"What shall it profit us to penetrate
the mysteries of the atom and electron, to measure in thousands
of light-years the paths of the great nebulae, to invent the most
marvellous machines, to set free and control unlimited reserves
of energy, if all such physical discoveries cannot save us and
our civilisation from the abyss, can but hasten the repetition
of the old story, can but precipitate the downfall and decay which
hitherto have followed swiftly upon every partial success of human
effort to lift some part of the human race above the 'darkling
plain, filled with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where
ignorant armies clash by night'?"
William McDOUGALL, 1934, The
Frontiers of Psychology. Cambridge University Press.
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Because the name of Chris Brand has been blackened by Dame Stewart
Sutherland for almost two years, international academic citations
of E.LU. Psychology have dropped to an all-time low. Nor was there
ever much money coming in since 1986, when neuro-ethologist Professor
David Vowles died. Moreover, the Department is expensive -- with
a nursery and a colony of 12 monkeys to support, and a large number
of technicians from days before most psychological studies and
experiments came to be conducted with the computer as the vital
ingredient.
So now the Psychology Department
has been told it must be abolished and its remaining 'tenured'
staff become merely the main ingredient of a cheap-to-run 'School'
that has no leadership, professes no commitment and conducts no
research. In order to inject a bit of sense into the 'School of
Psychological Studies', there will be plenty of part-time representatives
from Neurology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Psychiatry
and, above all, Education, Economics and Business Studies. The
idea will be to pretend that Psychology is still being taught
at the Looneyversity while in fact doing away with the expense
of supporting the subject. Since most E.LU. psychologists have
no loyalty to any recognizable form of psychology (certainly not
to behaviourism, psychometric psychology, psychogenetics, evolutionary
psychology or psychoanalysis), they have been asking for trouble
for a long time. Their demand that they personally push Brand
down the toilet together with his 'g factor' book was apparently
what showed them up as ripe for abolition.
Instead of supporting this
shower, the University is apparently preparing to oblige Mr Gordon
Coutts QC by setting up serious psychology at an Edinburgh
University William McDougall Institute -- where incumbents
will be free of bureaucracy, teaching, directing of studies, and
restrictions on their Internet access….
Writs are flying to and fro in London as the last Governor of
Hong Kong, Chris Patten, sues HarperCollins -- and thus Rupert
Murdoch -- for pulling out of publishing Patten's new book, East
and West, which is not entirely sympathetic to Chinese Stalinism.
Apparently, Mr Murdoch has his own plans for improving the governance
of China -- but these involve first an orderly take-over of the
ether by his 'Sky' television station. Macmillan will publish
the book instead.
In the Observer (1 iii '98), the sage Timothy Garton Ash
(of Cold War fame) does not blame Murdoch for pursuing his own
commercial interests. The answer to one capitalist is simply another
-- as Macmillan has excellently shown. Instead, he savages the
hypocrisy of senior management at HarperCollins -- only one of
whom (a respected figure, Stuart Proffitt) has resigned. "This
revolting affair", is how TGA describes the conduct of such
'editors' who no longer deserve to be called publishing professionals.
{Needless to say, in all this the censorious ways of Wiley DePublisher have yet to receive a mention from London hacks -- though, as in the Wiley case, the HarperCollins decision to break contract came from New York. The failure of the British press to remark the arrival of PC in Britain and in Edinburgh LUniversity is astonishing. People just seem to assume that British universities -- despite weak spots in sociology departments -- will prove as robust against PC as was the US Constitution in its defence of Oprah Winfrey. Despite last year's wonderful film of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible', people in the UK can't seem to see a witch-hunt when it has gone now for almost two years against a 26-year-tenured academic under their own noses in the capital city of Scotland. -- Lately the New Statesman has joined the list of London organs which simply decline to publish letters sent to them to protest about my treatment by Abominable Wiley and Edinburgh Looneyversity (cf. McDNL 27 January 1998, British Press Disgrace).}
PS The resolution to Murdoch versus Patten was a big cheque and apology from Murdoch to Patten and a public statement by Murdoch that he had every confidence in his senior managers at HarperCollins -- an acknowledgment that they had simply been obeying his orders when telling Patten that his book was rubbish. Just what confidence Murdoch can have left in himself after this humiliating public exposure of his ways with editors is a moot point. Even the Times (a Murdoch-owned paper) disgraced itself by declining for several days to carry the Murdoch versus Patten news story -- making the Times and its editor, Peter Stothard, the main casualty of the sorry affair (cf. Stephen Glover, Spectator, 7 iii '98).
The mystery of paeophilia continues to defy psychotherapists. Dawn Fisher has just reported an attempt to treat 39 'child molesters (in Legal and Criminological Psychology). Apparently 8 improved, 20 stayed the same, and 11 actually got worse in the course of the treatment -- ending even more convinced than at the start that their own victims had been fully co-operative and indeed eager for the experience.
Abusolooney Marjorie Orr is probably, after TV's Esther Rantzen, the best-known campaigner in Britain today for the cause of locking up as many men as possible on the basis of ancient and untestable allegations by their neurotic daughters. In line with McDNL policy of letting opposing arguments be seen, here she is -- together with three other abusohysterical letter writers to the Grauniad (13 i '98).
"The Royal College of Psychiatrists' deeply flawed draft report goes against the current understanding not only about the effects of child abuse, but other traumas, such as war, rape and torture. It perpetuates the myths of a profession traditionally hostile to the notion that life can drive some people mad, preferring to see organic dysfunctions as the sole cause of mental disturbance."
Marjorie Orr; Director, Accuracy About Abuse; PO Box 3125; London NW3 5QB.
Yes, Marjorie, that puts the matter in a nutshell!
Environmentalists have lost virtually all the battles in psychiatry
and psychology. (Homosexuality remains the one big exception.
-- There, twin studies show only a modest genetic component.)
So abusohysteria is now regarded by environmentaloons as a bolthole
where they can reign unchallenged, defended by Britain's ill-informed
media when they claim that people are the hapless products of
their early environments. As to the effects of traumas like being
bankrupted or put in concentration camp, I hope you will look
at Personality, Biology and Society,
Section V: Nature, Nurture and Nature via Nurture
[The latest in published environmentalunacy comes from Alice Miller -- For Your Own Good: The Roots of Violence in Child-Rearing, Virago {feminastie} Press, £7-99. AM's hypothesis is that "people whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood will feel no need to harm another person or themselves." However, even the Times could see what was wrong with the book: AM does nothing to establish that Adolf Hitler et al. had a worse time in childhood than their less notorious school friends. And though Hitler's father was certainly the drunken, womanizing brute not uncommonly found in the parentage of criminals, any link between Papa Schicklgrüber's behaviour and Hitler's could have been quite as much genetic as environmental.]
Madman Insane, the French and the Observer newspaper are cock-a-hoop at US and UK 'warmongering' being slapped down by the Secretary General of the United Nations. But the Observer's own 'Journalist of the Year', John Sweeney, reporting from Baghdad, is not a bit amused (1 iii '98). In Iraq, he says, in 1996, "103 army officers were executed after an attempted coup. Their bodies were returned to their families covered in dog bites." Apparently, the Iraqis are just utterly cowed by Madman. And what about the children and the lack of medical supplies? Well, there are plenty of new buildings in Baghdad. "It's not us who are killing children", says Sweeney, "it's him."
The misuse of children in order to intimidate and incarcerate
men has been condemned for the first time on the BBC. A lady named
Claire Fox complained that, in London dinner parties, people were
treated as pariahs if they said anything against multiculturalism
or the new British ban on handguns; and things went yet worse
for them if they criticised the saint status awarded to 'child
victims' of alleged abuse or paedophilia.
CF was opposed by a high-PC
discussant who was eager to extend current legislation against
'race hate' speech; and the Today programme's chairman left listeners
in no doubt of his shock at CF's opposition to tiny tot tyranny.
But this NewsLetter hereby awards CF its Badge of Honour.
PS Soon after CF's appearance, another nice lady came on the radio to complain about the threats to free speech posed by PCs, feminazies and paedohysterics. She was apparently the President of the US Civil Liberties Union or some such. However, no-one had told her of the suppression of The g Factor from New York and Chichester.
{In Edinburgh, I have been privileged to make the acquaintance of a girl who is an art student at the Looneyversity and who agrees with what I have said about paedophilia. 'Aren't feminists a bore?' she memorably asked as we met for an orange juice and pint of Kilkenny Best Bitter. This is the second female student to so declare herself, the first being a charming girl from Ceylon. --No, my new supporter doesn't seem to have been a 'victim' of anything herself. The product of a distinguished Italian medical family, she simply had a good education in the best humanitarian traditions. What a relief to know that not all E.LU. students are as daft as the staff ! -- On the same day I had been reported to have "blasted" E.LU. bosses as "academic perverts" [in an unintended reporting of off-the-record remarks I had made while allowing student journalists a photo opportunity -- see below.].}
PS The prescient Gemini horoscope (Axiom, 26 ii '98) for that remarkable day was:
"Opportunities are there for the taking and with the vibrant mood you have been experiencing lately there is nothing that can stop you. Situations are just waiting for your ambitious nature to turn them to your advantage and you are well able to rise to any challenge."
A prediction for the week including February 26 (Mail, 21 ii '98) had been:
"There's joy in store for you this week. Jupiter promises success with some special plan or project, while Mercury, moving now into you tenth solar house, speaks of fame or recognition of some kind. No matter what now annoys you, there will soon be a way to rise above it."
And just three days the later, 'Mystic Meg' (News of the World, 1 iii '98) pertinently observed:
"People notice you and enjoy what you can say and do -- this is your time to shine, please don't waste a moment. Meeting someone who sees the true you will make your love life very exciting. Destiny links your family to old house in Italy."
