Henry Jacobson ‘Neville Southall: The Homo Sovieticus of the Corbyn era’ Spiked Online 7th June 2018 Identity politics – a cultish faux-leftism where ideas are valued according to who’s saying them; where all criticism can be deflected through childish appeals to ideological purity; and where free speech is replaced by a convoluted system of competingContinue reading “Quotes on Identity Politics”
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Live Right, Vote Left
I am often confused by the inconsistency between people’s lifestyles and their politics. The inconsistency is most beautifully exhibited by left wing voters. I have some some nice middle class friends where at least one member of the couple – usually the woman – is left wing. They exhibit all the traits of social conservativesContinue reading “Live Right, Vote Left”
The Puritanical Gatekeepers
The Left are now the gatekeeper of public discourse: The Left determines acceptable culture in our society. I contrast this to my own upbringing in the ’70s and ’80s when it was always The Right that was the gatekeeper of our morals. In those days the focus of The Right’s puritanism was the subject ofContinue reading “The Puritanical Gatekeepers”