The philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted us all to be part of the same broad humanity - but the brutal truth is that we are all a bit tribal.
Simon Schama, a latter-day Macaulay quoted in yesterday’s Guardian as saying something necessary and true - and, given his background, rather refreshing.

Schama, along with fellow-historian and liberal Tristram Hunt, was endeavouring to explain to TV producer and Guardian invitee Stephen Moss the unexpectedly high viewer figures for BBC2’s series, Coast.  Of these Moss writes:-

One recent episode of Coast, on BBC2, attracted 5 million viewers, the highest rating factual programme on the channel this year.  And it’s not only programmes about the British seaside that are currently winning audiences: series featuring Britain’s landscape (Alan Titchmarsh’s British Isles: a Natural History), history (Tony Robinson’s Time Team and their Big Dig), and our native wildlife (Bill Oddie’s Springwatch) have been some of television’s biggest recent hits.

READ MORE...

THE Government of Robert Mugabe tabled draconian laws yesterday to drive the last white farmers from their land and crush dissent.

The constitutional amendments debated in Parliament will nationalise all agricultural land that has been listed for seizure since 2000. Landowners will have no right to contest the confiscations and will be barred from receiving compensation ...

After five years of murder, assault and harassment of white-owned farms by state agents, the Government has managed to confiscate legally only about 10 per cent of the estimated 4,500 properties. All but a handful of white farmers have had their property listed for “compulsory acquisition”.

However, most of them have kept the Government at bay by fighting their eviction in court. About 450 farmers have stayed on their farms.

Mr Coltart [MDC legal director] said: “These constitutional changes are designed for once and for all to smash the white farmers and to close any possible avenue for using the constitution to protect human rights.”

From todays Times.

Some unfamiliar speculation has appeared in our national dailies since BBC News broke the story of a rape gang operating in the unlikely, quiet south midlands town of Northampton.

The offenders are black and thought to be South Africans, a fact of immediate and deep concern to their victims.  It’s traumatic enough to be raped by a physically healthy criminal and left with only psychological scars.  It would be another to be handed a death sentence by an HIV positive kaffir five thousand miles from home.

Back in good old Jo’burg “jack rolling” gangs block-off two ends of a road with their vehicles and assault every woman caught between.  Something along these lines may be what we are seeing in Northampton.  The five women who were attacked - three rapes, two adbuctions in the course of ten days, all at night and the youngest victim just fifteen - report a three-man gang possibly employing two vehicles.

READ MORE...

I have certainly heard a lot of liberals claim that if we just give a lot of foreign aid to the Third world, then no one would have a reason to immigrate to America.  Marcus Epstein has an interesting article debunking this concept.  He gives a number of reasons why this policy will not work, but ignores perhaps the most important one: IQ.

At the end he says “Cultural, historical, and other factors that cannot be changed anytime soon will probably mean that some countries are always going to be poorer than other countries”  Perhaps he meant to include IQ in “other”.  In IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Lynn and Vanhannen look at the IQ’s of the countries where post-1965 immigrants, and the trend is clear: low IQ immigrants flood into High IQ countries.  Low IQ countries can never be close to as prosperous as high IQ countries, and immigrants from every failed society will always want to come to prosperous countries.  No amount of foreign aid, humanitarian intervention or government reform will change that.

I was watching Tucker Carlson the other day, and he brought up this story that states that the most liberal city in America is Detroit, MI followed by Gary, IN, and Berkeley California.  The most Conservative city is Provo, UT followed by Lubbock and Abeline, TX.

The center that did the study did not tell their research methods, and the results make me question them.  I doubt that either Detroit or Gary are particularly liberal in the traditional sense.  There is not great interest in gay-rights, environmentalism, or anti-war activities.  Rather they are simply two of the blackest cities in the country, and so they vote the most democratic.

In fact the press release from the Bay Area Voting Research Center who did the study stated,

The list of America’s most liberal cities reads like a who’s who of prominent African American communities. Gary, Washington D.C., Newark, Flint, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Birmingham have long had prominent black populations. While most black voters have consistently supported Democrats since the 1960s, it is the white liberals that have slowly withered away over the decades, leaving African Americans as the sole standard bearers for the left.

READ MORE...

I received the following from an Australian reader signing himself as John Moffat.  The original Moffat was a remarkable man, a founding spirit of the Australian north.  Indeed, he was known to his contemporaries as “The Wonder of the North”.  With gratitude to both Moffats I’m pleased to post this piece.  It encapsulates all that drives us to reject the course laid out by our elites, and to reach out to all those like ourselves seeking the survival of the West.
GW

It was a shimmering dream – a dream that was for a short time realized, and then tragically allowed to fade:  a continent for a people and a people for a continent.

In one of history’s brighter moments, the British Empire, the greatest ever known and wearing the zenith of Western civilization like a crown, cast a far flung outpost into the deeper reaches of the Pacific – an eighteenth century equivalent to a colony on the Moon.

The only previous human habitation comprised scattered bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers numbering around 300,000 in total with only the barest minimum of social organization.  The descendants of these people claim as their most impressive achievement a 40,000 year long ‘occupation’.  That indeed is a long period for time to stand still.

Whites quickly went to work taming a most inhospitable and unforgiving land.  In less than a human life span, these convicts, soldiers, free settlers, administrators and adventurers had transplanted the civilization of their former homelands so successfully it was a perfect outgrowth.  Not more than a century since the first fleet of tall ships glided into what was to become known as Sydney Harbour, the country was enjoying close to the highest standard of living in the world.  It had become in fact ‘the working man’s paradise’.  The term, ‘the lucky country’, originally coined by a bitter cynic, seemed to fit so well it came to be innocently accepted as well meant.  Luck, gold and sudden fortunes however formed a miniscule part of the story.  The remainder was written in sweat, blood, grief, despair and unconquerable spirit.

READ MORE...

Without exception, whenever I bring up genetics as an explanation for black failings, I get the response about how the experience of West Indians immigrants proves otherwise.  Allegedly, the slave culture of the West Indians was different from that of the American South.  The theory goes that there were so many slaves and so few white people that the slaves were forced to set up their own economies.  Therefore, this makes their culture value education, hard work, and other skills necessary to succeed in a market economy.

Thomas Sowell made this argument in the 1970s and early 1980s using 1970 census data and it has been parroted by conservatives, most notably Dinesh D’Souza and David Horowitz ever since.  Some have even claimed that West Indians are even more successful than whites.

My response was that I would be skeptical of the data supporting that, and if it were true, my guess would be that it is because the initial wave of West Indian immigrants was very high quality, but this would deteriorate once they start sponsoring their 2nd cousins.

READ MORE...

This is my first post on majority rights.  I am a young journalist, and I’m still involved with the conservative movement, though I find it completely worthless.  But because, I do write for some mainstream outlets and what I will say could give me the Kevin Lamb/Sam Francis treatment, I am using a pseudonym.

READ MORE...