SUNDAY DEFENDED

Following an amusing article by Matthew Parris in the Spectator complaining about confusion over whether a week begins with Monday or Sunday (i.e. about whether Sunday is a ‘sabbath’ as instituted in the Old Testament), I wrote to the Speccie as follows:

Pace Matthew Parris (Spectator, 31 January), Christianity did not "yield" to anyone in selecting its holy day -- simply, the day of the week on which Jesus supposedly rose from the dead. The reason Emperor Constantine liked the Christians (apart from seeing their valour under torture) was that he thought their choice of Sunday as their holy day meant that they, like him, worshipped the sun god, Sol Invictus. Constantine further believed Christians would recognize him as God's major representative on earth -- which they soon did, letting him shape their creed and encouraging him to raid pagan temples for the wherewithal to build his magnificent capital of Constantinople. Constantine did for Christianity what Messrs Clinton and Blair did for feminism: he took a disorganized religion and turned it into a political power base. After years of vicious persecution, the Christians seized their opportunity; but they yielded to no-one.
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand, Edinburgh.

OSCAR-NOMINATED STAR SPEAKS OUT ON RACE AND CULTURE

Oscar-nominated Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies, who played a warrior dwarf in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ spoke out against the growing Islamicization of the West – eliciting a finger-wagging from the peecee-left Observer (1 ii) and the Muslim Council of Britain when they found his remarks to American journalists had been taken up with enthusiasm by the British National Party.

BONK-READY BABE BAGGER BONGO

A spirited attempt at babe-bagging was made by Gabon’s President, Omar Bongo, 60, when he persuaded luscious long-faced lovely Miss Peru, Ivette Santa Maria, 22, to cross the Atlantic to participate in a Miss Humanity Pageant he claimed to be organizing. Ready as any supermodel to appear obliging to the Black race, Ivette was soon on a plane to Gabon where she found herself whisked to the presidential palace to meet Mr Big in an oak-panelled room. Yet no sooner did the President arrive than the panelling slid aside to reveal a king size bed all ready for action. Guards made no attempt to detain Ivette when she fled in panic, but it took her two weeks to scrape together enough cash to pay for a flight back to Lima. Gabon’s president became well known in 1992-3 when a French couturier revealed that he organized regular flights for French prostitutes to meet the ever-bonk-ready Bongo.

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ABUSOHYSTERIA HITS THE BUFFERS

Britain's feminastish experts in child abuse suffered a blow as the attorney general, Lord Goldman, opened inquiries into thousands of cases in which parents had been convicted of murdering their infants. Evidently fear of being insufficiently abusohysterical had led courts and juries to accept astonishingly low standards of evidence in cases of alleged infanticide - the uncorroborated evidence of just one `medical expert' (often a Prof. Sir Roy Meadow) was enough to secure a conviction. Often no attention had been paid to what conceivable motive mothers might have had for killing their own child, for the experts (esp. Prof. Meadow) suggested that the `murderer' "suffered Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy", i.e. wanted all the attention she would receive if her child suddenly died.


In the Sunday Telegraph (25 i), columnist Dr James Le Fanu found Lord Goldman's news "exhilarating" and expressed the hope that some of the daft `experts' (esp. Prof. Meadow) would themselves be charged with wasting police and court time and even given "mandatory life sentences" for their self-chosen mission.




BLACK-RUN ZIMBABWE'S INHUMANITY GOES OFF THE SCALES


In a fine tribute at once to the importance of IQ and of keeping Blacks away from political power, the Sunday Telegraph (25 i) announced that life expectancy in Zimbabwe after two decades of ape-man rule had dropped to 36, that there was mass starvation and that the only drug available in most hospitals was aspirin. Lynn & Vanhanen' s book IQ and the Wealth of Nations estimated Zimbabwe's IQ at 66. Black President Robert Mugabe was denounced as "evil" by the Black Archbishop Ncuba of Bulawayo.




RACIST KILROY-SILK?


As London's Metropolitan Police took time off from catching Black muggers to ponder whether Robert Kilroy-Silk had been guilty of `racism' when accusing modern Arab countries of contributing little to civilization, Private Eye came up with some splendid race realism in K-S's 2003 articles for the Sunday Express:

"Africa's plight is mostly the fault of Africans. Most of what is good and decent in Africa has been provided by Europe and the United States." (9 iii 2003)


"The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops." (4 v 2003)

Certainly sentiments which this diarist can support! And further support for K-S came from the Sydney Morning Herald (27 i, `Cowering under Islam's sway').



MAD MUSLIMS SHOWN REALISM


Fat and fanatical bin Linerist Abu Hamza (who sports a hook instead of a hand) was shown what British people think of him when the Sun (26 i) announced that 98% of its 146,000 callers had voted to boot him out of Britain. The Sun further discovered The Hook's son working in local government employment in London (as a waste disposal operative -- œ220 for a 40-hour week) despite having served a three-year prison term in the Yemen for plotting to bomb American and British targets. Within a few more days, the Sun had 200,000 readers behind it demanding Hamza's deportation - to which Hamza replied by denouncing football and nudity and telling Sun journalists "Your nation will be crushed."




PSYCHOLINGUISTS PEEVED BY PARROT


Psychologists who like to babble about language being more important and more basic to humanity than the g factor went into shock as the BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Times revealed an African grey parrot who has a 1,000-word vocabulary and uses grammar (including three tenses). The parrot can persist with its point through an argument, e.g. concluding one session where a trip in a car was refused him, "Hurry up, wanna go in a car! Remember? We were in a car." On another occasion, when shown a picture of another parrot hanging upside down, the African grey declared "You gotta put this bird on the camera."


Apparently the grey had simply been treated by his mistress throughout his life as if he were a human infant. The finding was also likely to dismay postmodernists who have wanted to believe that language provided just about everything that was central to the cultures of which they held the human world to be composed.


However, champions of language as innate could draw satisfaction from the new finding in a species that always seemed to have some capacity for propositional speech (whereas non-human primate `language' is a much more emotional affair and never lent itself to being trained up into grammatical accomplishment.



PEECEE BEEB BASHED

Britain's top-paying rest-home for peecee people and assorted feminazies took a direct hit from High Court judge Lord Hutton, whose report on the death of UK intelligence expert Dr David Kelly (while sadly failing to take evidence from, let alone photograph Dr Kelly's "devoted friend" and spiritual mentor, the beautiful, flirtatious, seductive and divorced top USAF translator and possible spy Mai Pederson) concluded that the BBC had lapsed in its primary duty of objective and well-evidenced reporting. That fat leftie heads should roll was expected - not least by righteously indignant Downing Street adviser Alasdair Campbell whom the Beeb had wrongly accused of `sexing up' the intelligence document that had supplied Britain's case for war with the mass-murdering Iraqi psychopath and tyrant Madman Insane.

{In the end the Beeb's two top men resigned - though they were promptly replaced by other Guardian-reading ignoracists. In line with the Corporation's loss of interest in truth (whether about race, IQ, sex or paedophilia), its ex-personnel promptly started criticizing the Hutton Inquiry (which they had welcomed during the six months until its verdict) and whining about why the BBC's Board of Governors had accepted their resignations. Next, the Corporations lower minions planned to strike so as to show the whole world their dedication to pious peecee multicultural pacifist liberal-leftism - instead of to Mr Blair's semi-realist compromise with the new religion. However, it gradually dawned on the Beeb that it had lost the battle as the Hutton Inquiry Report was supported by the Times, the Guardian (29 i) and the Telegraph (NB a specially fine article there by Barbara Amiel). Whether any reduction in its peecee propaganda would follow remained to be seen.}


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EARTH MOVES FOR GUARDIAN READERS

Against a background of knife-edge parliamentary debate, Guardian readers were re-introduced to the idea that IQ tests might be a help in selection for university.


ANGELIC ABI BOOTS FEMINAZIE BACKSIDES

Having stood by her man, Edinburgh-born TV presenter John Leslie, as he faced down multiple allegations of raping femininnies (all accusations were thrown out in court), delightful and diminutive (but impressively breast-enhanced) Abi Titmuss bravely stood by her man while condemnatory tabloids revealed a life of foursomes and sex games - the leak had come from a Black male ex-basketballer who had twice had sex with John and ex-nurse blonde Abi but eventually realized John's fame and that he could get rich by handing over photos of their orgies to paparazzi and getting Abi sacked as a TV journalist


Soon a 'friend' came forward to say swinging Abi had been into group sex, on-stage sex, cocaine, lesbian sex and big Black cocks from sweet sixteen.

