Matthew Carr's Blog, page 46

Labour’s Zombie Politicians

It’s less than a fortnight since Ed Miliband’s unexpected political demise, and already his would-be successors and closet critics are stripping the flesh from his political corpse like extras from The Walking Dead. Personally,   I can’t really blame anyone … Continue reading →

The Rohingya: a suitable case for genocide?

‘ All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood,’ declares Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human … Continue reading →

Guyana’s New Beginning

Divide-and-rule was always the special hallmark of British imperialism.   It’s a technique that worked well for Britain in its imperial heyday, and which was also brought into play during the ‘end of empire’ twilight,  when successive British governments sought to … Continue reading →

Europe’s ‘war on people smugglers’

We’ve had the war on drugs and the war on terror, and now the European Union in its infinite wisdom is preparing to add a new conflict to this less-than- illustrious tradition, in the shape of its militarised response to … Continue reading →

If you want to shop at Waitrose clap your hands, clap your hands

If there’s one political concept I detest even more than the banal cliché ‘hard-working families’, it’s the notion of the ‘aspirational voter’.   I had already had quite enough of the former during the election campaign,  and now ‘aspirational’ has … Continue reading →

Election 2015: the horror

I didn’t stay up to watch the nightmare unfold last night.   The exit polls filled me with such shock, outrage, and disgust that I knew my blood pressure wouldn’t be able to cope with it.  After eleven o’clock there was … Continue reading →

Election: the great day dawneth

After six weeks of one of the most tedious, controlled, and stage-managed electoral campaigns in my lifetime, I don’t think I’m the only voter south of the border who will feel more relief than anticipation that it’s finally over. This … Continue reading →

Pamela Geller’s free speech bloodfest

The aborted assault by two would-be jihadists on the ‘Muhammad art contest’ at the Curtis Culand Center in Garland, Texas on Sunday has added another grim chapter to a screechingly dishonest ‘free speech versus Islam’ debate that continues to gain … Continue reading →

The UN’s child rapists

In a world order that seeths with the most insolent corruption, inhumanity and injustice in  so many places, the revelations that French soldiers with the United Nations Minusca peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic were sexually abusing starving and … Continue reading →

One Nation Under a Cop

Riots are not generally much good for the people on the receiving end of them, and the people who are on the receiving end of them are often the same people who are rioting in the first place.   But … Continue reading →