David Davis

From Guido:-

Polly Toynbee hates the contradictory “barrage” of comments that follow her articles because she has an over-inflated view of the value of her analysis. Many of us only read her articles for the pleasure of seeing them torn to shreds in the comments that interactively follow. Polly is highly paid and successful because she is a provocative columnist, not because she is a better analyst of social affairs than Frank Field. That is a valuable hack talent she shares with Richard Littlejohn…

David Davis

Here is where they will be lost.

The point is that Libertarianism has only arisen, let alone flourished (if you can define what we are doing as “flourishing”) in specifically Christian, and also specifically English-speaking civilisation. A great part of what defines this sort of society in which we are (still, sort of) fortunate to live, is the presence and influence in “local” “communities” of a thing called a “Church”. It may have been there in some concrete form or other for up to fifteen centuries. Brixworth in Northants is an example.

I believe that money is denied to these buildings by British socialist Gramsco-Eagletonians (most of whom have now got into the guvmint or are operating the levers of power in the “administration”, including all UK Soviets) for a reason. It is precisely because they passionately oppose the existence of voluntary institutions such as the Christian Religion, the Women’s Institute, the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and the like, the local Cricket Club, and so on, that they want these buildings, many of which are architecturally and historically important, to fall into ruin. Of course, for them to replace existing human nature with another one in their own unfathomably evil image, a new form of human nature and associational behaviour has to be created, and it can only flourish on the ruins of the old one, in their eyes.

What utter bastards they must be, to get to think like that.

Does anybody think that powerful libertarian forces will become deployable in places such as, er, say…

Jeddah

Pyong-Yang

Caracas (er, possibly! Why? Discuss.)

Much Wenlock (yes.)

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And don’t forget to read the comments, they are absolutely priceless.

Nanny knows best.

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The gunnery-director of REVENGE will, in due course, “shift target to next-ahead”, from telechefs to, er, something else. Not quite sure what, yet, I have not decided. But they are food for thought for some posts yet. 

I really do feel like savaging these guys (and they mostly are guys, God Blast them) for some days. Poor old Delia Smith, and all she wants to do is tell you how best to boil an egg, for God’s sake, is sheer harmlessness by comparison.

Long live female telecooks. Great chaps they are. (Not that Tamsin-thingy-woman who is a poseur, because she has a rather large garden which telly-wireless queers want to wet themselves in, while filming, and thinks she can tell people what to eat as she is quite rich, like poor mad tortured Prince Charles who is a socialist although he genuinely believes that he is not. I don’t know what to suggest that we do about him: poor, good-natured and honest, tortured man that he is. He can’t be engaged as a KIng, for sure, it would be too dangerous in the present world political climate. His mind is not focussed on real threats to the Anglosphere.)

Sorry. I don’t really watch the wireless tele vision. I don’t even remember what these people are called. She might not even be a Tamsin, even.

Fog and smoke in battlefield area. Probably not any good to poor sad dead Heath Ledger, though, for you can “search site” for that one post where we got roasted by someone who said “f*** you!!!!!!” (We don’t print 4-letter-words on this blog. I don’t allow it. No. Not. Nada. Zilch. Only in the comments, put in by others, to show who we are, and who the enemy are.)

Oh, and “Two Fat ladies” are great, even though one of them is dead.

This is what we said yesterday.

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Here in the Guardian some new stuff about his antics and “leger-de-main” about “ingredients” “sourcing”. (Great newspaper, the Guardian, often but not always. how can it be so socialist, and yet so self-examining?)

Telechefs are cooks. Cooks may be great and marvellously skilled individuals, and probably mostly are. I do not know. But if they choose to cook for money, they then ought to show humility towards the people which pay them, and not the other way around.

I blame “wireless tele vision” [that's what it really is] , currently being used as an instrument of mental control by stalinist guvmints, including this one.

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Samizdata does a keenly-written and thoughtful hatchet-job on Gordon Ramsay. Wish I’d thought of that attack myself, it’s good and to the point, specially in the persent planetary climate of global cooling and impending famine-disaster, and how globalisation could save whole populations of humans (who then would not die) in return for money. AttaPerry!

I have, as it says, been becoming increasingly irritated, and hurt also, by “telechefs” and their policy-positions (which they affect to have, as is strange) for some years. There is no wikipage for these people which I also find strange, given the effect they seem to have on the political life of the nation as regards food and consumption patterns.

On the one hand, they (seem to) seek to spice up our gustatory lives and palates, with delectably-prepared and televisually-fondled stuff that looks scrumptious, and sounds even better. They use all sorts of materials that seem exotic and come from faraway places, like Peru (strawberries and asparagus in the Northen Hemisphere winter - grand! Why the f*** didn’t we think of that years ago?)

