E.T. Phone Homo

February was annual Homo History Month here in the U.K. To do his own bit for the camp cause, London Mayor Sadiq Khan kindly reached into local taxpayers’ pockets (never his own) to blow several million pounds on renaming one of the London Overground lines after some obscure local AIDS hospital ...

Dial Hitler!

Time was, you had to make a real effort to contact the ghost of Adolf Hitler. Konstantin Raudive was a Latvian doctor and pioneer of the “Electronic Voice Phenomenon” (EVP), the strange but harmless hobby of setting tape recorders going, asking questions out loud, then replaying the tapes to ...

Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Paint It Black

I don’t know about you, but whenever I find myself looking at a sublime old landscape painting, like those of JMW Turner or Samuel Palmer, I often find myself thinking: “Hmm. Well, it’s quite good, but what this canvas really needs is the image of a big random black man bouncing about in it ...

Louvre Museum, Paris

There’s No Future in Museums of the Past

About twenty years ago I made a visit to my favorite local museum to see what had been made of it following a very substantial renovation. I was hoping to discover some exciting new additions to the old exhibits on display, drawn from the previously closed cabinets of its dusty old basement ...

Rishi Sunak

True Charity ENDS at Home

I have a horrible feeling I may just have accidentally inspired the creation of a new major motion picture. Just before Christmas, I wrote a festive-themed article for a U.K. website arguing that, when it came to the issue of mass immigration, Britain’s ruinously overcompassionate politicians ...

Schools for Scandal

Some recent surprisingly honest talk from the U.K.’s new Chief Inspector of Schools about violent and intimidating no-go areas existing in certain places of inner-city “learning” [sic] have helped spark a debate about poor behavior amongst the nation’s increasingly errant schoolchildren. As ...

Zero Sum Games: When Computers Cut Off Your Pennies, Your Power, and Your Penis

I once knew a self-employed person who was delighted to receive a letter from HMRC, the British equivalent of the IRS, informing him he owed them £0 in tax for that year. Excellent news, he thought. Then he began getting a further series of legally intimidatory letters from the taxman, threatening ...

Budapest, Hungary

Take Pride in Prejudice

January is a time for new starts: So how about starting a new life in a new country? Before Christmas, I wrote about how Charles de Gaulle’s grandson Pierre was applying for Russian citizenship to escape the woke, Islamist hellhole large portions of his ancestral homeland had now become. But will ...

Parental License: The Left’s New Child-Snatchers

The Christmas holidays are now over, leaving your kids safely back in school—to the probable relief of some parents. For such child-phobic adults, a new and innovative solution to the problem of home child-care is now available: Why not fail your forthcoming Compulsory Fitness to Rear Children ...

Sigmund Freud

Freud the Fraud

This festive break’s big Christmas and New Year U.S. movie release, Freud’s Last Session, stars Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, telling the story of the “great” psychoanalyst’s meeting with the rather more genuinely insightful author C.S. Lewis, and their debates about whether or not ...