At last the People couldn’t bear it any longer, so they said to the Barons (who were now Noble English Gentlemen): “We really can’t stand this misery any more. Won’t you do something?” “Well,” said the Barons, “we can’t put up with him any longer either, so we’ll see what we can do for you.”… [Read More]
Three excellent articles have recently appeared on the internet about the problems Europe is facing as a result of disastrous policies that various European governments have adopted, including the ever-growing supra-national one in Brussels, in response to the huge influx of Muslim immigrants to this region in recent years. The first is by Flemming Rose… [Read More]
It has recently been announced that Sir Iqbal Sacranie is to step down as head of the Muslim Council of Britain in favour of his deputy, Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari. A BBC news profile of Dr Bari informs us that he is chairman of the East London Mosque, as well as a specialist teacher in… [Read More]
According to The Times, the Lake District national park authority is to scrap guided walks by volunteer rangers because too high a proportion of participants are white. Mick Casey, a media officer for the authority, said that ‘only 35,000’ per year took part: “The majority who do the walks are white, middle-class, middle-aged people,” he… [Read More]
The first reponse from the Home Office to Cultures and Crimes was that the risk of being a victim of crime is at its lowest since records began. No! Records began in 1857. If no notice had been taken of the book, that utterly reckless statement would have done the job nicely. But notice is… [Read More]
On New Year’s Eve I posted an essay in which I predicted what the academic reaction to Cultures and Crimes would be. Right on cue, Professor Mike Hough, the Director of Criminal Policy Research at King’s College, London, is quoted in the Observer this morning as saying that “This is nonsense. Academics mostly [sic]agree that… [Read More]
Ron Bramwell speaks of his gut feeling as a police officer that crime surged after 1955 because there were more things to steal. In the second half of the nineteenth century, England was still reaping the benefits of having a head start on all other countries in the industrial revolution, and there were many more… [Read More]
If you are interested in changes in English culture from, say 1956, when there were still quite large pockets of disquiet at the introduction of government-sponsored gambling in the form of Premium Bonds, and still for the Labour Party the redistribution of income by gambling was morally only marginally superior to its redistribution by theft,… [Read More]
Cultures and Crimes, Civitas’s new book on crime and the police, will be published early next week. Cultures and Crimes looks at crime and policing within the context of the cultures of four societies, England, France, Germany and the United States. I am one of the authors, and in the case of this volume I… [Read More]
Due to the recent enforced closure of the Merseyside-based firm that supplied the NHS with flu-vaccine and diamorphine, it is reported in today’s papers that the country’s hospitals face the prospect of running out of supplies of the painkiller in a mere matter of weeks. This is no laughing matter, since diamorphine is used in… [Read More]