Likewise taken with Italy is physicist Alan
Sokal who exposed 'constructivist' nonsense for ever with
his 'Transgressing the Boundaries'
article. (The article kicked off by saying some scientists "cling
to the dogma [of an 'objective external world'] imposed by the
long post-Enlightenment hegemony" and was published in the
social-science journal, Social Texts). Interviewed in Scientific
American (iii '98), perky Alan, of New York University, says
that there were only two non-scientists who realized that a draft
of his article was a spoof. One was an Italian archaeologist.
"But," says Alan, "that's not the only reason I
married her."
Coming soon: Alan SOKAL
and Jean BRICMONT, 1998, Imposteures Intellectuelles.
Letter to Student
[E.LUni. student newspaper]
from Chris Brand.
Expected to be published 12 March. [After a financial crisis last
autumn, Student is now published only fortnightly.]
26 ii '98; Edinburgh
Dear Editor,
I was shocked to find myself reported in your columns (26 February 1998) as condemning the senior management of Edinburgh University in the strong terms that I reserve for summary use with friends and apparent sympathizers.
I had
made it quite clear in e-mail (17 February*) to your reporter,
Richard Gray, that I would not be giving him an interview until
Student carried copy on my case making intelligent use
of material at my website (http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk). However,
Richard Gray pleaded for a photo opportunity because Student
had lost all its previous photos of me during computer crashes.
Thus it was (20 February) that I came to make a few off-the-record
remarks to him during a few minutes on a windy Edinburgh street
corner while the required photos were taken.
Never doubt that, in view
of what I know of how the University has proceeded against me
for almost two years at its Press Conference, Inquiry, Tribunal
and Appeal procedures, I will be condemning senior management
in the strongest terms until matters are rectified. But the time
for strong language from me in public will be when I give interviews,
explain my meaning and provide the full justification of my indictment.
That Student jumped the gun in all this is a further sorry
indication that the academic approach to affairs is not in such
good repair as it might be in the University. I hope Student
will make its own apology to Sir Stewart for having carried disparagement
without the vital academic corollary of argument; and am yours
faithfully,
Chris Brand.
* The e-mail
read:
"Thanks for your call, Richard. I will give you an interview
once you can show me copy of Student taking an intelligent interest
in the case. (You have my website http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk>?)"
PS Reporting "Brand's fury
at bosses" and my personal doubts about whether I could ever
work alongside 'colleagues' who had been so feeble in defence
of academic freedom, the Edinburgh Evening News (26 ii
'98) properly added: "The latest comments by the sacked lecturer
were included in the Edinburgh University student newspaper {as
the front page story}. But Mr Brand said he is unhappy that he
was quoted by the newspaper as his remarks were not intended for
publication."
PS Student did not in fact publish the letter -- presumably unwilling that their readers should learn of Student's breach of faith with me. Well, they will find that Glasgow is going to be the first to get the real news about Edinburgh Looneyversity.
A new biography by Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (Chatto
& Windus, £20) is being tipped for 'book of the year
awards' (e.g. by the Observer's reviewer, 1 iii '98). Of
course, Saint Thomas -- as he became -- was only getting a dose
of his own medicine when he was harshly imprisoned for a year
and then beheaded (Henry VIII spared him partial hanging, castration
and disembowelment at the last moment); for the Saint's piety
had in former times been compatible with his condemning heretics
with a veritably Lutheran coprophilic vulgarity and then burning
them. But it is wrong to say he chose 'principle over ambition'.
He was a genuine loyalist to monarchy -- except that he put God
narrowly before the King, as Ackroyd makes clear.
Fortunately there were no
signs of unresolved neurotic conflict at the last. When asked
how he would like his hair cut for his execution, the Saint replied,
"Since the King has taken out a suit on my head, I won't
spend another penny on it."
{Worryingly, a reproduction of Holbein's Saint Thomas -- from the Frick Museum, if memory serves -- hung on my wall for many a year…. But, no, I myself was never a 'sacker' -- nobody to sack since no-one would fund IQ research. I would have said -- like some of my 'colleagues' -- that I was a harsh marker; but, thankfully, Provost MacCormick's Inquiry established that not a word could be said against the fairness of my examining….}
PS ! X-Certificate ! St Thomas was by no means hopelessly out of touch with the ways of the flesh. According to Literary Review (iii '98) he once advised a young girl: "So, young lady, who says you can't cope with a man when you can get your legs around a great horse?"
The sorry state of Britain's 'A' [Advanced] Level examinations
has been revealed by top psychologist Professor Chris 'I don't
know why people differ in handedness' McManus. 'A' Level success
is now so largely a matter of rote learning that the exams are
not even any good for selecting students for Medicine.
So what can be done? Bring
back exams where candidates have to think in the examination
hall? Not a bit, says Prof. Chris! Rather, let's keep the 'A'
Levels but select the medical students additionally by 'attitude'
questionnaires.
{Yes, Chris! This is just what the authoritarians of Medicine would like: to have medical students selected not only for rote learning but also for brown nosing. Since you don't have much familiarity with attitude questionnaires yourself, I hope you'll look at Quotes XXX and familiarize yourself with the low levels of validity that are characteristic of many measures of 'personality' and 'attitudes.' Individual differences in g[eneral intelligence] and n[euroticism] {see The n Factor}are pretty measurable; but other personality factors remain hard to assess -- chiefly because of the lunatic reluctance of so many psychometrician-psychologists to acknowledge the head-and-shoulders supremacy of g and n and the resulting need to devise other measures so as to avoid complex contamination by these Big Two dimensions.}
Joining popstar Gary Glitter and science writer Sir Arthur C.
Clarke on the receiving end of paedohysteria is top music philanthropist
and millionaire Vincent Meyer -- lately remanded in jail by Swiss
police.
VM is the French-born, recently
naturalised Swiss grandson of legendary financier André
Meyer of Lazard Frères fame. An excellent father of three,
his present wife is the niece of the Earl of Moray. VM is credited
with saving the London-based Philharmonia Orchestra and is a keen
sponsor of Glyndebourne. The Philharmonia's managing director
has said VM is "someone I would trust with my life."
VM is a quiet man with a keen sense of humour.
So why the arrest? An incredibly
beautiful girl from rich and titled parents died by her own hand
at age 20, over Christmas, leaving a note claiming that VM had
'sexually abused' her from the age of 12 till 15. As of January
11, there were no witnesses at all against VM, but that didn't
keep VM out of prison while the authorities embarked on a high-publicity
trawl for evidence.
ASSUMING NO VIOLENCE OR THREAT OF VIOLENCE WAS INVOLVED, AND THAT THE COMPLAINANT HAD A MENTAL AGE OF 12 OR OVER AT THE TIME OF THE 'ABUSE', IT MUST BE SAID THAT IT IS NOW TIME FOR THE WEST TO ADOPT SOME SENSIBLE REQUIREMENT OF IMPRISONABLE CRIMINALITY -- A REPORT NEAR THE TIME OF WHAT TURNS OUT TO BE OBJECTIVELY DEMONSTRABLE HARM. FOR A MAN TO HAVE TO ENDURE HIS LIFE BEING WRECKED MERELY BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN NAMED IN AN ADOLESCENT'S SUICIDE NOTE IS PREPOSTEROUS AND SPEAKS VOLUMES OF COMING DANGERS.
PS Meyer, 46, who is President of the London Philharmonia Orchestra, was eventually charged with the rape and manslaughter of the girl who had killed herself. He was released kon £2.5million bail -- a Swiss record -- and will be tried in the summer.
(New Statesman, 27 ii '98, Richard Webster, 'A global village rumour' -- reviewing Jean La Fontaine, Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England, Cambridge University Press, paperback £14-95)
Stories of witchcraft in past centuries often had a strong pornographic content which made the job of Inquisitor attractive to a certain type of repressed Catholic priest. Today it is the same, except that that the chief enthusiasts for reading witchcraft stories and mounting prosecutions are bony evangelicals and fat'n'frumpy social workers. (Just how California could have produced such types to originate modern Satanic abuse panics is unclear; but recruits were soon found in New York and eventually in outback areas of Britain.) For a two-page summary of this dangerous lunacy, Richard Webster's account could hardly be bettered: time and again police inquiries yield nothing -- not a single item of bloodstained clothing from the alleged 'multiple gang rape by six sheep' etc. Here is Webster quoting from anthropologist Jean La Fontaine on the crucial question of the role of children themselves in the fabrications and shared hysterias that result in families being broken up and innocent men put in jail. No, says JLF, the children are not lying. One girl (who had retracted her own testimony of multiple blow jobs etc.) told JLF simply:
"You lot are into those are into those things and the police and social workers wanted to hear them, so I thought I had to say something and went on from there."
Webster goes on to caution against undue belief in 'massive abuse' in Clwyd children's homes over the past half-century -- currently under investigation by a judge who is criticized in the press for allowing accusees as well as accusers to remain anonymous. (In this matter, the Mail on Sunday [22 ii '98, Michael Dobbs] is leading the furies in insisting that these homes were nothing but torture chambers for the entertainment of Welsh local government officials and councillors.)
{What Webster would make of the 400 claimants against Roman Catholic children's homes in Scotland is unknown. However, the Scottish accusations are far more commonly of physical 'abuse' (slapping, ear-pulling, hair-pulling) than of sexual shenanigans. Indeed the nuns may well have maintained a high moral tone. One complainant alleges, "They told us that if we touched our private parts, our hands would burn harder than the rest of us in hell." (Guardian, 10 ii '98)}
Now showing on US TV is a new soap opera for teenagers, 'Dawson's Creek.' In the opening episode a gawky 15-year-old is working in a video store after school when his attractive high school teacher comes in to rent 'The Graduate.' He confesses he has a crush on her and is gently rebuffed. However, he counters with: "Let me tell you something, you blew it lady, 'cause I'm the best sex you'll ever have." Before you know it, pupil and teacher have embarked on a torrid affair.
