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School starts tomorrow for me, and as this is an exam year, my contributions to this blog may be very sporadic. I will blog if I get the chance at all, at weekends, holidays etc.

With the resignation of Alistair Cambell, it almost seems that an era is over. The question now being - will number 10 kick it's spin habit? I, for one, am quite sceptical.

From the Guardian:

"His former boss, writing in the Guardian, gives Mr Hill a glowing report.

"Hill finds it almost pathologically impossible to deceive or dissemble. That is why he is the right man to re-establish a relationship of trust between Downing Street and the press.""

Hmmm. I wonder how long that will last.

With all the not-so-cheerful goings on in the world, we all need a little cheering up. This is amply provided in the website of an anarchist socialist movement (what a contradiction!). Funniest of all is the poster depicting aliens landing on Earth, tearing down Big Ben, exclaiming "Take me to your anarchists!" Below this picture are the words "Aliens say - you must liberate yourselves - urge formation of workers councils!" And all without a trace of irony. Priceless.

I have come across a fantastic and inspirational article on the theme of personal responsibility. It's lenghty, but well worth reading.

Just when you thought the Arabs couldn't get worse.....

On a similar note to the article by Ed Vulliamy, Margaret Drabble writes on why she loathes America. Well, at least the bitch is unequivocal.

There is an odious article in the Observer in which Ed Vulliamy, the Observer's "award-winning" US correspondent writes of an America which he supposedly once loved and no longer does. In the course of the article he interviews some like-minded lefites. I think I might give you a taste of the rubbish involved, with a bit of criticism attached...

I arrived in an America regarded by the world as 'cool'. One can never be sure whether a President defines the country or vice versa, but this was Bill Clinton's America.

Yes. Bill Clinton's "cool" America. An administration which slashed defence spending, thus reducing both the FBI and CIA's effectiveness. Fairly lethal, as we know in hindsight. An America in which the President was busy "enjoying" his interns, and then lied to his nation when this was exposed. To top this off, he bombed Iraq to distract attention from his philanderings.

Meanwhile out in the world, intervention by the US was either welcomed by the persecuted of Haiti and Kosovo or else craved by (but culpably denied) those in Bosnia and Rwanda - as a force of deliverance, not of empire.

This seems to imply that intervention by the US is not now welcomed by the persecuted in Afghanistan and Iraq. I must therefore point out that a majority of Iraqis polled in a recent poll approved of the liberation of Iraq. Also, on the whole, the Afghans are still pleased that they have been rid of the yoke of the Taliban. As for the implication that the US now acts as a force of empire, that is truly a cheap shot.

It is surreal to consider the weeks I laboured over the political implications of uses for a cigar, and that an American President was subjected to a television grilling about 'anal-oral contact'. The right-wing opposition called him a liar; Hillary Clinton blamed a 'vast right-wing conspiracy'. They were both right.

Lets see. The Republicans wished Clinton to resign for lying under oath to the entire nation, and this is somehow a "vast right-wing conspiracy". Right, that makes a lot of sense.

Forty per cent in this land that politics forgot live below the poverty line, drawn at $16,000 per annum. Even here, where a late sun strokes the billowing cotton, there is a healthy market in crack cocaine. Pastor Benny Brown of Jonestown, near Clarksdale, remarks: 'I don't really call this a rural area; more a "reservation"; a black poverty reservation.' 'Sometimes I wonder,' pondered old Ruby Walker, sitting on her porch surrounded by cats, soon after her daughter had been killed in a shoot-out, 'if they ever did really do away with slavery here.'

Stating that black poverty is a form of slavery is an assumption both cretinous and farcical. The roots of black poverty are much more complex than "White man is richer than Black man, therefore White man is stealing from Black man." Black underachievement is well explained in a lenghty article I have come across.

For in Juárez, the most depraved crime in the Americas continues, unpunished: the mass abduction, abuse, mutilation and murder of some 345 young women to date, invariably employees of the new American factories that pay rock bottom wages but do nothing to protect them. Here was a parable - in a single narrative - of the scourges in our American-led global economy. If there was a programme called 'Desert Island Articles', and I was permitted to write only one during my years in America, it would be that.

