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New Year, New Fear! (Or actually, exactly the same old ones...)
When I was six, a couple named Pete and Marie, who had just moved in up the road descended on my doorstep to present their six-year-old son, Sam. "This is your new friend," Marie informed Sam, pointing at me. We had never set eyes on each other before, but both seemed to equably accept the […]
Festive Friday: Christmas Panto 2021
Here is a piece I wrote on Boxing Day 2021, at the height of the pantomime plague, imagining “the family fight that wasn’t”… but that obviously was in a lot of homes. I think it’s important to pay a seasonal revisit to quite how crazy those times actually were, as perhaps it will provide a […]
Mind over matter
When I was aged around ten, at some point in the 1990s, I have a very clear memory of going Christmas shopping for my rather large extended family. My parents had six siblings between them, most of whom had spouses and multiple children, and at the time, I still had three remaining grandparents, and even […]
Acting the part?
The conspiratorial comedian, Owen Benjamin (who I like again now that he has stopped being a fundamentalist Muslim and has started sporting an array of splendid hats), made a very interesting point on Twitter the other day. Owen said: "If I livestream using film instead of HJ video can I go off about the blacks […]
The Conspirasocialists
Quite recently, I covered at this site the insidious anti-human cult that is “socialism”, and how it operates: in short, socialists believe nobody has achieved anything in life on merit, but purely because they have had unfair advantages, such as rich parents or a private education. As such, socialists believe others are not entitled to […]
The Thrill of the Kill
Not my words to describe yesterday's grotesque decision to pass a state-sponsored suicide bill - theirs. Esther Rantzen, the alleged "national treasah" and highly unlikely palliative care expert, has been the grimacing celebrity face of the assisted dying movement for some time, and when MPs voted to pass the bill yesterday by a vote of […]
Invasion of the flat snatchers
As the "asylum seeker" crisis is in the news again, I thought it was worth republishing this article from September 2023... As regular readers are aware, I live in Huddersfield, a moderately sized town in West Yorkshire, population 141,000, and the bit I live in is called Crosland Moor (which, despite spellcheck's perennial protestations, is […]
Truth in Temper
Whether one was ecstatically cheering on the Trump victory this week, or cynically shaking one's head that people had once again mistaken Masonic political theatre for reality, we could at least coalesce on one unifying point: the reactions of the liberal left were pretty funny. From "white dudes for Harris" ripping their shirts off in […]
When is a football team most vulnerable to conceding a goal?
Regular readers may be surprised to see me open this essay with a sporting motif, given my severe allergic antipathy to the general category (it is a great irony - and evidence that God has quite the sense of humour - that, despite having never seriously played a sport in my life, I have had […]
False freedom, terror, and truth
In my immediate family, I have: one husband, two parents, one grandparent, six aunts and uncles (plus their partners), 15 cousins, and then many more cousins of various stripes and tiers (2nd, 3rd, removed, etc., and no, like everyone else on the planet, I don't know the difference). These further-afield ancestral ties exist not just […]
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