I think it’s about time we mentioned that the Steyn v Mann defamation trial is currently taking place in Washington D.C.. For those who have forgotten – or never knew in the first place – t...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/the-hockey-stick-on-trial/
One can see why this idea has taken off again: it sits at the intersection of two of the most voguish ideologies of our time, namely, woke progressivism and anti-capitalism. It is a story about w...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-do-empires-make-economic-sense/
We are constantly being told by that coalition of communists and racists that talk about “de-colonisation” that the British Empire was a Bad Thing and that therefore we whiteys should a) be a...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/what-nigel-biggar-says-about-the-british-empire/
“Alex Salmond given part of the Stone of Scone by son of student who stole it”, reports the Telegraph: Alex Salmond was given part of the Stone of Scone, also known as the Stone of Destiny,...
In 1923 they are dealing with a highly infectious but not particularly deadly disease. It has even made the editorial pages of The Times of 14 December, parts of which I quote below. I have made ...
In my recent post, “Peace-lovers love using the passive voice”, I asked you to supply particularly egregious examples of media attempts to downplay murders by Hamas and other protected groups...
Ten years and ten days ago, the sadly missed Brian Micklethwait wrote this: “What if there is a real collective disaster?” Brian quoted this article by Paul Murphy which said that the respo...
“Netanyahu quits over withdrawal from Gaza”. Having got your attention, I will now admit that the Guardian story by Conal Urquhart to which I just linked dates from 8 August 2005. Despite the...
“Comic book fans will be familiar with the term ‘retcon’, which in layman’s terms means that the writer waves his hand and tells you ‘Remember when we said this? We screwed up, forget a...
You do not need autocomplete in order to predict what sort of results that search term produces. Good thing, as autocomplete seems not to be working for those words on many browsers. Because yo...
All revolutionaries become conservative in the very act of effecting their revolution. From the moment a change has been brought about their concern is to prevent it from being reversed. They see...
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/10/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1697/
Switzerland is a great country. In most respects Machiavelli’s description of the Swiss as “armatissimi e liberissimi”, “most armed and most free”, still applies. But… It says, Ma...
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/09/what-i-did-on-my-holidays/