{It is good to learn of some relaxation of attitudes in the USA. When spotty twelve year olds standardly have incompetent, alcopop-fuelled sex with each other and leave the taxpayer with the tab for the resulting baby, there is something to be said for paedophilia -- assuming non-violence and a Mental Age of 12 in both parties, of course.}
Writing in Literary Review (ii 98), Queensman Brian Walden (cf. McDNL 3 February: Africa Realism) returns to his excellent theme that modern elites are now too terrified to stick up for themselves so end up passing their powers to the mob. The British Conservative Party is a good example of this cop-out tendency: as the parliamentary Party passed its powers to a wider electorate it became increasingly difficult to get rid of leaders who had outlived their usefulness -- like Mr Heath, then Mrs Thatcher (who had hung the millstones of the Poll Tax and Anti-Euroism around her own neck), then Mr Major. But surely the Monarchy will always retain its elitist right to appoint a Prime Minister in the event of a hung Parliament? Not a bit, says Walden. "Some way will be found to surrender any choice that has to be made to the politicians."
In AY 1996/7, UK Vice Chancellors awarded themselves pay rises averaging 28%. Heading the pack was my one-time colleague George Bain -- one of the heavyweight Research Fellows while I was at Nuffield College, Oxford. Last year GB -- who had leftishly agreed to help the Government introduce a national minimum wage -- pulled in £150,852 as head of the London Business School while I got the sack and, despite some forty job applications, could find no-one to employ me even as a counter assistant at a Bangladeshi curry carry-out. Other British academics had an average pay increase of 2.9%.
According to politically correct reviewer James Wood in the Guardian (29 i '98), the following sentence {from the heroic John Updike's eighteenth novel, Toward the End of Time}"repays study." Representing "the moist quintessence of Updike's pointless sexology", "it suggests that in this novel [Updike] has found his ultimate, most Updikean narrator." "It is hard to imagine a tighter combination of kitschy 'fine writing', casual misogyny and vague, unstrenuous religiosity." This is certainly why McDougall supporters will like the offending sentence, so here it is. (The 66-year-old narrator, 'Ben', has, apart from his crusty wife, a lithe young prostitute and a sexy 13-year-old {who offers her small breasts like "honeysuckle berries"} for company.)
"The sight of her young lips obediently distended around my swollen member, her eyelids lowered demurely, afflicts me with a religious peace."
And why not, indeed?! Keep it up, John! -- Even if it makes Grauniad PC pinkoes fall off their perches! Updike is in good form in this novel, as witness another quote from the Updike sound-alike 'Ben':
"Ferocious female nagging is the price we men pay for our much-lamented prerogatives, the power and the mobility and the penis."
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Around 250,000 sex information
packs for schools were recalled after it was discovered that paedophiles
at Dartmoor prison had helped to assemble them.
At least one illicit message
was put into a pack, a prison spokesman has confirmed. …."We
had a tip-off from a prisoner worried about losing his bonus.
The money [£1-50 a week] may not sound much on the outside,
but inside it can buy cigarettes."
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PS Scientists at Hadassah Hebrew University in Jerusalem have now come up with a new anti-testosterone synthetic hormone called triptorelin (Sunday Mirror, 22 ii '98). Hopefully this chemical castrator will allow paedophile geniuses to live at liberty without being hounded from pillar to post by murderous Britoids. The researchers claim 100% success in reducing sex offenders' fantasies. However, some of the 24 sex criminals in the research may have been lying in the hope of early release; and paedophilia in particular, being more akin to love than lust, is notoriously difficult to treat biologically.
The Looneyversity is achieving in its teaching of Forensic Medicine those pedagogic advances that allow degree passes to be issued like confetti to the most mediocre students. Student is pleased to report:
"….students on this one-year course receive extensive handouts for their three lectures a week (removing any need for note-taking, or even attending, for that matter) and sit multiple choice exams."
Oriel College student
Chris Daniels was recently awoken by reporters from The Sun,
who demanded to know the lurid details of his sex life.
The confused student was hounded
by tabloid reporters all day before they finally smelt a rat.
Unbeknown to him, Mr Daniels
had become embroiled in the Clinton sex scandal after his friends
decided to phone the newspaper and pretend that he was White House
aide Monica Lewinsky's mystery lover.
PS Bill Clinton may not be entirely to blame for his alleged infidelity, according to an Edinburgh LUniversity professor. David Brock, Professor of Genetics, believes it is possible that the President's suspected behaviour could have been influenced by his genes. He told Student: "Genes influence all aspects of human behaviour. Men who hold positions of power tend to have a bigger sex drive than those who do not." -- Brock was promptly contradicted by an E.LUni. professor of sociology.
The appalling environmentalism of the British press could hardly be better exemplified than by a report in the Times (deriving from British Journal of Psychiatry) that Irish people living in Britain are eight times more likely than their English-born counterparts to suffer alcoholism. Every conceivable social-environmental explanation for this finding was rehearsed by the Times -- including fear of the gunman, poverty and of course English 'racism.' The possible involvements of genetic factors and selective migration [England is a welfare haven for Southern Irish people down on their luck] were not mentioned.
Attempting to ingratiate themselves with feminists, Edinburgh LUniversity's macho 'Socialist Workers' Student Society' tore up copies of the E.LUni. Students' Association magazine, Members Only. The problem? The front cover featured Wonderbra model Eva Herzegova and was thus "sexually oppressive." For their pains, the censorious socialists have now been de-recognized by ELUSA as an E.LUni. student society -- so will no longer be able to collect pocket money from Dame Stewart Sutherland and the UK taxpayer.
William McDougall was a firm believer in the importance of emotion as well as intelligence in the properly lived life. One might say he believed in the n factor as well as the g factor. Here he is (1927, Character and the Conduct of Life. London : Methuen) talking of the practical importance for growing children that they experience admiration.
McDougall begins by quoting Walter Pater:
"THE TRUE VALUE OF SOULS IS IN PROPORTION TO WHAT THEY CAN
ADMIRE." And the historian Lecky: "TO ADMIRE
STRONGLY AND TO ADMIRE WISELY IS, INDEED, ONE OF THE BEST MEANS
OF MORAL IMPROVEMENT." Then McDougall says: "Admiration
tinged with tenderness, with gratitude and with awe, becomes reverence;
and thus it is truly the beginning of all wisdom."
According
to McDougall, no merely intellectual enlightenment can take the
place of this emotional influence [i.e. of respect]. "Socrates
and Plato, with their assertion that knowledge is virtue, planted
intellectualism at the heart of European culture, of which, ever
since their time, it has been the most serious error and the bane."
And -- though himself agnostic in religion -- McDougall goes on
to cite one of his own favourite writers, Henri Amiel:
"C'est la différence de Socrate à Jésus....Si
la science ne donne pas l'amour, elle est insuffisante....Aimer
c'est virtuellement savoir; savoir n'est pas virtuellement aimer...La
science, si sprituelle et substantielle qu'elle soit en elle-même,
est encore formelle relativement à l'amour."
It is perhaps worth remarking that this
eulogy to admiration comes from a psychologist who equally
champions the importance of independent-mindedness in the
development of personality -- or, as McDougall put it, "self-reliance,
self-respect, character, strength of will, the power to stand
alone, if need be, against "the four corners of the world
in arms.""
{For the latest on
the w factor, see Chris Brand's
chapter in H. Nyborg, 1997, The Scientific Study of Human Nature,
Oxford:Pergamon.}
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A {handsome} senior registrar was cleared yesterday of indecently
assaulting a student who claimed he fondled her breasts at a hospital.
{The medical student told a jury how the father of two stood behind
her with his arms around her and used her own fingers to demonstrate
stitches technique. According to the girl, the surgeon's hands
strayed to her breasts and she "froze" until he pulled
her towards his groin, when, without protest, she left.} Obstetrician
Tapash Saha, 36, had said he was amazed by the allegations of
the 22-year-old who had come into a room where he was writing
up notes on an op.
After the case at Newport
Crown Court he said he was grateful for the support of colleagues
at the Royal Gwent Hospital.
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{Yes, loyal colleagues can be invaluable in such crises…. The girl was not named in the papers, presumably for the usual scandalous 'legal reasons.'}
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Girls as young as 16 from immigrant families are having their
virginity restored by surgeons to save them from shame on their
wedding night.
The operations in Holland
have been condemned by a British professor of philosophy because
the doctors are colluding in deceit against the intended husband.
But the surgeons involved
argue that some immigrant groups from Mediterranean and African
countries set great store by the virginity of the new bride on
her wedding night.
"Her new husband's family
may exact revenge in the form of violent reprisals and banishment
of the bride," the surgeons from Rotterdam's Dr Daniel den
Hoed Kliniek to the British Medical Journal…. The
doctors followed up the cases of the first 20 patients seen at
the clinic in 1993 who had an average age of 19, ranging from
16 to 23. ….Of the group, ten claimed they had lost their
virginity as a result of forced intercourse, and six were having
regular sex. All had details of the procedure removed from their
medical records and none had any regrets. ….[The doctors]
said: "The ethics of hymen reconstruction could be compared
to the ethics of cosmetic surgery…."
….the procedure, called
hymenorraphy [is] illegal in most Arab countries but [is] practised
unofficially.
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Business is booming for a male prostitute featured on TV. Aussie
Joel Ryan has even been contacted by women prepared to pay him
£17,000 to fly to Britain for a week.
….Joel, 23, featured
on BBC2's 'Under the Sun' last month, is Melbourne's most successful
legal heterosexual prostitute, earning about £85,000 a year
running an escort agency.
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(The Daily Mail is holding a debate: "Did chastity belts exist or were they just a figment of people's imagination?")
"Three years after my marriage in 1932, I had a very brief affair with a friend. My husband went to see our family doctor, who suggested I should wear a chastity belt as a punishment.
I was measured and my husband ordered two belts from a metal firm in Devon.
For three years, he locked me into the belt every morning and undid it every night. The belt, together with the boned lace-up corset he made me wear, ensured I was very uncomfortable every day.
