Dawn of the anti-Semitic LGBTQ Racist Hippy Fogeys

In American politics in the late 1990s the Left and Right were broadly in agreement about economics. The only differences between the Republicans and the Democrats were in practice grossly overstated and de facto they were confined to a handful of moral and cultural issues such as baby-killing and sodomy. 

In the UK it was the other way around. The "culture wars" had been comprehensively won by the Left almost over night in the 1960s, and so all that remained to tell between Labour and Conservatives were the promise of socialist economic chaos on the Left vs. grey managerialism on the Right. (Literally, they chose a leader who was a chartered accountant and had the charisma of a bank cashier.)

Interestingly though, what's happened in Britain now is that our politics have, once again, been "Americanized". So, on the Right we now have the gay racist fogeys (i.e. people like the creepy David Starkey and the ridiculous Douglas Murray). And on the Left we have the trans (or "trans allied") even more racist hippies (i.e. people like the disgusting Owen Jones and the appalling David Paulden).

What does the future hold for anyone who thinks we should still live in the Real World, with sound finances and a sensible foreign policy - let alone for anyone who genuinely wants a stronger church, a stronger state, and stronger families?

I suspect nothing good.

Happy Empire Day!

Lovely phrase picked up online: “These days we are all Rhodesians, living in a global Zimbabwe!” Wish I’d said that! pic.twitter.com/qHmcMtrX74

— Charles A. Coulombe (@RCCoulombe) May 12, 2026

The World's Policemen

'It's my opinion that we have been the policemen of the world long enough. We policed the seas for pirates and slavers. Now we police the land for dervishes and brigands and every sort of danger to civilization. There is never a mad priest or a witch doctor, or a firebrand of any sort on this planet, who does not report his appearance by sniping the nearest British officer. One tires of it at last. If a Kurd breaks loose in Asia Minor, the world wants to know why Great Britain does not keep him in order. If there is a military mutiny in Egypt, or a jihad in the Sudan, it is still Great Britain who has to set it right. And all to an accompaniment of curses such as the policeman gets when he seizes a ruffian among his pals. We get hard knocks and no thanks, and why should we do it? Let Europe do its own dirty work.'

[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, quoted in The Sick Bed :: SteynOnline]

There are no new cliches under the sun.