This log at the BNP’s website will tell you all you need to know about the hatred which our masters harbour for England and the true heart of the English.  Quite disgusting.

Another day, another dolorous tale or two of vibrancy in ascensio.  Our perfect new society of universally loved beings, every one of ‘em angelically equal at birth from the neck up and encumbered only by a few trifling, culturally relative old habits, has today had a shocking fact about itself blazoned across the Telegraph.  It is a world in which cruelty to innocence prospers.

Children as young as six are being brought to Britain in their hundreds every year to be used as “slave labour” in sweatshops, private homes and cannabis factories.

The children are transported from all over Africa, Asia and eastern Europe by ruthless and highly organised gangs of traffickers.

Many are taken with the unwitting consent of their parents, who pay up to £3,000, believing the traffickers’ claims that their children are going to a better life - and will be able to send money home.

The victims are smuggled into Britain or brought in on false passports by adults posing as relatives.  They are put to work immediately, live in appalling conditions and are subjected to physical and sexual abuse.

The scale of the crisis - which has spread from London to Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle - is revealed in a consultation paper presented to the Home Office by a coalition of nine charities including Unicef, Save the Children and the NSPCC.

... Children from China, Vietnam and Malaysia, have been found in sweatshops, restaurants and suburban cannabis factories.  African children are often put into domestic servitude, working long hours for little or no reward.

Eastern European children tend to be used to beg and steal - and many more are likely to arrive next year when Romania and Bulgaria are expected to join the European Union.

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The latest clashes of black youths and French riot police have taken place in the town of Montfermeil.  It’s next door to Clichy-sur-Bois where last year’s violence was spawned.

An additional element this time is a group of black activists named Tribu KA (no link, I’m afraid - their website has been closed).  These guys made the mistake of reacting to alleged attacks by Jewish groups who themselves were protesting against the torture and murder of a young Jewish man on a black housing estate last winter.

It looks like a long hot Parisian summer is in the making.

“Public turns on animal terrorists.  The proportion of people who approve of animal testing is at an all-time high.  Activists have fatally damaged their cause.  People are fed up with protesters’ thuggery.”

So runs the current headline at the Telegraph website.  The YouGov survey which uncovered this development is here.  The supporting articles written for it are here, here and here.

The lesson is simple enough.  After the Wall went down many far left activists looking for somewhere to exorcise their demons migrated into the animal rights movement.  They quickly turned it into animal rights extremism.  Where once it was Red Lion Square it became Huntingdon Laboratory.  But, to modify Newton’s Third Law, in our society extremist activisim unfailingly produces a reaction among ordinary people.  It offends against their inate sense of justice and moderation, and thank heavens for it.

But usually there is a modifier to this: it doesn’t matter.  Reaction is rarely directly transferrable to politics.  Very many issues, and animal rights is one, never arise at election time and thus a reactionary public has no purchase on events.  It must rely on its elected representatives to share its sensibilities.

In our time we have, with the great Marxisation of the zeitgeist since the 1980’s, seen that this does not work nearly well enough.  It is a flaw in the democratic process and it has allowed extremisms other than animal rights - and ethnic interests other than our own - to seize the tiller of our politics.  All the narrow egalitarian “movements” of the last forty years have been anti-democratic in this way, and continue to be so.  What else are the special interest groups, NGO’s and what-have-you but evidence incarnate that democracy has been subborned and the will of the people dismissed?

I really don’t know how much opinion polls like this one by YouGov cost.  More than interested parties such as the BNP can afford, no doubt.  Still, it would be extremely interesting and useful (and novel) to have opinion polled using the language of political freedom.  How would the native English population answer a question that asked, “Do you think it’s right that before the end of this century the English could lose their homeland to people from the Third World?”  Or “Should you be free to speak as you wish, within the bounds of common decency, and to associate with whom you please?”  Or “Should children be taught Marxist ideals at school?”

Any billionaire reader who has tired of the Champagne lifestyle and wants to do something useful for a change could do worse than think on that.

Today Sean O’Neill of The Times deigned to inform us that “Race killings are no longer a matter of black and white”.

