A nice essay over at Heresy Corner by Father James Rattue, doing his best to look on the positive side of the move by Pope Benedict to lure Anglicans in Rome’s general direction: It represents not the triumph of denominational rivalry as it appears, but the erosion of those very […]
Here is the Comment I have posted on OutsideLeft’s site: I have lived for most of my life in countries grappling with different forms of socialism (communist Yugoslavia, apartheid S Africa) or trying to escape from it (post-communist Russia, post-war Bosnia, post-Milosevic Serbia, post-communist Poland). So I feel qualified to […]
Here is a curious piece by LeftOutside trying to explain why "the overwhelming body of evidence in favour of Socialism" stops him being lured by libertarian ideas: When the tax revenue of South Koreans was directed towards the manufacture of Microwaves it was neither an area they specialised in nor […]
What is it with J ‘n’ J over at the Guardian? First we had this Jonathan Steele going to Hell. Now we have Jonathan Freedland frothing himself up about eastern Europe’s horrible predisposition to Nazi-style extremism: … a brand of ultra-nationalistic politics that would repel most voters in western Europe. It […]
Every time I swing past Keith Hennessey’s site I am struck by how fine a job he does in explaining complex big things. Look at his vivid account of how different graphs can be used to show supposed improvements in the US jobs market – and the real-life numbers of […]
Listening to sundry BBC interviews with sundry intolerant Anti-Fascists trying to disrupt the Question Time programme tonight, I started to think about something my Catholic friend mentioned yesterday, namely the Death of Common Sense. Here is one well-travelled account of his (sic) tragic end. And there’s the book: But the […]
The decision by the Catholic Church to create a formula to allow Anglicans to join the Catholic Church but keep some of their Anglican persona is a stunner. Above all, because it represents the latest move in a Great Negotiation which has proceeded for some 500 years as between Rome […]
Liam Murray does a good job in suggesting how British National Party leader Nick Griffin might best present himself on TV tonight when he joins a controversial BBC Question Time panel. The excellent point being that if the other panellists want to be seen to show Griffin up as a nasty […]
For those readers interested in Funny British Ways, here is another one. We here have a body called the Press Complaints Commission which presides over a Code of Practice giving some rather specific guidleines on how the ‘press’ whould behave. Here they are. If a member of the public is […]
Is hosted by Liberal England. It links to some howls of denunciation of an undoubtedly unpleasant article in the Daily Mail. Including this nicely tuned sexist analysis from one Clairwil: Consequently the repulsive, fat bitch had to haul her big, lardy, arse back to her keyboard and find some justification for […]
