Tag: Roger Watson

Infanticide: The Next Logical step?

The twin issues of legalised abortion and legalised euthanasia, two sides of the same coin, have proved to be the most slippery of slippery slopes and the thinnest edges of very short wedges.

Britain Isn’t Working

Many organisations in the UK no longer function, or no longer function in the way originally intended, because they are stuck in a ‘woke’ iron grip.

Plague Management: plus ça change

Orhan Pamuk is a masterful writer. His books all open in such a way that you know they are going to be hard to put down.

In Praise of COVID Restrictions

If one picked up this book expecting a genuine defence of COVID restrictions, one would soon be disabused of that notion. It is both hilarious and deadly serious, obliging the reader to remember all the traumas that befell us.

All Views Are Welcome—Provided They Are Ours

Social justice activism is a religion in that it provides a set of beliefs. These beliefs are to be accepted unquestioningly, and a common language develops between the people involved by which they may identify one another and interrogate and expel heretics.

The New Blasphemies

For there to be blasphemy there needs to be religion and, in this case, I am referring to the religions of identity politics and climate-change activism. These are not merely religions, however; they are the religions of fanatics.

The ANZAC Response to COVID

Defeating the pandemic became a matter of national pride, and the wishes, freedoms, and even the lives of individuals become secondary to that aim. Almost anything was permitted—including brutality in pursuit of the aim of winning the fight.

Old Ottoman Habits Die Hard

Erdoğan either has the best of intentions for Turkey or is simply in love with power. The fact that he has altered the presidential voting system and extended his term of office in the process suggest the latter.

Confessions of an Epidemiologist

We witnessed a prolonged curtailment of freedom of movement, freedom of association, and freedom of speech. But Mark Woolhouse does not address this. In fact, while he clearly comes out as lockdown sceptical, it is not entirely clear why.

The Islamic Tail Wagging the Western Dog

It is not their judgement of the film that is in question; it is their methods and the reasons why they were permitted to behave with impunity in a society where free speech predominates.