{At least there remained no doubt that Leslie's orgies were, even at their druggiest, entirely voluntary on the part of all participants, so the final happy result of this tabloid smearing was more mud in the eyes of feminazies. A court ordered Texan baseballer Jayson Blayde to hand over all the images he had stolen from Leslie's home. And Abi was staunchly defended as a minx with a heart of gold by columnist Jemima Lewis in the Sunday Telegraph (25 i, 'An acrid cloud of hypocrisy hangs over the whole Titmuss affair'). Though demoted by some newspapers from 'Fab Ab' to 'Shabby Abi' and facing investigation by PC Plod for a self-confessed cocaine night, she turned out to support John as he played in a charity football match, and was said to have been offered a six-figure salary to work in soft porn TV. She was staying with her teacher parents at Ruskington, Lincolnshire, suggesting they were reasonably supportive, but Leslie's mother was said to be "devastated" and "inconsolable" (Sun, 27 i).}


IMMIGRANT 'STUDENT' RACKET EXPOSED

The News of the World (25 i) discovered with what ease Black and Muslim young males could make it into Britain: in the east end of London alone, the paper found six 'colleges' that offered nothing by way of education and existed solely to provide a fake identity as a 'student' to impress the UK Home Office.




EUGENIC INFANTICIDE SUPPORTED

One of Britain's top bioethicists endorsed infanticide in the case of infants born with previously unsuspected genetic problems or brain damage (Sunday Telegraph, 25 i; Scotland on Sunday, 25 i; Sunday Times, 25 i; Times, 25 i), BBC 26 i; Manchester Evening News, 26 i). In a debate organized by the House of Commons, handsome young Professor John Harris, a member of the British Medical Association's Ethics Committee, said there was no detectable ethical difference between abortion and infanticide undertaken for serious conditions, and added that there should be more openness about the fact that such infanticide was "a very widespread and accepted pratce in most countries."

The Manchester Uni philosopher's remarks infuriated pretty young 'pro-life' campaigner, the Reverend Joanna Jepson, curate of St Michael's Church in Chester, best known for her determination to outlaw abortions for cleft palate (with which condition she herself had been born). Julia Millington, the political director of the ProLife Party, said: "It is frightening to hear anyone endorsing infanticide, but it is shocking when that person is responsible for teaching others."

Professor Harris, Oxford-educated and a founder of the International Association of Bioethics, had fifteen books to his credit on the ethics of genetics. The Jewish-looking professor had in the past supported the ideas of people being allowed to sell their organs for transplant operations and being allowed to select the sex of their babies. A spokeswoman for the British Medical Association tried to dissociate from Professor Harris, saying: "These views of Prof. Harris are personal views and do not reflect the views of the Ethics Committee or the BMA, which is utterly opposed to the idea of infanticide." And Harris was promptly criticized by columnist Melanie Phillips (25 i) assorted bloggers and the right-wing Christian WorldNetDaily (27 i), and was noted by OpinionEditorials.com (27 i) to have revealed that abortions are often eugenic in intent.

Harris had been criticized previously in the San Francisco Chronicle (9 vi 2002) for attending to questions of human quality. But hardcore socialist groups were expected to resist the enforced pregnancies on which 'pro-lifers' were determined, and thus to support a compassionate attitude about infanticide (at least when carried out by mothers) that had developed in 20th-century Britain.(Nothing was expected of liberals who had altogether lost their way in the shoals of PeeCee.)

I wrote to the Manchester Evening News as follows:

Parents are expected to make decisions which a child cannot make for itself. Since our laws allow such choices as suicide and abortion, it is logical to allow parents to choose the suicide (by infanticide) of a child - assuming that the child faces a very low quality of life and that adoption is impossible. Thus I support the brave Professor John Harris.

I just hope that 'pro-lifers' who clamour to enforce pregnancies and parenting on unwilling parents are themselves generous in offering adoption and fostering. In the past, perhaps some two per cent of babies born in Europe were disposed of by their parents -- as can be read in Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's 1999 book, 'Mother Nature.' Myself, I imagine most severely handicapped people would rather have died (and have their healthy genes passed on by new brothers and sisters) than grow up unwanted or with a mother who had been plunged into depression at their birth.
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand.

{This letter was published (27 i) as one of eleven communications, eight of which were hostile - several of them strongly hostile -- to Professor Harris. Harris also turned out to enjoy the support of his fellow bioethicist, the Australian Peter Singer:

FROM http://www.theamericanscene.com/pubs/tdr11501.html:

"Peter Singer, now the Ida W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, proposes that "a period of 28 days after birth might be allowed before an infant is accepted as having the same right to life as others." In a 1995 article in The Spectator, which is actually entitled "Killing Babies Isn't Always Wrong," Singer wrote, "Perhaps, like the ancient Greeks, we should have a ceremony a month after birth, at which the infant is admitted to the community. Before that time, infants would not be recognized as having the same right to life as older people."

Peter Unger, a philosophy professor at New York University, calls Singer "the most influential ethicist alive." "
One of Harris' books is titled Pro-Life is Anti-Life: The Problematic Claims of Pro-Life Positions in Ethics.


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POLITICIANS ASKED TO SHOW IQs

A college student in Portland, Oregon, announced he was making it his project to ask all Presidential contenders for proof of their levels of intelligence. Christopher Nicholson had set up a charity-status group, People for Intelligent Politicians, and aimed to advertise on TV for further support in his enterprise.

{Nicholson had perhaps been reading the latest American meta-analysis of 127 studies on the importance of IQ in predicting life success, or the latest British follow-up of 11,000 children which found IQ far more important to educational success than was parental social class - results anticipated in THE g FACTOR, 1996/2000, in Commentary, 1998, and in my 'Quotations about the importance of intelligence'. The meta-analysis, published in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, was noted in the Times by senior Health Editor Nigel Hawkes (12 i) but did not apparently achieve any follow-on coverage.}


KILROY TO CARRY ON POLEMICIZING

Given strong support from the Sunday Express (which devoted some six pages to him), Robert Kilroy Silk vowed to carry on outspeaking - at least so long as he could secure the jobs of his 65 TV company workers, some of whom had been with him for fifteen years. He had been much impressed by the high level of support for him when London motorists honked their horns and flashed their lights, and when he learned that 93% of callers to Sky TV had backed him. He told the Express, "I have saved the jobs of my colleagues and I am now free to say what I like, whenever I like, without any inhibition. And believe you me, I will." However, other Sunday newspapers largely ignored the affair; he didn't seize his opportunity to say anything more about Arabs, Blacks or immigration, or to indicate progress in negotiation for future takers; and the Express's own TV Correspondent, though given a page in the paper, declined to dish much dirt on the overpaid BBC peecee witches who had axed K-S as a presenter.

{One of the witches - all of them recent appointees -- was the bombastic and unmarried dwarfette who had announced her mission as one of 'inclusivity' for Britain's minorities and replaced BBC 1's 40-year-running red globe motif-logo with scenes of handicapped wheelchair racing and Black aerobics_.}

K-S was rubbished in the Mirror, Asians-in-Media and PakNews (which attributed Muslim emigration to the West on the West's "colonisation" and "constant interference by imposing dictators and despots", and claimed Western women were themselves emigrating to Muslim countries "in droves").


MICHAEL JACKSON DEFENDED

Paranormal expert Uri Geller strongly defended his friend Michael Jackson against allegations of child abuse (New York Post, 18 i). Apparently he had persuaded Jackson to agree to be hypnotized and then asked Jackson about the allegations against him. From Geller's long expertise in hypnotism, he felt entirely sure that Jackson had told him the truth when saying, under hypnosis, that his relationships with boys were merely "beautiful" and involved no sexual touching at all.

{MJ might just succeed in breaking the link made by the media between paedophilia and violent and manipulative sexual excursions.}


'FASCIST LEFT' CHALLENGED

As Robert Kilroy-Silk withdrew into the shades, Sun columnist Richard Littlejohn came under fire for teasing the police about their growing numbers of overtly pansy officers. Reported to Scotland Yard by yag lobbies, Littlejohn responded (20 i):

"The Fascist Left are trying to use the law to punish anyone who challenges them and have dreamed up a whole raft of "hate crimes" to enforce their pernicious doctrine. There are some bad bastards out there, hell-bent on controlling every aspect of our lives, from what we eat and drink, to what we say and think. They are intolerant, hectoring and bullying. And they must be stopped. We must not be cowed. You'll never take me alive, copper."

{Fine words, but the resolve and resources of the peecee brigades should not be doubted: it cost the BBC UKP625,000 to bin the 25 episodes of 'Kilroy' which they no longer wanted - all taxpayers' money, of course! The left-wing tabloids promptly embarked on a campaign of vilification against him using complaints from nonagenarian neighbours that K-S had made them get their own water supply instead of depending on pipes running through his land. It could not be long before accusations would arise of insufficient paedohysteria_.}


POSTMODERN FARTISTS POOH-POOHED

Constructibabblers from Jean-Paul Sartre to Daniel Dennett got a good kicking in the Guardian from Prof. Galen Strawson (son of modern Oxford metaphysician Peter Strawson).

