Dick of the Year – David Starkey
This is a nomination for Bright Green’s Dick of the Year 2011 award from Liz Ely. To submit your own nomination email 200 or so words to editors (at) brightgreenscotland (dot) org. Nominations will close and voting begin at New Year. Q. Why would you deem it appropriate to ask a Tudor historian to talk [...]
Barbarism With and Without a Human Face: Dale Farm, Brighton and Liberal Racism.
“Leaving with supporters today is about our own dignity and our appreciation of the support we’ve received. We’re leaving together as one family, and we are proud of that- you can’t take away our dignity.” – Dale Farm resident Mary Sheridan Two days ago bailiffs and police moved into Dale Farm to brutally remove residents [...]
The waiting game on Dale Farm
‘I hope you’re not going to waste your weekend,’ says my taxi driver as I climb in and ask for Dale Farm. ‘They’re all scum up there I tell you. I’m fed up with do-gooders telling me I’m racist. I’ve had tools nicked from my shed and I know it was them.’ I ask my [...]
The rise of the Far-Right after the riots
I wish we could ignore that petition. You know which one. The one that would have innocent people thrown out into the street because of what someone in their family might have done. I wish we could ignore the fact that Nick Griffin has been gaining thousands of Twitter followers (including 2000 in just one day). [...]
Justice for Smiley Culture
Today I’m up in Westminster Magistrates Court for my pre-hearing about the UK Uncut Fortnum & Mason protest on the 26th of March. But I’ve been advised not to write about that. So instead, I thought I’d write about another recent case. When the police arrest lots of activists, we are quite good at getting [...]
On anti Israelism and anti-Semitism
On March 12, two students at the University of St Andrews, where I work, visited the room of a third, who was living in the same hall of residence, and had what appears to have been an intense conversation on the subject of the state of Israel and its policies towards the Palestinians. At some [...]
On immigration
It is very tempting for the liberal left to scream “racist” every time the subject of immigration comes up. But if we do so without understanding the material problems for which “immigration” has become a political proxy, we risk driving people into the arms of the right. I wrote around this time last year about [...]
The Yellow and White Minstrel Show
So Jim Naughtie accidentally renamed the Culture Secretary Jeremy Cunt. And an hour after Naughtie did it so did Andrew Marr. It was the broadcasting equivalent of a motorway pile up. As I heard the word pass Naughtie’s lips I really felt for him. Jeremy Hunt, to his credit, took the whole episode with good [...]
On Scotland’s People…
This article is cross-posted from Lallands Peat Worrier The Scottish Household Survey “is a continuous survey based on a sample of the general population in private residences in Scotland” which is “designed to provide reliable and up-to-date information on the composition, characteristics, attitudes and behaviour of Scottish households and individuals, both nationally and at a [...]