After three years, I was still made to wear the belt if my husband went away on business or even if he went out for an evening….."
Name and address supplied, Bolton.
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One female in Memphis is reportedly suing a pharmacist after she
spread contraceptive jelly on a piece of toast and ate it. She
then had unprotected sex thinking she was 'safe' and became pregnant.
Although the jelly had instructions, she says there should have
been a warning on the package saying it's not effective if eaten.
"Who has the time to sit around reading directions?"
she told a local paper.
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The National Organisation for Restoring Men (NORM) has created
a number of devices to help men reclaim lost foreskins. ….The
340g stainless steel Penis Uncircumcising Device (PUD) resurrects
the foreskin by hanging a pewter goblet off your bell end. Fortunately,
the PUD does include a handy drainpipe system which allows users
to take a leak without having to remove the unit. The process
can take up to three years to re-establish the natural state.
Nevertheless, NORM co-founder R. Wayne Griffith has experienced
first-hand its full effect. "Sex is full of delightful new
sensations," he says.
The PUD is available ($115) from NORM at PO Box 52138, Pacific Grove, California 93950. USA Tel: 001 408 3754326.
Not
following Naomi Campbell to receive a bare hug from Nelson Mandela
is Spanish supermodel Laura Cisneros -- star of the new Motorola
ad. While displaying her creamy though perhaps just slightly flat
bottom to FHM Magazine, LC said she long ignored
family advice to be a model, so happy was she studying maths and
thinking of becoming a psychologist. Now she has regular
practical classes in psychology: "Men are always trying to
chat me up. …I walk past them and they shout 'I want to fuck
you.'"
As yet, LC doesn't seem to
have decided on a swain from these experiences. But sultry Anglo-Indian
tigress, Melanie Sykes, 27, recently found herself stirred and
shaken when interviewing the boy pop group, Hanson. "I started
having naughty thoughts about one of them. The one who plays keyboards.
I kept thinking, "Wow, he's very dishy" and then I'd
feel terrible because he's only 14. Their PR lady
said she had the same problem."
Yet, whether 14 or 44, MS's
man would have to be up to specification. 'Would she tell a boyfriend
if he was small in the trouser department?' asked FHM.
"Yes," replied the delicious MS, "and if it was
too small and it wasn't working then I'd ditch him."
{Do these girls ever attend sex education
classes, one wonders….}
A key feature of Chris Brand versus Wiley DePublisher ("repellent")
and E.LU. Principal Dame Stewart Sutherland ("false and personally
obnoxious") has been the lack of interest in the case from
most of the people who are normally believed to support free speech
in Britain.
With the exception of the
Drumcroone Six (Scotsman, 5 ii '98), British academics
have provided Brand with virtually no support -- in contrast with
the US National Association of Scholars and Canada's Society for
Academic Freedom and Scholarship. (This is not because Brand's
case simply looks better from a safe distance: the Americans and
Canadians have actually taken far more trouble to inform themselves
-- writing to Provost MacCormick, E.LU. Secretary BeLowe, E.LU.
Propaganda Minister Footperson and Dame Stewart.)
Moreover, the London press
has been pathetic. Magazines like Nature and Times Higher
have dropped Brand from book reviewing; and the Spectator
and the New Statesman have declined to take a jokey
'Pariah Corner' column (or anything else) from him. Only Personality
& Individual Differences and Mankind Quarterly continue
to seek Brand's services as a reviewer with any regularity. By
accepting unquestioningly the sacking of Brand in August, 1997
by the same Dame Stewart who had first condemned Brand to the
press in April, 1996, the London press has been singularly influential
in turning Brand into a veritable non-person -- except for the
communication enabled today by the Net.
Now, however, an article
by Brand is to appear this week in Sweden's Finanstidningen
('Financial Times'). This newspaper (edited by Knut Carlkvist)
has already carried an account of the Brand affair for the Swedish
business and finance community. That article was written by freelance
journalist Bengt Olsson -- see McDNL, 23 December 1997,
'Censoring Psychology: The g Factor Affair goes Continental.'
This time, translated by Bengt Olsson, Brand himself examines
one of the central planks in the raft of objections to his researching,
lecturing and writing -- the feminist plank on which even some
of his E.LU. Psychology Department colleagues had perched to wail
for Brand to be dismissed as 'insensitive to women.' (Many people
presume Brand was tried for his claims about IQ, race, eugenics
or paedophilia. Or just for his cheeking Dame Stewart. But the
truth is that Edinburgh LUniversity trotted out any and every
complaint it could discover from the previous twelve years; and
feminazies made up about half the LUniversity witnesses produced
against Brand at his Tribunal (May-July, 1997).)
Here is how the English
version of Brand's article begins. (It is hoped to provide
the full English text in the next McDNL -- 17 March.)
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For Finanstidningen -- Sweden's Financial Times
Two
secretaries are discussing their new boss.
'He
dresses so nicely,' said the first one.
'Yes,'
replied the other one, 'and so quickly.'
"Imagine the Virgin Mary cross-examined
in a rape trial. The rapist would walk."
Andrea DWORKIN, 1998.
You are
literate, civilized and well-informed. So you reckon you know
the basics about feminism?
You know it would be
unwise to tell jokes about secretaries in front of women -- especially
young women, even your own teenage daughter. You know that the
omnipresence of 'rape' is a serious and sensitive subject, at
least for women like Andrea Dworkin who claim to have been repeatedly
raped by their own husbands. Likewise you know about the boring
subject of 'political correctness' (PC) which forbids mention
of lasting inequalities in abilities between people. You also
know PC's practical corollary, 'affirmative action': you know
there are politicians who want you to have women, Black and handicapped
oops 'differently abled' people in your firm -- even at the highest
levels -- in proportion to their percentage in the Swedish population.
Actually, being urbane, you
don't mind too much. After all, competing firms in the West are
under the same pressures. Anyway, women enliven board meetings.
If reasonably good-looking, they keep men on their toes. Certainly
you don't think any kind of 'revolution' is occurring. After all,
feminist ideologues like Andrea Dworkin (17 stone) have no more
influence than Billy Graham…. People (including most women)
are sensible; and you yourself are well-mannered and good-humoured
and will not be caught out in the vulgar sexist and racist 'speech
crimes' for which soccer hooligans are castigated by feminists.
Only minority-haters and men with a zipper problem will have any
difficulty with PC, you reckon.
THINK AGAIN!…………
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In August, 1997, Edinburgh University dismissed Mr C. R. Brand for gross misconduct. Essentially, a University Disciplinary Tribunal had cleared Mr Brand of damaging the University, had been divided as to whether Mr Brand's conduct had been seriously disruptive of the University, but had unanimously agreed that an e-mail letter of Mr Brand's had been disgraceful. Taking Mr Brand's disgraceful e-mail together with what a majority of the Tribunal judged to have been a disturbing record of lesser complaints, it was recommended (2-1) that the Principal of Edinburgh University should consider dismissing Mr Brand; and dismissal was the action that the Principal took.
Mr Brand's Appeal before me against his dismissal involved three main arguments:
My determination of these arguments follows.
CONCLUSION
In view of my finding at 2., the Tribunal's cumulation of charges cannot be sustained. Once the minor disruption is set aside, what is left is the finding of disgraceful behaviour which the Tribunal itself plainly did not take to merit dismissal on its own. The Principal was thus misinformed as to the propriety of cumulation and must retract Mr Brand's dismissal and pay Mr Brand legal costs and compensation.
In view of my finding at 3., a re-trial of Mr Brand would be permissible and -- in view of the wider importance of the issue for the academic community -- desirable. The University might proceed in one of two ways.
In any event, a re-trial
should be chaired by a legally qualified person.
Lastly, I would like
to congratulate all parties to this dispute on their conduct over
a long period in trying circumstances where there has been little
guidance from precedent. My hope is now that the parties themselves
will adopt a similarly generous view of each other. I require
that, once re-engaged, Mr Brand should refrain from further public
criticism of the University; and, if Mr Brand is eventually dismissed
in response to any findings of a fresh Tribunal, that the University
should treat him financially as if he had taken one of the forms
of early retirement open to all academic staff. The matters considered
here are of the greatest general importance for UK universities,
and they should now be resolved as far as is possible without
personal rancour or recrimination.
April Fool!
Within a year of New Labour taking office and continuing Mrs Thatcher's work, 43 British liberal-left and further-left Professors have realized they have a problem. So they have written to Times Higher to complain. They profess "grave concern at the government's abandonment of the principle of free higher education." Naturally the Profs have their Chairs all over the UK -- e.g. in Aberdeen, Belfast, Durham, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Oxford and York. But where are they mainly concentrated?
Here they are: Zen Bankowski (Law & Society); Alice Brown (Politics); Duncan Forrester (Divinity); Peter Higgs (Physics & Astronomy); Patricia and Roger Jeffreys (Sociology); Neil MacCormick (Law & Society); Jim Miller (Linguistics); Peter Vandome (Econometrics); Charles Warlow (Medical Neurology); Martin Fransman (Economics).
A noteworthy feature of the Edinburgh Professors' action is that E.LU. has long had a strict policy that staff may not write letters to the Press from Departmental addresses unless they are representing a Departmental view. Thus it can be assumed that the Edinburgh Eleven speak for a truly vast array of unreconstructed Old Labour, Scot Nat, disaffected Liberal and outright Marxist types at the Looneyversity who fear that students who have to choose courses sensibly (so as to repay loans) will avoid the 'social' i.e. para-Marxist 'sciences.'
On the evening of 5 iii '98, Classic FM Radio reported that the
son of the Prime Minister had been amongst boys attacked by a
gang of youths outside his Brompton Oratory school in London.
Apparently, the Prime Minister was being updated hourly on developments.
In line with prevailing British censorship, the skin colour of
the attacking youths was not mentioned.
