Black Tory MPs blast Labour's racial "stereotypes and low expectations"

Clive "On your knees, bitch" Lewis is a Labour MP, so his extraordinary narrow-mindedness...

Lest we forget...

And definitely not forgetting these two patriots:

New Tory MP Kemi Badenoch - a ray of hope in grim times?

I'll admit it - the maiden speech from the new Tory MP for Saffron Walden, Kemi Badenoch...

Different ways of losing - Andy Murray v. Theresa May

Feeling a trifle shell-shocked this afternoon, following a sleepless night - and unwilling to subject myself to any more ghastly political news - I sat and watched the French Open semi-final between Andy "Churckles"  Murray and Stan "Strong like Bull" Wawrinka. Wowsers. One of the greatest matches I've ever seen. Murray edged the first set, Stan struck back in the second, Murray sneaked the third - against pretty much any other player, Murray would have won in four or five sets: he has an impressive five-set record, being a bloody-minded Scot and all. The only doubt in my mind arose from the fact that Wawrinka has this knack of - every now and then - suddenly...

Well, that went well! So who next to lead the Tories and (probably) become Prime Minister?

Damn! I had been looking forward to unleashing all the toxic spleen that's been building up inside me during the past month on Theresa May this morning. I had intended congratulating her on increasing her majority - to say, 50 or 60 - and then letting rip at her and her advisers for running the worst political election campaign since Michael Foot in 1983. It sounds like hindsight now - but I was going to tear into her for giving all sensible people a terrible fright, for failing to destroy the hard left as a force in British politics for the foreseeable future, and for putting Brexit in jeopardy. But let's just take that as read, and look at quite how she managed the extraordinary feat of turning a poll lead of 24 points into an actual lead of between one and two percent - thereby transforming the likes of Paul Mason and Owen Jones from ludicrous fantasists into political savants; look at what we learned from the election results; and take a wild guess at who will succeed her (with any luck she'll be announcing her resignation when she addresses the nation at 10 this morning).

A turkey hears that Christmas has been rescheduled...

Considering that the Tories have so far deliberately...

Is it safe to watch TV news again? I had to switch off because of all those middle-aged blonde women getting shrieky about grammar schools!

One of the benefits of one's offspring finishing university and entering the wonderful world of paid employment is that you no longer have to pay any attention to news stories about education. Private school fees going through the roof? GCSE grades plummeting? Teachers striking because 14 weeks paid leave just isn't enough? University tuition fees heading for outer space? Your kid's arts degree won't get them a decent job? Meh. 

Reasons to be cheerful about the cabinet reshuffle... starting with the abolition of Green crap!

Yes, there is actually a chance that we now have a government which has clocked the fact that the whole man-made climate change myth is unsupported by the data, and that pursuing economically ruinous policies in order to combat a non-existent danger is the sort of foolishness that's best left to the Islingtonian wing of the Labour Party and the tiny gaggle of boring fruit-loops which is all that's left of the Liberal Democrats in parliament.

And then there's putting the alluring, sultry, pouting Pritti Patel in charge of...

Every political journalist, right now...

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Meanwhile an intellectually distinguished Conservative Brexiteer spends nine minutes trying to speak truth to a spectacularly stupid, ill-mannered and ill-informed left-wing female CNN "journalist" - or, more accurately, to a biased, bigoted political activist masquerading as a television news journalist who has already decided that all Leave voters are (wait for it)... WAYCISTS!!!!!!!!:

Brexit and Labour Party Armageddon - because you haven't heard enough about either subject today

