CONSERVATIVE OUTSPEAKER DEFENDED

As a Birmingham Tory MP candidate came under fire for Powellite sympathies, I wrote in to defend him (as did 500 others in the first six hours of the Sunday Telegraph carrying the story on the net) (published 4 xi):

Dear Nigel Hastilow, Well done to have the courage to speak out! Feel free to call on me to do what I can to help. You may like to prepare for your interrogation from Comrade Spelperson by looking at my article on Enoch at http://www.charlesmartelsociety.org/toq/vol1no1/cb-powell.html. Yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (psychologist, author of 'The g Factor,' sacked by Edinburgh University 1997 for undue realism).

However, after criticism from party toffs George Osborne and (once-supposed-right-winger) David Davies, Hastilow resigned within hours of his Powellite concerns becoming widely known - despite his continuing to enjoy the support of his Halesowen constituency party chairwoman (BBC, 4 xi). The alternative presented by party chairlady Comrade Caroline Spelman had been for Hastilow to denounce his own remarks as "incredibly stupid" and to accept future gagging from Not-the-Conservative Party Central Office.

Infuriated at the Cameroonian backtracking on the gains of the few previous weeks (as the Conservatives had embraced a little tax-cutting and found themselves surge ahead in the polls), the Daily Telegraph's top columnist Simon Heffer said it was hard to spurn a candidate who merely said Enoch Powell had spoken the truth about mass immigration (as he had about the need for monetarism, the danger to the UK of devolutionary experiments and the unacceptability to the UK of the EU) and denounced David Cameron as "playing his part in the great betrayal" of Britain (7 xi), promptly sparking an enormous postbag (1000 responses, mainly agreeable, in the first 16 hours) and probably civil war in the Conservative Party. I joined in as follows:

Re Paula Smith, 17, 08:41

The 'immigrants' to Britain of c. 1000+ years ago were drawn from the dynamic aristocratic military elites of their European tribes/races. The Anglo-Saxons brought the 'witan' (council of wise men) and a rich art and literature and soon converted to Christianity. The Normans (Vikings), with an empire spreading into the eastern Mediterranean, brought the castle and stable government, working closely with the Church.
By contrast, all too many immigrants of the past 50 years were people who could not find work or wealth in their homelands such as Jamaica (mean IQ 71), Pakistan (84), Somalia (68) and Iraq (87). (Figures from R. Lynn, 2006, 'IQ and Global Inequality.') Understandably, many of these immigrants pose problems that will surely not be experienced from students from Poland (IQ 99).
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand (author of 'The g Factor').

At the same time, Labour `antiracist' busybody Keith Vaz accused Prime Minister Brown of `risking fuelling racism' by promising `British jobs for British workers' (Scotsman, 7 xi).


BREAST-FEEDING IQ BOOST TRACED TO GENE

The gain of perhaps as much as 10 IQ points that children enjoy if breast-fed (summarized in The g Factor, 1996, pp. 143-4) turned out to depend on have a gene, FADS2, that helps break down fatty acids - one child in ten lacks the gene so gets no IQ gain from breastmilk, found London researchers (BBC, 6 xii). {The researchers supplied no information as to the racial distribution of FADS2.}


SPECCIE CHASTIZED

Responding to the Spectator's feeble efforts `defending' James Watson and Nigel Hastilow, I wrote:

There's too much beating about the bush here. Rod Liddle's article doesn't even mention Blacks, Pakistanis, criminality, female slavery or IQ. Yesterday, I found I was barred from contributing to the Torygraph's 1,500 responses to Simon Heffer's defence of Hastilow, apparently because I mentioned that the average IQ in Jamaica was 71.

The right is failing to realize that, since Labour has seized the territory of religion (today providing the piety of political correctness, handily combinable with the world-slavery operation of economic 'globalization'), it needs to seize as it never did in the past the authority-giving territory of science -- which is unfailingly right-wing about race, crime, illiteracy, single-parent families etc. Science says let's go with what we know; let's select, encourage, breed for and genetically engineer high IQ -- whereas peecee piety says let's pray for utopia and burn the heretics. Time to take all Grumpy Gordon's cash for quangos, managers and welfare-dependents and give it to the scientists like the 'controversialist' Dr Watson (whom the Speccie hardly dared to mention)!

Recall: it was Britain that furnished Hume, Darwin, Galton and Churchill (all [scientific] racists to the hilt, of course). Now that the world and even the Labour Party has nominally accepted British idealism (plagues of lawyers, non-property-owning democracy, 'human rights', belief in similar `comprehensive' (mis) education for all) it is time for the Tories to offer complementary British realism (families, freedom, fighting and fun -- run only by a Parliament in which the Prime Minister would put in a 40-hour week).

ILLITERATE KIDS TO BE NAMED AND SHAMED BY NEO-SOCIALISTS

In a new manifestation of its environmentalunacy and addiction to `training,' Grumpy Supreme Leader Brown announced he would identify illiterate schoolchildren (80% of whom have low IQs) and oblige them to stay behind at school for an extra hour each day to receive special `help' (Daily Telegraph, 8 xi). So, having been refused during the day the slower-paced teaching that they need, these victims of non-streamed education were publicly humiliated and treated as only seriously naughty children were treated in the past. {The latest miseducational wheeze was accompanied by the further announcement that children would be bullied by the criminal law to stay in Britain's wretched socialist `schools' till age 18; and government adviser Sir Cyril Taylor further reminded Britain's few remaining thinkers of the environmentalunacy of the Brown regime by demanding that 17,000 teachers should lose their jobs for failing to meet the government's preposterous targets of every child being `first class' and getting to university.}


ANTI-PAEDOHYSTERIA RECALLED

I got a mention in despatches from `Hiro Protagonist,' 11 xi, who recalled my ordeal over child sex hysteria, about which it was even more dangerous to be realistic than about race.


NYTWITS WORRIED BY RACE-BIOLOGY LINKS

As discoveries of DNA differences between races increasingly leaked from laboratories into the public domain, New York Times columnist Amy Harmon told scientists (11 xi) they must prepare to put such race-realist discoveries "in perspective," i.e. downplay their significance as compared to social factors -- especially if, as rumoured by a Manhattan blogger, called Half Sigma [see 10 xi], there were DNA variations which linked race and IQ (see this diary/blog, GENE LINKED TO IQ - RESEARCHERS, iii 2007). "Research is exploring how DNA explains racial differences, but it could give discredited prejudices a new potency," said Harmon.


FULLER FIGURES VINDICATED

Fuller women may have smarter children because hip fat contains fatty acids critical for the development of the foetus's brain (New Scientist, 9 xi).


FLYNN EFFECT PARTLY DUE TO SMALLER FAMILIES

An article by top German psychogeneticist Volkmar Weiss included an explanation of the Flynn effect, namely that smaller families have provided relatlively better (more attentive) upbringing for their children:

".. in a representative study of the National Institute of Demography of France (Gille et al., 1954) it was shown that in any social stratum the average IQ of later-born sibs is lower than the IQ of first- and second-born. In any social stratum the seventh child of a sibship has an IQ that is about 10 points lower than the IQ of the firstborns. It is not that in any stratum the least intelligent parents have the most children; but if parents have to distribute their care and money among a larger number of children each later-born child gets less. From this we can conclude that on its own the decreasing and smaller size of sibships in the general population may have contributed heavily to the past phenotypic IQ increase appearing as the Flynn Effect."