By midnight it was plain that the BBC was not carrying
the story. Nor did the Beeb mention it the next morning. Nor did
the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail or the Times.
-- A very successful exercise in damage limitation at a critical
time! For Britain was only just recovering from reminders that
Enoch Powell had predicted racial violence in Britain.
There is a lot to be said for Islam, even if its official propagandists are going through a rather 'wet' phase about polygamy as they try to seem more appealing in the West. One member of the Psychology Department at Edinburgh Looneyversity has already made the transition -- probably out of White guilt about Jewish/Zionist origins. The advantage of conversion is that one doesn't get stoned to death for sleeping with followers of the Prophet. It is like Pascal's Wager: atheism has no long-term personal rewards, so one may as well sign up with God just in case. At least, this is what German businessman Helmut Hofer, 54, is currently learning in Iran (Guardian, 17 ii '98). Currently arrested for multiple copulations with a slim and fragrant 26-year-old medical student [female], Hofer has now learned that he will escape stoning if he can somehow prove that he was a Muslim all along.
On February 21st, 1906, William McDougall (then age 35) gave a talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science as part of a series* on 'biology and society' which included papers by the Fabian/socialist luminaries W. H. Beveridge, Mrs Sidney Webb and H. G. Wells. Though McDougall's main task was to propound "a practicable eugenic suggestion" -- that civil servants from Oxbridge backgrounds should be paid more if they had more children -- McDougall also touched on related themes. Unlike Plato (with his "stud farm"), McDougall was concerned to preserve the institution of the family. However, he went out of his way to deny that families need always take a traditional, Christian form. Preserving the family, observed McDougall "leaves open the question of the form of the family; and much can be said in favour of a restricted polygamy (not the harem)."
{As was pointed out in TgF NewsLetters, McDougall's forebear, Sir Francis Galton had written sympathetically of Islam and its classically polygamous arrangements. It is nice to see that McDougall continued this line of thought -- which is most lately expounded in my article for young Black people in which I urge greater provision in Western societies for marital choice.}
* The lectures, audience replies to them and authors' rejoinders were published as Sociological Papers 3, London:Macmillan [for The Sociological Society], 1907. McDougall's registration of the advantages of polygamy appears on p. 71.
This NewsLetter (like the TgF NewsLetter before
it) has maintained that, far from being an amusing eccentricity
of the more batty ex-socialists and 'social scientists', PC is
virtually a rising new egalitarian religion. It may be about to
become predominant in the West -- just as did Christianity under
the convert Constantine from 313AD (Edict
of Milan).
A similarly serious -- and
in no way 'paranoid' -- view of PC is now expounded impressively
by Jim Kalb in the latest issue (February, 1998) of the
Internet magazine PINC
[= Politically Incorrect] at http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc/.
Perhaps anticipating the counter-attractions that Islamic arrangements
may soon be seen to offer -- notably making for stable families
-- Kalb concludes: "As liberal societies fall into chaos
and tyranny in the coming years, the more ordered and comparatively
successful ways of life non-liberal views make possible are likely
to make them and the communities that adhere to them grow in importance."
{Of course, Kalb also hopes for libertarian input to counter
the growing excesses of PC; but he notes that libertarianism over
the past generation has achieved rather little. He is so right:
the 'Libertarian Alliance' in London (Chairperson: Chris Tame)
declined to interest itself in The g Factor from the very
beginning of Abominable Wiley's censorship.}
{ The required dynamic compromise between
principles of 'freedom' and 'responsibility' is discussed further
in Personality, Biology & Society,
Section XXVIII.
In fairness to libertarianism, its ideas
were helpful in re-committing the West to a largely capitalist
economic system, in exposing Communist failures, and in winning
the Cold War. However, libertarians put their effort into urging
economic rather than political and everyday freedoms. Thus the
PC-Left was allowed to capture the media, the publishing houses,
the universities and much of the rest of the state education system.
What is now necessary is that libertarians and Islamic intellectuals
should begin to talk to each other -- especially to thrash out
a new deal for marital choice
that can be offered at the Millennium.}
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LONDON. Genes may not be the only factor in determining intelligence -- better wombs can produce smarter children, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday.
Victor Denenberg and colleagues at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, found that genetically identical mouse embryos implanted in different wombs performed mental tasks at different levels.
"Denenberg thinks that the difference could be due to some subtle biochemical factors in the uterus," the magazine said.
The scientists say the research is the first to clearly implicate the womb in a child's long-term cognitive abilities and could have important implications for maternal health, surrogate motherhood and the development of artificial wombs.
"Maybe we ought to think more seriously about the physiology of gestation," Denenberg told the magazine. "Are there ways to prepare a non-pregnant uterus for pregnancy?"
Research on identical twins separated at birth and raised apart had previously led scientists to suspect that development in the womb affected intelligence, but Denenberg's study on mice offers further evidence of a link.
The researchers used a genetically identical group of mouse embryos suffering from an auto-immune disease similar to lupus in humans. They transplanted one third of the embryos in mice without the disease and another third in the wombs of other auto-immune mice.
The mice were raised by mothers not affected by the disease and, after they were weaned, Denenberg and his team put them through a battery of five learning tests.
"All the mice showed competence in learning, but in four of the five tests, the mice that developed in the womb of a mouse with no auto-immune disease did better -- even if they had inherited the brain abnormalities associated with the auto-immune disease," the magazine said.
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{Denenberg has been conducting such research for thirty years without coming up with anything very much. Caution is necessary about the above report until it is known:
PS In fact, the manipulation was massive. All the rats involved came from mothers having an auto-immune disease equivalent to lupus. The disease results in progeny having manifest brain damage at birth. What Denenberg did was to rescue two triplets in three from the womb of such a mother -- implanting one rescuee in the womb of a normal rat mother, and the other in the womb of another mother having the auto-immune disease. That the press should think such a manipulation has much relevance to understanding intelligence differences between human children (e.g. New Scientist, 7 iii '98) is just a sign of how bad British journalism really is. [The original report by Denenberg appeared in an entirely obscure journal, Neuroreports 9, p. 619. But environmentaloons like Denenberg have many friends in the modern meedja.]
In 1865, England's Criminal Procedure Act enshrined the right
of a defendant to cross-question those who testified against him.
In 1991, that right was restricted.
Defendants could no longer cross-question children.
Today, in Britain, the Home
Secretary, Jack Straw, is considering cancelling defendants' rights
to cross-question women in rape trials. Thus, by claiming the
privileges of children, women would be allowed to put men behind
bars without even having to face tricky questions like 'Why did
you have a Dutch cap in your handbag that evening?' and 'Why did
you drink the sixth Dubonnet I bought you if you didn't like me?'
{Hopefully there are some real women out there
who will reject 'empowerment' through infantilization.}
(cf. McDNL 2 December 1997, Heredity Realism: NEW YORKER JOURNALIST COMES ON BOARD)
The scientific magazine Nature has now had Lawrence Wright's book, Twins (Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Wiley DePublisher, £14-99), reviewed (5 iii '98). Astonishingly, however, the reviewer, one J. Galloway, works at the Eastman Dental Hospital, London, where he is in a 'Team Development Unit'. Instead of offering any serious appraisal of the book's claims, Galloway settles for questions that seem to him -- as a complete novice with an anti-heredity bias -- to require answering:
Nature's disgraceful anti-hereditarianism thus extends as far as to keep from its readers even a summary of a summary of the exciting psychogenetic work of the past decade. {Though deprived readers of Nature will find most of what they need in Chapter 3 of The g Factor -- available via Inter-Library Loans.}
The civil liberties situation looks pretty good in ex-fascist
Spain.
In Madrid, Professor Guillermo
Quintana, 64, of Complutense University, produced a book in 1997
in which he announced the following:
Convinced of the merits of his work, GQ recommended his book widely
to his students -- arranging discounts for bulk purchases, saying
students could pass the exams without reading much else or attending
his own lectures, and warning students off other works as a waste
of time.
Whatever the rights and wrongs
of this, GQ has now been found guilty by his Faculty of "grave
misconduct" -- and sentenced to be suspended from teaching
for six months. Understandably, GQ is going to appeal against
this as a 'violation of his constitutional rights.' Yet hopefully
he will spare a thought for those in Bonnie Scotland who are sacked
outright for less….
Like William McDougall, Principal Dame Stewart Sutherland was for several years a member of Corpus Christi College. But there the similarities end. The Mighty McD was on the philosophy staff in Oxford, whereas the Dame was one of the patients studying theology at Cambridge. The attitudes of the two academics to truth are also far apart. McDougall summed up his religion thus:
"....If I have a religion, its first precept is that we shall seek truth faithfully; and I would say this with Emerson: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. You can never have both.""
(William McDougall, 1927, Character and the Conduct of Life.
London : Methuen.)
By contrast, as a modern theologian, Dame Stewart does not believe there is any truth to be found. Here she is in the 995-page volume she edited in 1988, called The World's Religions (London : Routledge):
"One's beliefs are held, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, but always in a context which is demarcated by the social, intellectual and experiential options open to one."
Here is modern relativism in its tattered clothing of social science and of what Sir Karl Popper used to call the 'bucket theory of mind' -- that we can only be what we have 'experienced' (the fatal mistake of the British empiricists that led on to the last two centuries of posturing idealism and constructivism from French and German philosophers). The question to Dame Stewart has to be: 'From what 'options', precisely, do you think you are cut off?' (Even Whorff, the great propagandist of our linguistic entrapment, himself learned fluent Hopi.)
