On the 15th of October, the British National Party and the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission faced each other in court in London, for a short but significant hearing that was always a foregone conclusion. In the Red corner was John Wadham, Legal Director of the EHRC, the government’s “super-equality” body with an annual budget of £70 million, founded in … [Read More]

Under Discussion: Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, Doubleday (2009), 432 pages.  Christopher Caldwell opens his Burke-evoking opus examining postwar Europe’s dramatic demographic transformation by adapting Sir John Seeley’s famous comment on the British Empire—“Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind.” This arresting sentence not only says a … [Read More]

On Thursday 4th June, British voters went to the polls to elect 72 British members of the European Parliament. These polls were carried out simultaneously with elections to 34 English local authorities and three mayoral positions. The elections were widely anticipated to deliver a blow to Gordon Brown’s prime ministership and leadership of Labour, thanks to the recession, the ongoing scandal … [Read More]

Is Free Speech Banned in the UK? Like all governments, the British state has always endeavored to prevent potential troublemakers entering the country. And in 2005, following much criticism from the media for permitting the free movement of sundry psychotic imams, the government’s discretionary powers were strengthened. A further “presumption in favour of exclusion” was introduced in October 2008 so that … [Read More]

On 3rd February, it was announced that Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol would no longer be used to present reports on BBC television’s weekday magazine programme, “The One Show.” The decision was made because of a remark she made off-air, when she referred to Franco-Congolese tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga as a “golliwog frog.” Her remark was made in a BBC hospitality suite … [Read More]

Confronting Islam in the Land of Multiculti Tolerance Geert Wilders stares out from pictures like all the Dutchmen you’ve ever known or imagined: blond-maned, jowly, shrewd and wary eyes—with a black hat, black tunic and white lace collar, he could be a face in a Rembrandt crowd scene, or a Frans Hals painting of the Haarlem Civic Guard. Judging from physicality … [Read More]

The Macpherson Report on the police investigation of the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence was published in London in January 1999. Ten years on, it is continuing to have major repercussions for British jurisprudence and society. Around 10.30 p.m. on 22 April 1993, 19-year-old Stephen Lawrence was standing with a friend at a bus stop in the London suburb … [Read More]

Discussed in the essay: A Bridge Too Far—Turkey in the European Union, by Philip Claeys and Koen Dillen (Uitgeverij Egmont Publishing, 2008), 224 pages. Below the half-fallen ochre walls are piles of rubbish, human excrement, skinny dogs, darting lizards and wide-eyed gypsies, the latter staring back at us as we pick our way with difficulty along the undulating course of the … [Read More]