The most straightforward argument I can think of for 'unthinking', 'unquestioning' support on the part of Britain for America is simply this: without American support there would be no Britain. Without the support of America during WW2 there would, now, be no 'English-speaking' people outside of America. Hitler's Germany would have swallowed us whole - as it very nearly did. Britain owes to America its national life - and this is not a debt that can ever be repaid. That being so, the decis...

Shabby and disgusting. "Mr Bush's new Iraq strategy will have no British involvement, because the White House has recognised both Downing Street's political difficulties over Iraq and the overstretch of the British armed forces, senior officials have made clear to the Guardian. They say that there is neither the political will, nor the manpower, to freeze, let alone increase, the number of British forces in Iraq or to expand their area of operations. "It is a question of blunt realities...

Link Perhaps our newborn Super-Liberal-Man (aka Lucas) would care to exert his Super-liberal-Man powers against Adolf's Children, rather than indulging in wishful thinking about what should have, might have, could have happened in the past. What would they make of him? Short work. But here's his chance to show us his Super-Liberal-Man Megabrain at work. He can tell us how we can go about reforming them before they become a problem. The 15% involved in the article are thos...

Political fiction covers everything from imagined Utopias and Dystopias, to satire like Swift's suggestion that the famine-struck Irish should eat their children, to Apocalyptic visions like the manifesto of the Communist Party. They all conjure worlds which aren't yet but which are based in what is, and which might come to be. What follows was not written by me. It's a dystopic view of the remainder of this century and its value is not in the writing itself, or in its attempt to portray...

Is it simple coincidence that Hollywood in recent years has seen the making of a series of movies that deal with the historical and mythic origins of ancient Europe? First we had 'Troy'. Then 'Alexander'. Then 'Kingdom of Heaven'. And now '300', dealing with the battle of the Spartans under Leonidas against the Persian Empire under Xerxes (if I remember my ancient history correctly). Granted, 'Kingdom of Heaven' deals with the Crusades - but the Crusades, taken as a whole, represent a seminal...

Surfing The Guardian (the English newspaper, not the movie) I found this article, published October fourth (so thirteen days ago at time of writing). Link A philosopher had entered his third week in hiding (at time of publication) due to death threats he received in consequence of writing a comment piece for Le Figaro on September 19. This comment referred to Muhammad, and what the philosopher said was this: that Muhammad was "a merciless warlord, a looter, a mass-murderer of Jews and a ...

Pakistan. That detestable, debauched, disgusting agglommeration of subhuman filth has, once again, legalized rape. I have no interest in Pakistan or Pakistanis beyond their immediate incineration through nuclear fire. They are among the most degenerate, disgusting, corrupt, vile, and abominable of all those creatures that pass for human in these lazy, lackadaisical times. I knew them in Britain and was revolted by them. And now they have provided evidence that my revulsion was entirely jus...

Yesterday I spent a large part of the afternoon working on an article titled 'The Pope, the Muslims, and the Eurodweebs'. JU devoured almost all of it as I attempted to edit it from the forum 'Tools' tab - something I don't recommend anyone else to do. This is not a rant about the shortcomings of JU. I mention it to explain why the truncated remains of that article are still available on my blog (it looks messy and I'd delete it if I could but I seem no longer to have access to that function...

So that I'm not accused of misinterpretation (deliberate or otherwise) nor of letting my fondness for underdogs run away with me, here is the link to the article in which I found this image of childhood 'innocence' gone awry ( Link ). In an effort to ameliorate the abomination thus exposed the journalist in question writes: "[...] the children would not have seen images of dead Lebanese as these kinds of images are not broadcast in Israel, suggesting the children were probably actin...

I've just watched the movie V for Vendetta . Before I say anything concerning the movie I'm going to give you a link to what is perhaps the most sanctimonious, patronising, self-satisfied review in the history of movie reviews. As I read it I doubted I and the reviewer had seen the same movie ( Link ). However, there's nothing unusual in that for me. When I still lived in the UK I used to base my choice of what movies to watch on the depth of loathing on the part of professional reviewers ...

There's a useful history of terrorst strikes against America and her interests in the copy of Human Events for the week of July 31st 2006. ( Link ) I won't force those suffering from an aversion to Ann Coulter to read the article - these are the relevant details - but technically speaking this is not an actual quote. I've edited what she has to say in the interest of what I have to say; but I'm very happy to give the Diva of the Right full credit for everything enclosed in quotation ma...

Here's a couple of things you won't find on Fox or CNN: ( Link ) and ( Link ) Why are we fighting a war on two fronts at once, in Iraq and Afghanistan (ask the Germans about that - they tried it twice in the last century and failed miserably and catastrophically each time), and at the same time allowing Israel to stir up a hornet's nest of rage and racial hatred in a region of vital interest to us? I believe some comedian or other recently pointed out that America has poured milli...

Rightwinger, with whom I normally sympathise, recently posted an article ( Link ) concerning the current conflict in Lebanon. What follows is the comment I posted on that thread. Since I took a profoundly anti-Israeli, anti-Christian stance, I fully expect Rightwinger to delete my response from his thread (as he has every right to do). However, I am so incensed, so angered and revolted by the gist of what he had to say, so profoundly and utterly disgusted by the responses of KFC in parti...

Abu al-Zarqawi died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!" Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed!" James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!" Thomas Jefferson was next, beat al-Zarqawi with a long cane and snarled "I...

Here I am, barely back two minutes, and already I have something to write about. As an aside, and before we get into the discussion, it quite astonishes me how happy I am to be able to do this once more - I really hadn't realized quite how much I missed this means of expression. Anyway, on with the show. ( Link ) The link will take you to an article, published June 05 2006, in the English newspaper The Guardian. This article makes reference to recent events in Haditha, Iraq, in whi...