Whittaker Chambers was one of the great hate figures of the American liberal left.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Fay Stender in 1932 There is a little known but brilliant book, The Death of Uncle Joe, by Alison Macleod who worked for the British Communist Daily Worker in the 1940s and 1950s until eventually seeing sense and leaving. The book is well worth reading for its […]
Today is the anniversary of death of Roger Scruton in 2020 There is a very interesting discussion between Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution and Roger Scruton on You Tube. In these times of Manichean witch hunts against anyone who does not sign up to a narrow left liberal agenda, it provides a breath of […]
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” Thomas Sowell There is a twitter account named Thomas Sowell Quotes, and its popular because a quote from Thomas […]
Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, was an early left critic of Marxist totalitarianism. He had been a member of the Communist Party of France and the Communist Party of Algeria in the1930s but rejected both the philosophy and reality of what Communism meant when it became the state ideology […]
I was left wing up until I realised that the left was not what it purported to be. And that was in the mid 1990s. Born and raised in South County Meath in 1960, I joined the Trim branch of the Labour Party in 1981. I was working in a local drapery shop at the […]
Whittaker Chambers was one of the great hate figures of the American liberal left. His crime was to strip the veneer of self-righteousness from their treachery. Chambers joined the Communist Party of the United States of America in 1925 and was staff writer and editor for a time of Daily Worker and New Masses. He […]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature almost 50 years ago, in October 1970. While few people could tell you who the latest laureate is, Solzhenitsyn’s elevation dominated the news globally in 1970. It was a major embarrassment to the Brezhnev regime in the Soviet Union and to those who had devoted a lifetime […]
The Scottish shipyards and mines were one of the few places in Britain where the Communist Party gained a foothold. Beginning with the Red Clydeside strikes against World War I, communists remained influential within the trade union movement until the 1980s. Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) members Mick McGahey of the National Union of […]
While the Sex Pistols, led by John Lydon (Rotten) whose mother was from Cork whose father was from Galway, are recalled by many as an ephemeral almost circus act – and that is how they ended up after Lydon left – there was a lot more to them. Lydon, unlike most leading punks – or […]
A video posted by a lesbian you tuber which explains why she is leaving what she describes as the “INSANE progressive left” has gone viral, with more than 1.6 million views in just over 24 hours. “Hi, I’m Arielle, I’m a lesbian. And I don’t think gender is a social construct,” the video begins. “I […]
A younger Matt had among his bêtes noir those I considered to be traitors to the doctrine of scientific socialism. Among them were Richard Crossman. Crossman was a left wing MP in the post war Labour government but was hated by the pro-Soviet left because he had edited a seminal 1949 collection of essays by […]