{A negative association between family size and child IQ had been asserted/confirmed by Eysenck & Cookson (1971, Br.J.educ.Psych.), Ross & Simpson (1971, Br.J.educ.Psych), Marjoribanks (1975, Br.J.soc.clin.Psych.) and Zajonc (1983, Psych. Bull.) (who claimed the effect obtained regardless of parental SES).}

Weiss's suggestion formed part of an impressive and wide-ranging article documenting the eugenic upswings and dysgenic downswings of human societies. Just how such swings begin could be that the higher-IQ have evolutionary advantages and greater fecundity during harder times but that, as the economy then succeeds, the society tends to pull in slave labour which eventually wrecks the human environment until the higher-IQ once more have an advantage. But, be that as it may, Weiss was making the same prosaic empirical point as Lynn, Flynn and myself: that there was no genotypic 20th-century secular rise in Western intelligence. If so, action to maintain IQ (or to improve it, as in China) is urgently necessary - Weiss himself was minded to forecast doom for the West by 2030. And what about race? Yes, Weiss was not shy to back Dr Watson:

"He who believes . . . . that it would be possible to establish civil society in the Congo by general suffrage, shows only that he is a prisoner of the current spirit of the age. The same incapability misguides world hunger assistance and prevents proper action against mass immigration into the First World. In the last decades we have seen economic boom, just as with Europe before 1890, in states with authoritarian governments and a high average IQ, for example in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, or at least high variance of IQ as Malaysia."

MUESLIS and TROTS FALL OUT

From New Party Newsletter, 9 xi:

"It's always nice to talk about good news for a change, and so the end of the marriage-made-in-Hell between George Galloway MP and his Muslim fan-club on the one hand and the witless Trots of the Socialist Workers Party on the other is especially welcome.

A number of SWP members have apparently been expelled from Respect, although others are now claiming that Galloway himself has left the party. In fact, Galloway has seized control of the party office, changing the locks, while the SWP faction appear to retain control of the party website. So much for the Unity Coalition. Both sides are planning to hold their own party conference. Meanwhile the Respect group on Tower Hamlets Council has split, with the SWP group looking to join forces with - wait for it - the Liberal Democrats.

You couldn't make it up."

PEECEE GOON RETRACTS

Cash-spinning self-promoting peecee-pansy geneticist Craig Venter, fresh from studying his own genome, announced that he had underestimated human genetic variation by a factor of seven: humans differed on average not by 0.1% but by 0.7%, he admitted - while still denying that there were any important genetic differences between races (World Science, 3 ix). {It had long been known that humans share 50% of their genes with the average pickled onion, so an average difference between humans of 0.7% was massive - easily allowing the striking observed human differences in IQ, pulchritude and dong size.}


PEECEE CANADA EXPANDS

Ontario's `College of Teachers' stripped lecturer Paul Fromm of membership, and thus of licence to teach in Ontario (Toronto Star, 10 xi). Fromm had come to Jewish attention for his anti-Semitic views.


PEECEE LOON `EXPLAINS' BLACK-WHITE IQ DIFFERENCE

Worried that poverty might not be the explanation of Black underperformance at school (where Blacks do far worse than White even when SES is equal), top California education bureaucrat Jack O'Connell explained to 4,000 assembled `experts' that Blacks suffered "cultural ignorance" because they learned to clap and chant in church and thus did not attend properly in school.. (VDare, 13 xi). O'Connell's bottom line? - Blacks should be taught at a slower pace than Whites.... (San Francisco Chronicle, 12 xi)!


MATTHEW PRINCIPLE CONFIRMED

"To him that hath shall be given.." says St Matthew's Gospel, a principle sometimes noted by Arthur Jensen. Anyway, so it turned out as British education researchers found that `improved standards' in schools since Labour took office, when not due (as for two-thirds of the changes) to grade inflation and to pupils working harder, were attributable to investments in schools having pupils from better-quality families (Guardian, 13 xi). By contrast, children from poor families proved largely unresponsive to the squandering on them of Government largesse, according to research at Lancaster University which shocked Ministers to demand an urgent review of Labour's policy of renaming useless schools `academies' and showering them with new buildings, visual aids, computers etc.


PAEDOHYSTERIA CASTIGATED

As 80-year-old William Manahan, former Abbot of Buckfast Abbey (R.C.) in Devon, was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to eight charges of sexually assaulting boys at the Abbey prep school in the 1970s, a fine condemnation of such inhumanity and waste of police time was provided by top columnist Mick Hume in the Times (13 xi). A correspondent helpfully added:

"The late Dr Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and writer, stated that he never found that molestation was the primary cause of trauma; the damage came from the shame and rejection engendered by concerned adults. Action taken on behalf of a traumatised child within reasonable time scale is very different from such global trawling. Organisations for children are falling apart for lack of supervisors, choir training requires "chaperones", many choirs etc. are folding or have folded, with no taint of molestation, merely the loss of men willing to be accused. Though many children die in house fires, no smoke detectors are needed by UK law. This shows what we really think of child welfare. Yes, sex is profitable for media folk and frightens politicians into over-reaction. That, alongside fat compensation payouts, is what drives this obsessional, prurient farago."

MUSLIM `VALUES' APPEAL TO WESTERN TRAITORS

As the British Government failed to win its 5-year-long wars ooops conflict situations in Iraq and Afghaniland (supplying 93% of the world's heroin despite endless footling efforts by HMG's `drug czars'), it transpired that the National Health Service had supplied 24 free hymen reconstructions in 2006 to bashful Muslie damsels in Britain wishing to `maintain their families' honour' and deceive their marital partners (Daily Mail, 15 xi); and that King Abdullah bin Fahta of Saudi Arabia, welcomed at Buck House by Queen Brenda and Grumpy Gordon for his `vaaalues,' had been busy consigning to imprisonment and 200 lashes a 19-year-old Saudi girl who had been gang-raped - the rationale being that she had been seen, prior to the rape, sitting in a car with a single man.


WONDERS NEVER CEASE

American intellectuals were amazed to find that Slate columnist William Saletan was allowed to write an article doubting racial equality in intelligence (18 xi), e.g. including:

"..The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied "that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn't a scientific leg to stand on[6]." I wish these assurances were true. They aren't[7]. Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and there's strong preliminary evidence that part of it is genetic. It's time to prepare for the possibility that equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, will turn out not to be true."

NYTwits were also allowed to be advised of the importance of genetic factors by a correspondent, Marty Nemko (18 xi).

PEECEE MASS INDOCTRINATION DISCOVERED AT LUNI

An "Orwellian" scheme of "treatment" to induce political correctness, multiculturalism and White guilt in 7,000 students was revealed at the University of Delaware by the Foundation for Individual Rights in education (1 xi). Among many ideological lunacies, Delaware students were being instructed in compulsory propaganda sessions that only Whites could be `racist.' The programme had been exposed by London School heroine Linda Gottfredson and publicized by the horrified Philadelphia Inquirer.

A specimen of the LUniversity's "Life Diversity Facilitation Training":

"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination. (This does not deny the existence of such prejudices, hostilities, acts of rage or discrimination.)"

