The BNP’s “€œAboriginal”€ Problem

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 ...

Dark Continent

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 ...

The Right Way to Brussels?

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 ...

Savage Nation

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 ...

Carol Thatcher

BBC Priggery

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, "€œThe One Show."€ The decision was made because of a remark she made off-air, when she referred to Franco-Congolese tennis ...

Geert Wilders and the Dutch Republic

Geert Wilders"€™ courage, charisma, strength of character and intelligence are not in question"€”and he is obviously right to point out the danger posed by the recrudescence of Europe's historic enemy. But brave though he may be, by attacking the Koran so intemperately and by failing to ...

Stephen Lawrence

The Institution of “€œInstitutional Racism”€

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 ...

A Bridge Too Far”€”Turkey & Europe

The ongoing attempt by Europe's present sorry crop of leaders to permit Turkey to join the European Union is almost incomprehensibly irresponsible. Even the briefest examination of what Turkish accession would entail for Europeans suffices to show how foolish clever people can be. Turkey has a ...

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