Yesterday evening I took my daughter to Brighton College to see the inimitable and wholly entertaining Joanna MacGregor in concert.  The experience, both visceral and cerebral, left me pondering – and that, in turn, left me searching all today for a quiet moment in which to fix some of those thoughts.

A Joanna MacGregor concert is, within the small, refined world of classical piano performance, an event.  She brings to the platform so many conflicting qualities – thorough-going unconventionality, inner simplicity and warmth, a distinct impression of personal frailty, a quite awesome power when called upon, a high cerebral capacity, utterly eclectic tastes – one can only call her, in contemplation of the fusion of these things, an artist.  Quite probably, she is a unique artist.  Certainly, she is a unique individual.

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Michel Pajon, the socialist mayor of Noisy-le-Grand near Paris, has gone on state radio to denounce the appalling violence which has occurred in his town. He said,

“Women have been made to stop on the streets of my town. They were dragged from their cars by their hair, they were practically stoned and their cars were set ablaze…

“The situation is absolutely dramatic and unacceptable. This is a real scandal. I sound the alarm bell in my town. If the state is incapable of defending us, we will have no choice but to defend ourselves.

“My town has a psychiatric hospital which has been attacked with molotov cocktails. This is beyond comprehension. I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. I do not ask for the resignation of the Interior Minister [Nicolas Sarkozy]. I want him to do his job. At the moment he is not doing his job.

“Send in the army? I do not know, for a socialist to say that the army has to intervene is an inconceivable admission of defeat, but what I can say is that one cannot abandon the people like this. At some point we need to know whether this country still has a state.”

Women dragged from their cars by their hair and then “practically stoned”? Hospitals attacked with molotov cocktails? It sounds as if in some parts of France the situation on the ground has been much worse than the mainstream media is letting on.

The debate between Jared Taylor and Steve Sailer continues at VDARE. I was particularly impressed by the following fine words in Taylor’s latest article:

“Whites have a duty to their ancestors and an obligation to their children. Duty does not calculate the chances of success, as Mr. Sailer would have us do. Duty calls us to what is right.

“My children deserve a country in which they can be proud of their heritage, where their culture is taken for granted, where their history is not treated like a criminal record, where they can be confident their own children will walk in the ways of their ancestors.

“Indeed, all children deserve this—not just mine. This is why multi-culturalism and multi-racialism are frauds ... Every people should have the right to pursue its destiny, free from the unwanted embrace of others.”

Politics is an art, in which, amongst other things, we are called to put forward what is best in our own experience in order to inspire others to support our cause.

I think Taylor has achieved this in his reply to Steve Sailer. In doing so he is providing some sorely needed political leadership.

As my first MR blog entry I think it appropriate to put down some thoughts on how to shore-up a shortcoming of sociobiology theory that results in a significant under-estimation of ethnic nepotism.  I’m doing this here because I ran across some similar thoughts by JW Holliday which he published here some months ago.  Ben Tillman presented the seed of the idea a few months earlier.  It is a credit to MR that these views were first presented here. 

In my way of stating it: Lewotin’s Fallacy has weakened the foundation of sociobiology by ignoring genetic correlation structures that allow us to accurately discern phylogenetic groups such as subspecies or races.

It is my hope that providing a definition of “particle”, as correlation structures of nucleotides, will clarify the application of Price’s equations in W. D. Hamilton’s paper Innate Social Aptitudes of Man and a bioinformatic direction will emerge for sociobiology.  As this direction emerges many critiques of ethnic nepotism theory will be exposed as semantic confusion arising from the historic definitions of heritable particles—such as genes or alleles—definitions that lack sufficient bioinformatic rigor. 

This will be hard work.  For the usual reasons, we cannot expect government-funded scientists to be very cooperative.

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The news has also been eventful here in Australia.

Yesterday morning police arrested nine men in Melbourne and seven in Sydney who had formed a group to carry out a jihad or holy war.

Another man in Sydney saw the police coming, drew a handgun and shot and wounded a policeman before being shot in the neck himself.

The Melbourne group had raised funds by using the panel beating shop of one of its members to rebirth stolen cars. The money was used to buy large amounts of chemicals, similar to those used in the London bombings.

After their court appearance there was more drama. Five of their associates viciously beat up a cameraman, Matt Rose - a bashing which was broadcast around the country last night.

One of the Melbourne plotters, Abdulle Merhi, is reported to have been desperate to become Australia’s first suicide bomber. Other members of the group were worried that his rants about infidels and beheadings might alert people to their activities.

Why do we beat ourselves up so much over the JQ?  Cui bono?

It seems to me that this must stop, and the nature and extent of the Jewish influence on our history and our way of life today must become a matter of intelligent but perfectly routine and unexceptional debate.  How else, anyway, can obsession be separated from legitimate concern, xenophobia from self-love?  How else, essentially, can we be sure that we really are as free as we think we are - and, if not, why not?

On Saturday a small step towards open and free discussion of the JQ was taken at VDare.  Peter Brimelow’s site is certainly not associated with the original sin of anti-semitism.  So I think one can read Kevin MacDonald’s latest authoritative article safe in the knowledge both that the JQ should on occasion be discussed among decent, thinking people and

is how to do it.

With thanks to Geoff for the link.

Today MR lost one of its two most active bloggers, the rumbustuous, irrepressible Geoff Beck.  Gone are the exhortations to feeble men to march on Washington (with guns, of course) and gone too the sudden, brilliant and unsuspected pieces of gold-digger’s research that reverberated beyond our page and into the wider blogosphere.  I have quite grown accustomed to waking up daily at 7.00am and firing up the PC to see what Agincourt Geoff was starting while I was yet abed in England.  I will miss that moment of discovery each morning.

The first thing to do, then, is to thank Geoff for the prodigious effort he has put in.  It was not simply for our entertainment – though he was often entertaining - and not just for the sake of the blog.  He laboured for the people he loves and believes in and desires to see survive, and I only wish there were many more people like him.

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A year ago today Theo Van Gogh was murdered in an Amsterdam street by Mohammed Bouyeri - a Dutch-born Morrocan or, as Theo would have had it, a goat-fucker.

Incorrigibly difficult, no doubt, and rude and brave, Theo was a right-wing advocate of liberty and an implacable enemy of censorship.  For this he was killed and for this, too, he is admired - unquestionably more now than ever during his lifetime.  Admiration for Theo has been expressed all across the political spectrum in Holland because, quite simply, there has to be room for people like him in Dutch society, of all societies.  What people liked about the fabled Dutch tolerance was precisely that.  In stark contrast, Bouyeri’s actions are not simply an extreme expression of intolerance but are intolerable to the point of being anti-Dutch.

The exceptions to this view come from those Theo most opposed, meaning anybody connected to the Dutch government and “the establishment”, and those he gleefully offended, meaning Jews and Moslems and the professional anti-white lobby.

From the first moments after Bouyeri struck, people understood that something big had happened.  It is still happening, and Theo’s memory is an inextricable part of that.

Here are a few photographs that, I hope, catch the spirit of what, in death, Theo - with all his addiction to controversy, all his irritable and irritating outspokenness - has come to mean to the Dutch.

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