Confronting the idea that we all inevitably spend our time 'narrating' and 'storytelling' ourselves and spinning word webs, Strawson concluded: "_.honesty and realism about self and past must matter. There are innumerable facts about one's character and history that don't depend on one's inventions. One can't found a good life on falsehood."

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MORE ON KILROY-SILK

The censorious ways of 'multicultural' Britain were splendidly indicted by Bush-backing columnist Mark Steyn (Telegraph, 13 i).

The Muslim 'Media Monitors Network' website added that broadcaster Nick Ferrari, Sun columnist and anti-PeeCee crusader Richard Littlejohn and top Ozzie litterateur Clive James were also supporting Kilroy-Silk.

In 2003, the British media watchdog, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, noted that the British media were unduly "self-censorious" about criticizing Islam while allowing themselves to jest obscenely about Christianity - e.g. envisaging that Jesus and Judas were sodomites (Telegraph, 29 xii).}


'WE'RE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING GAGGED'

Thus the front page of the Daily Express (13 I*). Smelling blood at the BBC, the paper threw its weight behind its "crusade" to reinstate presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk. In particular it named and shamed the three women bosses who axed 'Kilroy' -- one of them, the head of BBC 1, on an annual salary of œ434,000 and further getting the BBC to employ her own husband; it carried an interview with with K-S in which he lambasted the "PC Police", defined PC simply as "Censorship" and ripped into 'self-styled tsar' CRE boss Trevor Phillips; it had an article by top publicist Max Clifford blasting the Beeb ('Why Auntie has let us all down') and saying it had created "a public relations shambles"; the Express claimed overwhelming public support for K-S, e.g. among the 50,000 of its readers who had phoned in; it claimed the new Conservative leader Michael Howard had joined its campaign, saying "Our tradition of free speech is precious and we shouldn't lose sight of that"; and it gave the terms of a Commons motion tabled by MP Andrew Rosindell -

"This House deeply resents the gross and disproportionate over-reaction of the BBC in suspending transmission of the Kilroy programme. It further regrets the climate of political correctness which pervades the BBC; urges the Government to defend and maintain the right to free speech and opinion within the media without censoring majority opinion as has happened in the Kilroy case; and urgently calls on the BBC to reinstate the Kilroy programme without delay."

The paper also carried several nice picturs of a smartly besuited and smiling K-S, and remarks from readers_e.g. that he was sensitive and a "real gent." Its leading article declared -

The media luvvies of the BBC are behaving like tin-pot dictators. They pay lip service to freedom, but they only want it for themselves. This fat-salaried, politically correct ‚lite sneers at the views of licence payers. The only opinions these half-baked intellectuals care about are their own.

Several letters to the paper were also supportive, e.g. asking why Kilroy-Silk had been "vilified for telling the truth." Elsewhere, in the Daily Telegraph (13 i) one letter said it was quite in order to generalize about the vile Arab ways - just as it would once have been OK to complain of 'the South Africans' system of apartheid'; and another letter wondered why the Muslim community was up in arms when K-S's criticism had said nothing about Islam - only about Arab countries. In the Daily Mail, columnist Stephen Glover headed an article 'Let Kilroy speak his mind, even if it's full of nonsense.'

Andrew Dismore, the Labour MP, said he found it hard to understand why the BBC had moved against Mr Kilroy-Silk but had not taken any action against the 'anti-Zionist' academic and broadcaster, Tom Paulin. Tory MP Roger Gale, a former BBC producer, wrote to his old bosses to complain about their political correctness (Scotsman, 14 i).

However, Robert Marshall-Andrews, the Labour MP, said of K-S's piece: ''I think it is the most loathsome and illiterate article I have ever read in a British newspaper. The only conceivable purpose is to create ignorance and prejudice. I, and people in my section of the Labour Party, hope that Tony Blair will realise that we must not accept any more support from Richard Desmond, the proprietor of the Express. It may well be bordering on criminality.''

And Muslim leaders persisted in denouncing K-S's remarks as "indisputably racist" and part of a history going back to 1995 when K-S wrote "Muslims everywhere behave with equal savagery" (Daily Mirror, 14 i). The first leader in the Telegraph (14 i)complained of the 'decadence' of London police in investigating Kilroy-Silk's 'racism' when they could have been arresting burglars or stopping Muslim fanatics shouting 'Infidel!' at Londoners.

Education minister, David Milliband, called the BBC's decision to suspend the 'Kilroy' show "absurd". "I don't believe Kilroy-Silk is a racist. I think the decision by the BBC to take him off the air is absurd," he told BBC1's Question Time. But the BBC's high-earning top witches Jana Bennett (director of television) Lorraine Heggessey (controller of BBC1) and Alison Sharman (head of daytime programmes) stuck to their line that the price of free speech on the BBC's airwaves was 'responsibility', 'sensitivity', self-censorship and -- for good measure - instant censorship by them. They had clearly forgotten the words of Lord Chief Justic Lord Hailsham in 1965:

"The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty."**

The thoughtless harridans eagerly told journalists that more viewers had tuned in for their 9a.m. replacement for 'Kilroy' than usually watched K-S's victim-venerating show; but since the replacement was a mixture of news and gardening - notoriously popular with British housewives - this should have been no surprise at all. The Express and other papers retaliated by putting the boot into the Beeb over its money-wasting digital channels which no-one watches.

The pro-Muslim 'Media Monitors Network' carried (14 i) the interesting information that Kilroy-Silk's January 2004 article had in fact been his own unedited original - the April 2003 publication had in fact been heavily edited at the Sunday Express to tone it down. {Time for K-S to 'fess up to race realism?! - The alternative of denying racism never did Holocaust historian David Irving any good.}

* The Daily Express did not interest itself in appearing on the Net. But thanks to the Muslim Council of Britain, the text of Kilroy-Silk's 2004 article was made available - making it quite clear that even this unedited version of K-S's thoughts was clearly targeted at Arab countries rather than at Arabs tout court. As was noticed by the U.S. National Review, the full text of Osama bin Liner's incitements to hatred, not to mention limb amputation was made available by the BBC itself. (It said America wanted "religious-economic war" and "the occupation of the entire Gulf" {strange when the U.S. had just withdrawn from Saudi Arabia} and that there could be "no dialogue with occupiers except through arms."}

** Belfast Telegraph, 16 i:

About four or five years ago a wise old judge, Lord Justice Sedley, acquitted a woman street preacher, on appeal, at the London High Court, after she'd been convicted of breaching the peace outside Wakefield Cathedral where a hostile crowd threatened her. The prosecution had claimed that she would not have caused a breach of the peace "as long as what she said was inoffensive".

"That will not do," declared Judge Sedley, "Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having."

SCOURGE OF THE ARAB WORLD BOWS OUT

After a week of enjoying public support and vowing to 'fight on', TV host Robert Kilroy-Silk met with BBC witches for eight hours and was persuaded to resign (Sun, 16 i, 19:00) - with the inducement of a big financial settlement. The BBC declared its tolerance in principle of the free speech of its broadcasters did not extend to "presenters of a news, current affairs or topical discussion programme." But its top witches announced it was working on a new version of K-S's topical discussion programme, which would continue to be produced by the 65-strong team at the Kilroy Television Company Ltd (owned and run by K-S). The Times believed further cash had been put on the table by the BBC, compensating K-S for any shows under his own editing and hosting which would no longer be broadcast.

{Would 50,000 people ever again bother to defend a fellow Brit who erred too close to race realism? K-S's settlement looked a big and perhaps decisive victory for PeeCee - though K-S said he remained unrepentant about his views and might sell his show after its remaining six BBC-contracted months to one of the UK's independent TV channels.

The only real consolation of the day was that an English Employment Tribunal backed a prison officer sacked for joking about Osama bin Laden while in the same room as two Asian men - who actually never heard the officer's remarks (Sun, 16 i). And perhaps, in future, Prince Philip might emerge as a popularly supported race realist if students at the LUniversity of Edinburgh persist with their bizarre plan to remove him as their Chancellor?_}


LETTER TO BBC

I do not normally see any point in submitting my views to the enemy. But in the K-S case, where my views accord with those of the vast majority of correspondents, it seemed worth a try (and I sent a similar letter to the Guardian). The BBC had asked what people thought of Kilroy-Silk's "controversial views."

Mr Kilroy-Silk's views are NOT "controversial." Some 93% of those phoning to the Express and BBC have agreed with him. To have bribed him to drop out as a TV presenter must put fear into smaller-fry personnel at the BBC. They will not now dare to criticize 'the West', 'the USA' or even that convenient shorthand, 'the Americans' -- unless assured that the BBC's secret agenda does not involve castigating anti-White 'racism.' The BBC has grossly dishonoured itself as a champion of the free and fair interchange of ideas. Let's hope Kilroy-Silk's settlement with the Beeb will not long gag him from speaking out elsewhere!
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand.

