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“Thinking nice” This little news item from the BBC may help to explain not just why people often ignore warnings about their health or the likelihood of their getting divorced, but also the persistence of other kinds of improvidence – … Continue reading →

William (Brown) the conqueror My latest article, this one on Richmal Crompton’s legendary Just William stories http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/william-brown-the-conqueror/ Derek Turner, 7 October 2011 Free Google Ad cialis drugs no rx

Tony’s tangled affairs In Dispatches, The Wonderful World of Tony Blair (Channel 4, 26 September) muckraking journalist Peter Oborne addressed the contentious issue of the former Prime Minister’s recent business dealings. Readers may recall that in an earlier programme, he … Continue reading →

In defence of David Starkey A round robin recently published in Times Higher Education demanded that the BBC and other broadcasters refrain from inviting David Starkey to comment on current affairs or at the very least stop introducing him as … Continue reading →

The mendacious mania for mediocrity Today appeared a story that was both very funny in its flouting of PC pieties and slightly sad, because it reminds us how much we live by what Solzenhitsyn famously called “The Lie”. The Royal … Continue reading →

The Museum of Bad Art Worth a few momentf anyone’s time – a tour of some of the gems in the Massachussetts-based Museum of Bad Art: http://www.museumofbadart.org/ Any antique shop can furnish similar examples. But how close some of the … Continue reading →

John Cleese on the fawlts of immigration Former Monty Python and Fawtly Towers star John Cleese has given an interesting interview in  Australia, about the changes wrought in London in recent decades by massive and unrequested  immigration. See here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032956/John-Cleese-London-longer-English-city-thats-got-2012-Olympics.html … Continue reading →

Fatuous comments of the week Vanessa Redgrave on the Dale Farm “travellers”; “Evicting these families would be totally unreasonable and irresponsible”. “I have always supported travellers…since I became conscious of what happened during Hitler’s rule. I’m not making comparisons. I’m … Continue reading →

Black roses for a broken society The cowardly and callous murder in 2007 of Sophie Lancaster, a gap year student who was beaten to death by drunken teenagers in a park in Lancashire, was the starting point for a discussion … Continue reading →

The diversity circus My latest article is a review of Jared Taylor’s book White Identity http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/hbd-human-biodiversity/race-the-final-frontier/ Derek Turner, 24 August 2011     Free Google Ad cialis drugs no rx