According to arch-misanthrope David Attenborough, humans are a plague on earth. This claim is nothing new of course and I’ve sailed on his sea of Malthusian sewage before . The fact that Telegraph Environment Correspondent, Louise Gray, is cheerleading for him is no great surprise either.
The television presenter said that humans are threatening their own [...]
Posts under ‘Human Rights/Human Freedoms’
Attenbore Redux
Roman law, modern law and “Feudal” law - a hint as to what that wild madman Paul Marks is on about.
I am no legal expert (”we have noticed Paul”), but I do want to give an hint about what I am on about when I mention the words “Feudal law” or Roman law or modern law - it if be wrong….. well see later for my “get out of jail” card on that.
Before I say [...]
It’s shite being Scottish…
I was born in Newcastle. It is spitting distance from Scotland (or to put it more reasonably closer to Edinburgh than to Leeds or Manchester). And before any fucker starts we gave the World the Stephensons and the Lit and Phil (membership is from about 50 quid a year). It’s the largest independent library in [...]
The terrible year of 1986.
A post on an often overlooked year - 1986. A year in which events occured that had (and are having) terrible consequences.
A British person when hearing of the date “1986″ will think (if they think of anything) of the “Single European Act” - formally it came into effect in 1987, but the agreement was made [...]
Question time ~ where are you politically?
Confession; back in the dim and distant days of my youth, when politics was something I first became aware of, I was a socialist. I quite happily believed that the state should organise society ‘fairly’ and coercive taxation was absolutely fine to that end.
To be fair, I was just finishing my time in a state [...]
Push-me Pull-me justice
If you’ve been paying attention over the last few years, it is clear how the elite see the rest of us. We are little more than farm yard animals to be cajoled and compelled and banned from doing things, lectured and hectored at will, and above all taxed. We maybe shot if it suits the government [...]
In Praise of Islam.
After the “Joseph” post, a post on Islam.
Not in praise of Islam in today’s context (although some people may see some relevant point), but in the context of the world in which it became important and powerful.
This was not the Classical World - the world of Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic. Where people (in [...]
I do not care if Joseph had a long coat of many colours or a long sleeved coat - he was a very naughty man.
Athiests tend to regard religion as unimportant (some athiests are actually obessed with religion - but they are a weird minority of athiests), but actually it is very important.
For example Marxism has long used the Heaven-on-Earth promise (it is a lot older than Marxism - indeed it is often called “the oldest heresy”) and the [...]
“Conservative” philosophy.
“Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions”.
David Hume.
“Reason is the slave of the passions” might be interpreted as a cry of despair - a position that human beings could not control themselves, and are the slaves of urges (either instinctive from our biological evolution, or from environmental experiences - the pointless [...]
British Mendacity Association
A man dies and goes to heaven. He keeps on seeing this person walking around wearing a white robe and a stethoscope. So he asks the nearest archangel who it is.
Gabriel replies: “Oh him. That’s God. He thinks he’s a doctor.”
All smoking in cars should be banned across the UK to protect people from second-hand [...]
Social Justice and the BBC
Presently BBC people (both in London and in Manchester) live in fear of the practical manifestation of “Social Justice” - i.e. that all income and wealth are a “social product” belonging to the collective (”the people” as a whole) to be “distributed” for the good of the “least favoured” (the poorest).
The rioters and looters are, [...]
Anarchy (banned) in the UK
What should you do if you discover an anarchist living next door? Dust off your old Sex Pistols albums and hang out a black and red flag to make them feel at home? Invite them round to debate the merits of Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist communism versus the individualist anarchism of Emile Armand? No – the [...]
The Pragmatist philosopher William James and the Oslo murderer.
According to the Oslo muderer his favourate philosopher was William James.
Of course the ravings of a mass murderer may not be very reliable - but this favouring of William James seems to have gone back quite some time.
Well who was William James?
William James was an American philosopher known (along with Charles Pierce and John Dewey) [...]
The Vatican/The Roman Catholic Church - free enterprise, socialism, or something else?
A little while ago it was anounced that the budgets of the Vatican State and the Papacy (they are counted as two different budgets) were back in balance (after some years of deficits). And this got me thinking about what this institution is - in terms of political economy. And this led to other thoughts [...]
Australia, 2011
Australia, free, open, tolerant. This is the country where I grew, this is the country I remember.
In the last few months, Andrew Bolt, a journalist prosecuted for expressing an opinion disliked by lefties – he dislikes racial classification laws and thinks they may be being scammed. This gets him compared to NAZIs by people who [...]