Comments at the BBC's website ran roughly 50% in K-S's favour, and were 75% favourable on the particular issue of whether he was entitled to free speech. Cathy Lloyd of London wrote: "The BBC have lost something more than a TV host, they have lost their integrity and imagination." According to the Guardian (17 i), there was a prospect that Channel 5 TV would hire Kilroy-Silk to run their morning chat show (with which they are were known to have been unhappy). The Persian Journal (17 I) appeared to take K-S's side with an item titled "When Arabs don't like the truth, let's lie to them" - apparently the journal did not know that, at the time of writing his Express piece, K-S had believed Iran to be an Arab country_.

Scotland Yard said it was still investigating the suggestion of the Campaign for Racial Equality that K-S might been guilty of incitement to racial hatred. K-S said: "I have been overwhelmed by the support from the general public, and I continue to believe that it is my right to express my views, however uncomfortable they may be. "However, I recognise the difficulties this has caused the BBC, and I believe my decision is the right way to resolve the situation."

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PEECEE CHALLENGED

As top UK talk show host Robert Kilroy-Silk prepared to be 'investigated' by the BBC bosses who had axed 'Kilroy' for 'racism', he did not mince his words for the press, calling his BBC censors "wimps" and their conduct "disappointing" and talking of "thousands of good, honest, decent people who seem to be cowed down by the bullying ethos of political correctness." The UK's top-selling tabloid, the Sun (12 i, Political Editor Trevor Kavanagh) came out in K-S's favour, concluding: "_.the shock is not that he spoke out so forcefully. It is that in a civilised nation like Britain he risks being sacked by the standard bearer of free speech for doing so."

Fellow TV presenter Richard Madeley said Kilroy-Silk had not said anything offensive and called for his show to be put back on air (Scotsman, 12 i). Speaking to BBC News 24, the 'Richard and Judy' front-man said: "The only explanation I can come up with is that someone at the Beeb wants him out. The treatment of Kilroy by the BBC is nothing short of disgraceful."

In the Telegraph, it was observed that the Commission for Racial Equality had made no move to censor the widely available book Sayings of Mohammed (hadis) in which non-Muslims are described as unclean and uncivilized (12 i, correspondent Randhir Singh Bains); and another correspondent drew attention to the CRE's failure to denounce Aesop's Fable 152, which includes the line "Their [Arab] tongues know not the truth" (12 i, Stephen Crane).

Even the Guardian (12 i) accepted a letter from homosexualist Peter Tatchell pointing out that the BBC repeatedly broadcast songs from Black reggae stars advocating violence to gays and women.

{The chief peculiarity among all such excellent banter was Kilroy-Silk's own refusal to agree that some of his remarks had been racist or at least race-realist - even for him, evidently, to accept being labelled with the 'r_' word was a bridge too far.}

{A cogent reply to Kilroy-Silk by Muslims was attempted at Media Monitors Network; but it quickly degenerated into accusing the West of all the main twentieth-century evils - forgetting the Turkish jihad that got rid of 5 million non-Muslims from 1893 to 1923, peaking with the expulsion or death (sometimes by gas chamber) of 2 million Christian Armenians in 1915, and forgetting the continuing internecine and nearly nuclear feuding between Muslims on the one hand and Jews, Hindus and Buddhists on the other.}

{Interviewed by Black Sir Kenneth McDonald on ITV, K-S toned down to appear a nice guy who had only wanted to draw attention to the failings of Arab regimes. Apart from calling criticism of himself "manufactured", he said nothing against Arabs, Blacks, Islam, the Anti-Nazi League (ANAL) or PeeCee - presumably wishing to appear nice enough to continue being a TV chat show host_.}

{In all this, not a word was heard from any senior Conservative, Liberal or Labour politicians. Faced with the biggest row about race and free speech since 1996, and perhaps since the days of Enoch Powell, Britain's politicos preferred to sit on their hands. No wonder the newspapers had long been more important than the House of Commons!}

PAEDOHYSTERIA VICTIM DEFENDED

IN Spectator Michael 'Wacko Jacko' Jackson was ably defended by columnist Leo McKinstry as a likely victim of gold-digging. {In November, 2003, McKinstry had inveighed splendidly against the evils of 'multiculturalism.'}


ULTRA-NATIONALIST VICTORY

After five years of Nato imperialism and pious multiculturalism over Kosovo, Serbians voted decisively for Vojislav Seselj - in custody in The Hague facing trial over 'war crimes.' {Seselj was once an outstanding student, becoming the youngest Ph.D. holder in Yugoslavia; but subsequently he was condemned even by Slobodan Milosevich as "the personification of violence and primitivity."}


'VIENNA IQ STUDY'* STAYS AFLOAT

After two weeks of suppression by the Western media, Vienna Medical School's Martin Voracek's rehearsal of the national IQ levels given in IQ and the Wealth of Nations reached China Daily ('Study shows Asians top rank in terms of intelligence', 5 i) and New Zealand's Stuff ('Kiwis have thought it for years - but now scientists have proven we are smarter than Australians', 4 i). Lynn & Vanhanen's original result (that IQ accounts for 57% of per caput variation in GDP) achieved substantial coverage in Malaysia's New Straits Times (5 i) - which condemned the result as "laughable" "scientific racism" and appealed to Britain's Marxoid Professor Steven Rose to denounce IQ testing as culture-unfair. (Just how a lack of culture fairness could explain East Asian IQ superiorities was left unstated.)

{The possibility began to emerge that some serious journalists might one day ask what cowardice had led IQ and the Wealth of Nations [published February, 2002] to remain unreviewed in any important academic journal. For a discussion of how White Rhodesians came to have an especially high IQ, see Nathaniel Weyl.}


* The 'Vienna IQ study' (by Martin Voracek, Clinic for Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy, Univ. Vienna) probably involved merely the use of Lynn & Vanhanen's data and not new data of its own. See e.g. http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/comments/1.html?entrynumber=1555 and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evolutionary-psychology/message/28570.

Confusion arose because Voracek wrote to the British Medical Journal on November 15 (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7424/1168-a) apparently attributing IQ data on 85 countries to a paper by himself on IQ and suicide accepted in September by Personality & Individual Differences and due for publication in 2004. Of course, it was still encouraging that a researcher at a prestigious university should have been prepared to accept L&V's data, apparently without significant reservation.


HOMEOWNERS BACKED versus BURGLARS IN BBC POLL

26,000 votes were cast in a BBC Radio 4 competition to find the most popular suggestion for new parliamentary legislation. To the BBC's horror, the winning proposal was to allow homeowners to defend their property against housebreakers by any means they chose. Altogether 37% of those voting backed the idea, which will in due course be presented to the House of Commons by the embarrassed Labour MP, Stephen Pound.


FROG IQ ONLY 100

An engaging website represented East Asian IQ as high, along with IQs in the major European cities of Holland, Germany, Poland and Britain - but gave Paris an IQ of merely 100. Red China's Peoples' Daily (5 i [http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200401/04/eng20040104_131799.shtml]), ShortNews [Regensburg, Germany] (5 i) [http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=35723&rubrik1=Science%20&rubrik2=Research&rubrik3=All&sort=1&sparte=4]) and China View (8 i) [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/04/content_1259611.htm]) also carried the 'Austrian' result that East Asians have the highest IQs.

{Perhaps, one day, America's piously peecee 'journalists' would realize that NYTwits would have to be told about Lynn & Vanhanen's (February, 2002) results, and even about THE g FACTOR (1996) ?_.}


PEECEE SEX COMES OF AGE

Invented in the McDougall Newsletter of 28th July, 1998 a standard consent form attesting that a person is not drunk or drugged and consents to sex "and will not change my mind until the sex act is over" made its appearance in California (Short News, 8 i).


BLACKS 1, FEMINAZIES 0

Four Black British football stars were told by police they would not be charged with raping a 17-year-old fan whom they had admitted to "roasting" (cf. gang-banging) in a London hotel in December 2003 (Sun, 8 i 04). The girl (the product of a Jamaican mother and a convent education, out drinking with a 30-year old man when she met the stars in the small hours at London's 'Funky Buddha Club') had originally claimed that eight footballers had raped or otherwise had their way with her, but scaled down her claims in the interests of realism. However, police were unimpressed; so a full-scale outbreak of argumentation between the Black and feminastie 'communities' seemed likely.

{Under in-the-pipeline Blairite legislation designed to please femiloons, 'roasters' et al. would by late-2004 have to prove that consent was granted.}


'ANTI-RACIST' HYSTERIA AT BBC

The BBC cancelled its top morning TV chat show (1.2 million viewers daily since 1986) when an article by the show's silver-haired, dashing and smooth-talking host, former Labour MP Robert Kilroy-Silk, 61, appeared in the tabloid Sunday Express. The article claimed that Arabs had produced "no civilization" and were chiefly known for their "suicide bombers, limb-amputators and women-repressors." In fact (e.g. Guardian 10 i), the offending article had originally been published by Kilroy-Silk in April 2003 and elicited only two letters of complaint to the newspaper - hardly surprising since its criticisms had at that time been made not of 'Arabs' but of 'Arab states.'