On the other hand, having got famous and affording Ferraris and other restaurants, they are thus therefore available to be brown-nosed by Al Gore and other pop singers and film stars of his ilk. Gore and the othet film stars and pop singers are of course all great scientists and logicians, and so “telechefs”, falling under the baleful influence of these devils in return for money, seek to do these things:-

(a) ruin any pleasure gained from authorised-daytime-eating-activity for British schoolchildren, and

(b) support the pre-capitalist and barbarian notion that all food ought to be “locally grown or raised”. EU grandees, who do and support nothing of this kind whatever (or they would get bored and therefore starve), eat at their restaurants.

My own comment on the samizdata post, about what could be done to telechefs, seems to have been removed. Perhaps I will decide not to offer to write for them after all….Or, perhaps their spam-filter took out “television-cooking-pron”. I really thought “pron” would get through. Oh well, never mind. Perhaps they will de-censor it for you, I hope so (see comments.)

Why, apart from the tragic lottery of geography and weather patterns, does this sort of disastrous aftermath never happen in capitalist countries?

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The Daily Telegraph’s report here today has some breathtakingly direct quoting of aid workers’ responses, plus a grand piece of litotic understatement by the “secretary-general” (whatever that is) of the UN (whatever that may be.)

How’s this for a suggestion?

He said that it might be “prudent to focus instead on mobilising all available resources and capacity for the emergency response efforts”.

Yeah, right. And this…

The US air force was earlier reported by Thai mediators to have been granted permission to deliver aid. However, hopes of a breakthrough were quickly crushed as the permission was either withdrawn or announced prematurely.

Words fail me, and I’m a blogger-and-all.

I suppose that it’s the fault of the poor Burmese people. If, on encountering “aid workers” and “aid” (which may contain capitalist stuff, in, er coloured packing, and which may be useful) the people start to see through the wall of tyranny surrounding them, then they will have fialed their “dear leaders”, and will have to be dissolved and re-elected. I’d have air-dropped the stuff anyway. Burmese soldiers can’t confiscate, use or sell more loot than they can physically drive off with anyway, and we can just drop some more.

Perhaps the first drops should be neat bourbon. Then the real stuff can follow after the entire army is dead drunk (or dead.)

And now we have this: the stalinists in power in Burma have “seized” the first two planeloads of food. I wonder why?

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Am polishing furniture in the meantime. A whole church gotta be done for Saturday, all new pulpit, cross, lectern, organ cabinet, communion rails etc etc etc etc etc.

Just like creation, it is a “rush job” - I was only given 6 days…..

*Scouse slang for “having a laugh” (i.e. : funny.)

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http://moxargongroup.blogspot.com

How stupid of us here, not to have thought of something as funny as that. I take our collective (ha ha) hat off to them. See my last posting about how important cruel, cutting and satirical humour is, as a seriously-edged weapon of assault against lefties.

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I can’t speak for the Libertarian Alliance’s members as a whole (and I would never presume to do so!) but we the Officers are generally persuaded that “Militant Islam” - or indeed even just plain vanilla unleaded Islam, as practised more or less harmlessly by most Moslems - is not the severe existential threat to Western Civilisation that our temporal “masters” in the, er, West thump the table about. We think they (our , er, “masters”….hurrrumph…make a suitable skeptical face here) do this in order to impose ever-more-draconian restrictions on our freedom and (worse) our thoughts and langauge in the course of, er, ordinary discourse.

Activities of this kind, by “masters”, constitute a part of the process of de-reasoning called “Political Correctness“.

The real threat to This Civilisation is really the evil scheming toads who have been through Western Universities after the Gramsco-Eagletonian march through them by the socialist left. Most of them now have political power in the West, for that was (and IS) for them the whole point of their existence. There are indeed many, shocking though it may seem to real people in real countries, who have never had what you and I would call a “job”: they have gone seamlessly into the state bureaucracy after graduating, and have ended up as bureaucrats or stuff like MPs or “representatives”. These people have been corrupted into the human equivalent of Orcs (who as Tolkien students know were all made by Morgoth and his servants, in the Image of Elves) and as God gave Man the gift of Free Will, then it’s quite apparent that these people have therefore unquestionably chosen to do Evil freely, instead of to do Good.

However, there are even some evil toads labouring under Islam. Probably not as many as we have on our side, but irritating all the same.

This was on a hat-tip from Girl on the Right (see blogroll) and explains in a good Western way what is going on in Canada right now. Humour and ridicule directed towards your enemy is the cardinal weapon of Western liberal spin and propaganda (oh yes, we must have some too - it’s only fair) against unfathomable evil, and should be used more and more.

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Here.

And here…

The big giveaway

International flights that don’t cost a thing? Books or music you don’t have to pay for? Even companies handing out cars? Traditional business is based on the certainty that everything has a price. But now US writer Chris Anderson believes we are at the dawn of a new consumerist era, governed by what he dubs ‘freeconomics’. He talks to Stuart Jeffries

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It is a podcast file.

