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Down the slippery slope
I was in Ankara on December 23 last year, in the commercial centre of town in the middle of the day. I walked past a street with a number of cafe/restaurants. I realised I was hungry. I sat down at an...
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I’ve Got Mine Now Sod Off Says Zuckerberg – Tim Worstall providing a typically succinct summation.
View ArticleIn France you now have to download a permit to go for a walk
At first I thought this was une blague pratique. Apparently not, unless Tim Worstall’s denial is merely evidence that he is in on the joke. He writes in today’s Times: Among the measures introduced in...
View ArticleWe are all Uighurs now.
The ramblings of our Prime Minister this evening, no data, no projections, no reasoning other than the projected incompetence of our nationalised health care system, no laws cited (but they are there),...
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This chicken has more freedom that anyone in Britain
Here is a free-range chicken in a layer flock at a site somewhere in Northamptonshire in the English Midlands. It roams free, it does not risk an unlimited fine for leaving its home without just...
View ArticleNigel Farage says ‘Say No to House Arrest’– and a perspective on Red China
A video blog from Nigel, asking questions in his usual style about the lockdown and what it is for, police behaviour, and posing some questions about the UK’s relations with China. Then a China...
View ArticleThis might work. And then?
“NHS phone app holds key to lifting UK’s coronavirus lockdown”, the Times reports. Ministers have ordered the creation of an NHS mobile phone app the government hopes will help end the coronavirus...
View ArticleThe homeschooling menace
One trend that has been a big push in recent weeks is – for obvious reasons – homeschooling. And those who run the education system in North America (and I presume, in other places) are worried that if...
View ArticleKieren McCarthy criticises the proposed coronavirus contact-tracing app
Here is a link to yesterday’s article by Kieren McCarthy in the Register: UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won’t work well, asks for your location,...
View ArticleDiscussion point: Don’t lock me down, baby
It seems that the Mekon might be about to be knocked off his levitating chair. Dominic Cummings is in trouble for breaking the lockdown. He joins the epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson, for whom...
View ArticleBut what if she did consent?
The BBC reports, ‘Rough sex’ defence will be banned, says justice minister The so-called “rough sex gone wrong” defence will be outlawed in new domestic abuse legislation, a justice minister has told...
View ArticleExposing baby racists
“‘Cancel culture’ grows increasingly cruel”, writes Jeff Jacoby. …A working man fired because his hands fell into what some read as a “white supremacist” gesture and someone took a picture He had never...
View ArticleThe political purity spiral as experienced by the Instagram knitting community
I cannot knit and I am not on Instagram, but as someone who sews and is into politics, I cannot think how I came to miss this article from Gavin Haynes when it came out in January of this year. After...
View ArticleHow not to oppose the Scottish hate crime bill
The Courier‘s Jenny Hjul is on the right side. She knows the Hate Crime Bill (Scotland) needs to be opposed: JENNY HJUL: SNP’s hated hate crime bill would outlaw all controversial debate… it has to be...
View ArticleAsk not for whom the tik toks
“TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours”, reports the BBC. All things considered, I do still want Trump to win the US election, but this sounds like a stupid measure. Banning things is...
View ArticleThe foundling
Anyone know whose baby this is? Mystery Deepens Around Unmanned Spy Boat Washed Up In Scotland
View ArticleI thought they were better than this: recollections of how the London Times...
Two years ago the worldwide media furore over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court was at its height. Every second story in the British press seemed to be about Dr Christine Blasey...
View ArticleThe mask slips
In today’s Sunday Times Camilla Long has a slight but amusing piece called “Jeffrey Toobin is caught with his pants down and he’s the victim? That’s a touch too much”. I realise that this audience...
View ArticleThe Scottish Justice Secretary says that hate speech in people’s own homes...
Sometimes I try to think of a funny or attention-grabbing way to introduce a news report that I will link to in a Samizdata post. The following report from the Times grabbed my attention without...
View ArticleIf this is how the Democrats campaign, maybe the Republicans will win after all
With great glee, the Huffington Post reports, Multiple Right-Wing Figures Pranked Into Thanking The Devil For Supporting Trump Several prominent pro-Trump voices have been pranked into thanking “Iblis”...
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