As press amazement at the programme became evident, the LUniversity said it would suspend and review the programme..(American Thinker, 2 xi).


U.S. CHRISTIAN-FUNDAMENTALISTS CONDEMN DARWIN AS RACIST

Emboldened by James Watson having to retreat from `racism', Michael Craven, the Founding Director of the Center for Christ and Culture, called on other biological scientists to dissociate from Darwin (Crosswalk [The Intersection of Faith and Life], 1 xi). After linking Watson and the Cold Spring Harbor lab (quite correctly) to Galton and eugenics, Craven further noted (quite correctly) the racism of Darwin himself:

" According to the theories, there are significant evolutionary differences between the races, and essentially the race that was closer to apes (Blacks, according to Darwin) was less intelligent and inherently inferior to whites. Darwin stated, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races." Of course this ignores decades of research suggesting that race is not a meaningful concept and that there is no biological basis for race. This underscores the biblical position of only one race, the human race."

FEMININNIES PLAN PUTSCH

Evidence mounted that feminist academic were pestering the U.S. Congress for a big increase in their promotion prospects regardless of merit. As witnesses, Congressmen, and a crowd of over 100 people had gathered in October on Capitol Hill for a hearing on women in academic science and engineering, not a single Committee Member or panelist challenged the presumption behind the hearing -- that discrimination was the primary cause of women's underrepresentation among science and engineering academics; rather, they just turned straight to consideration of government-mandated solutions to the perceived problem. Following the hounding and resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers, mentioning deep-seated sex differences had become as problematic for U.S. public figures as discussing race.


THIRD BLACK-AFRICA-WRITTEN ARTICLE BACKS WATSON

AllAfrica's Nigerian columnist, Idang Alibi, announced (1 xi) that, following some 500 supportive phone calls and text messages saying that Africa needed to learn the `home truths' that James Watson had mentioned, he would aim to write a book on the topic. He declared:

" I must confess that I am pleasantly surprised because it is completely contrary to what I had expected. It is not what I had dreamt of at all. I was waiting for a storm of very angry reactions from pseudo- intellectuals, and 'patriotic' black men who are usually very touchy when they think the dignity and pride of the black race have been assaulted. I expected that there will be many of such who will accuse me of being a sell-out or a self-hater. We are not a people given to deep introspection. We take things as they come and have an incredible capacity to endure wrong things for so long and not get angry with ourselves or with anybody else with a view to changing things for the better. ..The fact that we who ought to have regarded Watson's testimony about our inferiority as an insult on the basis of pure emotion are saying that what he is saying is a painful truth gives me confidence that our mindset is changing for good. ..Our home-grown variant of democracy is pure euphemism for thuggery, rigging, violence, manipulation, falsehood, injustice, unfairness and our apparent inability to govern ourselves."

I sent email to AllAfrica in Nigeria (published 1 xi) congratulating Idang Alibi and suggesting he look at the Cambridge Debate (http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/late/cb_camb.html) and IQ and the Wealth of Nations.

The mighty rightist John Derbyshire was allowed to give Watson's recantation a blast in National Review Online (1 xi). Modest support for free speech, as against PeeCee, was found among the residents of Cold Spring Harbor village (Newsday, 27 x). A full and up-to-date defence of pre-recantation Watson was provided by Jason Malloy at Gene Expression (1 xi).

Yet more Black realism re Watson came from the Nigerian Tribune ["the oldest surviving private newspaper in Nigeria"] (Nosa Osaigbovo, 2 xi):

" The troubling truth is that Dr. Watson's contempt for black Africans is not completely undeserved. The talk about black achievements in ancient times-the construction marvels of Monomotapa and Zimbabwe, the vision and valour of Hannibal, a `black African', etc-is self-comforting nonsense. What has black Africa achieved in the last 500 years? Black Africans were made a race of slaves by Europeans and Arabs. About 12 million Africans worked as slaves on plantations in North and South America and in the Caribbean. Arabs were said to have captured and enslaved almost 20 million black Africans. ..

Nigeria was a colony for 46 years and has been independent for 47 years. Has it made more progress in freedom than in captivity? Many people who were adults at independence in 1960 say life was better under the British than it is now. The country is richer than it was under the British, but millions of Nigerians live in dignity-destroying poverty. Nigeria imports almost everything. It imports razor blades and pins. It has no technology to speak of. It needs Asians to operate its imported mobile phone technology. The oil industry depends on foreign expertise. Some of the engineers and technicians are from the Philippines, a developing country like Nigeria. .. Thugs now rule in many universities, which look a bit like slums. The halls of residence and lecture rooms are overcrowded and libraries and laboratories are bare. Seminality has been replaced by seediness. The universities in their present stunted state cannot put Nigeria on the technological map. China has put a man in space and has sent a rocket to the moon, but Nigeria could not successfully run a car assembly plant. Corruption crushed its steel and machine tools plants. The political leadership is steeped in corruption."

Even Modern Ghana admitted (4 xi) Africa's lack of progress - though seeming to prefer to attribute this to a `lack of confidence,' induced by the likes of Watson and preventing Africa from giving up Western ideas and returning to rural socialism..


ITALY MOVES AGAINST GYPSIES

The Italian Government announced that its prefects (local representatives of its Interior Ministry) would be allowed to deport summarily any foreigners deemed to be a threat to security (Guardian, 2 xi). The move came after hideous rapes, robberies and beatings carried out by Romanian immigrants - probably including slitting the throats of Giovanni Reggiani, the 47-year-old Protestant [Waldensian] wife of an Italian navy captain, and a British female student. The Roman Catholic charity Caritas put the number of Romanians in Italy at 556,000 -- less than 1% of the population; yet, according to the Interior Minister, 5.6% of those arrested for murder were Romanian. Gypsies, mainly illiterate, had poured into Italy from Romania after E.U. accession had been agreed in 2002.

Promptly, the prefect of Milan signed deportation warrants in respect of four Romanians who were living in one of the numerous wretched camps on the outskirts of the city. Within hours, thousands of Romanians had been rounded up and their shantytown homes were bulldozed though E.U. law required no targeting of ethnic groups and delays and court hearings before individuals `seriously threatening one of the fundamental interests of society' could be returned to their national homelands.. Nello Rossi, the head of Italy's National Magistrates Association, said that each expulsion would have to be justified, and that "there cannot be mass indiscriminate expulsions". But the Italian Government said it would get shot of 5,000 Romanians `within weeks.'

A spokesman for a newly founded far-right group, Fabio Sabbatani Schiuma, said he condemned attacks by masked men on Romanians but called them 'the product of a climate of exasperation'. Anti-foreigner graffiti on the walls of the surrounding, working-class area echoed his words. Apparently the authorities feared a spiral of vendettas against gypsies, Italy's largest immigrant group. Caution about hasty deportations was urged by the Pope and churchmen; but 83% of Italians supported the authorities actions after five years of increasingly unwelcome immigration by gypsies.


SOCIALIST EDUCATION WORSE THAN USELESS

The authoritative Cambridge Primary Review of reading levels in Britain's primary schools since Rev. Blair's NuLabout introduced `reforms' (made from 1998, such as a daily `literacy hour') found no improvement by 2005 and clear evidence of children feeling stressed by tests and losing interest in reading (Times, 2 xi; Daily Telegraph, 2 xi). The report said: "500 million pounds was spent on the National Literacy Strategy with almost no impact on reading levels."