The scourges of our American-led economy. What tripe. We are living through the most proserous and dynamic age yet. Our standards of living are at a high, and no doubt will continue to increase (though maybe not in Europe, explained in an earlier post). This attack on the "American-led economy" - read globalisation - is purile and utterly unconvincing. The nations which recorded the highest levels of growth on average in the last ten years or so are the developing countries which are opening up to globalisation. Lower than that are the developed nations. Bottom of the heap are the developing nations which have not opened up to trade and for the most part are damaged by Marxist policies.

I was obliged to change immediately into a suit and - fuelled by tequila - board a plane to Boston and address a conference on war crimes. I was unable to find anyone in the departure lounge or at the conference who knew about their country's lusty performance.

I don't think I'll comment here. Dammit, I just have.

The entwinement of politics around the corporate boardroom had been rehearsed during Bush's governorship of Texas - once a nation, and most Texans would love it to be so again. But the Union prohibits that. So: if Texas cannot be a nation, make the nation into Texas.

That's right, the US is now run by Texas! It's a giant conspiracy! Pathetic.

For nearly a decade a group of people exiled from power during the Clinton years had been making plans.

Exiled from power. This twit makes them sound like plotters constructing evil designs on a coup.

Their names are now more or less well known: Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, James Woolsey, Douglas Feith.

Please, give me a break from this overblown retoric.

We have become a nation with no idea what it means to grow up in a refugee camp in the West Bank or Gaza, and no idea why people such as al-Qaeda - with whom I have no agreement at all, I hasten to add - dislike us so much.'

I hasten to add. You could have fooled me.

I see a "dauphin" in the White House while powerful figures range in the background, making resource theft a way of life...

Give me one solid bit of proof on that, and I'll be happy. Honestly, the claim that America invaded Iraq for the oil is as ludicrous as saying that they went to war with Germany because they happen to have some mineral resources along the Rhine.

Under the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003, licensees will be liable to heavy fines if they allow drunkenness on, or even outside, their premises. Those who sell alcohol to customers who are already drunk may be fined 1,500 euros on a first conviction, rising to 2,000 euros for second or subsequent offences.

Drunkenness forbidden in (or even out of!) pubs. Whats next? Alcohol-free pubs? Sounds more than a little ridiculious to me.

The cycle of violence continues anew, the road map is in tatters. From a Times article:

Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, a fellow Hamas leader who narrowly escaped death in an Israeli missile strike in June, accused Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, of deliberately torpedoing the road map. “Sharon really was against the hudna (ceasefire) and so he has assassinated it. The hudna is dead,” Mr Rantissi said. “Retaliation will be decided on by our military wing.”

This truly is farcical. It was they who started this, with a particularly murderous bombing, and Hamas has the sheer cheek to blame Israel. I think I'll simply stop trying to understand Hamas and their fellow Islamofascists. They cannot be reasoned with, and negotiations/appeasment only serves to confirm their legitimacy with the Palestinian people. The only solution is to wear them down militarily, and to finally vanquish them once and for all. At least Israel knows how to deal with them, with the only thing the militants understand: force.

I've found a fantastic little site called the Political Compass. This test takes both economic and social factors into account and plots your political position on both those scales. My score was:

Economic Left/Right: 6.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 4.51

Which makes me quite conservative. It also shows where many renowned political figures would stand in the graph, and I am closest to Bush/Thatcher. No suprises there, but an interesting test nonetheless.

In the Sunday Times, John Humphrys touches on a subject which never fails to interest me: demographics. The main point of the article being that the population of Britain will increase to 70 million by 2050, this is in direct contrast to the extraordinary decline that will occur in many EU nations, particularly Germany. This serves to further justify my belief, demonstrated in a previous post, that Britain (and Ireland) should have little more to do with a shrinking organisation reducing itself into gradual irrelevance.

In the Sunday Times article, Humphrys makes a few convincing points on why this population explosion will probably not prove detrimental. There is, however, one disturbing aspect to this growth: most of the increase will come from immigration.

"In the next 50 years the experts reckon that about two-thirds of the extra people on these islands will be immigrants. Some believe that is an underestimate and the real proportion will be more like three-quarters."

