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Marriage is dead on its feet, but it's still the best safeguard for a future Baby P

bloggingthemail wrote 7 months ago: A glorious example of the pocket intellectual’s most basic argumentative error today from … more →

Tags: Class War, decline of society, Peter Hitchens, Slipping values, foregone conclusions

Mrs T defeated the miners - and then replaced them with homophobia outreach workers

bloggingthemail wrote 8 months ago: One of the striking things about the Mail’s columnists in general is their lack of positive vi … more →

Tags: Government Misspending, decline of society, Mistrust of politicians, Peter Hitchens, Nihilism

From that spiteful 50p tax to Harriet's mad sex war, Labour is blasting Britain back to the dark ages2 comments

bloggingthemail wrote 8 months ago: A particularly gloomy take on current events this morning from Melanie Phillips: “For with the … more →

Tags: Government Misspending, melanie phillips, Mistrust of politicians, Anecdotal Evidence

Why CAN'T Gordon say sorry?

bloggingthemail wrote 8 months ago: Interesting consideration of the nature of apology and of agency today from Stephen Glover: “O … more →

Tags: Stephen Glover, decline of society, Mistrust of politicians, Slipping values, base populism, moral outrage

At last! A judge speaks up for British laws but when will we wake up to the REAL folly of human rights?1 comment

bloggingthemail wrote 9 months ago: An interesting example of how a series of assertions do not equal an argument, from Melanie Philips: … more →

Tags: melanie phillips, decline of society, Slipping values, foregone conclusions, incompréhension

When a bishop has to leave the Church of England to stand up for Christians, what hope is left for Britain? 2 comments

bloggingthemail wrote 9 months ago: An interesting exercise in differing perspectives today from Melanie Phillips, which moves from the … more →

Tags: melanie phillips, decline of society, Slipping values, religious war, foregone conclusions

Twix bars, condoms and the betrayal of our young

bloggingthemail wrote 9 months ago: Hidden beneath a piece on condom adverts is this from Amanda Platell: “Lewis Hamilton is set t … more →

Tags: Amanda Platell, Hypocrisy

Lock up your pies - here comes Sir Liam Donaldson3 comments

bloggingthemail wrote 9 months ago: Another genuinely baffling piece, here from Keith Waterhouse: “The good news is that Gordon ha … more →

Tags: decline of society, Keith Waterhouse, Slipping values, Halcyon Days, incompréhension

A privacy law would suit Mr Mosley very nicely. Like his father he does not believe in freedom

bloggingthemail wrote 9 months ago: Not sure where to start with this column from Stephen Glover, so I’ll bow to the obvious: the … more →

Tags: Stephen Glover, decline of society, Slipping values, moral outrage, Hypocrisy

Doctors struck off for denying patients the right to die? What a sinister distortion of medical ethics

bloggingthemail wrote 9 months ago: A fascinating column today from Melanie Phillips, not least for some impressive rhetorical sleights … more →

Tags: melanie phillips, decline of society, moral outrage, Nihilism

Torture is wrong but why, in the name of sanity, should we allow those who hate us to live here?

bloggingthemail wrote 10 months ago: Nicely dovetailing into my last post comes an opportunity to discuss the rights and wrongs of tortur … more →

Tags: religious war, Max Hastings, Anecdotal Evidence, Hypocrisy

Facetious jests ... it's about all these drug 'experts' are good for1 comment

bloggingthemail wrote 10 months ago: A veritable potpourri of negativity today from Peter Hitchens. Take this, on the Bafta winning Brit- … more →

Tags: drugs, Peter Hitchens, foregone conclusions, Scattergun attacks

A heart-rending dispatch from Ethiopia reveals the plight of donkeys - at the hands of the people who need them most

bloggingthemail wrote 1 year ago: About a week ago, I was wondering why Liz Jones bothered going to Ethiopia if she was only going to … more →

Tags: liz Jones

Labour have said the unsayable on migration. But do they really have the guts to crack down?

bloggingthemail wrote 1 year ago: As Melanie Phillips says, the backlash for Phil Woolas’ comments on immigration over the weeke … more →

Tags: Fear of immigration, Class War, melanie phillips

God help us. This will soon be a country more spied upon than Communist East Germany under the Stasi

bloggingthemail wrote 1 year ago: Stephen Glover has an eye for the incisive: “Even in the socialist Seventies, no one imagined … more →

Tags: Stephen Glover, exaggeration, Hyperbole

How can you sleep at night, Dick? They certainly can’t in Addis Ababa

bloggingthemail wrote 1 year ago: Liz Jones is at one with the scared readers of the Daily Mail “Like most people over the past … more →

Tags: liz Jones, Class War, Personal Account, empathy


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