(The Arabs themselves clearly contributed to civilization, especially before their uptake of Mohammedanism; but Arab states are clearly known for little but their authoritarianism, backwardness, rapacity and the scores of London prostitutes maintained by their princes.) The January 2004 version of K-S's article involved re-editing and re-titling (as 'We owe Arabs nothing' instead of 'Are we loathsome? Shame on them!') at the pornographer-owned Sunday Express and had nothing to do with Robert Kilroy-Silk himself, who said he "very deeply regretted" its republication out of its original context (where opponents of the Iraq War had claimed Arab states "loathed" the West). He added that the article had been 'republished in error' because his secretary, asked by the Express for K-S's latest weekly column, had accidentally sent the old April article as an email attachment; and he apologized further that the article contained two factual mistakes (e.g. counting Iran as an Arab country).

Supporters of Kilroy-Silk - he facing breach of his BBC contract, possible criminal charges and denunciation by Muslim leaders for an insufficiently grovelling apology -- could phone a vote to the Sunday Express at 0901 565 5008. Kilroy-Silk promised to defend himself in further issues of the Sunday Express, which itself reported that its readers were giving him clear backing.

The Black Chairman of the UK's Government-funded Campaign for Racial Equality described the article as "indisputably stupid" and said he expected Kilroy-Silk to be prosecuted for inciting race hatred - if not, Britain's race legislation would need further tightening.

(Born Anglo-Irish to an Irish mother and a Royal Navy stoker in Birmingham, Robert Kilroy-Silk previously apologized in 1992 for describing the Holy Republic of Eireland as "peopled by peasants, priests and pixies." In 1990, his son (by his wife, Jan) was jailed for fraud; and in 1995 it was revealed he had a love child by an art teacher, conceived while he had been an MP. Kilroy-Silk reputedly interrupted his marriage around 2001 and ran off for a while with a 34-year-old Russian cabaret dancing girl. He had been educated at the London School of Economics. His show, the eponymously titled 'Kilroy', had a œ2 million annual budget and involved 'victim entertainment' - though sometimes the 'victims' turned out to be fakes.

In 2001, Britain's top left-wing New Statesman magazine declared Kilroy-Silk its Man of the Year, calling him: "an ultra-democratic philanthropist spreading the feeling of fame to the greatest number." In 2002, the owner of the Express, the Jewish porn publisher Richard Desmond, gave œ100,000 to the British Labour Party.)


IQ TESTS SCORE IN DIAGNOSING ALZHEIMERS

Intelligence tests should be used by physicians to help detect and ameliorate Alzheimer's Disease, according to new work presented in Neuropsychology (i 04). Doctors should make allowance for a patient's previous high IQ and realize that a current 'normal' score can indicate a considerable deterioration.

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MZ SIMILARITY CAN UNDERESTIMATE HERITABILITY

One of the relatively novel claims of THE g FACTOR was that intrauterine nutritional competition between identical twins (who often share the same chorion) can create special differences between them that have no bearing on how differences between singleton children arise. The point was graphically illustrated in The Sun (31 xii) with pictures of a pair of MZ twins where one twin was more than three times the weight of his brother at birth - and still almost twice as heavy as the pair reached ten months old.


ISLAM EXPERT CALLS FOR RACIAL PROFILING

The top American Middle-East scholar and Islamosceptic, Daniel Pipes, called for race to be used in airport security profiling - apparently all forms of profiling are currently used (e.g. sex, age, demeanour), with race as the only exception.



IQ - BIOLOGY LINK

The year 2003 ended well for the London School with the confirmation of a strongly significant link betweeen IQ and 'tongue tubing' (whether testees can curl up the left and right sides of their tongue so that the tongue forms a 'roll' or at least a U-shape) (Galton Institute Newsletter, xii 2003). Working with 346 members of his own extended family in Pembrokeshire, Patrick James reported that 'tongue-tubers' were 6 IQ points higher than non-tubers (p<.01) - a finding that can presumably be due only to some genetic linkage.


9-11 RELATIVE TO SUE

At last, a brave relative of a 9-11 victim came forward to sue the U.S. Government for failing to protect America from its tidal wave of low-IQ and crime- and terror-prone immigrants.

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Special 2003 Academic Entertainments

Sir Francis Galton's 1873 proposal for improving Africa

University of Vienna medical researchers replicate IQ and the Wealth of Nations results: [They "drew on a variety of sources to produce average IQs for 50 countries."]

A picture of my wife and myself in Edinburgh has been kindly taken by our London friend Graham and posted on the web by Australian colleague John. (John must have liked my Ozzie hat!)


In the USA, 700 lawyers were recruited by the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund to defend against PeeCee assaults on the Christian Christmas.

Sadly, the UK lagged as always behind, with North Wales police inventing a new multiculti religion to which applicants had to subscribe (Times, 24 xii 03), declaring "I have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own." {Not 'tolerate', not 'be fair to', but positively "respect"!} Poor England had come a long way since the days when Queen Elizabeth I said she had no intention of making 'windows into men's souls.'



EIRELAND MOANS ABOUT ITS LOW IQ

The above-mentioned news from Vienna about national differences in IQ triggered anger in The Holy Republic of Eire (IQ estimated at 93 by Lynn & Vanhanen).

FROM http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-938646,00.html

Ireland's poor rating for IQs 'doesn't add up'

IN Sunday Times (Irish edition), 21 December, 2003

SIOBHAN MAGUIRE

IRELAND has one of the lowest average IQ levels in Europe, according to new research. Ireland ranked 33rd out of 50 countries in an international comparison of intelligence, well below Britain and the United States.

The research, compiled by the neutral Austrians, has found that Irish people have lower average IQ than the British, the Americans, and the French.

The table was compiled by researchers from the University of Vienna medical school, who drew on a variety of sources to produce average IQs for 50 countries.

Britain is ranked 11th with 100 points, which is the same score as Belgium and New Zealand, while Ireland, with 93 points, is one of the poorer performers in Europe.

The people of Hong Kong topped the table. The Far Eastern countries of South Korea, Japan and Singapore take the other top four places after Hong Kong, which has 107 points. The USA falls outside the top 20 with 98 points.

The use of IQ tests to make comparisons between different nationalities is highly contentious.

It is believed that the Far Eastern countries perform well because they have advanced skills in mathematics. Sylvia Herbert, chairman of British Mensa, the association for people with IQs in the top 2% of the population, said: "IQ tests are not perfect, but they will have been going for 100 years next year. They have been refined and adjusted over the years and they are predictors of success in work. Mensa members have higher than average incomes.

"It does not surprise me that the Far Eastern countries came top. They are known to be better at mathematics. I was in Singapore for our international meeting and that year Singapore children had gained the highest results of developed countries."

There may be some succour for countries such as Ireland and America: many academics believe that IQ tests fail to assess true intelligence.
David Schulman, chairman of Irish Mensa, said Ireland was in the top two ranking countries in terms of Mensa members. He said it was not a fair reflection on the country to question its levels of intelligence.
"I think the research needs to have more gravitas in it," he said. "Ireland is an intelligent country in terms of its education and intellect. Sticking labels on countries is not fair comment. Irish people are bright and are quick learners and that is why we do so well in many aspects of work, including the IT sector.

"I think an examination of intelligence that labels Ireland as a poor performer is incredibly biased and I would not be happy with that sort of statement."

Dr Mary Corcoran, from the department of sociology in NUI Maynooth, said: "In social respects IQ tests are of no standing and do not indicate anything of a person's capacity to be happy or successful.

"I think this research is of absolutely no relevance whatsoever and seems to me to be very limited in what it says about Ireland. I would be very dismissive of it."

TOP FEMINIST COMES OUT FOR ABORIGINISM

In another startling twist his her life saga, Cambridge University's Australian feminist, Germaine Greer, announced she had converted to Australian aboriginism - and been 'adopted' by several elderly female pipe smokers in a culture-rich ceremony lasting no longer than the time it took GG to write the aborigines a cheque.

