The New York attack, Tory gropers, the sleazy Clintons... and the wisdom of Diane Abbott

Oh dear. Meanwhile, in case you imagined that yesterday's attack in New York was carried out by a radical Islamic terrorist acting in the name of ISIS, let the BBC's North America Editor put the right:

Congratulations to conservative actor Gary Sinise on getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star

He isn't a mouthy right-wing Social Media warrior like...

The Simpsons tackle Yale's SJWs

Conservative Hollywood actor James Woods is as splendidly acerbic off-screen as on

James Woods turns 70 on Tuesday - but there's precious little sign of him doing much mellowing. Following his Twitter feed is a bit like watching a highlights reel of lines from his movies:

It's safe to say that, unlike most Hollywood stars, he's not a committed Hillary fan:

When "our" side next loses a major vote - let's behave really, really badly!

I'm finding politics rather dispiriting this year. At first I thought it was a natural reaction following the wholly  unexpected triumphs of 2016 - an inevitable period of dullness after the excitement generated by the Brexit vote and the defeat of Hillary Clinton: unconfined joy can only be sustained for so long. But I've recently begun to realise that it's also partly bemusement at having all one's suspicions confirmed. I've spent years raving about the sinister liberal-left establishment which runs this country (and Europe and America), and how, because "it" or "they" have such a firm grip on all of our major institutions, "they" will still be in control - whichever party is in power. Every day and in every way, this wild delusion is turning out to be true. I feel a bit like Mel Gibson's deranged cab-driver in the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory whose paranoid fantasies concerning vast global plots to undermine democracy turn out to be spot on - i.e. he's evidently nuts, but he happens to be right. The same could be said of me. It's disconcerting.

Comics - is there anything they DON'T know?

Yes, indeed, Eric Idle - the lovable old madcap Python funster himself. So it's a joke, obviously. Only...

If you're mad enough to stay up for tonight's Oscars Ceremony - make it bearable by playing Literally Hitler Bingo!

Alternatively...

Yes, I know I should be outraged by the White House excluding the BBC from a press briefing...

...but it's still bloody funny! As is seeing the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and CNN finally get their reward for eight years spent relentlessly kissing Barack Obama's scrawny backside while allowing the Clintons to get away with... murder (?)... and for the preceding eight years, which they spent trying to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush (with, admittedly, quite a bit of help from the man himself). In case anyone who doesn't regularly follow US politics online imagines that Trump's relentless attacks on "unfriendly" media outlets represents a break with his predecessor's policy, here's Fox News's normally mild-mannered Neil Cavuto thoroughly enjoying CNN's discomfiture last month:

London's mayor is staging an open-air screening of a French-Iranian film to signal his disapproval of Donald Trump!

Sounds innocent enough, at first glance:

I "follow" the Twitter feed of the virtue-signalling little creep who - thanks to...

After a severe Trumping, the "free" BBC says: "We don't like being quite so much the centre of attention" - better get used to it

President Trump's recent, notorious press conference, in which he handed out what I believe Americans call "an ass-kicking" to the assembled representatives of the left-wing mainstream media - most notably CNN and the BBC - was maddening and exhilarating.  Four factors made it maddening. First, Trump's limited vocabulary, his inability to speak in complete sentences, and his array of speech mannerisms and tics make him quite painful to listen to, because you find yourself simultaneously translating everything he says into proper American-English: that makes it hard to concentrate on what he's actually saying rather than the way he's saying it...

To celebrate the fact that the US president being sworn in tomorrow ISN'T Hillary Clinton - some more conservative memes

When are lefties going to realise that they are now the baddies?

You can see where I'm heading with this, right?...

Let's demand those Nobel Committee commies award one of their prizes to Thomas Sowell

Yes, I know - I've already written about Thomas Sowell twice in recent weeks, but I've been asked to do something on him for The Salisbury Review, so I might as well kill two birds with one stone and post it here (if you spot any glaring errors, please let me know):

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” 

The economist, political philosopher and social commentator Thomas Sowell - America’s most consistently quotable public intellectual - recently retired at the age of 86. His legion of admirers, who think it’s scandalous that he has never been awarded a Nobel Prize for economics, will miss him. But, given his age, and the fact that he has written forty books, 2,000 syndicated columns, and a host of scholarly articles, essays and book reviews, nobody can doubt that he has earned the right to retire from the battlefield, especially at a time when left-liberalism - the political and economic philosophy he has spent over half a century mercilessly bludgeoning - appears to be in retreat.

The antinomianism of America's "entertainment" industry elite - they behave like pigs because they're "justified by faith"

And what's with this peculiar obsession with their private parts?

Anyone not horrified by Trump's inauguration - or this story of police racism - is guilty of hate crime...

The whole horrifying story, which involves the Bristol police zapping a chap...

To mark the end of the Obama Terror, here's a selection of really mean memes...

Good luck back on whichever weird planet you came from, Mr. President...

To celebrate the fact that the US president being sworn in tomorrow ISN'T Hillary Clinton - some more conservative memes

Theresa May's Hard Brexit speech + Trump's inauguration - with this much butthurt, Anusol stocks must be running dangerously low

Er... I'm not sure "democracy" means what you think it means, Timmy...

This just in from deranged old far-left political activist, Channel 4's Jon Snow...

As I'm sure anybody who isn't a senile, left-wing, Trump-loathing member of the British media elite can see, there one rather obvious mistaken assumption underlying this tweet...

I'm pretty sure I heard today's edition of Radio 4's Any Questions 40 years ago

I was reading the Telegraph late this morning, and steadily becoming more depressed. Apparently, British veterans are to be charged with murdering an IRA leader in Northern Ireland 44 years ago. A Royal Marine charged with murdering a Taliban captive will be spending Christmas in jail because his bail hearing has been postponed until the new year. Pilots, aircrew and baggage handlers are staging a strike over Christmas. The worst prison riot for 25 years has taken place in Birmingham, possibly fuelled by drugs and a lack of access to television. Italy is proposing to drop fidelity vows from the marriage contract, because they represent "an outdated and obsolete view of marriage". Queen Mary University of London has removed a foundation stone laid by King Leopold II of Belgium because the Pan African Society said it represented "imperialism"...