Greetings, Harrumpfers. You find me, notwithstanding the Season of Goodwill and all that, seething. An old friend, of whom one has not in recent years seen a great deal, has sent one one of those round-robin summaries of family activities that arrive at this time of the year, brimming with a confidence in their recipients’ […]
Much has been written about the farce taking place in Baku, A place literally built on the supply of fossil fuels for energy production, hosting the world’s longest-running campaign for transferring wealth from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries is indeed a risible spectacle. Sceptical comment tends to dwell on […]
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command One thing we were taught in Britain as children in the 50s and 60s has long puzzled me – the insistence that before the use of ether to produce general anaesthesia, nothing but alcohol was available to dull the pain of surgery. Yet the same people […]
A must-listen interview for anyone clinging to the belief that there really is an ‘authentic’ Islam that is a religion of peace and tolerance. For far too long, the bien pensant, kumbayaist tendency in both Australia and Britain has swallowed uncritically the claim by Islam’s apologists that it is, in its authentic form, a religion […]
I have written before about the power of unpredictability to deter tyrants. With a second presidency of the notoriously capricious Trump in prospect, it’s perhaps worth expanding on those remarks. During Cold War 1, it was arguable that the predictability of American response to hostile activities was a key factor in deterrence. Since 1975, America’s […]
I’ve been in an enjoyable dialogue over the last few days with JJ Dawson over subjects dear to both our hearts – Covid madness and climate cultism. You can see the piece to which I responded at JJ’s Substack here, but I thought my latest reply was worth posting at Harrumpf. Hi JJ – I’d […]
Lest we forget… I don’t really ‘do’ social media. Way back when Facebook came out, I promptly determined that it was only for people who were happy to live their lives in a goldfish bowl, and I’m not one of those. But I did realise that it offered a convenient way for people with interests […]
I normally try to erase from my consciousness any trace of the Eurovision Song Contest, but this year’s a bit different. The opportunity to give the Pro-Hamas rabble and, in particular, that hideous little poison-pixie, Greta Thunberg a good poke in the eye by voting for their hate-figure is too good to miss, and a […]
In politics, the ability to entertain is underrated… Donald Trump and Kemi Badenoch may not, at first sight, have a great deal in common. Both are in politics, of course, but the first is a deeply unattractive narcissist who loudly mutilates the English language and has the attention span of a blowfly on speed, while […]
Submission I welcome the opportunity to make a submission to the Covid Response enquiry. I am a private citizen, and was 69 years old at the outset of the pandemic. In 1977, aged 25, I suffered an attack of poliomyelitis, which nearly killed me, left me extensively paralysed, and importantly for present purposes, gave me […]
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