If the figure of three-quarters is correct, that will mean that 8.5 million immigrants will settle in Britain. I may sound like a spokesman for the BNP when I say this, but, I believe this should not be allowed to happen. In my view, excessive immigration is a dangerous state of affairs. Already, many areas of the larger British cities are almost completely ghettoised, with certain areas filled with whites, others composed entirely of Asains, ect. More often than not, a large influx of immigrants seems to cause nothing but racial tension and resentment. Imagine what tensions would be like with another 8.5 million. Judging by the situation in many western nations, I have come to the sorry conclusion that in most cases, multiculturalism simply does not work.

I have read in the Daily Mail that a childcarer has beed admonished by a standards inspector for not using dolls of ethnic or disabled type. Unbelieveable.

It seems that my PC was infected by a worm that is spreading quite rapidly throughout the internet. Fortunately, a solution is available.

Something seems to be quite wrong with my PC. It stubbornly refuses to stay connected to the Internet for more than one minute or so. I'm getting this through by the skin of my teeth. I'll get it looked at, then blogging should re-commence.

In the Mail on Sunday, the normally reliable Peter Hitchens makes a somewhat fatuous claim about the future of the jailed Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt. Hitchens states that:

"Within almost no time at all he will be out again, and probably a minister in either Dublin or London"

London - Extremely Unlikely.

Dublin - Come on Hitch, you can't know that little about the Republic.

There's some good news on Conservative Commentary relating to opinion polls.

Today, in the Sunday Times, I have seen some demographic statistics that make for some very uncomfortable reading for the prospects of Europe, and it's importance in the world in relation to America. According to the article:

"During the next few decades demographic trends will transform the the economic importance of different areas of the world. American power will be vastly enhanced at the expense of Europe. In the east, India will overtake China. In our own part of the globe, the economic weight of different European countries will change markedly - with Germany, Italy and Spain shrinking in improtance relative to Britain and France."

Currently, the American birth rate is more than two per woman and rising, compared with a European rate of less than 1.5. In some European countries, ie. Spain, Italy and Greece the birth rate has fallen to as low as 1.1. The US Census Bureau has forecast that between 2000 and 2050 the American population will increase by 130 million. That should bring it to around 400 million. As a result of this, the US economy will experience average growth of 2.5% a year, compared to 1.5% in Europe. It is worth keeping in mind that the economic gap between Europe and America right now has never been greater since the 1950s. It seems that the gap is set to widen much, much further. In 2000, America accounted for 23% of global GDP, compared with 18% for Europe. By 2050, on the Europen Commission's projections, the US share will be up to 26%, while Europe's will have shrunk to 10%.

There is something very sad about seeing a once great continent, which had mastery above all others, lower itself into irrelevency. It may seem simplistic and very partisan to blame the left for all this, but I do. The current economic system of most European states, most notably France and Germany, is Socialist. Most European nations are basically dictated to by their all-powerful trade unions, which stifle competitiveness in the labour market and put an effective bar on any increase in productivity. To prop up over-generous welfare benefits, many European countries are burdened with stifling levels of taxation, which are a great burden on trade, business, and economic growth (never mind to say freedom). The miniscule birth rate can also be blamed on the liberal agenda dominant in Europe, which sneers at the notion of family, and which sees the prospect of all women in the workplace as "liberation".

It is no coincidence, then, that the most economically right-wing area of the EU (and it's least European) happens to be it's most vibrant. I am, of course, referring to Britain and Ireland. If I remember correctly, Margaret Thatcher has proposed that Britain leave the EU and join a free-trade alliance with North America. In light of these statistics, this sounds increasingly like a very good idea. After all, who would prefer (apart from the left) to be tied in with a lethargic, shrinking organisation compared with being allied with a prosperous and growing nation? This could equally apply to Ireland. Most of Ireland's new wealth can mainly be sourced back to American generousity and a free-market economic system, in contrast to stagnant European socialism. We could certainly survive, and indeed survive very well, without the EU. Culturally, this would probably suit us better as well, since I feel we are more British/American than European, whatever Dublin 4 might say.

Leading Islamofascist wishes for Democrat victory in 2004.
Says it all, doesn't it?

Thanks to Conservative Commentary for the link.

As you may have noticed, Right-Wing Analysis has been cruelly neglected this week. The reason: I was struck down by some sort of virus, and was too busy vomiting to post anything. Normality should resume around tomorrow.