Only a political party run by the hard left could manage it. This morning's (evidently pre-Hilary Benn sacking) <i>Telegraph</i> headline screamed "TORIES AT WAR". A gift, you'd think, for the main opposition party. Only it hasn't quite turned out that way? Let's face it, only a politician as goofy and inept (and left-wing) as Jeremy Corbyn could have reduced Her Majesty's Opposition to such an abject shambles at the very moment it should have been powering ahead in the polls (not, of course, that we need ever pay any attention to them ever again). I am heartbroken that... no, I can't manage it: it's just all so deliciously <i>funny</i>. Not that many of my friends are exactly laughing their heads off..<br />
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I say friends, but I suppose I mean "friends", really. I've been on Facebook for years but, because it's an unsuitable platform for airing one's political views (I usually "unfriend" anyone who does so), I never bother posting anything on it. I quite enjoy catching up on what old work colleagues and relatives are getting up to (lots of my Norwegian cousins share their doings on it, which is nice). I only check my timeline (or whatever it's called) every to weeks or so - and then only after receiving an email nudge from Facebook. Yesterday, I took a gander, only to encounter a tsunami of hatred, grief, angst and depression. One friend was telling everyone that Leave won because of&nbsp;"ignorant Sun readers and ageing parochials". <i>Gee, thanks!</i> Several assured me that Out voters had destroyed their children's future. Others were absolutely positive that a way would be found to overturn the result (I suppose if you approve of your laws being devised by unelected bureaucrats, you're not really a fan of democracy in any case). Others urged me to sign a petition to overturn the result (a petition whose signatories include 33,000 residents of Vatican City, where 800 people live, many from North Korea, and quite a few from the Arctic). I'm not sure why signing a petition that says "I didn't like the result" might result in the will of over 17,000,000 British (and, for some reason, Irish) voters being thwarted, but if it makes Remainers feel better, well, okay, I suppose.<br />
I find the point about young people's future being destroyed by ignorant, selfish, old bastards particularly perplexing. Here are some statistics to ponder:<br />
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Turnout by age group: 18-24: 36% 25-34: 58% 35-44: 72% 45-54: 75% 55-64: 81% 65+: 83%<br />
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Presumably, if the 64% of young folk who couldn't be arsed to vote had actually done so, the result would have been different, and their future in the dynamic, prosperous, popular, outward-looking, freedom-loving EU would have been assured.<br />
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Yes, but... they'd been lied to by the Leave campaign! Yes, indeed. They'd also been lied to - far more brazenly - by the Remain camp.<br />
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But the Leavers didn't have a proper plan! No, they didn't. But as they weren't running for office, they didn't need to. Similarly, it was the government's job to come up with a plan for what to do if the country voted to leave the EU: the fact that it evidently hasn't is bizarre.<br />
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The fact that a larger portion of older people voted to leave couldn't be more irrelevant. Post-referendum polls (them again) suggest that the main concern of the majority of Out voters

The best arguments yet for voting Leave...

This unspeakable eejit, obviously:

And this one, of course:

If we vote for Brexit, and Obama sends Britain to the "back of the queue", this could be the nation's next project...

Let's face it...

Arise, Sir Roger! - the award of a knighthood to Roger Scruton shines out like a good deed in a naughty world

Sir Roger Scruton

I suffered a moment of confusion while scanning the knighthood recipients in the Queen's 90th. Birthday Honours list when I saw the name of Angus Deaton among them. The coke-sniffing, two-at-a-time sex romping former Have I Got News for You? presenter? Had he, I wondered, done a Profumo by devoting himself to good works in order to atone for past transgressions? He might very well have done, but it turned out to be a professor at Princeton, whose name is spelled slightly differently.  Anyway, my friend David Moss reminded me - in a comment on a post I'd written about our old university supervisor, Roger Scruton, in 2011 - that I'd concluded it with a bold (some might say rash) promise. Responding to Scruton's claim that "it’s still possible to gain a vision, to stand on a little peak - perhaps not the peak on which Spinoza stood, or Plato, but a peak of one’s own -  and look across at all this sea of ignorance and confusion and hysteria… and smile at it", I wrote:

Eurofanatics fed Norwegians exactly the same lies before their 1994 referendum as the ones Remainers are trying to frighten us with

George Osborne accused Leavers of being "quitters" during his TV grilling by Andrew Neil earlier this week. Which is a bit like the senior British officer at Colditz accusing escapees of being quitters. Presumably, Osborne would have accused...