Probably the Dame and her ilk will hedge their bets as they see this fast ball coming. The reply would thus be 'I don't and can't know.' In this pretty predictable case, the prepared objectivist and realist will reply:
Amusingly, the Dame's 995-page whopper is the most useless survey of world religions imaginable. It has nothing for the layman and nothing for the expert -- nor even any visual aids of bare-breasted ululating God-botherers for the student. The entire book contains only two references to polygamy [one of them admitting that Islam happily tolerates such "male domination" in Black Africa]. Topics like homosexuality, harems, female circumcision, infibulation and prostitution all receive precisely zero references apiece -- at least in the Index (which would have been the Dame's main contribution to the volume). As for the Karma Sutra, the Rubayat of Omar Khayam and the Upanishads, forget it! Modern theologians prefer relativistic and egalitarian waffle, as above, to spelling out just what different religions get up to and suggesting the contribution that some of them might have made and still make to evolution.
Still, at least there is so little on the theologians' agenda that Dame Stewart had room for her favourite joke. In 1976, no less than 211 of the 236 adult residents of Hadenburgh, New York State, had been ordained (by post) as ministers of the Universal Life Church. So why this upsurge in religiosity? Of course, it had nothing to do with any real work of the spirit -- in which the Dame probably lost any faith many moons ago. No, it was just that an enterprising businessman had persuaded the Hadenburghians that if they were ordained -- for a small fee -- a lifetime of US tax breaks would lie ahead.
(Times Literary Supplement, Letters, 20 ii '98 and 6 iii '98; Sir Karl POPPER, 1992 Unended Quest: An Intellectual Biography 3rd ed., Section 26 [London:Routledge, first published 1974]; Observer 8 iii '98)
Many British philosophers were terrified of the excitable bachelor genius and cinéphile, Ludwig Wittgenstein -- a tinpot tyrant who had been dismissed as a village primary school teacher in Austria for hitting the children. Top logical positivist Freddie Ayer needed to down a bottle of hooch before giving a talk where Wittgenstein would be in the audience. Karl Popper, however, was determined in 1946 to expose the pretentious relativist nonsense of his fellow-Viennese. With his pro-science bent, Popper especially objected to Wittgenstein's idea that there were no real problems in philosophy but only 'puzzles' and 'linguistic confusions' where the modern philosopher's job was merely 'to get the fly out of the fly bottle.' As Popper has put it:
"One of the things which in those days I found difficult to understand was the tendency of English philosophers to flirt with nonrealistic epistemologies: phenomenalism, positivism, Berkeleyan or Humean or Machian idealism ("neutral monism"), sensationalism, pragmatism -- these playthings of philosophers were in those days more popular than realism."
What exactly happened at the
meeting of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club attended
by Popper, Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell (who had several
times talked Wittgenstein out of suicide) is now once more in
newsworthy dispute. What is agreed is that Popper and Wittgenstein
sat at either side of a fireplace, where there was a poker, and
that discussion between them became heated.
According to Wittgenstein
acolyte, philosopher Peter Geach, 82: "Wittgenstein picked
up the poker and said, "Consider this poker." He found
discussion with Popper futile and put the poker down." And
then Wittgenstein walked out -- no harm in that….
Popper's own more plausible
account of events, recorded in 1974 but now supported by John
Watkins and John Vinelott in Times Literary Supplement,
is as follows:
Wittgenstein (brandishing the poker): "Give an example of a moral rule!"
Popper: "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers."
"Whereupon Wittgenstein, in a rage, threw the poker down and stormed out of the room, banging the door behind him."
Subsequently, Watkins believes, Russell and several other pudendous philosophers voiced criticism of Wittgenstein's behaviour -- making it a big day when it is recalled that only two British philosophers (Gordon Graham [Aberdeen] and Glen Newey [Sussex]) have dared publicly to support Chris Brand against the management of Edinburgh LUniversity.
In 1995, Scottish solicitor Jim Fairlie, 54, was summoned by his
wife to a family meeting where his youngest daughter, Katrina,
accused him of repeatedly raping her since she was two years old
and also letting two MPs rape her. Grown-up (and very pretty)
Katrina had been in psychiatric treatment for psychosomatic pain
and had been given drugs to help induce 'flashbacks.'
JF went ballistic and family relations were far from rosy for
six months…. JF's isolation was total -- it was some while
before he heard that there were a thousand other British fathers
who were being similarly accused. Fortunately, his firm stood
by him; and the accusations against the two MPs allowed the police
to re-assure JF that they found no basis for proceeding with enquiries
in these cases. Katrina eventually admitted that her story was
absolutely without foundation. Now father and daughter are jointly
suing Perth and Kinross Healthcare Trust for a great deal of money
-- wished on by this NewsLetter.
Like Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia and Mao's China, Esther
Rantzen's Britain standardly uses the testimony of young children
to bring down adults. In the latest development of this infamy,
the Crown Prosecution Service has announced (Guardian,
30 i '98, Clare Dyer) it will allow 'therapy' of accuser-victims
to continue while prosecution is brought -- a process often taking
a year or so. This ensures that the child is given plenty of practice
in the story it is aiming to tell and is thus less likely to be
thrown by subtle questioning from counsel for the defence….
The only problem with this
proposal for child-misusers is: What happens when the defendant
too is a child? Recently three eight-year-old accuser-victims
have broken down in court under questioning from counsel for two
teenage boys [all the children came from the same village] accused
of 'sexual abuse.' (Videoing, screens and desensitizing court
procedures had not been enough, apparently.) Indeed, because this
trial took place in a juvenile court, the convicted teenagers
are entitled to a retrial at a higher court; so the accuser-victims
will have to undergo their trauma yet again to oblige the
adults who have erected this monstrous system. From the psychological
point of view, the main expert finding has long been that it is
the trial itself that is the greatest cause of unhappiness to
accuser-victims -- who have often co-operated to a considerable
degree in the sexual playtimes of children.
In a remarkable revelation of Enoch Powell's personal psychology, a senior clergyman has kept a promise made over a dinner at Trinity College, Cambridge, ten years ago. Enoch had pointed out the homosexual theme in some fifty of his 'First Poems' -- published in 1988 -- and said that his homosexual involvement while a Cambridge undergraduate had been "the most painful thing of my early life." The clergyman to whom Enoch spoke, Canon Eric James (then Chaplain of Powell's old college, Trinity, and today an Extra Preacher for the Queen), promised to reveal what Enoch had said only after his death, when it would be 'a matter of literary history.' In his letter to the Times, published 10 ii '98, Mr James provided an extract from one of Enoch's poems:
And since our parting is decreed
By laws we cannot break,
The severed tissues long will bleed
And long the wound will ache.
At present, no-one knows the
identity of the man who had so captured Enoch's affections.
Canon James' revelation probably
helps explain Enoch's astonishing loyalty to his fellow soldiers
from Army days -- Enoch was sometimes tearful about this period
and always said his greatest wish was that he had been killed
along with comrades in the Second World War.
{In the many press discussions of Britain's top 'racist' politician, it is commonly said that he simply 'got things wrong' and in particular that he failed to understand the tolerant character of British people. To this, some immigrants (like the omnipresent Yasmin Alibhai-Brown [Srindopakeshi female, now rather frumpy]) say 'Pull the other one!' But the real answer is this. After Powell had spoken out in 1968, both the Conservative and Labour parties tightened up massively on immigration -- as the far Left usually complains. Far from getting things wrong, Powell's speech can be argued to have put them right -- though the politicians preferred not to give Enoch the credit. Alas, because of a lack of attention to racial distinctions by both Enoch and other politicians, the global restrictions meant that Britain lost the opportunity in the 1990's to let in a million or so Hong Kong Chinese who would have done wonders for the British economy.}
{On film for BBC2, Enoch was asked what he found so attractive about Sir Hardy Amies -- the royal couturier and a lifelong friend of Enoch's from their days as army cadets. Enoch's reply: "If I say his gaiety, that mustn't be misunderstood….let's say joie de vivre."}
{Not content with media condemnations of Enoch, an eminent Oxford
philosopher, Prof. Michael Dummett took the trouble to write to
the Observer (22 ii '98) to accuse Enoch of lying. According
to Dimmwitt, Powell's 'little old lady' who had told him her worries
about immigration in 1968 was a "fabrication." In line
with the best traditions of inquisitorial hysteria, Dimmwitt's
letter advanced neither evidence nor argument for his claim.}
London's increasingly up-market and anti-paedohysterical Evening Standard, while criticizing Enoch's "impetuous nationalism", concluded as follows (9 ii '98).
"….in this age of cultural dunces, identikit professional politicians and spin doctors enforcing the party line, Enoch Powell stood out vividly as a man of eloquence and integrity, inspired by a messianic sense of history and of Britain's place in it. Soldier, scholar and romantic reactionary, he was the 100 degree proof to whom, in contrast, modern politicians are decaffeinated mineral water."
Another engaging tribute to Enoch came from Lord Jenkins of Hillhead (aka Roy Jenkins -- who was the founder-member of the Social Democratic Party which broke away from Labour and thus handed the nineteen-eighties to Mrs Thatcher). After noting Enoch's somewhat mechanical single-mindedness -- as a Cambridge undergraduate he worked from 5.30a.m. till 9.30p.m. each day -- Jenkins tells the following story.
"The occasion when he first made an unforgettable impression upon people of my parliamentary generation was in July 1959, within three months of a general election {yielding a big Conservative majority for Harold Macmillan}. With a total indifference to such a petty consideration, [Enoch] delivered a Savonarola-like denunciation of the Conservative government's colonial administration in Kenya and on the Hola detention camp in particular. He spoke frkom the backmost bench of the government side of the House, almost in the woodwork, and he had to do so far into the night. It was was one o' clock in the morning before he was called, but he managed in these unpropitious circumstances to make one of the three speeches which I remember best from my first decade and half in the House of Commons. It was a spectacular proclamation of the doctrine that you could not have one standard of British justice for white men in England and another for black men in Kenya. It had much passion in it, yet it remained on the mind as even more devastating than passionate. It made the "rivers of blood" speech, less than nine years later, still more surprising. Yet perhaps there was a common explanation of both. He was always a tramlines man. Put him on them and he followed the line relentlessly until he hit the depot with a resounding bang."
