Thursday, 9 May 2013


Paywall Stonewall

  Access to online newspapers and magazines is becoming more difficult as it becomes common for paywalls to be introduced. I imagine the bean counters have done their sums and it all works out as an exercise worth doing….though it might indicate to advertisers that their adverts don’t work and so encourage them to take a lower, less expensive presence online. However whether it pays or not is irrelevant here.  … Continue reading 

Culture Of Denial

Islam…Institutionally Racist?  ‘Did that mean that freedom of speech, parliamentary democracy, the rule of law or monogamy were no longer to be upheld as worthwhile? Here was the very nihilism which, if unchallenged, threatened to destroy the West. If all common bonds of tradition, custom, culture and morality were destroyed, there would no social glue to keep society together. It would gradually fracture into disparate tribes with competing agendas, and … Continue reading 

OUR TIME WILL COME

      The BBC’s Peter Taylor, for all his knowledge of the events in Northern Ireland always seems somewhat naïve when it comes to the whole picture…perhaps too caught up in the details to see it in the round?  Not just of Northern Ireland but terrorism generally…..Jihadists and all. Ever the loyal BBC man he manages to get a dig in at UKIP…associating them with IRA terrorists here (and … Continue reading