{In children, reading age correlates at .70 with intelligence and is probably highly heritable, around .65 (e.g. Bates et al., 2004, Australian Journal of Psychology. Such facts have been routinely ignored by educational improvers for forty years - e.g. in America's massive 2002ff. `No Child Left Behind' handout of multi-billion dollars to pie-eyed ideologues.}


ECONOMIC VERDICTS COME IN ON PEECEE

As the British NuLabour Government announced it would give œ70M to Muslim `moderates' to help them damp down Muesli extremism in mosques, gyms, cafes and on the internet* - a policy akin to King Ethelred the Unready buying off Vikings with Danegeld and NuLabour itself buying off the IRA with plum ministerial jobs at Stormont - the London Stock Market crashed to its lowest level for four years after traditionally conservative American bank `Mother' Merrill Lynch appointed an `adventurous' Black CEO, lent money at wondrous interest rates to poor Blacks (who were soon, as per type, laid out on drugs or in clink) and saw its shares devalue 8% in a single day (2 xi). {The `stark dependence' of peecee `liberal and welfare state values' on `the local success of capitalism' had been noted on p. 136 of The g Factor (1996). But I had not anticipated that businessmen themselves would believe ignoracist propaganda and put their money more than nominally into Black hands.}

* `Communities Secretary' wee dahlin' Labour loyalist arselicker Hazel Blears said that new tactics by extremists required "a new, bolder response." 70 million was to be spent promoting community leadership to withstand extremist tendencies. That would include 25 million on national schemes including training for English-speaking imams, and setting up citizenship lessons in madrassas (mosque schools).


CONSERVATIVE OUTSPEAKER DEFENDED

As a Birmingham Tory MP candidate came under fire for Powellite sympathies, I wrote in to defend him (as did 500 others in the first six hours of the Sunday Telegraph carrying the story on the net) (published 4 xi):

Dear Nigel Hastilow, Well done to have the courage to speak out! Feel free to call on me to do what I can to help. You may like to prepare for your interrogation from Comrade Spelperson by looking at my article on Enoch at http://www.charlesmartelsociety.org/toq/vol1no1/cb-powell.html. Yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (psychologist, author of 'The g Factor,' sacked by Edinburgh University 1997 for undue realism).

However, after criticism from party toffs George Osborne and (once-supposed-right-winger) David Davies, Hastilow resigned within hours of his Powellite concerns becoming widely known - despite his continuing to enjoy the support of his Halesowen constituency party chairwoman (BBC, 4 xi). The alternative presented by party chairlady Comrade Caroline Spelman had been for Hastilow to denounce his own remarks as "incredibly stupid" and to accept future gagging from Not-the-Conservative Party Central Office.

Infuriated at the Cameroonian backtracking on the gains of the few previous weeks (as the Conservatives had embraced a little tax-cutting and found themselves surge ahead in the polls), the Daily Telegraph's top columnist Simon Heffer said it was hard to spurn a candidate who merely said Enoch Powell had spoken the truth about mass immigration (as he had about the need for monetarism, the danger to the UK of devolutionary experiments and the unacceptability to the UK of the EU) and denounced David Cameron as "playing his part in the great betrayal" of Britain (7 xi), promptly sparking an enormous postbag (1000 responses, mainly agreeable, in the first 16 hours) and probably civil war in the Conservative Party. I joined in as follows:

Re Paula Smith, 17, 08:41

The 'immigrants' to Britain of c. 1000+ years ago were drawn from the dynamic aristocratic military elites of their European tribes/races. The Anglo-Saxons brought the 'witan' (council of wise men) and a rich art and literature and soon converted to Christianity. The Normans (Vikings), with an empire spreading into the eastern Mediterranean, brought the castle and stable government, working closely with the Church.

By contrast, all too many immigrants of the past 50 years were people who could not find work or wealth in their homelands such as Jamaica (mean IQ 71), Pakistan (84), Somalia (68) and Iraq (87). (Figures from R. Lynn, 2006, 'IQ and Global Inequality.') Understandably, many of these immigrants pose problems that will surely not be experienced from students from Poland (IQ 99).

Sincerely, -- Chris Brand (author of 'The g Factor').

At the same time, Labour `antiracist' busybody Keith Vaz accused Prime Minister Brown of `risking fuelling racism' by promising `British jobs for British workers' (Scotsman, 7 xi).


BREAST-FEEDING IQ BOOST TRACED TO GENE

The gain of perhaps as much as 10 IQ points that children enjoy if breast-fed (summarized in The g Factor, 1996, pp. 143-4) turned out to depend on have a gene, FADS2, that helps break down fatty acids - one child in ten lacks the gene so gets no IQ gain from breastmilk, found London researchers (BBC, 6 xii).


`INSENSITIVITY' PIETY CLAIMS NEW TOP VICTIM

According to Arts Council sources, at an Arts Council lunch, U.K. Opposition leader Mr David Cameron quipped to his hosts: "I hope you won't be giving grants to too many one-legged Lithuanian lesbians," supposedly prompting embarrassed looks all round. A senior Labour official said the Tory leader was guilty of "crass insensitivity" after the comment was leaked to the Mail on Sunday. The peecee accusation of insensitivity followed the 2007 silencing of Henri Guaino, the speechwriter to France's President Sarkozy, and of American Nobelist James Watson. {Previously silenced in Britain were Sussex University's Professor Geoffrey Sampson (2001), Labour/UKIP politician Robert Kilroy-Silk (2005), Leeds University's Dr Frank Ellis (2006), Imperial College's Armand Leroi (2006), the London School of Economics' Satoshi Kanazawa (2006) and Oxford University's David Coleman (2007).}


SUPPORT FOR PRE-RECANTATION WATSON

As a deathly hush resumed over politics and academia, at least American conservative thinker Pat Buchanan offered Nobelist James Watson some support (Human Events, 30 x):

" In the England of Henry VIII, heretics were beheaded and their heads put on spikes. Many men, like Thomas More, did not recant.

From the time of Tiberias to the 17th century, men gave up their lives rather than renounce a belief in God. Others gave up their lives rather than renounce a disbelief in the Church. Why could Watson not stand up for his disbelief in the ideological myth of the inherent equality of all men, cultures, creeds and civilizations?
In 1990, the respected journal Science wrote, "To many in the scientific community, Watson has been something of a wild man. ... Colleagues tend to hold their collective breath when he speaks out."
Too bad the wild man was denatured and domesticated."

Human Biodiversity Group leader Steve Sailer also deplored Watson's retraction, while noting that he had received far less support from `the righteous right' than had been available thirteen years previously for The Bell Curve (VDare, 28 x). Steve also gave a fine, Jefferson-respecting answer to a critic who thought society could not handle the idea/finding of groups of people being unequal in intelligence (29 x).

Watson had once opined, in 2002: "I suspect that multiculturalism has reached its peak, because it's crap." - Quoted in Times Higher, 26 x, Matthew Reisz.