A strange thing about Enoch being considered 'the greatest living
Englishman' is that he was, like Roy Jenkins, Welsh. -- "Both
his parents were Welsh, he spoke Welsh, and he referred to Wales
as 'the land of my fathers.'" (Douglas Davies, letter to
Daily Mail, 23 ii '98)
In accordance with his wishes, Enoch was buried as a soldier --
laid to rest near his former comrades in the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment (Evening News, 18 ii '98). The bearer party was
from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and trumpeters from the
5th Battalion sounded the Last Post and Reveille.
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On Sunday, news of the death of Enoch Powell was broken on London Weekend Television by Trever Phillips {Black} and on BBC1 by Moira Stuart {coloured}. As for the Guardian report, this carried the by-lines of Vivek Chaudhary and Vikram Dodd. No doubt Mr Powell himself would have relished the irony as much as the rest of us.
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From 1995 to 1996, convictions for child prostitution [under age 18] in England and Wales doubled to around 200. The reaction of 'victim support' groups to this news was immediate: such prostitutes must instead be counted as victims of men and the men themselves prosecuted for "child abuse."
{Soon the only safe rule will be -- as long
envisaged in feminazie demands -- that ANY SEX WITH A FEMALE
CONSTITUTES "ABUSE" -- SO LONG AS SHE COMPLAINS OF IT
WITHIN FIFTY YEARS OF HER MULTI-ORGASMIC EVENING. Any problems
with this? Like: What will under-18-year-old girls have for a
sex life? Don't worry! They will be allowed to carry on sleeping
with their fellow teenagers for a bag of Smarties [M&M's]
and having their resulting pregnancies paid for by the state as
at present. -- Last week brought news of Britain's youngest-ever
father: in 1997, an eleven year boy was awoken in the middle of
the night by his mother to be told the news that he had got his
fifteen-year-old girlfriend pregnant; now, at age twelve, he is
granted a day off 'school' to attend the delivery (Times,
30 i '98).}
{In revolutionary Nicaragua, Sandinista boss Daniel Ortega (formerly president of the country) is now busy fending off allegations from his 30-year-old step-daughter that he had repeatedly abused her from the time she was 11.* Will this case involving a left-wing hero at last bring Western pinkoes to their senses? -- Probably not: the Left's 'working class' has vanished and the tax'n'spenders need feminasties and fresh 'victims of men' just as Gladstone's last government required every minority Gladstone could get his hands on.}
* One is reminded that Beria, Stalin's secret service organizer, used to have his minions cruise the streets of Moscow picking up virgin girls as young as 12 for raping by Communist Party bosses.
(Mirror, 28 i '98; Mail 31 i '98, Lynda Lee-Potter; Mail 1 ii '98 Jessica Davies)
The latest feminazie outrage in Britain is the week-long trial
by the Royal Navy of Lieutenant Commander David Bellingham for
disgraceful conduct with four Wrens on the frigate he commanded,
H.M.S. Coventry. Charged with such heinous crimes and misdemeanours
as patting a girl's bottom and suggesting that another Wren might
show him the tattoo she claimed to have, Bellingham was cleared
of all but one of the accusations ('talking dirty' to a Wren over
the ship's communication system). But this was only after a year
of agony, putting his marriage gravely at risk, social isolation
and £20,000 in solicitor's bills.
Plainly the Navy's experiment
in having wymmin on ships has been a disaster. In particular,
how can girls be expected to cope with mustard gas attacks if
they can't cope with building-site language and horseplay? Still
more seriously, it is surely time to end the arrangement where
people are given court room trials on 'harassment' allegations
that include no evidence of demonstrable harm having been caused.
A man's career has been wrecked (Bellingham was fined £2,000,
reprimanded, and lost seniority) for nothing more than dirty talk
with Wrens who by all accounts were well used to it. One girl
used to wander round H.M.S. Coventry in a see-through nightie
and confessed in court to talking openly and often about sex;
others stood astride one of the ship's ropes and pretended it
was a penis; and two Wrens had affairs with married men on H.M.S.
Coventry. Lieutenant Commander Bellingham had tried to get in
the spirit of things with young girls of whom he had complained
to his wife that he found them bawdy. Probably his mistake was
not to have screwed them: his wife pointed out that they
were not his type at all.
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Lawyers are to demand £12m compensation for hundreds of ex-residents of children's homes in Scotland who claim they suffered physical, sexual and emotional abuse by a group of Catholic nuns. ….[The leading solicitor involved] says "ritual abuse" was rife in the homes between 1937 and 1978. ….[John] McCorry was an 11-year old taken into the Smyllum orphanage [in Lanarkshire] with seven brothers and sisters between 1952 and 1955. After all the violent beatings he received and witnessed, he says he endured four days' solitary confinement for trying to run away. ….Girls were also targets of abuse, according to the victims. ….They were fed "disgusting" food, including giblets, and made to stand in freezing corridors as a punishment for minor offences.
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{That such incidents can form the basis of massive compensation claims after forty or fifty years beggars belief. Even granted the longevity of nuns, many of the key defence witnesses will presumably be dead. Soon British lawyers will come to believe they can charge France with the identity-infringing human costs of the Norman Conquest.}
In the past decade, 'assertion therapy' and 'anger management' have been popular offers from Britain's highly paid clinical psychologists -- even though these techniques have no theoretical basis and are just Granny wisdom ('Count up to ten before you belt him one'). Now, at an official inquiry into the scandals of top security Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside (formerly Rampton Hospital, cf. TgF NewsLetters, c. February 1997), star Patient B, aged 38 (who reports drugs still circulate at Ashworth) has described how two psychologists responsible for the local anger management course were found fighting in the hospital car park.
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For 17 years, Bob Munden Jones {who looks like soccer star} was
the sort of headmaster that parents dream of.
His affinity with children
and no-nonsense style saw pupil numbers grow steadily at Trewlawnyd
Church of Wales primary school near Rhyl.
But his career has been destroyed
after he was falsely accused of indecently assaulting a four-year-old
pupil. Mr Munded Jones, a teacher for 32 years, claims he was
forced out after a 'witchhunt' by Church and Flintshire local
education authority officials, despite a petition from 90 per
cent of parents demanding his return.
'I've lost count of the sleepless
nights and I'm totally devastated,' he said. 'Teaching was my
life. Now I have nothing. I have been caught up in a web of totally
unfounded allegations.'
Mr Munded Jones was suspended
in June 1997 after the school's caretaker, Janette Paulus, accused
him of assaulting the girl as she sat on his knee.
During a four-day trial at
Mold Crown Court in December 1996, Mr Munden Jones explained that
the girl, who was waiting for a late taxi home, had been sitting
sideways across his knees, not his lap. He had bounced her up
and down and joked with her as she ate a packet of crisps.
The court heard that he had
had a series of rows with Mrs Paulus, the worst when she let the
school oil tank run dry, causing the heating to fail and freezing
the pipes. The ensuing flood cost the school £10,000.
The jury took ten minutes
to acquit Mr Munden Jones of indecent assault, many shaking him
by the hand as they left court.
But the school authorities
refused to lift the suspension, saying Mr Munden Jones was being
investigated for 'other matters.' It took his solicitor,
Peter Williams, another three months to find out what they were.
Finally, in March last year,
he was accused of 'conduct detrimental to the welfare of children.'
'Every one of the accusations
came from two members of staff who did not have direct evidence
but only what they heard,' Mr Williams said.
'We interviewed the parents
in every case and they all refuted the allegations. Mr Munden
Jones is a tactile sort of guy and like a big father to the children.
They would climb all over him while he was talking with the parents.'
As the disciplinary hearing
date approached, both the local authority and the Church replaced
their representatives on the school's governing body.
Mr Munden Jones was convinced
the hearing, eventually set for January 19 this year, would be
loaded against him.
He decided to quit his £28,000-a-year
job, fearing he would lose his pension rights if sacked.
'This is a great injustice.
I was forced to resign,' said the divorced father of one. 'I planned
to work until retirement at 60. But I now face a loss of earnings
over the next six years totalling nearly £100,000.'
Parents continued to speak
highly of their headmaster yesterday.
Former PTA chairman Linda
Evans said: 'He's a traditional type of teacher who expects high
standards and brings out the best in all children. The school
was his life. He has seen it grow and flourish and this is a very
sad end to his career.'
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The wilful confusion of the mildest and most un-complained-of paedophilia with child murder could hardly be better illustrated than by the Mirror's coverage of the case of Arthur C. Clarke -- the long-standing employer of many of Ceylon's male adolescents. Not content with an editorial urging Britoids to "nation-wide outrage" about a man who had given up Britoids forty years ago, the Mirror carried a letter from a mother who claimed her fourteen-year-old boy had been murdered by a man who had once spent ten months in prison for possessing 'paedophile images.' In fact, however:
Now the forty-seven-year old grandmother of three tells Sir Arthur (who seems never to have been accused of hurting a fly): "You don't even deserve air to breathe, let alone the privileged lifestyle you lead at your luxury beach house in Sri Lanka." {Ay, there's the rub for a Britoid!} "…If I had my way, all child molesters would be castrated then given life imprisonment. And in case they ever escaped, I'd tattoo "PERVERT" across their heads."
{While the British media hoo-hah was going on about Sir Arthur, only footnotes were given in the press to a weekend battle between Tamil rebels and government troops in Ceylon which had left at least 380 dead (Daily Express, 3 ii '98).}
Here is a characterization of Stalin by the Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam.
"Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses
he toys with the tribute of half-men.
One whistles, another miaows, a third snivels."
To which other Chief Executive would this apply?
No stuffy supporter of protocol for its own sake, NewsLetter hero young-at-heart Prince Philip recently went to the aid of a boy who was trying to climb over police railings. The Prince thus helped the lad give a bouquet of flowers from his mother to Her Majesty the Queen on her visit -- amidst carnival-like scenes -- to the East End of London (Mirror, 20 ii '98). (Not that life is all fun and games for the Prince. Standard ES magazine (30 i '98) estimated that the Prince had shaken hands with some 1,932,000 people since the Queen ascended to the throne.)