Nice of J.P. Morgan's boss to threaten the British with job cuts if they disobey the elite and vote for Brexit

Yesterday, Jamie Dimon, the boss of J.P. Morgan - who is known as the "King of Wall Street" (as opposed to, say, the "Wanker of Wall Street") - welcomed David Cameron to an event in Bournemouth, where his bank employs 4,000 staff. Dave probably didn't have to face any of the sort of impertinent questions from the assembled "workers" he was subjected to by members of the audience during his enormously successful Sky News appearance on Thursday night (well, not unless any J.P. Morgan employee was particularly keen on ending up in a tank filled with ravenous piranha fish).

Tim Montgomerie's wrong - Cameron's toast, whatever the referendum result

Times columnist and Leave supporter Tim Montgomerie says that if Britain votes Leave, Cameron must go - Cameron has already said he will. But, says Tim, if Remain win, Tory Party Brexiteers must accept Cameron's right to stay on as leader until he chooses to step down. But Cameron has made the second option impossible: he has buried his political future under a vast avalanche of mendacity so brazen, so nauseatingly obvious that surely even the most craven "loyalist" back-bench suck-ups must realise that for him - even as he travels to Brussels to have the Iron Cross, the Croix de Guerre and the Lord Haw Haw Memorial Medal for Services to Unelected Foreign Bureaucrats pinned to his chest - the war is well and truly over. This, after all, is a man who has either made the following claims about what will happen if Britain frees itself from the EU's enervating death-grip, or has omitted to correct such claims made by his Remain campaign supporters:

Tory Minister Matt Hancock admits his "one nation" party is all about "social justice" - i.e. it hates the "selfish" middle classes

Lick! Lick! Slurp! Slurp!

Cabinet office minister Matt Hancock has told British companies that they should ask job applicants whether they went to private school. This, he says, will stop discrimination against the poor. No it won't, you silly man: it will merely encourage businesses to suck up to government by discriminating against the those young middle class people whose parents have made themselves poor by shelling out a fortune on a decent education for their offspring. It won't, of course, make a dent in the work prospects of the little darlings lucky enough to belong to Britain's trustafarian upper-middle and upper-class oligarchy. They are members of a cadre which has a way of arranging these things behind the scenes, either through their network of powerful contacts - or by employing junior in one of their own companies.

Documentary-maker Martin Durkin is an absolute bloody hero - please watch "Brexit: The Movie" and share it as widely as possible

The most liberating, eye-opening, gloriously bolshie and important documentary shown on British television so far this century was without a doubt Martin Durkin's huggably wonderful The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast by Channel 4 in 2007. I was already a sceptic before watching it - but it turned me into a fully-fledged, foam-flecked, swivel-eyed climate change denier. It was, in effect, the antidote to that vile, steaming pile of mendacity, An Inconvenient Truth, which (let's not forget) was force-fed to our schoolchildren during the Blair Terror (including to our son - fortunately, his teacher finished the lesson by tearing the whole Climate Change alarmist argument to shreds).

The Conservative and the Socialist

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If only it were that easy!

Yet another cowardly Tory government funks yet another opportunity to curb the BBC

Latest member of the Cowardly Lions Club

Regular readers may have noticed that I haven't been writing much here in recent weeks (although it doesn't seem to have affected the number of page views - I haven't yet decided if those statistics are heartening or hurtful). That's because I've either been in too much pain or too woozy from prescription painkillers to write anything that isn't even more incoherent than usual. So I missed the opportunity to get all red-faced about last week's Tory White Paper on the BBC. Just as well, because it made me so angry I'd probably have had a coronary. As it was, I just popped another painkiller, turned over in bed,  and started to read yet another book about old Hollywood films (my chosen mode of escape when feeling unwell).