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/sounds/winstonchurchill-finesthour.mp3?phpMyAdmin=af0f6b4465fe3f904426eaeb3dc0e3fa

It says to me the following:-

Forbidden

You do not have permission to access this document.

If the above link does not work, Tony who knows about these things has suggested this one (I have not tried it yet):-

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/sounds/winstonchurchill-finesthour.mp3

…but I am sure all you techies out there can either hear it directly form the link, or find some way of getting it legitimately.

ITEM:- Thanks to Tony. This above link works! (See his comment below.) But I feel short-changed after all as it is only the keywords from sort of “let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties….” etc. I really wanted the whole thing which I am sure exists somewhere. Anybody out there in the commentariat who can help us here?

As a scientist, I liked the bit about the life of the World moving into the “broad sunlit uplands”, and not being illuminated by the “Lights Of Perverted Science” - I am sure Churchill would have been appalled, had he lived to be 140 or so, by what’s currently going on to pervert Man’s knowledge of, and views about the future of, planetary climate trends.

I should point out that nobody ought to think of us as “getting at” the German people in this matter. The poor buggers were cleverly brutalised under the thumb of a clever leftist madman with no regard for the relaity of human relationships; you could say the same about us under either Tony Blair or Gordon Brown - or, if in London, under the saddo leftist pig Ken Livingstone.

The point is that I believe, and I think Churchill knew, that “English civilisation”, at that time and still yet now broadly encompassed by the Anglosphere, was the actual midwife to the spirit of liberalism, and therefore also Libertarianism; a term he would not have known then, but of which he would have instantly recognised the meaning.

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Affordable housing… is this what the fascist pigs who concrete the South or Britain over fully, mean? Don’t think so somehow!

I don’t think I’d like to live in one, but for billions of people the world over, it could be an improvement. I am of course a very fortunate man…for now.

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Interesting stuff at this blog. I particularly liked this.

All the rest here…

http://boatangdemetriou.wordpress.com/

They can now buy PCs….but they still can’t get on-line (it’s all George W Bush’s fault as is natural.)

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Sean Gabb

I was invited to speak to the Peterhouse Politics Society on the 28th April. I gave this far less attention than it deserved, assuming it would be the usual long journey to address three students. I realised it was a much grander affair when I was taken in to dinner. The grace was in Latin, and I sat beside the Dean and spoke about Byzantium.

Fortunately, Mrs Gabb made me put a suit on!

The speech went fairly well. I most liked the long question and comment session afterwards. However, while I was permitted to record the whole meeting, I have been asked only to publish my own speech - Chatham House Rules and all that.

Here it is: Peterhouse Speech

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My good old friend Brian wrote “How to Win the Libertarian Argument” in 1990.

The capture of City Hall by Boris Johnson, commented on below by Sean, is a smaller and less discouraging step towards the abyss of a fully-tyrannised Britain than might have been the case, had Dread Ken won again - or anybody else for that matter. Three election victories and his bumptious self-importance would have been totally insufferable - not to mention the further inevitable slides down into the cesspool of Cubanised stalinism.

Granted that there is of course now a proper Libertarian Party in the UK for the first time, Conservatives ought also to mind their real liberal roots more, come out, and believe in a more libertarian foundation for their policies.

Here’s Brian starting off (the link is above):-

The first rule for winning the libertarian argument is that you

must have it.

That sounds fairly obvious, does it not? Yet how many times

must we libertarians listen to self-styled “practical” and “realistic”

comrades, who tell us that the way to argue for the

abolition of income tax or the legalisation of heroin or the

abolition of compulsory education is to start these arguments

by arguing instead for the lowering of income tax by two per

cent, the legalisation of marijuana, and the introduction of

education vouchers. The idea is that having bought these

mild and diluted versions of libertarianism, people will then

be drawn into accepting the more “extreme” manifestations

of libertarianism, as if being enticed into the back room of a

pornography shop.

Read more…….

And for those of you who would like to mine the Libertarian Alliance library of about 800 publications by us over the last 25-odd years, please go here, and browse….

Sean Gabb

I am writing from Lancashire, where my wife and daughter and I are spending the Bank Holiday weekend with our Blogmaster and his family. I feel compelled to issue some statement regarding the victory of Boris Johnson in the London Mayoral election. So here goes:

The Conservatives will not make this country a better place than it now is. So long as they and their friends can buy their way through, they have no understanding of the effects on the rest of us of the politically correct police state built on their foundations by Labour. Those Conservatives who do think about politics at more than the level of Westminster point-scoring are committed to a pre-emptice kow-tow to The Guardian and its various readers.

This being said, the Conservatives would probably make this country still worse at a slower pace than Labour is now doing. Therefore, I suppose I should give a languid preference to the Conservative Party at any election.

On the other hand, I loathe and distrust these people almost as much as does some third generation Labour-voting prole in the pit villages. Accepting that these people will soon be as much in charge of this country as membership of the European Union allows is hard after so many years of contempt.

There - I got this done before David!….