I had a discussion, footage of which follows below, with the popular and well-known internet entity Thunderf00t broadly on the subject of Islam and modernity. The background to all of this is on this video. xD.

I do not doubt the Armenian Genocide for a moment; however, as I argued a couple of years ago, both it and the Shoah are sui generis; there is nothing to be gained in giving its nomenclature an official imprimatur and much to be lost. Firstly, I think the precedent of governments sanctioning official histories [...]

The headline on the front page of the new, positive London Evening Standard reads 10 troops died and ‘only 150 Afghans voted’ Note the quotation marks. What’s inside them is never referenced to anyone. The ‘story’ is that only 150 people voted in Babaji. A second story is that ten British soldiers died in Operation [...]

Ahead of tomorrow’s poll, I thought it might be useful to look at who’s still in the race for the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Runners and riders come below the fold along with a brief comment from me.

Yes, I’m biased towards Labour, but the boy done good. H/T The Wardman Wire. xD.

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPRights) have a video up decrying government healthcare. The NHS has its problems; no-one would say that it is perfect. However, it does a pretty damned good job and it does so regardless of someone’s ability to pay. While we don’t see the faces of private healthcare – or those who [...]

“The Iraq war was a disaster” is a familiar refrain. Unfortunately, that doesn’t tell us very much. Do we mean the concept, the planning, the implementation, the strategy, the tactics, what? Or do we want an official stick with which to beat the government? Were the problems with the Iraq war just the basis on [...]

Further to my post on the Spanish regional elections, the leader of the Socialists in the Basque Country (PSE-EE, the local chapter of PSOE) has been elected lehendakari, or First Minster of the Basque Country, following a deal with the Popular Party. Quite what this will mean I don’t know; it breaks the hold of [...]

As I wrote here, there have been elections in the Basque Country; there were simultaneously elections in Galicia. The result there is rather clearer as the Popular Party have an absolute majority of 39 out of 75. Previously, Galicia had been governed by a coalition of PSdeG (Partido Socialista de Galicia, the local flavour of [...]