Abu Qatada – the law at work

Not so long ago I made myself a little unpopular by posting a blog

Human rights are bigger than Abu Qatada

The law must be bigger than Abu Qatada. Once we ignore human rights for him we open the door for governments to ignore human rights for us all.

Anders Breivik is sane

Anders Breivik (the Oslo bomber) has been declared sane and therefore, presumably will be declared ‘fit to plead’ shortly.

Lest we forget? It seems that many already have

I wonder how many EDL members will defile the poppy by placing it on their ‘division’ hoodies as they try to prevent peaceful demonstrators from exercising their own human right to protest.

Remember, remember the 5th of November

People feel ignored and abandoned today just as many Catholics did in 1605. Then they used 36 barrels of gunpowder in an attempt to bring down government buildings. Today organisations like UKUncut use banners and the internet in an attempt to make the governmnet listen.

Defending Narnian car parks from radical Aslanisation

I had planned to write a long piece about the damp squib that was the English Defence League’s latest attempt at ‘The Big One’. It has, after all become a tradition for these largely uneducated, semi-literate, sectarian fascists to predict huge numbers of supporters only to face humiliation ‘on the day’. I’d also planned to [...]

English culture hasn’t changed – we’ve never liked unfairness

The more unfairly the ‘underclass’ is treated the more explosive their response will be. Like the machine breakers of the industrial revolution the modern ‘desperate society’ is lashing out without clearly understanding who or what to blame.

Unsurprisingly the EDL get in on the act

“None sicker than the EDL”

No easy answers (but history provides a few clues)

Last night on the BBC political correspondent, Nick Robinson described UK Prime Minister, David Cameron as a ‘political historian’. I had never heard him described that way and to be honest I find it extremely hard to believe. After all, those who understand history tend not to repeat the mistakes of the past. In the [...]

Breivik and the EDL – a shared insanity

If it’s OK to call Breivik insane and delusional presumably the same is true of Tommy Robinson (AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) & his cronies. But don’t call them insane just because you don’t agree with them. Call them insane because they meet the medical criteria. The EDL’s beliefs, like Anders Breivik’s, really are ‘fixed, false beliefs not amenable to reason’.