This brief, perfectly straightforward post is not aimed at our readers from the political right.  For you guys it presents not the slightest intellectual challenge.  You may as well move on to more interesting things.  I wouldn’t want to waste your time.

No, this is a post for the seemingly growing little band of liberals – mostly, I believe, anti-English Searchlighters, quirks and leather fetishists – who frequent the blog these days.  I think we could throw in to our target audience the occasional passing GNXPer, too (though, as we all know, the GNXP boys are big right-wingers, if you entirely detach “right-wing” from the rest of the carcass and throw it in to the Indian Ocean).

You see, I’m trying to get somebody ... anybody from the left to give a straight answer to this perfectly straight question:-

Do you agree that European Caucasians should seek to secure their futures in their own lands?

Now, how hard to answer is that?  I mean, it’s not as though it demands a lot of post-modern mental acrobatics or the unpicking of super-obfuscatory sociology-speak.  It’s perfectly plain.  It means just what it says.

But so far, despite all my sincerest efforts, I haven’t been able to interest one liberal-minded educational genius, one proto-typical member of the Great and the Good, one morally superior son or daughter of the Enlightenment in giving me an equally sincere, unslippery reply.

So I am making a direct appeal – as always also appealing for civility and good humour, of course.

OK, the hook’s baited.  The line’s cast.  H-e-r-e fishy-fishy.

YouGov has conducted a very revealing poll of British Moslems for the Telegraph.

The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from modern British society and some are prepared to justify terrorist acts.

The divisions within the Muslim community go deep. Muslims are divided over the morality of the London bombings, over the extent of their loyalty to this country and over how Muslims should respond to recent events.

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How do you like this for a double standard.

In yesterday’s Melbourne Age Professor Andrew Jakubowicz defended the policy of multiculturalism. In his article he assumed that mass immigration was inevitable, leaving a choice between assimilation of migrants or the fostering of many different ethnic communities.

Having limited debate to these options, Jakubowicz claimed that attempts at assimilation hadn’t worked because, “immigrants didn’t enjoy being told they had to abandon everything that had been their soul and being”.

So for migrants, ethnic identity is their soul and being. But what about the locals? Is their ethnic identity also defended in this way by the professor?

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I have just read this intriguing Guardian article about the BBC’s extraordinary demonstration of the public’s love for Ludwig van Beethoven and his symphonies.

The background to this story was the wonderful, week-long Beethoven Experience which BBC Radio 3 ran for 24 hours a day from June 5th to 11th.  Every note the great man wrote was broadcast during this time, and not one note by another composer.  At the close of this prodigious musical event two sets of free downloads were made available on the BBC’s website: his symphonies and his piano sonatas.  I downloaded two of the sonatas I did not already have in my library, and very fine they are, too.

But, as the article immediately makes clear, it is the staggering number of symphony downloads and the, frankly, gobsmacked response of “music industry” leaders that have emerged as the lasting lessons of the Beethoven Experience.

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CNN reports from Cairo:-

The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.

Speaking to CNN producer Ayman Mohyeldin Tuesday in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, Mohamed el-Amir said he would like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four bombers.

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OK, he’s a Bush-pusher when it comes to Iraq.  But Mark Steyn is getting ever closer to telling the horrible, incovenient truth about the MultiCult and Moslems.

One of the striking features of the post-9/11 world is the minimal degree of separation between the so-called “extremists” and the establishment: Princess Haifa, wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington, gives $130,000 to accomplices of the 9/11 terrorists; the head of the group that certifies Muslim chaplains for the US military turns out to be a bagman for terrorists; one of the London bombers gets given a tour of the House of Commons by a Labour MP. The Guardian hires as a “trainee journalist” a member of Hizb ut Tahir, “Britain’s most radical Islamic group” (as his own newspaper described them) and in his first column post-7/7 he mocks the idea that anyone could be “shocked” at a group of Yorkshiremen blowing up London: “Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don’t-rock-the-boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We’re much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks” - or the bus blows, or the Tube vaporises. Fellow Guardian employee David Foulkes, who was killed in the Edgware Road blast, would no doubt be heartened to know he’d died for the cause of Muslim “sassiness”.

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We want to give teenagers more of a say about what services are provided for them using government money

… Ms Beverley Hughes, the disgraced former UK Immigration Minister and current Children’s Minister, proving once again that socialists cannot comprehend whose money they are wasting.

This time she is shovelling £55 million from gainfully employed folks like ... well, like me really, into the pockets of “deprived” young people.  Never mind whether a woman guilty of misleading the British public on national television is appropriate to such a position of trust, I don’t want her to blow one penny of my money to the four winds in this way:-

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Today’s papers will be peppered with writings on the life and times of Edward Heath, British Prime Minister from 1970-74, who sailed Morning Cloud over the horizon yesterday, aged 89.  I am no obituarist, nor a historian.  So I won’t attempt to compete with those who are but, instead, mark the man’s passing with one or two of my memories from those four tumultuous years.

At the time I wasn’t long out of school.  I drove a delivery van, worked as a filing clerk and in a hospital laundry before getting a job as a trainee machine engineer and then moving into the company’s London offices as a lowly gofer.  That brought me to Bush House in the Aldwych.

One of my less tender memories of that time is of the student marches, a “megaphone obligatory” danced in moronic, slouching style by Socialist Workers –  who, of course, were not workers at all - on their way, yet again, to turf the Chancellor of the LSE out of his office.

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