[Majorityrights News] What can the Ukrainian ammo storage hits achieve? Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 21 September 2024 22:55. [Majorityrights Central] An Ancient Race In The Myths Of Time Posted by James Bowery on Wednesday, 21 August 2024 15:26. [Majorityrights Central] Slaying The Dragon Posted by James Bowery on Monday, 05 August 2024 15:32. [Majorityrights Central] The legacy of Southport Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 02 August 2024 07:34. [Majorityrights News] Farage only goes down on one knee. Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 29 June 2024 06:55. [Majorityrights News] An educated Russian man in the street says his piece Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, 19 June 2024 17:27. [Majorityrights Central] Freedom’s actualisation and a debased coin: Part 1 Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 07 June 2024 10:53. [Majorityrights News] Computer say no Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 09 May 2024 15:17. [Majorityrights News] Be it enacted by the people of the state of Oklahoma Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 27 April 2024 09:35. [Majorityrights Central] Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan … defend or desert Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 14 April 2024 10:34. [Majorityrights News] Moscow’s Bataclan Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 22 March 2024 22:22. [Majorityrights News] Soren Renner Is Dead Posted by James Bowery on Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:50. [Majorityrights News] Collett sets the record straight Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:41. [Majorityrights Central] Patriotic Alternative given the black spot Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:14. [Majorityrights Central] On Spengler and the inevitable Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:33. [Majorityrights News] Alex Navalny, born 4th June, 1976; died at Yamalo-Nenets penitentiary 16th February, 2024 Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 16 February 2024 23:43. [Majorityrights News] A Polish analysis of Moscow’s real geopolitical interests and intent Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 06 February 2024 16:36. [Majorityrights Central] Things reactionaries get wrong about geopolitics and globalism Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, 24 January 2024 10:49. [Majorityrights News] Savage Sage, a corrective to Moscow’s flood of lies Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 12 January 2024 14:44. [Majorityrights Central] Twilight for the gods of complacency? Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 02 January 2024 10:22. [Majorityrights Central] Milleniyule 2023 Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 22 December 2023 13:11. [Majorityrights Central] A Russian Passion Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 22 December 2023 01:11. [Majorityrights Central] Out of foundation and into the mind-body problem, part four Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 02 December 2023 00:39. [Majorityrights News] The legacy of Richard Lynn Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 31 August 2023 22:18. [Majorityrights Central] Out of foundation and into the mind-body problem, part three Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 27 August 2023 00:25. [Majorityrights Central] A couple of exchanges on the nature and meaning of Christianity’s origin Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 25 July 2023 22:19. [Majorityrights Central] The True Meaning of The Fourth of July Posted by James Bowery on Sunday, 02 July 2023 14:39. [Majorityrights News] Is the Ukrainian counter-offensive for Bakhmut the counter-offensive for Ukraine? Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:55. [Majorityrights News] Charles crowned king of anywhere Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 07 May 2023 00:05. [Majorityrights News] Lavrov: today the Kinburn Spit, tomorrow the (New) World (Order) Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 07 April 2023 11:04. [Majorityrights Central] On an image now lost: Part One Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 07 April 2023 00:33. [Majorityrights News] The Dutch voter giveth, the Dutch voter taketh away Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 18 March 2023 11:30. [Majorityrights Central] News of Daniel Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 03 March 2023 05:18. [Majorityrights Central] A year in the trenches Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:40. Apologies for being a day behind with this one. But Jim Naugherty’s interview yesterday of German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fisher, is worth revisiting. It vividly demonstrates the gulf between public discussion here about the meaning of Europe and the kind of thing that is said across the Channel. We shouldn’t only blame Blair or Dennis McShane or, in their time, Peter Hain or Keith Vaz for this contemptuous and underhand treatment of the British public. No one from any British political party has revealed as vividly as Fisher the driving preoccupations of the European political elite. A while ago the always interesting if, perhaps rather client-centred George Freedman concluded an article on Iraq with the words, “geopolitics always trumps conspiracy.” In terms of our EU debate we might well make that: geopolitics always trumps the need to explain anything to the common man. One has the nasty suspicion that our political elite is convinced on the one hand of the absolute necessity to respond as a unified European entity to the redrawing of global power and influence beyond the reach of the nation state and, on the other, of the potential of the common man, if told of his marginalisation and impotence, to fuck it all up as fast as possible. So we have a deeply asinine debate conducted by the elite with Straussian detachment and with the minimum ideological division. The European project, meanwhile, just bowls along. Oh Maggie, where art thou?
