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Curtsies to Brett McS for sending this along (and helpfully providing a series-appropriate title with it!):

City Journal - The Quivering Upper Lip The British character: from self-restraint to self-indulgence, by Theodore Dalrymple

When my mother arrived in England as a refugee from Nazi Germany, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she found the [...]

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Well I’m home. I’ve had some Chinese. Time for an early night I think. So here’s something Brett McS sent along: Dad tells 5-year-old, ‘You did the crime, you walk the line’

A [Northern] TERRITORY man has been making his five-year-old son walk two-and-a-half hours to school every day, after he was kicked off [...]

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I was reading this in the departures lounge yesterday, surrounded by reading elderly ladies, snoozing babies, and the dulcet tones of CNN’s Situation Room in the background, and started laughin’ like a fool:

Wheat & Weeds - The Barely Perceptible Nod Of Peace

I once worked for a man who hated the kiss of peace [...]

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American Digest - The Gay Cowards Parades

Picking fights with African-Americans just isn’t the done thing — especially in the penumbra of good feelings the election cast across the landscape. The linchpin of the gay agenda has always been the tenuous linking between the gay experience and the African-American experience. Nothing can be allowed [...]

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The Times - Why the French maid is about to clean up – and save her nation from economic ruin

Mrs Gomes Ricardo, 38, costs €25 a hour, but 50 per cent of that can be deducted from income tax under the government policy of promoting domestic services. She is paid about €12 an [...]

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Poor old Conrad Black: From my cell I scent the reeking soul of US justice

First, the good news:

I write to you from a US federal prison. It is far from a country club or even a regimental health spa. I work quite hard but fulfillingly, teaching English and the history of the United [...]

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Not that I blame him. The whole thing is worth reading, but I’ll pick my favourite two.

PJM - Ten Random, Politicially-incorrect Thoughts, by Victor Davis Hanson

2. Hollywood is going the way of Detroit. The actors are programmed and pretty rather than interesting looking and unique. They, of course, are overpaid (they do to [...]

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Pictures of an Anti-Prop 8 Rally in Los Angeles (they’ve been having them here, too): Anti-Prop 8 Demonstration - Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 15, 2008. Well, I gotta say they got all the best signs. Love and Equality travel better than “Your behaviour is a gross abomination, read the bible for details.” Or the [...]

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Telegraph Blogs - Daniel Hannan - The bail-outs and nationalisations are failing - as predicted

We tried to warn you. We said that the bail-out would fail. We pointed out that nationalisation never worked. We predicted that the seizure of the banks would be accompanied by heavy-handed state intervention in their procedures. [...]

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Are we gonna get the happy married couples interspersed with gay couples gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes as the snuggle on screen and talk about their compatibility scores? Cuz boy, that could certainly change the company’s image.

Wheat & Weeds - We Support Your Right To Do As We Say

eHarmony, founded in association [...]

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I am nothing like this women. I’m also married. HAH!

City Journal - KAY S. HYMOWITZ - Love in the Time of Darwinism A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive

It’s long, but a seriously entertaining read. Language a little saucy in parts, but, well, a quick quote for general flavour:

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Oh good lord:

Wheat & Weeds - Get A Keload Of This

Remember the infamous Kelo case? In which SCOTUS decided government can seize private property not solely for pressing public purpose but also any time city planners think they can turn a profit? Here’s the rest of the story: the city [...]

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Good heavens.

The Sunday Times - King Charles should be free to speak out

But when will he succeed to the throne? The Queen, at 82, is already Britain’s oldest monarch. The Prince of Wales is now entitled to free off-peak bus travel and the winter fuel allowance. At an age when most people are [...]

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First, The Times archive announcing his birth.

I understand the We Are Not Amused show will be broadcast Saturday night.

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“On both sides”? Because a middle-aged lady walks across a path with a cardboard cross? Cowards.

Honestly, I blame religious people for a lot of this anyway. I went to Catholic schools and I think every one of my friends is for gay marriage. They had their supposed talons into most of us for upwards of [...]

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