Margaret Thatcher's death has set off a great deal of noise around the world. The burden of the song, even from supposed opponents, is that a great leader is dead. Well, I have long observed that when historians call someone "Great", with few exceptions it is someone that normal men would cross the road to avoid, were it not that it would be very ( Read more... )

This unpleasant abortionist creep, who can't hold back from connecting opposition to abortion with Fascism, nonetheless agrees with me that it is specifically opposition to abortion that has fuelled the rise of the conservative movement. (History disproves her pathetic claim in that area: Fascism, and Nazism even more, were into free love, sexual ( Read more... )

What I find unbelievable is that eager conservatives such as Damian Thompson should find the publication of Margaret Thatcher's ministerial papers so inspiring. It is true, of course, that the standard of leadership since has been so abysmal, and the media and establishment consensus so revolting, that one is apt to take any demonstration of ( Read more... )

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