As the Peking Olympics closed, with the British Commonwealth taking a lion's share of the medals and Eton-educated Boris Johnson, 44, splendidly teasing the Chinese that Britain had provided the home of pingpong (as of most other sports and games).
The supreme incompetence of modern Britain, with its failure to respect IQ and its doomed egalitarian belief in the merits of bureaucratic regulation and training, was put on display as a film of `The Best of Britain' by a firm called `Visit London' carried a modern-artistic image of paedosadist Myra Hindley (filmed when on display at the Royal Academy in 1995, before it was vandalized) was beamed worldwide to an audience of 2 billion people including the hypersensitive hawks of Britain's paedohysterical press
- Boris had swiftly to declare the promotion film axed (Sun, 25 viii; Guardian, 25 viii). In London itself, one of the handover ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympics had to be scrapped because of a Black youth being found at the Walthamstow site in a pool of blood, apparently knifed by fellow Blacks known to him (Sun, 25 viii).
Top British TV interviewer Jeremy Paxman added to the annoyance of Britain's modern idealists, revealing at the Edinburgh Television Festival (Sun, 25 viii): "If any middle-class white male I come across says he wants to enter television, I say give up all hope. They've no chance." {Britain's image took further knocks as the British finale lap of honour in Peiking was a fiasco matched only by the pathetic uncelebrated Heathrow return of the medal-laden champs dismally heaving their bags one by one down the steps from their BA aircraft (while no band played and BA had told fans to stay away for elfin safety reasons)
And celebrity chef Jamie Oliver slammed the country's `poor cuisine' and blamed it on beer-drinking - though Boris brought better cheer by reckoning Brits simply preferred sport to cuisine, e.g. using the Victorian dining table to invent the game of ping-pong (initially called whiff-whaff).}
NEOSOCIALIST SEX SALLY CONDEMNED
Following a letter from ten MPs and two quango bosses calling on the Government "to guarantee appropriate sex and relationship education in every primary and secondary school by putting personal, social and health education on a statutory basis as part of the national curriculum" (Daily Telegraph, 26 viii), I wrote to the Telegraph's Editor as follows:
Dear Sir,
In view of the call for state sex education for five-year-olds (Chris Bryant MP et al., Letters, 26th August), it is clear that Britain's boundlessly statist 'liberal'-left politicians just have not 'got it.' After eleven years of expensive, failed and state-expanding New Labourism, must the churches (and kindred religious and humanitarian bodies) not finally say enough is enough? Rather than tolerate neosocialist expansion into matters of sex, love and the family, it is time to demand -- as I advised Her Majesty's Government in 1966, when a prison psychologist -- that any government monies for these (and other moral purposes) should be channelled via local institutions reflecting people's own philosophical choices.
I am yours sincerely,
Chris Brand. {Mr Christopher Richard Brand, author of The g Factor}
POLICE TO STEER CLEAR OF MAD BLACK MUESLI
More British loopy `liberal'-left `tough-on-crime' stuff went on display as Magdi Elgizouli, 40, who had killed 25-year-old policewoman Nina Mackay in 1997 and been locked up indefinitely under the Mental Health Act, being said to have a `deranged hatred of the police,' was discovered enjoying four hours a week supervised release from a Southall, London, lunatic asylum to help him `integrate with society' prior to indefinite release. An urgent message was issued under Scotland Yard's `officer alert system' warning police to keep away from the killer.
GEORGIA ON MY MIND
I now reckon Nato made a huge mistake in not encouraging Russia's 1990's application for entry. We could thus have united the White race. Instead we preferred demacracy and hooman rights.... I'm so glad I marched through Edinburgh with the Serbs and Chinese in 1999 -- I thought the West's attack on a longstanding ally, Serbia, was monstrous. Now the birds are coming home to roost - with Russia using race realism to its own advantage by seizing its Ossetian collaborators back from the clutches of newly independent Georgia whereas the West's sympathy for ethnic nationalism had served only to create Muslim and gypsy states freed from the ancient influence of (relatively) civilizing Christian Serbia.
In the past ten days, the wife and I have seen several fantastically moving concerts/operetas by the mighty Ossetian conductor Valery Gergiev -- his mission to the Edinburgh Festival interrupted only by his own impulse to jet back at the weekend to conduct a rousing pro-Russian concert in South Ossetia. In Edinburgh, he and his orchestras (London and Russian) were heard with delight and without protest -- I had one noisy type thrown out by heavy staff before the beginning of one of the performances at E'bugger's Usher Hall.
Even the Guardian blasted Britain's schoolboyish Home Secretary for dashing to the Ukraine to back that divided country's application for Nato membership and to make threats against Russia which he and Britain were in no position to enforce (27 viii, David Hearst: Miliboy "appears not to know what he's talking about").
RELIGION OF PEACE, JUSTICE AND MASOCHISM
A Manchester Muesli fanatic was found guilty by a jury of forcing young teenage boys to flagellate themselves blade-bearing knobkerries till they bled from many minor and some deeper cuts (Guardian, 27 viii).
