Archive for December, 2004
Blunkett’s Home Office and the Truth about Crime
Posted by Norman Dennis in Crime on 18/12/2004
Now that Mr Blunkett is no longer Home Secretary, can we expect some slight remission in the flow of nonsense on crime from the Home Office?
In the past few months the Home Office has taken to chanting the mantra that crime is at a historically low level. That’s on the childhood principle, presumably, that if you say something three times it’s true. The culture and technical constraints of radio and television make it virtually impossible to secure a public airing of the clear facts that contradict that ridiculous falsehood. They’re “statistics” and they’re “complicated”. The matter is settled with the most aggressive sound-bite or by the authoratative plausibility of the official spokesperson.
Yet if we look no further than London–the Metropolitan Police Area, for which the Home Office is directly responsible–real history has a different tale to tell.
The Third Reich and the Fourth ‘R’
Posted by David Conway in Education on 17/12/2004
No one could remotely accuse today’s secularists who make up the bulk of the metropolitan ‘liberal’ elite of Europe and the United States of sharing the same political agenda as Adolf Hitler.
However, they both share one common objective that should send chills down the spines of true lovers of liberty, given how easily this iberal elite seems able to accomplish it today, and, supposedly, in the name of liberal values and ideals.
That objective is the de-Christianisation of Europe and America, and ultimately the world.
Old Tony’s Almanac … How the PM Could Really Serve the Nation
Posted by David Conway in Uncategorized on 16/12/2004
‘I am sure WMD will be discovered.’
‘I am sure David Blunkett will be exonerated.’
If only the Prime Minister would reveal which crew he is sure will win the next Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race!
Family Law and Judges’ Personal Opinions
Posted by Norman Dennis in Family, Marriage and the Culture on 14/12/2004
No body of evidence in the social sciences points more plainly in one direction than that which deals with the welfare of children conceived, born and brought up by their own two biological parents within the institution of life-long monogamy, as compared with children brought up under other arrangements, or lack of them.
There are failures and successes in all situations that have to do with conception, procreation and child-rearing. The failures are far more frequently found outside marriage than within marriage.
The law of the land is one element in the complex of inculcated attitudes and of organisational support for the institutional family of birth and childrearing within formal marriage.
Practical policies and racist labelling
Posted by Norman Dennis in Immigration on 14/12/2004
European legislation and judicial rulings that override English law increasingly disable policies that in their intention and application are designed only to address practical problems. If any present or proposed policy can be represented with any trace of plausibility by the now widely state-subsidised pressure groups of self-defined “races” or “ethnic communities” as one that implies that members of their “race” or “community” are disproportionately at fault, then the policy is denounced as “racist”.
In everyday discourse, anti-racist rhetoric increasingly stifles discussions of various possible policies by labelling as “racist” wide swathes of opinion that has to do with empirical matters of conduct or culture, and nothing to do with race.
Blair and Blunkett
Posted by Norman Dennis in Family, Marriage and the Culture on 11/12/2004
The Prime Minister continues to support the Home Secretary, on the basis that it is Mr Blunkett’s private affair that he has been the lover in an adulterous relationship that (he claims) has resulted in children being conceived and born.
There are plenty of people who think that sex, procreation and child rearing should be treated in some sense as the private concerns of the consenting adults.
Some of these believe that “privacy” means privacy from State interference. They believe that the media and the opinion of neighbours and friends have a role in condemining, praising or condoning such conduct, but that the State has no business favouring any sexual or child-rearing arrangement over any other.