BY SAM WHITE When faced with a political dilemma my first reaction is always, what would Charlotte Church do? Sometimes she’s busy planning a march or burning copies of the Sun though, and I can’t discover her thoughts. In those circumstances I get help by tuning in to the perspective of every other famous person on the planet. Superstars, has-beens, might-bes, can’t-quites, it doesn’t matter, because they … Continue reading Celebrity Wisdom is Vital
BY SAM WHITE In the Labour Party today there are three distinct factions. This is taking into account not just the Parliamentary Labour Party, but also party membership, whose numbers have ballooned to make it the largest party in Europe, in precise correlation with plunging its polling levels down to a dark point just a few inches above the bottom of the Mariana Trench. On … Continue reading Labour’s Ruptures Already Fatal?
BY SAM WHITE I greatly enjoyed myself yesterday putting the boot into Anonymous, from Brexit Britain, who’d pushed out a mind bending piece of writing at the Guardian claiming to have been sent into a right-wing, ideological death spiral by Sam Harris, Milo Yiannopoulos, and a YouTube algorithm. But getting on Twitter today, it looks like I need to get my spider senses retuned, as one of … Continue reading Hoax or Hoaxed Hoax?
BY SAM WHITE On one occasion I even, I am ashamed to admit… Even what..? Where might this suspenseful construction be leading? …assaulted an Anglican vicar? …ran over a guide dog and set fire to Oxfam? Here’s the full sentence: On one occasion I even, I am ashamed to admit, very diplomatically expressed negative sentiments on Islam to my wife. Oh. My. God. The horror. … Continue reading I am Ashamed to Admit I …
BY SAM WHITE Contrary to social justice radicals’ attention seeking hollers of oppression, and their palpable longing for the impalpable patriarchy to crumble, in the Western developed world we’re living with far reaching social mobility and open mindedness. And within this liberal environment, there are no stronger enclaves of freedom from persecution than university campuses—they’re oases of fairness within an ocean of tolerance. All of … Continue reading The Pronoun War
BY SAM WHITE Let me begin by saying there’s a minority on the left who have supported Brexit from the start: the Lexit contingent. This group have stuck to their guns on the issue of the EU. They’ve acted honestly and appear not to have been corrupted by the modern left’s attachment to politically correct identity posturing. But they’re a minority. The new metropolitan left, … Continue reading The Left Losing the Working Class
BY SAM WHITE Have you heard the news? Liberal progressives (yeah, right) have just woken up to the fact that identity politics is divisive and counter productive. That is, a form of politics that divides people according to race, gender and sexual preference turns out to be divisive. It appears that people prefer to be judged on the content of their character rather than on … Continue reading Political Divisiveness NOT Correctness
BY SAM WHITE There’s an overwhelming groupthink among left-wing liberals right now which pretty much invalidates their being called ‘liberals’ at all. It’s not the jackbooted conformity of the far-right, it’s a rigid intellectual purism, and a supreme sense of cocooned arrogance. It resembles not socialist principle, but rather the hubristic conceit of French aristocrats. When I present a dissenting point of view among left-of-centre, … Continue reading Out-wording Left-wing Liberals
BY SAM WHITE Under pressure from campaign group Stop Funding Hate, the Danish toy company Lego has publicly announced that it will no longer be working with the Daily Mail, a newspaper the campaign group alleges promotes “hatred, discrimination and demonisation.” Stop Funding Hate is claiming this as an emphatic victory, and continues to self-aggrandise and attack the profit mechanisms of other media establishments. If … Continue reading The Haters of Stop Funding Hate
BY SAM WHITE Opponents of the radical left’s excesses have for a long time warned that over-bearing, often nonsensical levels of fervent political correctness are having a deleterious effect on public discourse. The censoriousness, anti-democracy, and plain nastiness of the regressive left is not only wrong on a moral and a civil level, but is counter-productive to its own aims. When normal disagreement on issues … Continue reading How The Left Tricked You
BY SAM WHITE An enormously costly mistake was made this week, and it is this: Toblerone chose the wrong day to announce that they were shrinking their weirdly shaped chocolate bars. That calamitous information could have been buried without a trace if they’d timed its release to coincide with the growing certainty that Donald Trump’s path to the White House was opening up. Hopefully you’re … Continue reading Trump & Media Histrionics
BY SAM WHITE So you want to block Brexit? Well that makes sense. Democracy can be applied selectively to ensure favourable outcomes. You’ll put the in-group’s preferences first, because their decisions are well-informed. There’s no moral impasse because the out-group are uneducated and selfish. You’re not selfish because the in-group’s wants are called progressive, while the out-group’s are not. Your opinions are more valuable than … Continue reading You Are The 48%
