Ok, false alarm, it’s not quite breaking news. People have known this for years. But I think, following today’s little outburst in The Independent, it’s worth reiterating. Julie Burchill is an idiot. Quite why a paper which is, by and large, aimed at intelligent, liberal minded progressives, chooses to print the journalistic equivalent of an [...]
If you get the Independent you might have read Christina Patterson’s invective against her Orthodox Jewish neighbours in Stamford Hill. In an article entitled “The Limits of Multi-Culturalism” Patterson pours out all her gripes against the community. She would like, she tells us, “to teach my neighbours some manners”: I would like, for example, to [...]
My original plan for this week was to write about spending cuts and the right’s hysteria over government debt, but after Touchstone, Seumas Milne, and especially Duncan’s recent posts did a much better job than I could ever hope to, I decided against it. So, after seeing this story in today’s Independent, I’ve gone for [...]
