Titania McGrath's "Woke: A Guide to Social Justice" made me weep with laughter

Why should you read it? Titania McGrath explains early on in the book:

"Activists such as myself are spearheading a new culture war, sniffing out prejudice like valiant bloodhounds of righteousness, courageously snapping at the heels of injustice. To give a tangible example of our achievements, consider how the definition of the word 'Nazi' has been successfully broadened to include anyone who voted for Brexit, has ever considered supporting the Conservative Party or who refuses to take the Guardian seriously. Although this is a great victory for the progressive cause, it does mean that there are now more Nazis living in modern Britain than even existed in 1930s Germany. This makes Woke: A Guide to Social Justice not only timely but essential."

She goes on to confront her horrific upbringing...

Sweden seems to be suffering a particularly virulent attack of "J.K. Rowliing Syndrome"

Don't these identity politics pillocks realise how mad they sound?

Let's hope Tyler Cowen, writing for Bloomberg, is right...

Tears of Rage - starting with Quentin Letts's splendid evisceration of Theresa May in the Daily Mail

The Mail's political sketch-writer started Wednesday's article this way:

Prime Minister’s Questions left me hoping the Conservatives lose the next election – lose it so badly their buttocks sting – and that Jeremy Corbyn, with whom I disagree on almost everything, becomes Prime Minister.

Having summed up Mrs May's wretched performance as "No fun. No verve. No imagination..." Letts ended his piece with this stirring call to arms:

Blimey! I've known people bigger than the Trump baby balloon!

It's that tiny orange thing in the...

The Mayor of London welcoming the President of the United States...

Mind you, given Khan's record...

Trans-Everything! Mocking virtue-signalling cultural Marxists really is the most effective strategy

The most-viewed item I've posted this year was Tracy Ullman's "You Woke" sketch. No surprise...

World Cup Derangement Syndrome - I blame the heat, and the horrible, vindictive, mean-spirited New Left

Probably best to wait until the end of the match before tweeting, Dummkopf.  So much for the Daily Mirror associate editor - I wonder how the Guardian reacted to England's win? 

Monday muppets, monsters and marvels - transgenderism, paedophilia, Hoillywood sex dungeons and, er...Brexit

Damn! Yet another of life's little pleasures I'm going to have to forsake:

I suppose that's NFH - i.e. Normal for Hollywood. Here's how they tested helmets back in 1912:

The Left's decency, intelligence and regard for the truth is truly 'umbling...

 

Is it remotely possible that Labour's Great Lost Leader doesn't realise...

Our mad, mad, mad, mad, faux-compassionate, progressivist world - a snapshot

This Guardian story may be the most tragic piece of news so far this year:

HALT BREXIT NOW! Mind you, if the Guardian isn't worrying about childcare, it's celebrating the joy of not having kids:

Resist the terrifying mind-altering experiment being conducted on us by aliens from Planet Zob!

I began exploring the following theory in response to a number of comments on a recent post - and then (doh!) forgot to post it. So here it is, slightly rejigged:

They walk among us. They look like us and talk like us, and they give every impression of having our best interests at heart - but their goal is to destroy us. They've realised that the greatest weaknesses of those of us fortunate enough to live in Western democracies are a desire to feel good about ourselves and a longing to be thought well of by others. Armed with these insights, they've set about convincing us that what we know to be true is not only false, but wicked. By exploiting our good manners - our desire not to offend - and our addiction to feeling morally superior, they've gradually replaced (to paraphrase Thomas Sowell) what works with what sounds good.

I hate it when people whose work I admire - like TV comedy scriptwriter Graham Linehan - reveal themselves to be leftie cockwombles

I loved the comedy series, Father Ted and The IT Crowd, both co-written by Irishman Graham Linehan, who also worked on other personal favourites, such as The Fast Show and Brass Eye. As Father Ted and Brass Eye frequently satirised both old-fashioned conventional attitudes and political correctness - the creed followed by scaredy-cat modern conventionalists - I'd always assumed that Linehan would be a non-virtue signalling political agnostic. I even followed him for a while on Twitter. Then, in the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, he revealed himself to be a standard-issue,  humourless, arrogant, intolerant leftist of  the worst sort - the sort who believes that (as he himself said) “If you’re not Antifa, what the hell are you? Anyone with any morality at all is Antifa,” and who, this last week, has been demanding that the fund to enable Count Dankula to appeal against his conviction for "grossly offensive" speech be shut down - because the bounder is evidently a neo-Nazi waycist!...

Idiocy and wisdom - what the world looked like this week

Fortunately, London Mayor Sadiq Khan's tireless - and no doubt fabulously effective - efforts to sort out knife crime (see previous post) haven't prevented him from addressing an issue which is really important to all Londoners:

Open to knife-crime, host to diverse terrorist sects, full of hope (that this useless little creep won't be mayor after the next election), not in the least fearful of being stabbed, mugged or burgled...

Great news! Sadiq Khan is going to "address violent crime and its complex root causes."

Of course, he means knife crime, which essentially involves young black men stabbing other young black men with knives. I don't need to"read more", because the measures Little Sad needs to introduce are...

Theresa May - the "nanny state" social justice warrior in No. 10

I suspect many - perhaps most - right-wingers and conservatives (and quite a few centrists and left-wingers) are so horrified at the thought of the Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse (Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Angela Rayner) taking charge of the country...

Corbyn's response to a request to pick his favourite Matt cartoon tells us everything we need to know about today's Labour Party

The country's funniest cartoonist, Matt Pritchett, joined the Daily Telegraph 30 years ago this week. As part of its celebrations, the Telegraph asked political leaders from the past 30 years to choose their favourite Matt cartoon (some had already bought the original drawing of a particular favourite when it was first published). Here was Jeremy Corbyn's response to the request:

What a boring, joyless, petty, mean-spirited bunch of odious little wankers. Here are a few suggestions for Corbyn and his "team":

"Collateral" - Six and a half years on, I ask the same question: "Why Is My Licence Fee Funding Rubbishy Propaganda by David Hare"

Carey Mulligan - what a waste of her talent

About 20 minutes into the first (and, for me, the final) episode of the BBC's new conspiracy thriller, Collateral, written by the revered left-wing playwright David Hare, a number of thoughts struck me simultaneously:...

Oxfam has become a branch of Momentum - unless you want your money used for Hard Left political propaganda, don't give it to Oxfam

The former charity - now a far left political activist group - issued more of this sort of drivel on the same day:

Blimey! What sort of state is Jean-Claude Juncker going to be in by Christmas Day!

Meanwhile, proof that you don't have to be all that bright to...