What would your view be of a woman wearing a burqa being arrested for doing so in Golders Green. On the basis of it being offensive? I think we’d agree on that one - at the very least the police offi… (View Post)

As George Orwell observed, the ideology isn’t important. The totalitarian and authoritarian mindsets make it end up the same. Hell, Buddhism has been turned into genocidal totalitarianism, repeatedly. (View Post)

Left wing authoritarianism is an old, old thing. If you believe you are Right, then anything that stands in the way of your Righteousness, such as individual rights, is obviously Bad. And if you beli… (View Post)

There’s an old story of a minor Soviet official, who in the late 70s tried hanging around the bar of a club run by some of the exiles. In the edge of Soho, IIRC. Presumably he was trying to spy on th… (View Post)

a It’s also cultural history. The Western communist and socialists signed up in 1919 to the Soviet line that anything that was part of the Russian Empire was rightfully part of Soviet Russia. Hence t… (View Post)