Blog Comment Of The Month

 A new semi-regular category for this month, one which has been suggested before, but I felt this comment deserved more than just a recommendation on Tim Worstall's blog. the subject was 'modenising James Bond'

Post Title Of The Month

 And this month the honour goes to Bucko, for this one on passport woes in Corfu.

Quote Of The Month

 Fahrenheit 211 on the peculiar cowardice of the establishment when it comes to ascribing blame for the German Pride terrorist:

But what could be the cause of the need for armed police to be required to guard a massive festival of LGB people? What is the nature of this ‘hate’ and the ideology behind it and where is the ‘division’ coming from? Is the generic and un-explainable ‘hate’ that is the cause? Is the threat coming from a few mentalist Methodists or murderous Mennonites? No it’s coming from Islamic extremism and our cowardly media and political classes and the Establishment LGBT wallahs really do not want to mention that. This is because to mention this specific threat to LGB people and their allies would pull out a keystone of the whole ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ ideologies.

Post Of The Month

 My co-blogger James on the fall of another once mighty feat of British engineering.

Post Title Of The Month

 The inimitable David Thompson, on how every silver lining holds a cloud for someone....

Quote Of The Month

Longrider on the former Prince Harry's petulant whinging:

"This ridiculous man-child has a total lack of self awareness. He quit the job. He chose to spend the last few years trashing not only his family but the country. He and his harridan of a wife accused us of being racists. So, damn right we shouldn’t have to foot the bill for his security. We owe him nothing. If that makes him distraught, then in the fine words of BSM Williams, oh dear, how sad, never mind."

Post Of The Month

Fahrenheit211 on what he'd like to see on emigrating to the US, and what those mistaken souls who move here should see.

Post Title Of The Month

From the blog for all retail workers, Not Always Right, comes this little gem about one of the oldest tricks in the book: 

Quote Of The Month

 Perry at 'Samizdata' on the slow dawning of reality that you're on the wrong side of history:

"But then in late July for an entire week, the RAF and USAAF filled the sky over Hamburg by day and by night. And although Hannelore did not know it at the time, it was called Operation Gomorrah. She told me that on one night in particular, her father called the whole family outside. It was bright as day, the entire skyline to the south a line of incandescent light. By morning, white dust entirely covered their home and farmland, with a constant rain of ash still falling from the sky. 40,000 people had burned to death in a firestorm in a single day in Hamburg. And only then, our friend’s grandmother said, did they finally realise everything was not going to be alright and the war had been a catastrophic mistake. Only then, and from then onwards, did everything they read in the newspapers or heard on the radio ring hollow."

Post Of The Month

 David Thompson on the doomed struggle for artistic purity.

Blog Hiatus

 Posts will be light to non-existent here and at 'Orphans' for the next few days, as I’m on holiday in beautiful Edinburgh. 

Normal service will resume when I’m back in grimy London.

Post Title Of The Month

 Fahrenheit211 on the saga of yet another virtue signalling Left stunt gone wrong.

Quote Of The Month

 Fellow blogger James Higham  from Orphans of Liberty on the selective outrage of the Left: 

"The question for us is which were lies and which plain truth? Which were focussed upon, which allowed to slip by ... and by whom? Who is sufficiently "apolitical", not just kidding themselves that they are so, pursuing all the wrongdoing with equal fervour? 

Who would pursue Kerry, Chappaquiddick and Obama with the same fervour that they'd pursue Nixon and Colson?"

Post Of The Month

 Natalie Solent at Samizdata on the modern misuse of the word and status of 'Victim'...

This Blog Is Old Enough To Legally Buy Alcohol Or Join The Armed Forces Today!

It's my blogiversary​, I've been going 18 years today, so your landlady is taking the day off! Over to you!

Post Title Of The Month

 Longrider once again knocks it out of the park with this one:

Quote Of The Month

 Bucko on the most bizarre take on a subject by the Guardian, one which also puzzled Tim:

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole purpose of Britains version of ICE was to single out non-white, foreign born workers? Ok, fair enough, I'm sure there are many white illegals in this country, but if you're looking for illegals in an Indian restaurant, you're not there for the Albanians"

Post Of The Month

 Nick Drew at Capitalists@Work on the subject everyone wants to avoid considering....

Post Title Of The Month

 Tim Worstall enlightens the bewildered (or more accurately, those claiming bewilderment): 

Quote Of The Month

Farenheit 211 on the suggested 'Freedom Portal':

"There’s not much yet on this Freedom Portal site apart from a graphic that ripples to reveal the word ‘freedom’ and an animation of a rider, presumably a reference to Paul Revere who, during the Revolutionary War, carried news of British troop movements to American Patriot forces prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord. There’s little indication on the freedom.gov site as to how this site will work but the fact that this site was created in the first place is of great consequence. It’s a sort of declaration of war by America not on Britain as a sovereign nation, but instead against an authoritarian political current that for various reasons has gained significant influence in places like the United Kingdom and other European and Anglophone nations."