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An Orwellian Felony: In Scotland Seven Years’ Imprisonment for "Misgendering"
J.K. Rowling Stands up for Chromosomal Reality and the Rights of Women
•�April 3, 2024
•�2,600 Words •�143 Comments • Reply
Scotland’s newly minted Hate Crime and Public Order Act makes it a felony to "stir up hatred" relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being “intersex.” The maximum punishment is seven years’ imprisonment. Scotland’s Prime Minister Humza Yousaf said the law was designed to deal with what he called a "rising tide... Read More
The Sturgeon-Salmond Feud Threatens to Capsize Scottish Nationalism
•�March 5, 2021
•�1,200 Words •�56 Comments • Reply
Most nationalist movements wait until they have achieved independence before having a civil war over who runs the country. But Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have jumped the gun by opening hostilities while Scottish self-determination is still well over the horizon. Could it remain an unattainable goal thanks to the open warfare between the past... Read More
The Scottish Independence Movement Will Now be Very Difficult to Stop
•�January 30, 2021
•�1,200 Words •�57 Comments • Reply
Predictions of the break-up of the UK may be reaching a crescendo, but they are scarcely new. In 1707, Jonathan Swift wrote a poem deriding the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which had just been passed, for seeking to combine two incompatible peoples in one state: “As if a man in making posies/... Read More
A Tartan Tyranny
Censorship and Silence in the Virtue-Signalling Scottish Police State
•�November 28, 2018
•�3,500 Words •�129 Comments • Reply
Race isn’t a social construct, but here’s something that is: the so-called United Kingdom. In fact, it’s precisely because race exists that the U.K. is a construct rather than a nation. The native Whites of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are genetically distinct, which is why those regions are all genuine nations (ultimately from Latin... Read More
Is a UK Crackup Ahead?
•�May 12, 2015
•�900 Words •�15 Comments • Reply
David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher. Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain's secession from the European Union. How did Cameron's Tories capture their majority? First, they compiled a strong record to run on. More critically, they attacked... Read More
Modern States Are Fragile in the Face of Local Nationalism
It is striking how little political resistance has been offered to the break-up of the Union
•�May 10, 2015
•�1,200 Words •�25 Comments • Reply
I have spent most of my working life writing about countries where communal or nationalist differences determine and, on occasion, convulse the political landscape. My first experience of this was at Queen’s University Belfast, where I was writing a PhD on the Irish Home Rulers in Ulster pre-Irish independence, during the worst years of the... Read More
What Scotland's Insurrection Can Tell Us About America's Worst Economic Mistake
•�May 3, 2015
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Even in these days of light-speed communication, some information still travels as slowly as in the medieval era. Take, for instance, the recent history of global manufacturing. In the Anglophone world, many if not most of the more prominent commentators have long held that a first-rank economy no longer needs manufacturing. The Economist magazine in... Read More
Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful
•�September 28, 2014
•�600 Words •�4 Comments • Reply
Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe.In the weeks leading up to the referendum, it appeared that the people of Scotland were poised to vote to secede from the United Kingdom. Defeating the referendum... Read More
Scotland: The Hole in the Lifeboat
If there is hope for England, it lies with the separatists.
•�September 18, 2014
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An opinion journalist is expected to take a stand on newsy issues, even ones he doesn’t much care about. This is especially so when the issue relates to the British Isles and the journalist podcasts with a British accent; to be precise in my particular case, a mid-20th-century educated-lower-lower-middle-class East Midlands accent. So, all right,... Read More
Three Big Winners from A Scottish Independence Vote
•�September 17, 2014
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I don’t know whether Scottish voters will choose independence in tomorrow’s referendum. What I do know is that they should. They have little to lose and much to gain. In part my thinking is based on a lengthy study of state-of-the-art economic nationalism. I refer, of course, to the East Asian variety. As a veteran... Read More
Giving the Sassenachs a Big Scare
•�September 13, 2014
•�700 Words •�15 Comments • Reply
“Ach, the Sassenachs (English) be greet’in and gurn’in (moaning, groaning, wailing) most mightily.” Every so often, the Scots like to rise up and give the Sassenachs a big scare. Next week, they are threatening to break their union with England and Wales which has been in effect since 1707. The United Kingdom may be no... Read More
As Scotland Mulls Independence, A Stupid London Plays It Dirty
•�February 18, 2014
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For students of British politics, the big issue this year is the future of Scotland. The Scottish people have enjoyed limited self-rule since 1999, when a separate Scottish parliament was set up. Now in a referendum planned for this September, they will vote on whether to establish an independent nation. Instead of letting Scottish voters... Read More
How Inbred Are Europeans?
•�September 7, 2013
•�2,400 Words •�54 Comments • Reply
HBD Chick and I talk about how rates of historic inbreeding have had an important impact on the selective pressures acting on the traits of various peoples living today. We have often used Europe and the Middle East as examples of this, because strong regional variations in historic rates of inbreeding exist in those places.... Read More
Scotland the Brave
•�July 23, 2010
•�400 Words •�10 Comments • Reply
Forget Yemen and Somalia. Scotland is the next front in the Global War on Terror, or is it overseas contingency operations? The Wall Street Journal reported today: "Scotland's government has rebuffed a U.S. Senate committee request to send two Scottish officials to testify next week at a hearing that will explore the country's release last... Read More
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