In the piece I posted yesterday I displayed my ignorance - not in itself unusual, of course. But in this case I was specifically unaware of our equality-driven government’s new initiative on violence against women. No more. The staggering thing is that neither Andrew Lansley nor, inexplicably, Ann Widdecombe rejected the idea wholesale or demanded to know what statistical evidence supports it.
Over the rich, indeed fabulously rich years since 1997 all the willing little helpers of the Blair-Mandelson Project have, like all large criminal enterprises, demonstrated that familiar, old habit of going legit. The clashing, renegade clamour of the first, orange-haired Lesbian Outreach Officers and Directors of Asian Women’s Collectives has modulated to the smooth, machine-like hum of (if not sober-suited, at least no longer dungareed) public sector professionals. The marxism is the same. But these days Blair’s helpers – those classes of being faultlessly assessed by Sean Gabb back in January 2001 - are infinitely more self-assured and certain in the permanence of their revolution. And why not? It’s not as if the argument ever risked being lost. There was no argument, no public discussion at all. Marxism has no need to win over public support. It wins simply by seizing the manifold positions of power and unpacking its programme from there. So, today, what tangible opposition do public sector “professionals” encounter in their daily round of service delivery to the indolent, the ineducable, the criminal, husbandless, queer or “vibrant”. None from the ideologically moribund political right, that’s for sure. In quiet moments, when the vibrancy calms down a bit, our new elite can reflect upon the killingly funny fact that The Project is entirely financed by the capitalist, middle-class - who can’t do a damned thing about it. Meanwhile, the traditional, working class Labour supporters - who could - are simply too engrossed in footy and Corrie to notice that they, too, are the reactionary enemy now. They simply carry on voting for their own cultural persecution, because it doesn’t hurt their pay packets. But the greatest source of comfort to the Blairite public sector is surely of the spirit. The Project bestows upon those who have yearned for equality all their lives the chance to make their dream come true. The Project works, or so it appears. The cultural and racial landscape of Britain is being changed, or so it appears. A more egalitarian society – or, and this is no mere appearance, a more repressive one - is being engineered.
A survey of 5000 young British women has yielded some interesting results. On the one hand, the survey confirms the “ladette” trend in female culture. More than half of the women admitted they got drunk at least once a week, 45% had taken drugs, 35% smoked and 73% had slept with someone they wished they hadn’t. But some more conservative attitudes have survived behind the party girl exterior. A very large majority, 81%, hoped to give up work whilst looking after their young children, 86% wanted to get married and 96% believed they would be able to be faithful in marriage. On issues of national identity, 70% wanted Britain to leave the EU and 80% rejected the Euro. The moral of all this? Perhaps not to be too glum about liberalism controlling the beliefs and behaviour of young people. On some issues, at least, conservatism is still the majority view, even amongst young, modern, trendy party girls.
Steven LaTulippe accurately presents the intellectual content of the Presidential debates:
Pat Buchanan endorses Bush:
In the 16 October Spectator, Roger Scruton tells us that the new claim-based rights are in danger of depriving Britons of their old procedural-based rights as enunciated in the 1689 Bill of Rights. In fact, perhaps the word ‘procedure’ is more important than the word ‘right’ here. According to Scruton: “Although the Bill of Rights declared some of the rights of the British subject, it was, in doing so, merely rehearsing established procedures of the common law, and re-affirming them against recent abuses.” From gypsy squatter parks to the right to a proper education, Scruton sees examples of the new style of rights leading to irresoluble conflicts and a murky system of law where the courts have no choice but to decide matters as they see fit. The new rights are not so much rights as claims – claims that must be enforced on everybody else.
The rights that have historically protected the citizens of liberal democracies are, in general, negotiated restraints on state power. A right that must be enforced by the exercise of state power is something else entirely.
So here we are, online. After four months of planning we have arrived at that precipitate moment. The first post. The one that should welcome, introduce, explicate, commend … and get the blog rolling. The one that, like a best man’s speech, doesn’t need to say too much and doesn’t need to go on too long. Just so that it leaves the reader with a crank-handle sense of something vital and positive having begun. A tall order, then. Well, maybe. Maybe not. I’ve looked into a few of these first post offerings lately. They are by no means all successful. Simplicity seems to be the safest if, perhaps, most unadventurous option. You know … just a few spare but elegant phrases that go to the heart of what it means to blog on politics and what, in addition, it will mean to blog here. That ought not to be too challenging.
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