Tag: up all night

International, Politics

Goldfish Memory: The Left & Le Pen

BY SAM WHITE You can’t fail to have noticed a fair number of opinion pieces in the liberal media questioning why the left is in trouble, and how it is that right wing, populist movements are in the ascendant. Still lumbering creakily along in the wrong direction after the cultural upheavals of 2016, some cranky progressives remain blankly unable to recognise the staggeringly obvious. But French presidential candidate Marine Le … Continue reading Goldfish Memory: The Left & Le Pen

countrysquiremagazine2 Comments
Politics

The Increasing Irrelevance of Celebrity Politics

BY SAM WHITE It’s easy to become frustrated by right-on celebrities like JK Rowling and Gary Lineker. The kind of reverend preachers who dissolve moronically into the regressive left cultural soup like soggy croutons in a rancid onion broth. Aloof, blinkered, and dismissive of the opinions of ordinary people, they seem willing to put lives and liberties in danger for no other reason than to … Continue reading The Increasing Irrelevance of Celebrity Politics

countrysquiremagazine4 Comments
Politics

Eschewing Clarity

BY SAM WHITE Stumble accidentally into a social justice dominated forum and you’ll find yourself dizzied by various barked phrases which don’t mean anything. That is, you’ll recognise the words, but their meanings will be hollowed out and corrupted. This is because the activist left has a habit of twisting words to serve its own purpose. There’s a basic disrespect for language, and an unwillingness … Continue reading Eschewing Clarity

countrysquiremagazine3 Comments
Media, Politics

Making Piers Morgan Seem Sound

BY SAM WHITE For an indication of how astonishingly badly the left is doing right now, consider this terrifying fact: they’re making Piers Morgan look good. In this clip from Bill Maher’s Real Time, Morgan is verbally barracked by Australian comedian Jim Jefferies. Morgan’s crimes? First, like 63 million Americans last November, he doesn’t agree that Hillary Clinton would make a better president than Donald Trump. … Continue reading Making Piers Morgan Seem Sound

countrysquiremagazine1 Comment
Politics

Low Expectations

BY SAM WHITE Which are you, a neo-Nazi or a Stalinist? Would you prefer alt-right white nationalism or soc-jus Marxist absolutism? And do you want that with chips or rice? As the political landscape fractures and shifts, and the not-really-progressive Left continues to handle actual change very badly indeed, an extreme polarisation has taken hold. Issues are being divided into a competitive binary, around which … Continue reading Low Expectations

countrysquiremagazine2 Comments
Media, Politics

The Disintegration of Reality

BY SAM WHITE It’s not often that one tweet totally encapsulates the political atmosphere, but comedian Andrew Lawrence managed it when he wrote this: Sad that Liberals are so bored with easy middle-class life that they've had to invent a neo-Nazi doomsday scenario to entertain themselves. — andrew lawrence (@andrewlawrence) January 30, 2017 Lawrence is that rarest of professional comedians–one who appears at ease with annoying … Continue reading The Disintegration of Reality

countrysquiremagazine4 Comments
International

Trump: Tune Out the Static

BY SAM WHITE At the weekend Donald Trump authorised a 90 day temporary ban on people entering the United States from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, and an indefinite ban on Syrian entry. This is similar to when Barack Obama imposed a 6 month entry ban on Iraqis in 2011, except that Obama received no vilification. The purpose of the current ban is to ensure security … Continue reading Trump: Tune Out the Static

countrysquiremagazine3 Comments
Politics

Learning From Liberals

BY SAM WHITE In the interests of balance, I chose this week to open my mind to the liberal progressive cause, and learn about social justice. Ready to be tutored by my liberal superiors, I’ve watched the bewildering, right-on bedlam being played out, seemingly unscripted and without any discernible purpose, by the zany, arsonist left. There was much to grapple with and it was terribly … Continue reading Learning From Liberals

countrysquiremagazine5 Comments
Politics

Why Progressives Get Violent

BY SAM WHITE Before the US election, some on the political left predicted that Donald Trump supporters would be violent if they lost. This can now be seen as an act of psychological projection, as the opposite has actually happened. Immediately after the results came in there were violent demonstrations, including property damage and burned flags. Later, a young Trump supporter in Chicago was kidnapped, … Continue reading Why Progressives Get Violent

countrysquiremagazine4 Comments
brexit, Politics

Laughing at Voters, With Jones & Clegg

BY SAM WHITE Have you seen the new method that liberal progressives have come up with to get all us wayward peasants back on board the love train? It’s inspired. They get together in front of a camera, openly laugh in our faces about what feckless, naive cretins we are, and then widely distribute the recording. The idea, I presume, is that if it’s drilled into … Continue reading Laughing at Voters, With Jones & Clegg