AGONY UNCLE CHRIS VINDICATED
In line with my advice to Edinburgh LUni students not to mess with their pheromones when engaged in mate-seeking (Student, c. 2004, `Keep your (pubic) hair on!'), scientists discovered that being on the Pill - with its resultant hormonal changes - reduces a girl's chances of finding the ideal partner whom she would rapturously love, viz. one with immune system genes complementary to her own (Daily Telegraph, 13 viii, `The Pill may change women's choice in men').
Dr Craig Roberts, who carried out the work in collaboration with the University of Newcastle, said the effect was robust: "The results showed that the preferences of women who began using the contraceptive pill shifted towards men with genetically similar odours. Not only could similarity in Major Histocompatibility Complex in couples lead to fertility problems but it could ultimately lead to the breakdown of relationships when women stop using the contraceptive pill, as odour perception plays a significant role in maintaining attraction to partners."
NIGERIAN IMMIGRANTS BLASTED
In the Holy Republic of Eire, heroic journalist Kevin Myers (see previous) continued his one-man crusade for race realism, pointing out that that most of the South's adult immigrants from Nigeria were out of work and dependent on the state for accommodation (Irish Independent, 15 viii).
PEECEE POLICE TURN ON EACH OTHER
In a hilarious reminder that witchcraft trials only ended in the eighteenth century when prosecutors found themselves accused of witchcraft, Metropolitan police supremo Sir Ian Blair (who had enthusiastically implemented the `anti-racist' Macpherson Report [which made stop and search difficult and thus triggered the ten-year surge in muggings under Labour] and declined to discipline Muslim police for hate speech about homosexuals) had papers filed against him by Britain's most senior Srindopakeshi police officer, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, suing him and alleging thirty instances of racial discrimination at Scotland Yard and the Home Office (Daily Telegraph, 21 viii; Sun, 23 viii).
{Headquarters members of the usually pious-leftist National Union of Students also started accusing each other of `racism' - in particular of joking about slavery and of alcohol consumption that upset Mueslis (Guardian, 22 viii). And Ghaffur turned out also to be proceeding for 'racism' against one of his own deputies -- the head of security for London's 2012 Olympic Games.}
BEAUTY REALISM
Pretty girls have a natural advantage when it comes to attracting men. But stating the obvious had the Mayor of Mount Isa, Queensland, Oz, in all sorts of trouble with femininnies (The Australian, 21 viii). John Molony suggested that, with five blokes for every girl, "the beauty-disadvantaged women should proceed to Mt Isa". When asked to explain what he meant, the heroic Mayor said "it would naturally seem that there may well be less competition." But this was "a public attack on women and a form of verbal and emotional abuse," yowled one domestic violence workerine. It was appalling, shrieked a Mount Isa council womyn. Apologies were demanded; Molony's resignation was sought; and this new martyr for realism made world world-wide headlines.
BRAIN - IQ REALISM
Elephants were reported to make fine counting distinctions - such as between 3 and 4 apples dropped previously in buckets - in line with their large brains (esp. relative to body size) and high post-birth brain growth (approaching that for humans, higher than for dolphins and chimpanzees, and much higher than in most animals) (Sun, 22 viii).
STREAMING BACKED
Twelve years after Rev. Bliar's prioritizing of `Education! Education! Education!' which included the proposal to expand streamed teaching (as proposed at the same time in The g Factor), and two years after Conservative Education spokesman Michael Gove reacted to Blair's failures by bizarrely proposing a cumbrous, costly and easily circumvented mass privatization of education, the Daily Telegraph returned to basics with a fine editorial against mixed-ability teaching which concluded as follows (22 viii).
"The teaching establishment, shaped by a training structure that remains in thrall to clapped-out liberal orthodoxies - to such an extent that most jobs are still advertised in The Guardian - refused to oblige [Mr Blair]. Eleven years on [following Labour's 1997 General Election victory], fewer than half of classes are set [i.e. streamed according to pupils' previous achievements in subjects taught]. In the remainder, mixed-ability teaching - which proceeds at the pace of the slowest - reigns. It is this enervating educational mindset that an incoming Conservative government will have to change. Tory policies to give schools real control of their affairs - including admissions and staff recruitment {Are there really such plans? - CRB} - will in time break this ruinous consensus. But it will require immense political will. Just ask Tony Blair."
SLAVERY REALISM
The rapid colonization of Africa by China (see previously) was documented by Reuters, which reckoned there might be as many as 50,000 Chinks working in Algeria alone and vastly undercutting African wage rates (inflated by Western largesse) in their rapidly expanding businesses (20 viii). AmRen correspondents reckoned Black Africans would soon be hollerin' for the return of laid-back slave-master Whitey! But the scale of China's export of its own labour suggested that China might have actually resolved to avoid using uncastrated Black slaves in the hope of avoiding the eventual fates of South America, much of the Caribbean, the USA, South Africa and Portugal.