IGNORACIST ROSE SLAMMED re WATSON

Though Edinburgh LUniversity's Student (30 x) carried a full-page article condemning James Watson as "disgraceful" etc., thus joining with Marxist biologist Steven Rose, the postmodern leftist dogma that `there are no races' and thus no explanations in terms of race, was ably refuted by Luke O'Farrell (28 x), who particularly observed that, like races, languages are really different - typically to the degree of being mutually incomprehensible - despite having important common features such as the use of consonants, vowels, stress and intonation.

As attention turned to the gifted Watson's fundraising techniques, it turned out that Watson had won $1M `earmarks' for his New York lab from Congress by the simple expedient of giving a few thousand dollars to leading Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton (Washington Times, 30 x).

NEW BLACK BACKS WATSON ON INTELLIGENCE x RACE

More support for realism about low Black IQ and attainments came from Africa (Daily Trust [Abuja], Zainab Kperogi, 29 x):

"Over several years, almost every other race in the world has evolved from the animalistic level, but the black man is rather descending further into it. Whenever debates like this crop up, instead of us to pull back and reflect on the reasons why such a statement is made, our first and instinctive reactions are misdirected indignation and denial.

We're very good at putting blames for our underdevelopment at the doorstep of any other person's, but not at our doorstep where they squarely belong. We often blame slavery and colonialism for our backwardness but we were not the only ones that have so suffered. India was also under British rule but unlike us, they are not only a nuclear power but one of the world's leaders in Information Technology. Again, their population is much higher than ours, and they're also multi-religious like most Black societies. The same goes for China. I'm not comparing these countries with Nigeria alone; I'm talking of the whole Black race.

..In almost all parts of the world where blacks are in the majority, one is bound to find that their resources are not properly being harnessed. When the Dominican Republic and Haiti were one country, their development was slow. The Dominican Republic people who look more like Asians, decided to separate from Haiti and they have never looked backed in terms of rapid development. Haitians who are mostly blacks have on the other hand retrogressed further than they used to be. Their roads and other infrastructures are not better than what we have in many villages in Nigeria. How can we explain this?

Papua New Guinea, which is close to Australia and New Zealand, is a country constituted of black people that were never enslaved, according to historical facts, but they have never developed either. All these factors would make anybody who's not black to believe that there must be something very wrong with the genetic make-up of us black people.

We have continued to argue that whites seem more intelligent because of their nutrition, environment and social make-up. Why can't we create similar things for ourselves? On the whole, even though I don't believe that Dr Watson is completely right, I can't help feeling that much of his words are true. Among white supremacists, it's always bandied around that if you do not want blacks to know something, put it in a book."

TOP BLACK IS PART-JEWISH

As the sages of Washington meandered on at the American Enterprise Institute discussing high Jewish IQ (first mooted by Hans Eysenck in the 1970s) and the decline of Spain and Portugal being due to their kicking out Jews (first mooted by William McDougall in the 1930s), it transpired that top Afro-American writer and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. had had his DNA checked, revealing that he had a Yiddishe moma (Washington Post, 30 x).


FROM MULTICULTURALISM TO MONOCULTURALISM

An interesting take on why the mainstream British left (Phillips, Reid, Brown) had been wanting to `move on' from multiculturalism was offered by Canadian columnist Jonathan Kay (National Post, 30 x): having used liberalism and multiculturalism to infiltrate the church and win support for homosexuality (quite the biggest breakthrough of 2007 in Britain), early sex, abortion, female equality and mass immigration, the left wanted to consolidate its gains and secure them from the conservative force of Islam by defining a new monoculture (of right-on PeeCee) which - as a new `Britishness' or `Canadianness' -- Muslims would be pressured to support or at least tolerate.


MORE SOCIALISM TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF SOCIALISM

After ten years of useless `New Labour' rule, rocked by reckless underestimates of Britain's immigration figures, and languishing in the polls after the Conservative Shadow Chancellor accidentally said he might cut inheritance tax on family homes, Supreme Ruler `Grumpy' Gordon Brown - apparently no reader of TgF despite being personally acquainted with its author -- announced that every school had to produce "first class" results for all pupils and that he would move swiftly to close hundreds of failing schools that were not shining advertisements for the equality of man.. (Classic FM Radio, 31 x; Grauniad, 31 x).

MIXED SUPPORT FOR MIXED-UP NOBEL RACE-REALISM RETRACTOR

Strangely enough, James Watson had been publicly critical of Harvard's firing of President Larry Summers for sex realism in 2006; yet Watson too found retraction the most expeditious course as his own feet were put to the fire - see Steve Sailer in VDare, 21 x, for a full and thoughtful and maximally generous summary.

What a pity he did not, when he came under attack from the Britoid media and multiculti apparatchiks, have available the splendid defence of his views that was eventually issued from Nigeria (AllAfrica.com, 21 x) from Simon Kolawole. Though unhappy with `laboratory' tests of Black intelligence, the Lagos columnist wrote: "I think the argument that white supremacists should be making instead is that in PRACTICE, whites have DEMONSTRATED more intelligence than blacks. That can be argued with facts and figures. That is empirically verifiable. ..it does not take a genius to prove that Africans have shown in practical terms that they are not making use of their intelligence. If I were a white person, I would certainly feel superior to blacks. All I need do is take a look at a country like Nigeria and reach my conclusions. The evidence of retarded intelligence - or misuse of it - is there for all to see."

Apparently the self-righteously defended deficiencies of Blacks had long been lambasted by Black funnyman turned moralist, columnist Bill Cosby (HuffingtonPost, 22 x). Full support for this sentiment appeared in AllAfrica.com, 25 x.

At least until his London humbling, Watson had been well-known as a lively lad. MSNBC reported (24 x, David Ewing Duncan): "Watson talks in sputters and clicks, and delights in being outrageous, as I discovered when I visited him in Cold Springs Harbor for my book, "Masterminds: Genius, DNA and Quest to Rewrite Life." Ushered into an office where his Nobel prize hung close by a girly calendar featuring a buxom woman that looked more appropriate for a mechanics shop, he was soon informing me that some people are born with less intelligence than others - and that those people should have their genes altered, if such a thing becomes possible.

At the same meeting he called surreal painter Salvador Dali (he painted "Homage to Watson and Crick" in 1963) a fascist, denigrated women scientists as being more "difficult" than men and refused yet again to acknowledge that a long dead geneticist named Rosalind Franklin made a crucial discovery leading to Watson and Crick's famous discovery."

The Guardian (24 x) allowed a distinctly moth-eaten-looking Steven Rose more space to ramble on about heritability estimates - especially when between non-randomly interbreeding races - being `unscientific,' yet he was not invited to supply a single discovery of twentieth-century psychology (or indeed the other social sciences) which he did find scientific.

But Nature (25 x, `Watson's folly') came to the agreeable (if inadvertently so) conclusion that, despite Watson's retraction, "..the damage has been done, lending succour and comfort to racists around the globe." *

The Belfast Telegraph (24 x, Steve Connor) was the only UK organ to treat its readers to a summary of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn's work linking DNA variations, microcephaly and race (White & Asian vs Black) (see above, xi 2005 et seq.).

Invited on to `The Moral Maze' (BBC Radio 4, 24 x) to discuss Watson, Emeritus Professor Lynn defended scientific racism judiciously and professorially, taking the opportunity to summarize IQs around the world (so startling the panellists that IQ hardly got another mention in the 45-minute programme) and having the satisfaction of hearing a female sociology graduate admit to columnist Melanie Phillips that her horrified rejection of his work was based on precisely zero reading of any of it.