{Previously in 2003, GG had embarrassed her supporters by declaring her love for the beauty of teenage boys. Likewise a decade earlier she had provocatively announced the delights of the housewhifely day in the countryside - after regretted she had never had a baby (just the one abortion). Her attention-getting conversion to abo-dom would at least have impressed assorted lefties and anti-Westerns, even if still leaving her feminist readership gasping.}

{Then unwisdom of standard-issue feminism was demonstrated when a German female sailor was murdered on her warship amid a tangle of sexual jealousies.}


RACE CZAR CLIMBS DOWN

Half-chat Trevor Phillips, the ex-TV executive and Blairite who became the Campaign for Racial Equality's supremo earlier in 2003 admitted the CRE had been "throwing money down the drain" by trying to prosecute 'racism' everywhere and would in future concentrate on making 'integration' a fashionable word (Daily Telegraph, 27 xii). Did this mean that Muslim schoolgirls would have to drop their veils? Well, er_., no, said Phillips. So what would 'integration' involve? Perhaps knowing that the Bible and Shakespeare had been big influences on Britain, he opined_. {By this criterion most of the literate world would qualify for British citizenship!} But Phillips would anyhow set up a study group_. {Trevor 'Blubberguts' Phillips, who came to Britain from Guyana, was earning œ94,000 p.a. in his four-day-a-week job while at the same time running a film company.}



H.M.G. CLIMBS DOWN OVER HEALTH TOURISM

Following pressure from Labour peers, the Government announced it would scale down the scam by which foreigners travel to Britain, receive medical treatment on the National Health Service for all their ailments, bring their relatives in for more such help, then toddle off back to their own countries without ever settling the bill - a scheme of compassion-gone-mad which has cost the U.K. at least œ200,000,000 annually in the past decade. In future, foreigners would have to pay up front for their treatments - an announcement which promptly brought squeals from the great and good.

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'RECOVERED MEMORY' VICTIM FIGHTS BACK

A former deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, Jim Fairlie, 63, began a fight in the Scottish courts to recover Å“250K from the National Health Service for having ruined his life. After his daughter Katrina's appendix had been removed in 1994, it turned out to be quite healthy and her pains continued; so the Perthshire hospital referred the 21-year-old to a psychiatrist to diagnose her pains, and he soon 'recovered' memories from her that she had been raped by her father, by seventeen other men including two politicians, and witnessed her father brutally murder a six-year-old girl.

Within a year, Katrina took all this nonsense back and the police lost interest (and the hospital admitted they had mislaid a lab report suggesting her pains were actually due to an inflated gall bladder) - but not before Jim Fairlea's marriage, friendships and career had suffered irreparable damage thanks to feminazie hysteria and misplaced belief in 'recovered memory therapy'.


"QUISLINGRAPH" TO THE RESCUE

Almost eight years after the publication of THE g FACTOR, advocating educational streaming by ability, the Daily Telegraph's regular columnist Alan Cochrane felt sufficiently emboldened to squeak out about the Conservatives' shameless 30-year subscription to Labour's educational agenda. Cochrane wrote (17 xii):

"There is only one solution to the crisis [of education in modern Britain] and that is to return to selection. . . . unfortunately [the Tories] are still too timid to grasp . . . the issue."

(TgF's conceptual breakthrough of using 'value added' measures of education today finds wide appeal, e.g. at HMG's website --http://www.dfes.gov.uk/index.htm -- where the most improving boys' school of today Britain turns out to be my own grammar school (of 1953-61), Queen Elizabeth's Boys Grammar School, Barnet, Hertfordshire. Of course, QEBGS was always the greatest - though it took a dip for a while under comprehensivist headmasters 1970-80.)


HUNTLEY HAD SEX WITH SCORES OF GIRLS

Though Britain's tabloids (e.g. the "Sun" and "Daily Mail") swung predictably into their favoured routine of calling newly convicted murderer Ian Huntley, 28, 5' 7", a 'sick, perverted paedophile', Huntley in fact did little to fit the usual profile of either a paedophile (wants to fumble kids, often boys, approaching adolescence) or a paedosadist (wants violent sex with young children).

Instead of being a 'dirty old man' Huntley was very much the charming young man, easily attracting girlfriends of typically 13-18, sometimes running several together as a harem while he fuelled himself on amphetamine. The ten episodes of alleged rape or molestation disclosed after his trial were a very small part of Huntley's vigorous sex life in his twenties. Evidently sex with Huntley was on the rough and sometimes fear-inducing side - though he sometimes allowed himself to be bound naked if girls liked that. And how they did! - many coming back repeatedly. One young woman of 28, who had been a classmate of Huntley and his first girlfriend when they were both aged 12, was actually trying to find him again in 2002 via 'Friends Reunited' when her TV screen brought the news of his arrest; another returned to him for more sex and his "gorgeous eyes" after a five year gap (following a ten-month affair involving violent sex); at one stage his harem involved 14 girls who would all come to him near-daily in their school uniforms. The chief peculiarity reported by Huntley's girls was not 'perversion' but control freakery - he was very keen on having his washing done, his meals served at stipulated times, his beer served at the right temperature and his partner kinkily dress or bound, and he would sometimes push them downstairs (especially if they got pregnant). He formed relationships lasting a year with several girls, and his last relationship, with Maxine Carr (in her twenties), continued for three-and a half years with the help of her subservience and enjoyment of sex. Anyone who thinks 'paedophilia' is a helpful description of all this should see the BBC's picture of Huntley's girlfriend Chantel Groce, a fifteen-year-old dancer when Huntley knew her.

Certainly Huntley turned out after his trial for the murder of Holly Chapman and Jessica Wells to have been an odd character with an even odder life. The product of a shotgun marriage, his first twelve years were happy apart from the arrival of a brother just one year after Huntley was born (a brighter brother, Wayne who would finally take Huntley's wife for himself after she got fed up with Huntley's violence) and teachers reported a nice lad whose mother doted on him; but from 12, a change of school left him somewhat short of male friends and his handsome father's serial womanizing came to a head in depression, alcoholism, bullying and regular beatings of Huntley (when Huntley reported to his mother finding his father in bed with a baby-sitter on one occasion and an aunt on another); and his mother (a big-jawed woman) eventually took in as lesbian lover a female security guard of 18, the same age as Huntley. From age 12, reports on Huntley were of asthma, shyness, fantasizing, unpopularity, bullying and temper, but mixed with plenty of instances of charm, smoothness and good humour and a chief interest in adolescent girls whom he could impress.

So why the murder of Jessica and Holly? Apparently insecure and sex-mad ex-bulimic girlfriend Maxine, now 26 and 5' 2" and loving nothing better than wild sado-masochist sex in red lipstick and black stilettos, may have gone off the boil, at least for Huntley - no sex for some time, Huntley complained to another assistant teacher, an attractive blonde with whom he tried to have sex while Maxine was visiting her mother in Grimsby in August, 2002.

(As a matter of fact, Maxine - who was a big-breasted* girl of low self-esteem who was notoriously randy after a drink - was seen at that very time in Grimsby having sex over a car with one man and kissing another (a 17-year-old rugby player, 6' 5"),

so Huntley did indeed have something to be cross about; though he himself had been two-timing her with a colleague at Soham School. Maxine had twice overdosed after Huntley proposed breaking up.) On the evening of the murder, just minutes before Huntley met Jessica and Holly, Carr had phoned and said she would be going out drinking, contrary to his wishes and express instructions. In a jealous and sexually frustrated rage, perhaps, Huntley invited the pretty ten-year-olds Jessica and Holly into his home with more intention of killing them than of having sex with them - thereby also achieving some revenge on the Soham community which had failed to appoint Maxine as to a regular job at Soham School.

All this is typical of what was long called in textbooks 'the charming psychopath' - though with a neurotic/depressive/tortured /psychotic side (for Huntley thrice attempted suicide in adolescence and tried again while awaiting trial in prison in 2003). All the mysteries that remain here (e.g. what exactly Huntley and Carr had rowed about after two rather settled and successful years - with the help of some benefit fraud; how many girls he had had - even his devoted mother believed he had had 60 in one year), they will not be solved by believing that Huntley was a standard-issue 'serial paedophile.'

{A diagnosis of psychopathy was also recommended by forensic psychologist Dr Julian Boon of Leicester University, by consultant psychiatrist Cleo van Velsen (who specially noted that 'paedophiles' normally have a small range of ages in mind for their targets), by experts at Rampton Hospital for criminal lunatics, and by 'Doctor Theodore Dalrymple' in the Sunday Telegraph (21 xii: "Huntley was no paedophile") who specially added that "scores and possibly hundreds of young British men" were leading feckless lives similar to Huntley's [without the murders] and deserved the same fate. Huntley's "darkest secrets" are apparently known to Rampton psychologist Christopher Clark, who certified that Huntley was fit to plead; but Clark said he intended to 'take the secrets with him to his grave.' Completing the Oedipal saga with a final victory for the father, 48, Huntley's diminutive mother, 49 (divorced but re-united with Huntley's father), announced to paparazzi she wished her son could be executed.}

* At school, Maxine was nicknamed 'Bouncy' - though she got thinner as anorexia took over. Several of her discovered boyfriends report her a complete slut who would beg for sex, e.g. on every item of furniture in a room. She would bite partners during sex and specially liked to have her nipples and breasts bitten. During her three years with Huntley, she was repeatedly beaten out of Huntley's sexual jealousy, said neighbours.