Well, thank you very much, Sean.  But excuse me if I am unimpressed.  Race killings never were the sole preserve of white men.  Your headline neatly avoids that, and I wonder why.  Specifically, I wonder why you didn’t write a story headlined, “Who wants you to think that race killers are always white?”

The problem, I suppose, is that it has been journalists of both left and right who wanted this.  What purpose but the construction of a false public perception did the press feeding frenzy over the Lawrence and Walker murders serve?  The Marxist prescription of white guilt somehow became theirs, and they sought to make it ours.

They have no excuses.  The purpose and perniciousness of political correctness was well understood in America by 1992, and the term itself was quite possibly recycled from early Soviet communism by right-wing academics as early as 1980.  What serious journalist of the right anywhere has not debunked it since, and enjoyed himself hugely in the process?

All the more extraordinary, then, that these proud linguistic gladiators, these professional cynics and modern inquisitors should all come to crowd together on an extreme ideological outcrop way out left of human nature.

Let’s take a look at O’Neill’s article today.  The meat of it is this:-

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It is quite surprising to watch the force of the current popular immigration opposition when one considers the state of the US economy. Obviously, the average American is no where near as aware of the problem of immigration and majority-inversion as he should be. None the less, the giant is waking in the American Street, and all this with little appreciable component of the message concerning employment or loss of jobs to immigrants. It is a tribute to the strength of the economy that Bush and Co can even speak of jobs “Americans are not willing to do”.

What makes this so very interesting though is just what a perfect storm is awaiting us when the economy takes its next cyclic downturn. Consider the two forces that will be at work: First, there will be the millions of unemployed Americans feeling the effect of a borderless nation as they try to compete with the locust of the Third World. Secondly however, there will be the 20 million plus illegal, as well as countless “legal” Hispanics also running out of work. How will they react? Will they go home? Try to squeeze Americans out of jobs by intimidation? Will they form mass “protests” for government intervention, welfare, make-work projects? And what will happen if the millions of “family oriented”, “freedom loving”, immigrants take to the streets to do more than just peacefully protest?

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One evening last November I took my daughter to a concert given in Brighton by the English classical pianist, Joanna MacGregor.  The evening and Miss MacGregor were provocative and inspiring in roughly equal proportions, and I wrote about it and her here.

Last Sunday afternoon BBC Radio 3 broadcast a concert which Miss MacGregor gave the previous night in the Assembly Rooms, Bath.  It was her recital contribution to the opening night of the

2006 Bath International Music Festival, and featured much the same content and the same contrasts I blogged about - Professor Longhair staring across the platform at J S Bach, for example.  For the next three or four days the curious can still hear a programme repeat here.  It lasts about 90 minutes (and if you use IE you can pause/advance it - but not with Mozilla).

I put “recital contribution” in italics because Miss MacGregor also makes a weighty administrative contribution to this year’s Festival, being its new Artistic Director.  She speaks about this part of her role at the beginning of the programme:-

When I came to the Bath Festival I was struck, obviously, by the existing core customer audience which is very loyal, and they love chamber music –high quality chamber music – and you’ve got these wonderful venues like the Assembly Rooms, the Guild Hall.

But I knew I wanted to sort of open it up, and I knew I needed to open it up to other audiences.  And I also needed to bring my personality into all this - and, of course, I’m so interested in so many different kinds of music.

So straight away I knew I was going to invent a new focus on traditional music, a new focus on electronica, maintain and expand the jazz programme and let the jazz programme completely burst its banks, you know … and invade the rest of the programme, all this kind of thing.  And, of course, my big thing is “never putting anybody in boxes”.  So I would never ever say, “OK, it’s world music and it’s cool, and it’s classical music over here everybody.  And in the blue corner it’s jazz, you know.”  It’s just never gonna happen like that with me.  And I think this recital programme is an example of that.

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We will be closed for business for up to four hours today so our hosting company can switch servers and effect a substantial upgrade to capacity.  I hope that will resolve the occasional problems we have had with CPU starvation over the past few months.

Thanks for your patience and for your support, as always.