The programme went downhill from then on, the consensus tending to be that free speech was OK so long as it was `sensitive' and not about `bad science (which no-one could define). Incidentally, it turned out that the Science Museum which banned Watson lest he talk about race and IQ, had happily hosted previous meetings discusssing extra-terrestrial beings and whether MMR jabs caused autism.

Jewish Press (`America's largest independent Jewish weekly') (24 x) noted that, as tabooed subjects, race realism had overtaken Holocaust denial - which loony Iranian tinpot tyrant AhLastMahDinnaJacket had been allowed to promulgate to an audience at New York's left-wing Columbia University. In the ever-more-loony-leftist Independent (22 x), Susan Tomes proclaimed that higher intelligence led to religious bigotry, imperial interventions and chemical pollution..

Watson retired from his lab 25 x, thanking his Scots-Irish parents for their inspiration of his rationalism and love of social justice and apparently keeping his much-loved Cold Harbor chancellor's house - presumably having agreed to say nothing more about race and IQ. Nobelist Francis Crick, who had died a few years previously at the age of 88, admitted that he and his co-researcher, biologist James Watson, often "used LSD in tiny amounts as a thinking tool" to liberate them from preconceptions and let their genius wander freely to new ideas."

To a female journalist who once complained to Watson that his claim of thin people being depressed was simplistic, Watson had retorted (Times, 26 x, Brenda Maddox) "Brenda, you've become so politically correct, you're boring!"

Only American Thinker noted (27 x) - after James Watson, Larry Summers and David Horowitz had been prevented from speaking on campus in the same week - the frank truth that "Academic freedom of speech is imprisoned in the cell of political correctness."

* Funnily enough, AllAfrica had agreed (24 x), declaring editorially:

"DNA pioneer and Nobel laureate James Watson, who told the Sunday Times, London, that "laboratory testing" shows Africans do not measure up intellectually was a political message intended for white voters back home in the US. Dr Watson timed to make his racist comment at the zenith of the United States Democratic presidential nomination campaigns. As an authority on genetics, he knew the impact his not-so-disguised political intervention would have on white voters back home. Watson deliberately attacked black intelligence in the United Kingdom and not on the United States' soil in an abortive attempt to conceal his political motive."


TOP RABBI CONDEMNS MULTICULTURALISM

Britain's Chief Rabbi joined occasional Labour stooges of the past 18 months in calling multiculturalism a danger in producing segregation, a victim culture of complaint and a threat to democracy (Jerusalem Post, 20 x). Jonathan Sacks, 59 and a long-standing supporter of Mrs Thatcher, went even further in blaming the Jewish community for originating the multicultural doctrines which had proved "inexorably divisive" - though he did not call for the closure of Jewish schools, a return of free speech on racial matters or the deportation of criminal or persistently welfare-dependent immigrants.


`UP STOP-AND-SEARCH' - BLACK COP

As he retired from the police, the head of the National Black Police Association, Keith Jarrett, announced that, like many Black parents, he believed the stopping and searching of Black youths (heavily reduced after the 1999 Macpherson Report) should be restored (Daily Mail, 21 x, Melanie Phillips; Independent, 22 x).


IMMIGRATION BRINGS (SMALL) NET ECONOMIC LOSS TO BRITAIN

Work by Cambridge University's Professor of Economics, Bob Rowthorn, concluded that, contrary to peecee propaganda, immigrants to Britain produced on average, once their costs to the taxpayers were considered, "lower per capita GDP" than if they had stayed at home (Daily Telegraph, 26 x) - a conclusion well in line with Oxford University's David Coleman who had previously estimated (see iii 2007) that the average immigrant was worth on average three Mars bars to Britain per year.


`INDOCTRINATE U'

As Evan Coyne Maloney's much-heralded film appeared, slashing at PeeCee in American `universities,' an American Renaissance correspondent wrote (23 x): "I have worked for both state and private [university] institutions for almost thirty years and every one of them has promoted cultural Marxism to a greater or lesser degree. To publicly disagree with the "party line" is to risk being ostracized, terminated or denied tenure. Most American Universities (outside the hard sciences) really teach neo-Marxist indoctrination and "diversity is our strength" brainwashing."


EARLY-SEPARATED TWINS DISCOVERED

News of a study of identical twins separated at birth in New York State emerged as some of the twins discovered each other (Forward [The Jewish Daily], 2 x; Newsday, 17 x; National Public Radio, 27 x; Daily Telegraph, 27 x).

The study involved a Jewish adoption agency which became persuaded by a maverick psychologist in the 1960's that separating monozygotic twins was actually better for them. By 1980, when NY State banned the separation of twins, five pairs of twins and one set of triplets submitted to the Louis Wise Agency had been sent to separate homes. Study of the pairs may have continued till 2004 when the agency was closed and the data sent for secret housing at Yale University till 2066.

Researchers psychologist Viola Bernard and psychoanalyst Peter Neubauer were reluctant to discuss the study, fearing the forced separations would be criticized - and possibly knowing that results from the eight within-pair comparisons possible showed, as some of the twins suspected after meeting each other, strong evidence of the importance of genetic factors. The study might have been begun in response to Sir Cyril Burt's 1966 publication of figures on the intelligence of 53 pairs of MZa twins

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LUDICROUS AMERICAN `GENETICIST' & HARVARD PROF. CAVES IN ON RACE

Faced with the bombardment of UK Labour's peecee thugs and with lack of support from any British academics, Chicago-born Nobelist Watson, 79 and perhaps of equivalent mental age, caved in on his stated views about Blecks x IQ (see above). He told Britain's top `conservative' tabloid, the Daily Mail (19 x), apparently to that `modernizing' paper's delight: "I am mortified about what has happened. More importantly, I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said.* I can certainly understand why people, reading those words, have reacted in the ways they have. To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly. That is not what I meant. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief."

* To which the Sunday Times responded that the interview had been recorded and that it stood by what it had published.


SWIFT PUNISHMENT FOR LYING `SCIENTIST' WHO CAVED TO PEECEE

Statement by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board of Trustees and President Bruce Stillman, Ph.D. Regarding Dr. Watson's Comments in The Sunday Times on October 14, 2007

Earlier this evening, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board of Trustees decided to suspend the administrative responsibilities of Chancellor James D. Watson, Ph.D., pending further deliberation by the Board.

This action follows the Board's public statement yesterday disagreeing with the comments attributed to Dr. Watson in the October 14, 2007 edition of The Sunday Times U.K.

{Of course, one should not be too moralistic. At 79, the traitor to race realism was probably in serious mental decline. And he had received no help from psychologists or the press. For example, half-arsed pisschologist Robert Sternberg, said by Chicago Tribune to be "a prominent researcher on race and IQ" at Tufts University, called Watson's views as expressed to the Sunday Times "racist and most regrettable." For many Africans who take Western IQ tests, "our problems aren't relevant to them," Sternberg said.