By the way, I have read that half of a selection of the best GCSE level students could not pass that maths section of a old 11-plus exam from the 1950s. That's right, the 15 year olds of today could not pass an exam devised for 11 year olds. If there were ever something to demonstrate the relentless dumbing-down of education in Britain, this must surely be it. Thankfully, this process has not hit Ireland yet, but I wonder how long it will be until it does.

A Continuity IRA training camp has been found in Co. Waterford, and ten men have been arrested in connection with this find. Items found at the camp included weapons, ammunition and other terrorist paraphernalia. This is good news in itself, that their plans have been foiled. However, I don't live too far away from the area, and it is an interesting thought that terrorists have been training so close (well, it's not thatclose). Kind of brings it all home, since most republican activity usually occurs in the border counties.

I've just found a facinating site called Around the World in 80 Ideas. It features 80 ideas in economic and social reform, illustrated by practical examples from around the World. Many of the ideas on the site are thought-provoking and I heartily recommend it.

Two worrying developments from Iran. Firstly, it seems that the Islamofascist regime is ever closer to possesing nuclear weapons. Also, in a futher demonstration that it is a terrorist state, they have refused to extradite any members of Al-Quaeda.
All this is happening under our noses, and there seems to be inadaquate pressure placed on the Iranian regime, something that I feel must be rectified.

"Seventeen years after Huey Lewis and The News sang Hip to be Square, young people are joining the Tory party as a way of rebelling against their Labour-voting parents.", According to the Times.
Oh, the irony. Read it here.

Nine thought-provoking (and true) points against mass immigration contained in an excellent article in the Spectator. Worth reading.

Thanks to Conservative Commentary for the link.

I have just heard that the hole in the ozone layer has actually shrunk since readings were last taken. I looked this up on the Internet and to my suprise, this isn't exactly fresh news. Oh well. Similarly, here is an interesting article on why it is more likely that a solution to climate change will be found from industry and the US Administration than from the eco-fascists.

It looks like Sinn Fein has buckled under pressure over it's pro-terrorist merchandise I had mentioned a week ago, and has remove a t-shirt bearing the slogan "Sniper at work" from it's online shop. Unfortunately, another t-shirt labelled "IRA Undefeated Army" is still available for purchase.

On a similar note, the three IRA men on trial in Columbia have pleaded not guilty. Of course. Three IRA men in a FARC-controlled area of Columbia. You were just there for the unspoilt scenery, weren't you?

"Tony Blair will today kick-start a multi-billion pound project for a series of new towns along the Thames in what amounts to a huge expansion of London eastwards into Essex and Kent." According to the Guardian.

I know that the housing supply in South-East England is insufficient, particularly as regards to affordable housing, but is this really necessary? According to David Davis of the Conservatives:

"Low employment areas with inadequate infrastructure and transport links will not create sustainable communities. It will create high stress dormitory towns to the detriment of the quality of life of local residents."

This whole scheme seems to resemble the grand plans of Soviet Russia, and we all know how some of those turned out.

Now for the truly bizarre. A fascist group has left Ireland with it's tail between it's legs because Ireland is not fascist enough.

Al Byrne, the New York-based head of the organisation, said: “The primary intention of NSRUS was to build a professional activist organisation to deliver the message of racial integrity and independence to the residents of Ireland. Tens of thousands of stickers and leaflets were distributed to achieve this modest ambition; however the response was pitiful.

“After a couple of visits, it was my conclusion we were wasting our time. The people seem blind to the alien invasion.”

I think that should really read: "The people were smart enough to see us as a messed-up bunch of nitwits."

Thanks to Give War a chance for the link.

It seems that Tory MP Michael Portillo is to appear sometime in a BBC documentary in which he swaps places with a Liverpool single mother of four. No, really. The photograph of him in an Asda uniform was enough to send me into the kind of laughter that can seriously hurt. You must see it.

Thanks to Au Currant for the link

You may (or may not) have noticed that this blog has been neglected as of late. This is due in no small part to a highly addictive PC game called Freelancer. I'm close to finishing it, and normal levels of posting should resume tomorrow (probably).

Frightening.

