Matthew Carr's Blog, page 47
May 16, 2015
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 →
May 14, 2015
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 →
May 11, 2015
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 →
May 8, 2015
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 →
May 7, 2015
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 →
May 5, 2015
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 →
April 29, 2015
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 →
April 28, 2015
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 →
April 25, 2015
Why we should listen when the UN condemns the UK’s ‘extremist media’
British tabloid editors have never struck me as a particularly reflective and thoughtful breed of humanity, so I doubt they will be plunged into a mood of remorseful self-analysis by the very strongly-worded suggestion from the United Nations High Commissioner … Continue reading →
April 23, 2015
Clegg and Cameron apologize – sort of
Yesterday morning I wrote that there has been no official recognition that the deaths of more than 900 migrants in the Mediterranean last week was in part, a consequence of the EU’s decision to replace Italy’s Mare Nostrum search-and-rescue operation … Continue reading →
