller, America Alone, in which he argues that demographic change is turning Europe Islamic. Led by the Canadian Islamic Congress, Muslims have taken Steyn and Macleans to a ‘human rights’ tribunal on a charge of ‘hate speech’, a totalitarian statute enforced by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (sic) who are in the business of destroying the freedom to voice perfectly legitimate – indeed, absolutely vital...

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The joke turns sour at City Hall

12:20am

Boris has made a mistake. A very bad mistake. He has announced the resignation of his close aide James McGrath over remarks Mc Grath made to a black activist called Marc Wadsworth. You can read the whole exchange here. This appears to have been the bit that did the damage. Wadsworth writes:

McGrath was far from politically correct, David-Cameron-new- cuddly-Conservative Party, when I pointed out to him a critical comment of Voice columnist Darcus Howe that the election of ‘Boris Johnson, a right-wing Conservative, might just trigger off a mass exodus of older Caribbean migrants back to our homelands’. He retorted: ‘Well, let them go if they don’t like it here.’ McGrath dismissed influential race commentator Howe as ‘shrill’.

So let’s get our heads round this. To Wadsworth, a reported remark by a black columnist smearing Boris...

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The smirking hard-liners of Tehran

4:27pm

 

The Telegraph has reported that Iran appears to be making more emollient noises about its nuclear programme,

indicating its willingness to find a diplomatic solution to the confrontation with the international community.

All this story indicates is the extreme feeble-mindedness of the western media in taking Iran’s play-acting at face value. Presented with the Europeans grovelling before it with offers of economic aid and other concessions, thus effectively trumpeting their weakness and patent inability to do anything to stop Iran going nuclear, the Iranians graciously patted them on the head. How the great chess-players of Tehran must be laughing.

The fact is that the threat they pose to us all may be even more terrifying than we thought. Last Sunday, the Washington Post reported that, according to the former UN weapons inspector David Albright, Iran...

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A breathing space for terror

5:22pm

The ‘peace at any price’ brigade are purring as expected over the Hamas /Israel six-month‘ceasefire’. As exemplified by a particularly feeble-minded editorial in today’s Times, they believe it’s a hopeful development. What they seem unable to grasp is that, as far as Hamas is concerned, this is not a cease-fire as understood by the west but a ‘hudna’ or 'tahdiya' which is a tactical pause in the fighting to allow breathing space in which to re-arm, replenish one’s forces and then resume the war with even greater ferocity. The reason Hamas was so desperate for this tahdiya was that Israel was doing it damage – not serious enough, but nonetheless debilitating. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on the other hand, was very reluctant to do what should have been done in these circumstances by inflicting even more damage upon...

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