I hear that Sinn Fein are selling merchandise that glorifies IRA violence on their website. T-shirts printed with the logos "Sniper at work" and "IRA - Undefeated Army" are selling for 15 euro in the party's online store. This is a truly depressing spectale, considering that the IRA was directly responsible for nearly 1,800 deaths during the Troubles and for maiming hundreds of others. The merchandise has beed condemned by UUP and SDLP members, and in a further sickening turn, Gerry Adams has said: "I want to thank both the SDLP and the unionists for publicising the website".

Has he no shame, no morals, no conscience? I'm convinced that he is purely evil, along with his fellow terrorist and second-in-command Martin McGuinness. Freddie Scappachi, the man that was reckoned to be "steaknife", has said as much himself. He noted that McGuinness would be in church in one moment, and then order for someone to be murdered after leaving the church.

Sinn Fein/IRA are a cancer. They murder thousands, and then lecture us in the Republic on the evils of the recent war in Iraq. They are allied with many foreign terrorist groups, and yet warn us of the dangers of foreign alliances ie. NATO. They condenm militarism, and yet refuse to dispose of their heavily armed private army. They are a party of hate and of death, with no place in a civilised society.

Doesn't seem to bother the appeasniks, though.

Okay, I may have said yesterday that I will not comment on the article I linked to, but it's been getting on my nerves, and I need to vent some steam.

The Guardianista's article starts with:

"Maybe it was the way that all the baddies were dressed in black, or maybe it was the way that the fighting uruk-hai had dreadlocks, but I began to suspect that there was something rotten in the state of Middle Earth."

He infers that since the enemy is in black, they represent black people. How very typical for a liberal to identify race in everything they see before them. The uruk-hai are in black actually because it represents darkness, as in evil. He goes on:

"Perhaps Dubya's war on terror is making me a bit uneasy, or maybe it's just good old-fashioned Guardian-reading imperial guilt, but there was something about watching a bunch of pale faces setting off into the east to hack some guys with dark faces into little bits that made me feel a little queasy."

Yes, it's good old fashioned Guardian-reading imperial guilt. The guilt that means that you are guilty of any wrongdoing committed by any of your fellow countrymen, even though you had absolutely nothing to do with it. Guilt by association, also demonstrated in an article I had mentioned over a week ago. An article that, suprise suprise, also appeared in the Guardian.

And as for the imperial white man vs. the native dark man, that is utter nonsense as well. Tolkien was no racist. Far from it. He was asked by a German publishing company in the late 1930s if he was an Aryan. Tolkien responded, saying that this question was clearly meant to establish if he was a Jew, and that he was unfortunately not a member of that gifted race. Tolkien was also disgusted by how blacks were treated in South Africa, and roundly condemned apartheid long before it became fashionable to do so. He was also strongly opposed to the British Empire. Some racist.
Worse to come, though.

"This genetic determinism drives the plot in the most brutal manner. White men are good, "dark" men are bad, orcs are worst of all. While 10,000 orcs are massacred with a kind of Dungeons and Dragons version of biological warfare, the wild men left standing at the end of the battle are packed off back to their homes with nothing more than slapped wrists".

The 10,000 orcs were not massacred, they were killed in combat because they chose to fight to the end. If they surrendered, they would have been sent packing like the wild men. Besides, the wild men are not dark, as stated in the article. They were once noble men, corrupted by Saruman. Just in the same way that the elves were corrupted into orcs, showing that evil is capable of corrupting even the most pure.


"This is no clash of noble adversaries like the Iliad". No, but it is a grand clash between good and evil, two concepts that the intelligensia have yet to come to terms with.

"This is no story of our common humanity like the Epic of Gilgamesh". This is a story of our common humanity, of many peoples coming together to fight against the evil that would enslave them.

"It's a fake, a forgery, a dodgy copy". A fake? How so? A forgery of what? A copy of what?

This is a truly silly article, worthy of much ridicule. It's not all that suprising, though. Lord of the Rings has been disliked by the literary elite ever since it was published. Not suprising, because it deals with good and evil locked in struggle, something that liberals find hard to believe in since they cannot differentiate between the two.

I simply will not dignify this PC rubbish with any commentary.

I'm just back from the West, having stayed in Ballina, the athletic leasurewear capital of Ireland. The news of the suicide of David Kelly had penetrated such remote parts as I was staying in, and I have to say this may well end up costing Blair his job.