And Britain's `right-wing' Daily Quislingraph predictably pooh-poohed both IQ and Watson's "dotty" views (19 x). Only the Guardian bothered to cover its tracks with a small plea for free speech - from parapsychologist Sue Blackmore (19 x).}

{London's Science Museum, which had barred Watson from speaking and thus brought wider attention to his pre-18th-October race-realist views, announced that, on October 30, its Dana Centre would be hosting another debate as part of its Black History Month events. Is Science Colour Blind? was to examine the issue of racism in the science industry. Panellists would include Abi Ajose-Adeogun, who would comment on her past experience as a biochemist and suggest why there weren't more black scientists..}

{The Bristol `Festival of Ideas' cancelled an appearance by Dr Watson, and organizers of planned events in Edinburgh and Cambridge were `considering' whether to disinvite the crazy mixed-up oldie. And further critical comment of Watson's views came from Dr Craig Venter, the scientist/businessman who led the private effort to decode the human genome, and who, by coincidence, was also visiting the UK to promote a book. "Skin colour as a surrogate for race is a social concept, not a scientific one," Dr Venter said. "There is no basis in scientific fact or in the human genetic code for the notion that skin colour will be predictive of intelligence."}
On 19 x, after Edinburgh University too withdrew its invitation, Watson announced he needed to have urgent discussions with colleagues and promptly flew back to the USA -- waved off by jubilant Marxist Steven Rose who was emboldened to lie to paparazzi that "No evidence that claimed to find people of African descent were less intelligent than Europeans or other racial groups had stood up to scientific scrutiny" and tell New Statesman readers there was no way of untangling interacting factors to get at the causation of racial differences in IQ.. (19 x).

The Guardian celebrated with an article by a Black cell biologist blaming Africa's problems on White rule (19 x). The mayor of London, `Red' Ken Livingstone, who claimed just one `O' Level in science, said Watson's comments "represent racist propaganda masquerading as scientific fact.... That a man of such academic distinction could make such ignorant comments, which are utterly offensive and incorrect and give succor to the most backward in our society, demonstrates why racism still has to be fought." The Independent jubilantly exposed Watson's other `insensitive' comments over the years (20 x). Besides London and Edinburgh, Watson had been scheduled to speak in Cambridge, Newcastle, Bristol and Oxford.

Professor Richard Dawkins, who was due to conduct a public interview with Dr Watson the next week in Oxford, condemned what he called " . . the hounding, by what can only be described as an illiberal and intolerant 'thought police', of one of the most distinguished scientists of our time, out of the Science Museum, and maybe even out of the laboratory, despite him having devoted much of his life to building up a world-class reputation."

I wrote to the Scotsman (published 20 x):

Edinburgh University is deploying against Nobelist James Watson the same tired leftist 'anti-racist' claptrap as it did against me and my book 'The g Factor' in 1996/7. Meantime it got around to banning free copies of the Bible from its halls of residence and bullying its Christian Union to promote homosexualism. What a right-on peecee LUniversity! No wonder it never gave David Hume a job! And no wonder it has not been in the top ten UK universities in league tables of the past ten years!

After Watson's departure, Oxford's Professor Colin Blakemore (whom I had once hosted for an Edinburgh University Psychology seminar) criticized the South Kensington Museum's decision to disinvite Watson as "unacceptable" on free speech grounds (InTheNews, 21 x). He added it was clear that there were genetic differences between people from different parts of the world and these needed to be studied and understood, not used as a basis for prejudice.

Journalist Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe who had written the Sunday Times (Magazine) story which sparked the trouble wrote that she was "horrified" by the result (Sunday Times, 21 x). For the Observer, columnist Henry Porter argued (21 x): "One of the less edifying sights last week was all those academics diving for cover over Watson. Their behaviour reminds us that democracy is for grown-ups. Some discomfort, even pain, comes with the privilege of free speech. We have known that since the Enlightenment, but each generation needs to remember that the downside of free speech is a buffer like Watson trailing a sulphurous whiff of eugenics or the Islamist clerics calling for the death of homosexuals and Jews. The way you deal with them is not with laws, but with savage ridicule."

NOBELIST WATSON BARRED FOR RACE REALISM

Britain confirmed its ten-year status as the world capital of scientific cowardice as London's Science Museum (in South Kensington) banned Nobel prizewinner for physiology/medicine James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA, from addressing people who had paid to hear him (in a 400-strong sold-out lecture) (Independent, 18 x). The reason? Watson, 79, had confirmed to the Sunday Times his long-held view that Black people had a low IQ and that Western policy towards Africa was premised on mistakenly denying this.

HMG's `Skills Minister,' Labour's David Lammy, who was Black, said Watson's views were "deeply offensive" and would provide oxygen for far-right political parties. To this heresy, the American and British media (Chicago Tribune, 18 x) quickly added charges that Watson had favoured allowing women to abort any foetuses known to have homosexual genes and believed the English to lack the melanin-linked Latin genes for love-making.

Other British venues to which Watson had been invited (Royal Society [London], Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Oxford) (on a book promotion tour) assured worried media folk that they would provide firm questioning of Watson's `controversial' views. Marxist professor Steven Rose, Open LUniversity, told the BBC (Radio 4, `Today,' 18 x) that Watson's scientific racism was scientifically invalid, old-fashioned and scientifically dangerous and that speaking about it was beyond Watson's area of scientific competence.

Expressing the British scientific community's cowardice in the face of Trots like Rose, Oxford's Richard Dawkins, known for his oh-so-daring challenges to ancient religions, declined to make any comment on peecee piety about Watson's race realism. At 39, Watson had married, to the 20-year-younger Elizabeth; it was apparently as a son developed schizophrenia and failed to respond to medical and personal assistance that Watson became impressed with the contribution of genetic factors to human psychological differences.

Oxford University Press said it was standing by Watson's new book, Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science, of which it said that, despite its title, it contained no racism.* {It was when OUP agreed to republish The g Factor in 1996 that Rose and comrades went ape and resorted to denouncing me to the press for insufficient paedohysteria, resulting in Edinburgh LUniversity having to spend 100,000 pounds to sack me.}

* Though the book did say: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically."


BREAST IS BEST

Further confirmation arrived for the claim that breast milk raises IQ (as put forward in Chapter 4 of The g Factor, 1996). A Chicago premature infant study involving 773 U.S. babies born extremely underweight -- less than 2.2 pounds -- between 1999 and 2002 found that babies given breast milk (by naso-gastric tube, in hospital) achieved higher scores on a test measuring their overall intelligence at 30 months of age, with the highest scores showing up among the children who had received the most breast milk as infants (Canada.com, 1 x; published by Duane Alexander in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics).


PEECEE POLICING = NO POLICING

As Befordshire police came bottom in a national Home Office survery of police efficiency, it transpired that there were two areas of assessment in which they had actually performed at an above-average level: `female representation' (their Chief Constable was female) and cutting back on the stopping and searching of ethnic minorities - leading the attractive local Conservative MP Nadine Dorries to demand the Chief Constable's resignation (Bedford Today, 12 x). Said blonde mother-of-three Nadine, 50: "I am worried that political correctness appears to be more important than improving neighbourhood policing and protecting the vulnerable."

{British novelist Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize award also came under suspicion of being a peecee recognition of her years of feminism and leftism and reluctance to criticize Blacks and Black governments - with top Shakespeare expert Harold Bloom, Harvard, saying he found the last fifteen years' of her writing "unreadable" (PalmBeachPost.com, 12 x).