NEW LABOUR SECRETLY SOLVES CRIME PROBLEMS

According to Britain's "Daily Telegraph" (17 xii) "One prisoner in four is from an ethnic minority and the proportion is more than a half in some London jails. While the total prison population increased by 12 per cent between 1999 and 2002, the number of black prisoners increased by 50 per cent." Clearly the 1999 Macpherson Report (by Sir William Macpherson of Luny) has been quietly and race-realistically binned. As with the world-wide problem of fanatic-terrorist Muslims of IQ c. 87, apparently one needs to watch what the Blair Government does, not what it says about the 'delights of diversity.' PeeCee is now an official religion, just like the dear old Church of England - but nobody (and certainly not Rev. Blair and Home Secretary Blind Jo Blunkett) is expected actually to believe in it.

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HAPPINESS NOT FOR SALE

Times readers were reminded by 'Doctor Dalrymple' of the phosphate-rich islanders of Nauru (south-west Pacific) whose wealth made them so obese they mainly needed two aircraft seats, so diabetic (>50%) and otherwise unhealthy that most of them died by age 50, and even rendered many of them infertile.

{What the Doc did not mention is that the best estimate for IQ in the south-west Pacific islands is around 85 - so perhaps wealth can sometimes be bearable_.}


FEMINAZIE FURY

Cross-patch feminists in Switzerland martialled demonstrations (e.g. of 15,000 in the capital, Bern) as two women were booted off the country's seven-member Federal Council which would in 2004 begin deciding on the composition of the ruling Cabinet. For the first time, two Council members were from the anti-unrestricted-immigration and anti-Europa Swiss People's Party - though whether they would have much influence amidst Switzerland's complex system of checks and balances remained to be seen.



BOY BAGGING INCREASES IN BRITAIN

Feminist dreams of toyboy-househusbands seemed to be achieving a degree of realization. Between 1968 and 1998, British marriage ceremonies in which the woman was more than six years older than her man increased from 3% to 7% of the total; whereas marriages involving a >6-year-older man increased less dramatically from 33% to 44% (Times, 12 xii). The increases were due largely to the higher incidence of divorce putting more middle-aged people on the marriage market; but the earning power of the likes of Madonna, J. K. Rowling and Gwyneth Paltrow would doubtless have made a contribution.
Whether 'boy bagging' was a good idea was, however, a matter on which the jury was still out. I wrote to the Times as follows.

FROM: Mr C. R. Brand, M. A. (Oxon.), F.G.I
Edinburgh EH8 9PP
E-mail: crispian@chris-brand.co.uk

FOR: Debate about British women marrying younger men

There is certainly some historical encouragement for the preference of Chaucer's Wife of Bath for younger husbands -- a preference which she herself realized in her fourth and fifth marriages (evidently the Joan Collins of her day). Perhaps the most successful such British marriage was that of Prime Minister-to-be Benjamin Disraeli to the shrewd, rich and 14-years-older widow, Mary Wyndham Lewis -- lasting 33 years and leaving Disraeli devastated when Mary died. Sadly, however, it is easy to find counterexamples. Anne Hathaway's marriage to the 7-year-younger Shakespeare seems to have left her with little but William's "second-best bed"; and Queen Mary ('Bloody Mary') gloriously married the 11-year-younger King Philip II of Spain only for the marriage to last a childless three years before Philip returned to Spain leaving a broken Mary on her deathbed. To allow more systematic comparison of the merits of age-gap romances, I provide a list of couples at: http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/index4b.htm
(where I will gladly relay new cases and comments from Times readers). For the present, I can report that it seems much easier to find happy and successful unions where the man is markedly older than the woman: the marriages of Charlie Chaplin, Sir William Walton, Harold Evans, Michael Douglas and Sir Paul McCartney provide examples, all involving a man more than twenty years older than his wife.

Sincerely, -- Chris Brand.

In fact, there were only two highly age-gapped British 'boy-bagger' romances I had found which looked at all impressive: actress Francesca Annis and authoress Fay Weldon had both had relationships for a decade with 18-year-younger male partners.

EDUCATION HYPOCRISY BLASTED

A fine Spectator article challenged the corruption of British socialist politicians who consign ordinary people’s children to state ‘schools’ yet themselves choose private education or private tuition for their own wee darling children – or try to live in hyper-Conservative Kent, which still has grammar schools.

Likewise, in the USA, David Horowitz bravely continued his one-man campaign against America’s diversity-worshipping universities -- which by 2003 had 90% of their staff left-of-centre (or even 97% in the case of some elite unis like Brown and Wesleyan).

And from America came encouraging news of students beginning to speak out against their ideology-crazed ‘teachers’ – the fight-back came from the University of Texas at Austin, the only university in the U.S.A. to have had me to lecture (and witness the wonderful spectacle of gorgeous gals going to work on horses [double entendre not intended]).



NATURE BEATS NURTURE – PRIMATE STUDY

After fostering and being studied for three years, rhesus macaque offspring turned out to be similar in levels of aggression and sociability to their unseen biological mothers rather than to their foster mothers – Developmental Psychobiology 43, November 2003, Wiley DePublisher.



REPLY TO FLYNN-ITE PSEUDO-FANS

Amazed by the continuing devotion of the media and kindred lefties to their version of ‘the Flynn effect’, I wrote to Steve Sailer’s internet Human Biodiversity Group as follows.

It is ludicrous to say the London School has tried to ignore the Flynn/Lynn effect (Lynn, 1982, Nature – after I pointed out to Richard the IQ rise in his Japanese data from 1910 (IQ 105) to 1969 ((IQ 112); Flynn, 1984, Psychological Bulletin). Secular IQ score rises were known from 1949 and result from the bicycle (outbreeding), better nutrition and, above all, a willingness to guess and risk the occasional mistake -- the right approach to many IQ tests, for the tests were designed precisely to identify intelligence in children whose accuracy/obsessionality/academicism was not high. I reviewed Flynn's work in Nature as soon as it was published in the 1980's and, with Jim’s co-operation, began an amusing and ongoing argument with him in the Irish Journal of Psychology. Budding fans of Flynn can read Chapter 4 of my 1996/2000 book for an easy summary of the whole matter -- available FREE (thanks to Philippe Gouillou) at http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm. In the past decade, leftists have relied almost entirely on Flynn to argue via the media with the London School -- but they actually show no sign of having read what either Flynn or I have said.

Since the 1996 publication of THE g FACTOR, Charles Murray has shown the Black-White test-score gap has NOT been decreasing (contrary to every Flynn-ite expectation); Phil Rushton has shown that the Flynn-type rises were largely in NON-g-components of IQ tests; and I have noted that top sociologists Christopher Jencks and (Black) Meredith Phillips quite failed* to account for the B-W difference in their major 1998 tome (my review was in Heredity in March this year and I will post it to HBD if people want). Stalwart trooper of the liberal-left that he is, Jim Flynn has kept going with his thesis that 'problem solving ability' might one day improve in Blacks and he has had America’s Brookings Institute on his side.

But N.B. JIM DOES NOT CLAIM AN intelligence RISE! -- he lately told me face-to-face over lunch that he thinks his own great-grandfather would NOT have had intelligence different from himself (allowing for regression to the mean). Also, I have replied to him (and he to me) at http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/dickensflynn2001.html;
and my reply was appparently enough to make Science desist from publishing more from him pro tem.

* From my review:

"....their 500 pages of scholasticism will not fool any serious reader. The truth is that these authors have nothing serious which they can demonstrate. Let Jencks and Phillips speak for themselves: "We recognize that few readers will find our sketchy agenda for reducing the black-white test score gap entirely persuasive.""

‘THUNDERER’ SQUEAKS OUT

27 months after 9/11, the Times got around to advising Britain’s “moderate Muslim majority”, re terror outrages, that “speaking out is not enough.” No, indeedy! “What the community must do is to inculcate a commitment, in British citizens, to the rule of law, the avoidance of violence, the principle of tolerance and the moral values of this country.”

{Great! And what were “moderate Muslims” supposed to do when they noticed that their inculcations were not working? And what about the many resident Muslims who retain foreign citizenship?}

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SCOTLAND LEADS IN RACE REALISM

Research by pious and well-funded peecee types in Scottish schools found a healthy prevalence of racist joshing (Scotsman, 2 xii). The online survey, carried out by a charity, “Children in Scotland”, found the majority of pupils -- 58 per cent -- had witnessed verbal abuse about a person’s race, and 35 per cent had experienced verbal abuse themselves.

{Coloured immigrants made up scarcely 2% of Scotland’s population, so most of this ‘racism’ was directed against children born to English parents.}



POST-POST-MODERN LUNI

Edinburgh University confirmed its descent into the madhouse with a conference at its prestige Playfair Library and Talbot Rice Art Gallery called ‘e-Fusions: Is reconciliation possible after the postmodern age?’ The conference, furnished with a fall-apart-in-your-hands junk programme of verbiage (featuring on its front an ominous-looking Israeli Army lorry), condemned such “old left” postconstructibabblers as Jurgen Habermas, David Harvey and Fredric Jameson who had apparently been insufficiently utopian about the E.LU.-envisaged world without “binding divisions, classifications, allocations and boundaries.”