He was only ever accepted by most of the Labour party because he made them electable. Now that he has been exposed as a bit of a liar, and that his wretched war with the BBC has cost a life, I can see Blair's removal as leader occuring before the next election. Of course, it depends how things pan out from here....

I'm off to the Wild West (of Ireland). It may be hard, but I'm sure you can all survive for a few days without my infinite wisdom to guide you.

Fintan O'Toole write in the Irish Times with the headline "Weapons of Mass Deception". Right then - activate the anti-leftie countermeasures and prepare to be assulted by some serious Fintanite rubbish.

He startes his article by quoting from the novel Trainspotters:
"Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonised by".

He then states: "I feel somewhat the same about the lies we were told about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction". No instant results for Fintan, so naturally they are lies. "I can't work up outrage about the fact that governments who had decided to go to war a long time previously told lies in order to justify their decision" Shock horror! Stop the press! Fintan O'Toole can't work up any outrage!

Fintan then goes on to tell us: " What is rather galling, however, is that our Government agreed to be lied to by a group of idiots. Our leaders couldn't even find a decent set of liars to be fooled by". Of course. Bush and his administration are idiots. When all else fails, just call him an idiot. Always works. Why don't you go further and call all conservatives idiots, because thats what you damn well think.

The article goes on to list various piddling little documentary errors which I won't waste my time ranting about. It's just sheer pedantism. Everyone, and I mean everyone knows that Saddam was keenly pursuing WMDs.

If it were not for the Israeli Air Force's bombing of the Osriak nuclear reactor in the early 1980's, Saddam would have definately have obtained nukes. At the time of the Gulf war, Iraq had enough anthrax to (if properly deployed) kill off a lot of the world's population. Throughout much of the 1990s UN weapons inspectors were barred from Iraq. What does Fintan O'Toole think Saddam was hiding? Flower gardens?

Besides, the UN inspections preceeding the war were little short of a joke. Saddam knew well in advance when they were coming, and there was ample opportunity to hide any weapons or related materials. Colin Powell's presentation to the UN included a phone conversation between two army personell detailing the movement of materials in advance of inspections.

I think Fintan should be reminded of the following:
Saddam Hussain has murdered and tortured his own people en masse. He was the Hitler of his region, starting a long and bloody war with Iran, and when he did not get his way there he crushed and plundered little Kuait. He has constantly tried to build up an arsenal of WMDs, and was a grave threat to world stabiltity. His constant support for militant Palestinians helped to create further the instability in that conflict.

US/UK forces finally act to depose this monster. The conflict proved to be quick, with remarkably low civilian casualties. The Iraqis are liberated, a tyrant removed, and all Fintan O'Toole can do is complain about dubious documents and idiots in the Bush Administration.

Sad Bastard.

Have a look here. As she is banking on me complaining within two weeks, I might as well satisfy her now.

Yes, blogspot is crappy.

Mugabe on the way out. Not before time, though it seems that one of his detestable cronies might take his place, which would not solve one thing.

Thanks to Natalie Solent for the link.

It seems now that the arrest of the Irishman in Israel is a case of mistaken identity. This, however, does not take away from the fact that Israel and all other Western nations must remain highly vigilant. Besides, most attention is on Islamic terrorists these days, and the IRA seems to be getting an easy ride.

Richard Ingrams has stated that: "I have developed a habit when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it." How lovely of him. Also, according to him, the Canadian journalist Barbara Amiel is not qualified to accuse people of bias on the Middle East merely because she is Jewish and her husband owns a Jewish newspaper.

This is a perfect example of the intelligensia disguising the Iron Fist of their anti-semitism in a velvet acedemic glove.

Thanks to Conservative Commentary for the link.

An Irishman has been arrested by Israeli authorities, and has been interrogated for the last five days about alleged links between dissident republicans and Palestinian extremists. The alleged links are not news to most people, as the IRA and various groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad are known to have been in an unholy alliance for decades.

It is rumored that the IRA helped train many Palestinian terrorists in Syria in the 1970's. The Palestinians also use methods that are quite similar to those of the IRA, ie. killing soldiers at checkpoints with sniper fire. Also, prior to the current ceasefires, the provisional IRA imported massive quantities of arms from Lybia, another nation friendly to republicans.

