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Guest Post: Speedbox – Postcard from Kislovodsk Redux
Mrs Speedbox is back in Kislovodsk, Russia. I wasn’t able to travel due to work commitments and on this trip she will catch up with her numerous friends and the remaining relatives in the city. Our youngest Miss Speedbox has accompanied her on this occasion. In my phone/video calls with Mrs Speedbox, I have been…
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Open Thread – Weekend 22 Oct 2022
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Weekend Reading #9
John Daniel Davidson picks over the corpse that is conservatism in The Federalist and wonders about what might be fruitfully revived in its stead. Henry George at The Critic argues that the issue if euthanasia is the logical terminus, figuratively and literally, of liberalism. At IM-1776, DC Miller and eugyppius discuss the fortunes of globalism…
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Your lying eyes
In a desperate attempt to convince their idiotic readership that the fetus in early pregnancy is just a clump of tissue, the Guardian has published an article involving a series of images, provided by a pro-abortion group, of “pregnancy tissue” in a petri dish. They do this while also dating the ’tissue’ therein from the…
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Wokeism, Soft Power and the Globalist American Empire
This is a very good short video that outlines Darren Beattie’s argument that Wokeism is the official ideology of the GAE, which it uses at home and abroad against its enemies. To the extent that it is a successful instrument in the projection of power, the success of Wokeism is inevitably tied to the success…
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Open Thread – Tues 18 Oct 2022
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Open Thread – Weekend 15 Oct 2022
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Weekend Reading #8
Kurt Hofer at The American Conservative reflects on his attendance at the Restoring the Nation conference and on the fortunes of the New Right. Over at UnHerd, Thomas Fazi considers whether Germany and thereby Europe itself is also a target of the economic warfare that has broken out since the Russo-Ukrainian War began. Niccolo Soldo,…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
We are constantly wondering about the inability of centre-right parties, particularly the Liberal and National parties here in Australia, of accurately reflecting their constituency in their policies and representing them during their terms in power. I don’t want to speculate why this is the case but the following two figures from the US and UK…
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Open Thread – Tues 11 Oct 2022