{Meanwhile, contrary to such out-of-touch idealism, top Times columnist Simon Jenkins came round to the view of this Diary that, far from ‘divisions’ being deplorable, Iraq needed to be broken up into its three contending nations (Shi-ites, Sunnis and Kurds) and forget about the fiction of ‘Arab democracy’ (quite unattainable till property rights and the rule of law had been secured) (‘The only hope now is to divide Iraq into three’, Times, 3 xii).

The case for partition along ethnic lines was put with his usual style and authority by Steve Sailer – who especially mentioned the success story of secessioned Eritrea, ‘a new Prussia’, in the past decade.}


BLACK CHRISTMAS IN LONDON

In 2003, delightful businesswoman and interpreter, Orianne Cevey, 30, had been giving affable but workaholic popstar, ex-Genesis drummer Phil Collins, 52 and worth £300 million, marital bliss for five years and the couple had a son (Phil’s fourth child) in 2001. But they got mugged for Orianne’s handbag while doing Christmas shopping with their tot on London’s Regent Street – the race of assailant was unstated as always by cravenly peecee Britoid newspersons.

{At the time, London was seeing an average of 164 muggings per day, 85% of them by Blacks.}



EX-CONVICT, 38, BAGS KEEN 14-YEAR-OLD

Pretty Samantha Murray, 14, of Nottinghamshire went into hiding with the uncle of a schoolfriend – an unemployed former convict described by his own family as a “roamer” with a considerable record of womanizing and a marriage behind him (Daily Express, 4 xii). Samantha, 5’ 3” and with blonde streaks in her hair, wrote two letters to her (“disgusted”) care worker mother, 33, and roadworker father saying she was having fun working in markets, would always love her parents, younger sister and two brothers, wanted to marry David Tyler, and would “be back when I am ready.” Samantha, said by her mother to be ‘outgoing and with a heart of gold, but easily led,’ had had a row with her grandmother but wrote she still loved her. Police intimated to Samantha’s mother that Tyler may once have committed a racial assault; but they said they did not think Samantha was in any immediate danger.


SACKED UN-PEECEE JOKER DEFENDED

The Daily Telegraph (5 xii) ran an excellent editorial about British Prison Officer Colin Rose, 53, calling his sacking (for a jibe about OK Bin Liner in the presence of ‘Asians’) "preposterous." (As Rose threw his keys violently down a chute at the end of his working day, arousing comment that he might puncture the metal base, he explained there was a picture of Osama bin Laden at the bottom of the chute – reference to the whereabouts of Bin Liner was constant in the prison at that time, just two months after 9/11 (when 300 Brits lost their lives to Bin Liner.)

{What a pity the new Conservative leader, Michael Howard, did not come out and say simply 'Enough is enough. The Conservative Party will promise to sweep away all political correctness and restore free speech in the UK. And for good measure, we’ll insist that any allegations of unreasonable ‘insensitivity’, ‘offensiveness’, ‘hurt feelings’, ‘creating a hostile atmosphere’ or ‘psychological harm’ will need to be backed up by a 75% consensus among at least four experts in psychological medicine.'}


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PRINCE LABELLED ‘RACIST’

In a move that could furnish an answer to whether anybody at all in Britain – apart from myself and Richard Lynn – would get real with hysterical ‘anti-racists’, the front page of the LUniversity of Edinburgh’s Student newspaper carried criticism of Prince Philip’s record on race (19 xi, ‘Prince set to be ousted’). Urging that the Queen’s husband be sacked from his 51-year lifetime appointment as E.LU.’s Chancellor, student activist Jeremy Kemp said: “As a university, we are very proud of our multiracial and cosmopolitan make-up. Prince Philip just doesn’t fit in with this image. His questionable views of race and different cultures are well documented. I think a democratic election [via the LUniversity’s General Council] would give us a Chancellor who is more 21st century….” For good measure, Student threw in the Duke of Edinburgh’s “infamous gaffe” when he asked a Scottish driving instructor how he ‘kept the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test.’ Subsequently, the Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) went on to vote by roughly 700 to 100 at a packed meeting in George Square that it would seek the Prince’s dismissal (Times, 27 xi, p. 1; Scotsman 26 ix, 27 ix). The motion read: “HRH Prince Philip is not a suitable figurehead or representative of the University. The role of Chancellor might as well be filled by a piece of root ginger”. After the vote, EUSA president Will Garton said he would write to the Duke to ask him to relinquish his post. But LUniversity secretary Melvyn Cornish said: "This vote represents much less than 5% of the total student population of the university so I am rather doubtful that it reflects the general feeling on campus.”

Jeremy Kemp told reporters: ``This is a cosmopolitan and multi-racial university. Prince Philip does not reflect this with his questionable comments and gaffes on race. {Pop star and Babe bagger} Rod Stewart would be a better chancellor. At least he has Scottish roots and is in Scotland more often.'' What? The students think the LUniversity “multi-racial”? – There is scarcely a Black [i.e. Negroid] face to be seen most days in E.LU.’s busy George Square!

Anyway, would the Prince move to slap down his ‘anti-racist’ accusers? Sadly, he did nothing overtly when given the opportunity to do so in my own case of 1996/7/8. But equally he apparently ceased to visit the LUniversity – Kemp told the Scotsman that the Prince was last on campus in 1996. Perhaps Prince Philip became thoroughly sickened with the LUniversity’s political correctness – emanating then as in 2003 from its Psychology Department where Kemp, 22, was a student in 2003. When visiting Edinburgh with the Queen earlier this month (for a sickening ‘Royal Variety Performance’ in the worst possible taste with multiculti Aboriginal acts and Cockney accents), the Chancellor did not bother to pop in to the LUniversity even though, at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre, he was only a minute’s walk away from the Office of E.LU. Principal and Vice-Chancellor Comrade Timothy O’Shea, and even though the next day he had time for lunch at the Castle.



BLACK LOON RAPPED

Black ‘British’ rappa-gangsta ‘poet’ Benjamin Zephaniah tried to embarrass his Queen and country by publicly refusing the offer of being honoured with the award of ‘Order of the British Empire.’ The Empire had been a slave empire, the loon asserted. But he was quickly put back in his box when a letter in the Daily Telegraph pointed out that Britain had been the first country ever to abolish both slavery and slave trading – to the consternation of African tyrants who still pleaded with Britain in the twentieth century for a re-introduction of the handy commerce (Sue Doughty, 28 xi).




RACISM OK – SO LONG AS IT’S BLACK

The loony Black tyrant of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, provided an endorsement for racism when he told reporters that “Whites are a dangerous lot” (Times, 29 xi). For good measure, Mugabe specially pointed out that many Australians were descended from convicts and this showed especially clearly in the genes of Australian Prime Minister John Howard (who had led the way in urging sanctions against Mugabe’s regime). “Over time, the force of genetics has played its part,” said the mass-murdering Mugabe.


HEREDITARIAN ZOOMS TO SCORE

Psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate (available as a Penguin paperback) was selected by top Times columnist Matthew Parris as one of his two books of the year (2003) (Sunday Telegraph (Review), 30 xi). Parris (who was once a Conservative M.P. and is openly gay) wrote:

The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature is popular science at its best, beautifully written, challenging but accessible. Pinker’s case – which I think he proves – is that our understanding of genetics is running about a quarter of a century ahead of the assumptions still being made in the social sciences and in politics. In our faculties and potentialities, he argues, human beings are not all equal at birth: our individual genetic inheritances will incline us towards talents and failings, strengths and weaknesses, joys and sorrows, which upbringing and education can assist or combat but must acknowledge. This is the reare kind of book which may make readers reconsider real-life choices.

Hooray! – though of course Pinker avoided discussing race differences so as not to frighten the horses. {My own review of The Blank Slate was supposed to be in the pipeline for the January 2004 issue of the journal Heredity.}



JUNG DISMISSED – TOGETHER WITH HIS WOMEN….

Mystical psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung got an understandable kicking from Anthony Daniels (aka Doc. Theodore Dalrymple) in The New Criterion Vol. 22, No. 3, November 2003. Though having trained with the psychotics of Switzerland, Jung became virtually incomprehensible himself in the manner of stereotypical German professors – entertaining theories of psychotics’ ‘collective unconscious’ based on nothing more than individual case studies, and writing his work up with zero respect for empiricism. Still, he was a charming man who survived the Nazi period in a cloud of obfuscation, married Switzerland’s richest woman, and then added a mistress – attributing his ménage à trois to “fate” to general media satisfaction; and he and his American followers managed – a little accidentally, admittedly – to solve the question of what were the four main human personality dimensions beyond the major two factors of g and n (see The g Factor, Chapter 1) (not that the Jungians themselves admitted either g or n). Credit where credit is due! Even the g factor itself was first securely identified by a Frenchman – Alfred Binet – who did not believe in it….



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