The terrorist just arrested is understood to be wanted by the British authorities. Pity that these scum are only treated like they ought to be when they are in Israel.

I have just heard that HSBC have launched a mortgage scheme for Muslims in the UK that follows Sharia law. Hmmm. Far-right groups often say that Sharia law may fast replace the existing laws in the UK, and this announcment seems to fortify that argument. Besides, this proposal completely flies in the face of traditional wisdom: that all are equal, irrespective of religion. I couldn't help thinking that a similar package that accommodates Christian and Jewish (the unfashionable religions) traditions, would be implausable.

To quote Animal Farm: "All are equal, but some are more equal than others."

There are many dangers present that can derail the Israeli-Palestinian roadmap for peace, but perhaps one of the most interesting one is the continued EU contact with Yasser Arafat. It seems, then, that Arafat still commands the attention and sympathy of the cretinous EU-left. Perhaps it's the whiff of danger, of terrorist chic that they find irresistable. Or maybe it's the stench of explosives and dead Israeli children that the fashionably anti-Israeli EU-left prefers.

Either way, each time Arafat is met or mentioned it only serves to sideline Abu Mazen, the Palestinian PM, who is probably the best hope for any kind of conciliation in the region.

Glad to see it's not all dark in Afghanistan, this article illustrates some of the improvments we don't tend to see. You won't read this in the Guardian.

With stories like this, you just don't need satire.

I see that Bush is targeting younger Jewish voters who are beginning to become disenchanted with the populist economics and minority empowerment strategies that dominate Democratic politics. Good idea.

My blog is beginning to build some kind of momentum. The Harry Potter article has been mentioned in PC Watch and Peter Cuthbertson has kindly introduced Right-Wing analysis to his readers.

I have just heard of a report in Britain stating that sex education should begin at the age of five years. Puberty usually begins at the age of twelve, so what is the point? I wonder, have the authors of the report heard of the words "innocence" and "childhood"? Thought not. Besides, children of that age should be learning the basics of maths and English, not of the human reproductive system.

An article has been published in the Irish Times that is so staggeringly politically-correct that I just have to ridicule it.
In it, Richard Adams condemns the Harry Potter books as a "political bandwagon". Harry Potter, he declares, is a Conservative. "A paternalistic, One-Nation Tory, perhaps, but a Tory nonetheless" (Honestly, this is serious). He also points out that Rowling is a honorary member of the British Weights and Measurments Society, one of her fellow members being Norris McWhirter "once a friend of apartheid". Ah yes, that familiar smear, guilt by association, and how unsuprising to hear it used by a liberal like this one.

Association is not the only crime in his books, however, so is omission of minority practises. "Hogwarts celeberates Christmas and Halloween, but there are no feasts for Rosh Hashnash and Diwali" For God's sake, it's a book written by a Western Christian for a Western Christian audience. If someone complained about an author of childrens book in, say, India, not including enough references to Christian practises, no doubt he would spout indignance from his imaginary high moral ground.

Worse to come, however. JK Rowling, he states, is committed to the traditional family, as if this were comparable to cannabilism or child-sacrifice. Thus, "Harry has to endure the violent treatment of his aunt and uncle" Of course, and how much happier the boy would have been had he been raised in a lesbian vegan collective, with many she-parents from many races, from whom he could have learned native American rituals and other such nonsense.

This is seriously sad: whinging, humourless and self-rightous, a pathetic hack noting down the percieved ideological imperfections of those around him.
It's not all bad though: it gives a perfect insight into the liberal mind.

Today, I shall again draw your attention to a state led by madmen that is close to developing nuclear weapons. This time, that state is North Korea.
Acording to South Korea's intelligence agency, North Korea recently reprocessed a small number of it's estimated 8,000 spent nuclear rods and has also tested devices used to trigger atomic explosions. Also, it is best not to forget the ballistic messile tests conducted by North Korea some time ago, with one missile flying over Japan. If this is not a clear statement of intent, then I don't know what is.
Judging by the fact that Iran is also moving close to nuclear strike capability, it seems that the "axis of evil" that Bush warned of is a very real and growing menace.