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David Lindsay
"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".
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Propriety and Constitution
“Race realism” ought to be as unacceptable as sex nonrealism, and vice versa. But h aving appointed Nathan Cofnas in the full knowledge of his published views, and therefore inescapably because of them, Cambridge never sacked him. Rather, at the end of his Fellowship, it merely declined to invite him to keep up an informal, unpaid relationship. As long as someone had been paying, then it had had…
Sweet Caroline?
Richard Littlejohn compares Nigel Farage to Clacton’s previous claim to fame, Radio Caroline. For all its alleged left-wingery, and its ability to annoy the forces of conservatism no end, British Boomer rock’n’roll was made up of common or garden proto-Thatcherites, often tax exiles. The only notable exceptions were David Bowie and Eric Clapton, way out on the Far Right, at least performatively in…
Stacking The Deck
From The Grayzone : As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors and banned local media coverage to guarantee convictions. The Grayzone can…
UK Freeports: From Exception To Rule?
Alexandra Hall writes: In May 2023, Michael Gove, then Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, announced a government inquiry into the newly established Teesside Freeport. The inquiry followed a series of controversies that had begun to attract national attention. Environmental campaigners and local residents raised concerns about dredging operations linked to the site and…
The Ice Age That Never Came
Those with ties to Nathan Cofnas may think that Paul Knaggs is AI, but he is not, and he writes: The 1970s cooling scare was a media myth, not a scientific consensus. With Britain burning through its hottest day on record, here’s what that story actually tells us about science, certainty, and who pays when institutions ignore both. In May 1978, Leonard Nimoy stood in front of a television camera…
In Not Joining The Unthinking Pack
Immediately upon the announcement of the death of Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas gave a triumphant interview in which he said that “after the revolution”, he would be “the Head of the Department of Eugenics and Race Science at Harvard”. No inference that he was joking could have been drawn from the record on which Cambridge had appointed this alien, to whom a visa had therefore been granted and by…
How Great The Game?
On 28 February, with heavy British complicity, the Americans launched a double-tap Tomahawk missile attack on a girls’ school in Minab, killing 156 civilians, including 120 children. They were able to bomb a girls’ school because there was one to bomb. Minab, you see, is in Iran. It is not in Afghanistan. There would be no such target once Donald Trump had declared the Strait of Hormuz a territory…
Assumpta est Maria in cælum!
Gaude, Maria Virgo, cunctas hæreses sola interemisti in universo mundo! The Church proclaims the resurrection of the body, and there is no such thing as a “spiritual body”. It is impossible to sustain out of Scripture the view according to which newly disembodied souls entered immediately into their final, but incorporeal, bliss or torment. Serious Protestant theologians do not hold it, although…
Flamingo Land
Aris Roussinos writes: “Why am I living in England?” Avni, an Albanian in his 40s working in London as a builder, asked me angrily, as we walked to the lines of riot police separating Albania’s Flamingo Revolution protestors from the country’s parliament. “Albania is a very good country, there is no war here. We shouldn’t be immigrants. We should come back home,” he added, telling me that his home…