Other Top Geminis are:
[The Mighty McDougall himself was almost a Gemini -- b. 22 vi 1871.]
The latest very accurate prognostication for Geminis comes from "Britain's top astrologer" Marjorie Orr* (Express, 23 ii '98):
"If you cannot feel successful now, then you cannot be trying very hard. A real congregation of planets at your mid-heaven, including lucky Jupiter, indicate that you are being recognised by the right people. There may be jealousy or resentment, but you are coping remarkably well by ducking** at the right time. Fine thought: The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
* Can this be the same Marjorie Orr as the leading abusohysteric who wrote to the Guardian in favour of 'recovered memories' (McDNL 3 March 1998)?…
** This will refer to my letter to Student
-- due for publication on March 12th….
Just before the horoscope in the Express, the London Evening Standard (18 ii '98) offered the following reassurance to Geminis on Appeal:
"Don't despair if what seems to have been decreed to be your lot in life doesn't meet your expectations. But the Sun's move to a crucial point of your chart means you should see your long-term future in a more encouraging light. You may have to wait for a while, but something magical its on its way."
Quite right about having to wait! Mr T. Gordon Coutts QC has announced his decision to ignore the University's stipulation that he come to his verdict within fourteen days.
-- Seven years after 'Satanic abuse' was completely discredited in an official UK inquiry, trainee social workers are still being taught to look out for it. --
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….the disgraceful ordeal that shattered the lives of decent, loving parents [in Rochdale, seven years ago] may be about to threaten families all over again.
For damning new evidence has revealed that social workers are once more being urged to take seriously the myth that Satanic abuse is widespread in Britain.
The Rochdale and Orkney cases came about because social workers were too ready to believe children's fabricated claims.
….[Now] Liverpool University is at the heart of serious allegations over the resurgence of the Satanic abuse phenomenon. A team of women researchers there is expected to produce new examples of ritual abuse next month after carrying out an extraordinary survey in which questionnaires were delivered to 100,000 addresses at random.
….Meanwhile the so-called growth of in Satanic abuse was discussed at a conference at Warwick University. ….The Press was banned…but The Mail on Sunday can disclose that nearly every speaker and every workshop featured Satanic abuse.
….Maureen Davies, an Evangelical Christian seen as a prime mover in spreading the disturbing theories, now lectures in North Wales. And a British Psychological Society report showed recently that 13 per cent of 800 psychologists who answered a survey had worked with clients who claimed they were victims of 'Satanic ritual' abuse -- and they believed it.
But Jean La Fontaine, emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics -- whose book exposing the Satanic abuse myth is to be published soon -- said yesterday that no investigation in Britain or abroad had uncovered any evidence of it. 'The kind of manuals used at Liverpool University refer to Satanic abuse as though it was established beyond doubt,' she said. And she attacked 'recovered memory' techniques and hypnotherapy used on victims to help them to remember abuse. 'Something has to be done or there will be new witch-hunts, devastating innocent people and children.'
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The British press has been swamped with speculation as to the significance of Prince Charles appointing a 42-year-old Black lady as his Deputy Press Secretary (salary £35K).
Amidst all these contradictory (and self-contradictory) views, Mrs Colleen Harris's qualifications for earning £35K are a matter of real interest. However, just as the Britoid press would rather condemn The g Factor without actually reading it, so they would rather comment on Mrs Harris's appointment without providing the factual ingredients that would enable readers to assess it for themselves. Mrs Harris plainly -- from photos -- has a nice 6' 4", ectomorphic White husband and two boys; but her only qualifications ever mentioned by Britain's disgraceful press are the ballet and elocution lessons properly provided by her Guyanese parents, her "bubbly personality", and Mrs Thatcher's having selected Mrs Harris to be a senior information officer in five-strong Downing Street press office. Only Mrs Harris's mother has been prepared to mention what surely is a key feature in Mrs Harris's progress: "…she is a bright girl and a natural. She will know how to handle anyone."
{Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace courtiers are resisting any idea
that Chazza scored a 'first' by appointing Mrs Harris. Apparently
Her Majesty has long had a dresser of African descent; and Her
private office has seconded an Asian woman as a top manager from
private industry (Daily Mail, 19 ii '98). The idea -- attributed
to Charles -- that there are 'too few black faces' in royal service
infuriates senior courtiers.
Such is modern Britain. Once
intent on fawning on 'the workers', poll-counting political animals
now seek the support of 'minorities' -- especially 'Blacks', wymmin
and newly knighted raging wooftah Sir Elton John.}
The new film about the Atlantic slave trade, 'Armistad' (dir.
Stephen Spielberg), based on a true story, features Black slaves
who murder every White in sight, take over their ship, are then
arrested in America and are finally released by Mr Gordon Coutts
QC….
No, history itself wasn't quite
like that. The film shows the hunky slaves (gleaming torsos abound)
and a Black newspaper editor as instrumental in winning a battle
against White supremacists. But, complains the [pinko] Observer's
Philip French (1 iii '98): "The crucial significance of white
Protestant abolitionism is played down and its representatives
are unfairly represented either as a chorus of comic evangelists
or as cynical calculators…. The effect of this is to distort
and sensationalize history."
Getting racism a bad name are the London taxi drivers who recently exposed their idle and/or ignorant prejudices to the Sunday Mirror in an on-the street experiment. When identically dressed Black and White men tried to hail cabs in London, the White man was twice as successful as the Black. (All taxi drivers were White, of course.) Obviously, such behaviour can have a rationale -- given the massively greater likelihood that a young Black man will attempt armed robbery. But that was not what bothered the London cabbies, apparently. Rather, when accosted, the cabbies were totally inarticulate. Here are some of their explanations of why they did not stop for the Black would-be fare who had hailed them.
Plainly cabbies -- notoriously the most 'racist' group that London's chattering classes ever meet -- either have no serious rationale for their prejudices or are, in today's climate, too terrified to articulate their opinions. Once, the likes of cabbies (well, their soulmates, the London dockers) marched to cheer on Enoch Powell. Today, after a generation of multicultural propaganda on TV, they are speechless.
Long a spearhead of Political Correctness in Yukay, but restrained by its elderly membership, the 'BPS' has now announced that its Council will seek to set up a 'Lesbian Frumps and Gay Darlings Section.' Whether this move is underpinned by any scientific advance in cracking the psychology of gays and lesbians remains obscure in accordance with BPS policy that its members should have no unhealthy interests in either truth or news.
{Members of the BPS have little idea that an academic psychologist was sacked in Edinburgh in 1997 -- let alone that the process of trying a psychologist for an opinion went on for three months, entirely in private.}
Just when everyone thought that 'Steve' Jones of University College London had the British media fawning on no-genes-for-differences socialism, what happens? Up pops God-botherer Prof Sam Berry, another Prof. of Genetics at UCL, to give everyone several pious Gifford Lectures and tell his dwindling audience that God and Greens are everywhere. Titled 'God, Genes, Greens and Everything' [no joke intended], Prof Sam's lectures urged the return of 'natural theology' whereby God is discovered revealed in every act of nature. Prof Sam has clearly never visited a Britoid council housing estate (or, as is said in Scotland, 'scheme'). In this, at least, he is in line with his toad-loving colleague.
'Scandalized' lately by 'paedophilic images' are such newspapers as the Express and the Mail. Sleuths from these papers had brilliantly tracked down pictures of pensive paedophile's dream Elizabeth Preston, 12, which had been issued by the modelling agency where she works and hopes soon to rival Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer. So shocked was the Express that it took up a third of its front page with one of the revealing pictures of the lovely teenager (she turned 13 on the day the pictures were put out by her agency); and the Mail set its 'Voice of Reason', Leo McKinstry, to urge that people who run modelling agencies be strung up in public parks (or something like that -- LM's plea for intolerance lacked specificity).
PS The 'Conservative Family Insitute' (Chief Paedohysteric: Dr Adrian Rogers) demanded that Elizabeth be taken into care by social workers -- presumably unaware that social work is a favourite occupation for people of paedophilic inclination.
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A Student union staged a male and female strip show yesterday
to encourage members to attend its AGM.
Last year the meeting at Bristol
university failed to attract its quorum of 100. But yesterday
800 came to vote on a motion to have strippers proposed by Naz
Sawar, union secretary, who said: "I am glad we did it. Loads
of people turned up and they debated the serious issues as well."
Students get a day off for
the AGM, which the university is considering ending because of
past poor attendance.
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At Anglia Polytechnic University, where staff appoint their own children to jobs in their own departments (McDNL 3 February 1998, LUniversities), police have now been called in to investigate the sending of 'hate mail.' Some staff who have opposed senior management have received anonymous letters saying 'This is the end of your APU life' and urging them to buzz off to the nether regions of hell.
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A Black Sorbonne graduate told me over a glass of French wine
in a bar in Dakar that once Africans get the atomic bomb, their
first one will be dropped on Liverpool, the slave port of their
diaspora.
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Last week Britain was
visited by the President of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"A free speech die-hard," as she calls herself, Professor
Nadine Strossen, of New York, attended a 3-day conference in London
organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and LM
magazine. The conference was titled 'Free Speech Wars' and was
devoted to trying to understand how Edinburgh LUniversity had
so far got away with sacking an academic for a single page of
e-mail.
April Fool! The London
Conference had precisely NOTHING to do with Britain's major current
'free speech' case. As far as is known, Professor Strossen, despite
her eminent position as World Queen of Free Speech, has no idea
of the goings-on in Scotland's capital city.
As anticipated in the last NewsLetter (McDNL 10 March), one major component of the opposition to Chris Brand in Edinburgh has now been explained to an important elite European audience -- consisting of Sweden's bankers, stockbrokers and economists. The article, reproduced below,