countrysquiremagazine2 Comments
Education

Schools Should Educate, Not Indoctrinate

BY SAM WHITE If you were uncertain about whether your kids were being imparted with a balanced, impartial view of the world by their school teachers, then you can stop doubting and be sure: they definitely are not. Over at the TES (formerly the Times Educational Supplement) a little while ago, Oliver Beach (pictured below), a former economics teacher and part of the BBC’s Tough … Continue reading Schools Should Educate, Not Indoctrinate

countrysquiremagazine3 Comments
Politics

Hate Crime: No Hate Required

BY SAM WHITE   On Thursday, Joshua Silver, a professor at Oxford University, was comprehensively taken apart by Andrew Neil and Michael Howard on the BBC’s Daily Politics. As a recap, scruffy Europhile Silver had freaked out and reported home secretary Amber Rudd to the police, for a speech and briefing at the Conservative party conference last October, in which it was suggested that companies … Continue reading Hate Crime: No Hate Required

countrysquiremagazine7 Comments
Opinion

The Dangerous Cowardice of Censorship

BY SAM WHITE When you shut down free speech, thereby removing the right and the capability to dissent openly, then the methods of expression left available for those who have been silenced become out-of-sight, resentful, and, taken to the extreme, violent. The recent trend toward de-platforming and censorship is reckless and ill-informed. Conservative journalist Milo Yiannopolous, who delights in provoking thin-skinned authoritarians, has just earned … Continue reading The Dangerous Cowardice of Censorship

countrysquiremagazine10 Comments
Opinion, Politics

Brexiteers Are Neanderthals

BY SAM WHITE I thought things were going well. We were in the EU and Britain was being drained of its troublesome sovereignty as I, through my subscription to Everyday Feminism, was being radically unchained from my toxic masculinity. Brussels knows best. Who needs to know the names of the suits in charge anyway? They’re European, nice shoes, brandy on tap. They’re just better at … Continue reading Brexiteers Are Neanderthals

countrysquiremagazine6 Comments
Opinion, Politics

Slipperals: Owen Jones & Mark Steel

BY SAM WHITE Brexiteers have copped a lot of abuse over the past few months for allegedly being swayed by emotion and ignorant of the facts. I no longer care about this palpably incorrect nonsense. The Brexiteers I know are sometimes almost obsessively well-informed about the EU, in many cases far more so than the bovine whingers who plumped for Remain because the establishment told them … Continue reading Slipperals: Owen Jones & Mark Steel

countrysquiremagazine6 Comments
Politics

The Farage Overreaction

BY SAM WHITE I don’t know what to call them anymore. Progressives? Obviously not. Liberals? I sense no liberalism in their approach to dissent. Regressive left? Control left? However you refer to them, the response of some parts of the left wing to Monday’s horrific events in Berlin and Ankara was remarkable. Try Labour MP Jess Phillips’ Twitter timeline. You’ll find that quite some effort … Continue reading The Farage Overreaction

countrysquiremagazine10 Comments
Opinion

You would say that, you’re a white man!

BY SAM WHITE I wrote recently about holy segregationist Giles Fraser’s low expectations of minority communities. But look closely at identity politics and you’ll find this kind of fatalism is deeply ingrained everywhere. I noticed it the other night when I went out for a drink and narrowly avoided, as Mrs Merton used to say, a heated debate. In Shinjuku’s eastern district—a do-as-you-like, all-night corner … Continue reading You would say that, you’re a white man!

countrysquiremagazine3 Comments
Opinion, Politics

No Student Voting – For Their Own Safety

BY SAM WHITE In September 2015, student union officials at the University of East Anglia prohibited the handing out of sombreros at a fresher’s fair, on the grounds that the headwear comprised “discriminatory or stereotypical imagery”. In April of this year, a survey found that two thirds of British students support the ‘no-platforming’ of speakers. This means denying controversial people the right to participate in … Continue reading No Student Voting – For Their Own Safety

countrysquiremagazine11 Comments
Politics

Giles Fraser’s Low Expectations

BY SAM WHITE A recent Giles Fraser article in the Guardian, Assimilation Threatens the Existence of Other Cultures, asserts that wherever you might choose to live, you should feel no obligation to assimilate into the wider culture. He states: I admire the resilience of a community that seeks to maintain its distinctiveness and recognises, quite rightly, that assimilation into the broader culture would mean the … Continue reading Giles Fraser’s Low Expectations

countrysquiremagazine10 Comments
brexit, Opinion

Remainers Push For Hard Brexit

BY SAM WHITE One of the false charges levelled at Leave voters is that Brexit is an act of self-harm. That whatever reasons a person might have for voting to escape from the European Union, the amount of damage caused will always outweigh the benefits. But from where I stand, the only masochistic inclinations come from hardcore Remainers themselves, as they attempt to hinder or … Continue reading Remainers Push For Hard Brexit

countrysquiremagazine24 Comments