But the German capital, Berlin, broke with years of PeeCee and admitted that three of its universities were better than others (Wall Street Journal, 12 x); and a new book, Until Proven Innocent, Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, exposed the academic lynch mob (comprising 25% of staff at Duke University) which had hounded White student lacrosse players after absurd, fast-changing and unsubstantiatable accusations of rape of a Black stripper (PowerLineBlog.com, 28 ix).}


DNA-RACE LINK

As it proved possible to identify a criminal as Black from his DNA, allowing and arrest and conviction in a notoriously difficult US rape and murder case, the claims of `social-scientific' leftists and hangers-on in grant-seeking biology were refuted: race was not just a `social construct' (American Renaissance, 5 x).


COME BACK PAEDOS, ALL IS FORGIVEN!

As Scotland's Commissioner for Children, Kathleen Marshall, revealed that there was a serious shortfall of adult volunteers to organize activities for children, she also revealed the reason: thanks to 20 years of paedohysteria, 48% of Scots adults "were afraid that they could be open to false accusations if they volunteered with children" (Daily Telegraph, 17 x). Fully one in ten of the 1,100 adults surveyed said they actually knew someone who had suffered from being falsely accused of hurting a child.


`SHAKESPEARE WAS SON OF ELIZABETH I' - NEW BOOK

Devotees of common sense, and of the idea that Shakespeare would have needed far more crystallized intelligence and education than he could ever have got from Statford-upon-Avon, were given a new candidate for the true playwright: a bastard son of Queen Elizabeth I and her lover Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Daily Telegraph, 17 x). Called William Hastings, the candidate apparently left anagrams of his name in the Sonnets - according to a new book, Breaking the Shakespeare Codes, by a former physics teacher, Robert Nield, 50.

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SINKING CONSERVATIVES WAVE TO BNP

As Britain's Not-the-Conservative Party conferenced its way deeper to the neglect it had chosen, failing to find how to heal `the broken society' (by the simple expedient of routeing most state handouts via churches and 2-parent families), it turned out to have a Muslim Baroness, Sayeeda Warsi, the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, who was prepared to shock the Independent (30 ix) and Guardian (1 x) by saying that voters for the British National Party had some "very legitimate" concerns with crime and immigration.

Her words were promptly condemned by `anti-racist' groups who accused her of using "BNP language" and pandering to a far-right agenda. Operation Black Vote (OBV), for which she used to work, said giving credence to the views of BNP supporters was wrong. Baroness Warsi suggested that the rapid influx of migrants was threatening community cohesion, changing the face of estates "overnight" and unsettling people who live in Britain. {Wow, what bravery on the bridge of the Titanic!}



ZIMBABWE'S BLACK CATASTROPHE

"Zimbabwe's bakeries have shut and supermarkets have warned there will be no bread for the foreseeable future as the government admitted that wheat production had collapsed following the seizure of white-owned farms" (Grauniad, 1 x).



GENES FOR ECONOMICS

Science Daily (1 x) - An international team of researchers including an MIT graduate student demonstrated for the first time that genes exert influence on people's behavior in a common experimental economic game. Traditionally, social scientists had been quite hesitant to acknowledge a role for genes in explaining economic behavior. But a study by David Cesarini, a Ph.D. student in MIT's Department of Economics, and by colleagues in Sweden indicated that there was a genetic component to people's perception of what is fair and what is unfair.

The study looked at the ultimatum game, in which a proposer makes an offer to a responder on how to divide a sum of money. This offer is an ultimatum; if the responder rejects it, both parties receive nothing. Because rejections in the game entail a zero payoff for both parties, theories of narrow self-interest predict that any positive amount will be accepted by a responder. The intriguing finding in the laboratory is that responders routinely reject free money, presumably in order to punish proposers for offers perceived as unfair.

To study genetic influence in the game, Cesarini and colleagues took the unusual step of recruiting twins from the Swedish Twin Registry, and had them play the game under controlled circumstances. Because identical twins share the same genes but fraternal twins do not, the researchers were able to detect genetic influences by comparing the similarity with which identical and fraternal twins played the game.

The researchers' findings suggested that genetic influences account for as much as 40 percent of the variation in how people respond to unfair offers. In other words, identical twins were more likely to play with the same strategy than fraternal twins.

"Compared to common environmental influences such as upbringing, genetic influences appear to be a much more important source of variation in how people play the game," Cesarini said. "This raises the intriguing possibility that many of our preferences and personal economic choices are subject to substantial genetic influence," said lead author Bjorn Wallace of the Stockholm School of Economics, who conceived the study.



OZ CUTS BACK ON BLACKS

Supported by arch-anti-immigration-campaigner fish-and-chip-shop-owning Pauline Hanson, Australian P.M. John Howard announced his Government would slash the intake of African `refugees' by a half - aiming to "rebalance" the Oz population by bringing in more Asians, but still attracting allegations of racism from the usual suspects (ABC News, 5 x). Mr Kevin Andrews, the Immigration Minister, linked the cut in the African immigrant intake to a failure of African refugees -- particularly Sudanese -- to integrate. He released a dossier of alleged concerns, including race-based gangs and fights at nightclubs.


ENGLAND NOT `SAVED BY MUSLIMS'

After Black goon Sir Trevor Phillips, on his self-appointment as `human equality' supremo, said England should acknowledge the importance of diversity in its history by admitting Turkish assistance in hindering the Spanish Armada (1588), correspondents here and in the Telegraph noted that the Turks suffered a huge defeat at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) by Spanish, Venetian and Papal forces, were not subsequently willing or able to interfere with the West, made no reply to England's request for assistance in 1583, and were nowhere in sight in the Western Mediterranean in 1588 (being far too busy fighting to their East)


INTELLECTUALS SHIFT RIGHT

Following the news of British columnists moving to the political right (see September, `RIGHT SHIFT FACTOR?'), Marxist Prof. Terry Eagleton, Manchester University, fulminated especially against the neocon and anti-Islamist positions adopted increasingly by British literati Martin Amis (increasingly, apparently, a chip off the old Kingsley block), Salman Rushdie, David Hare, Christopher Hitchens and even the sainted Harold Pinter (Independent, 5 x).

Apparently, Amis, himself writer-in-residence at U. Manchester, had suggested "strip-searching people who look like they're from the Middle East or from Pakistan", preventing Muslims from travelling, and further down the road, deportation. "Not the ramblings of a British National Party thug," wrote Eagleton, "but the reflections of Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary world." ("An expensive libel if ever I heard one," reckoned Simon Heffer in the Torygraph, 6 x.)

At the same time, as David Cameron managed at last to murmur a little about freedom and the family, an edition of BBC TV's `Question Time' revealed a largely anti-Labour audience, even in Stratford, East London, led ably in a rightist direction by the surprising figure of Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye.


NATIONAL LIBERALISM AT LAST?

Right-wing forces of the U.S. South and liberal secessionists in the north-eastern state of Vermont, linked up to conference on how to assist each other in their shared objective in breaking away from increasingly oppressive, peecee and immigration-loving federal government from Washington (Independent, 5 x).


DARK CONTINENT OF DULLNESS AND DEATH

After another big plane crash in the `Democratic' Republic of the Congo, it turned out that Africa, which accounted for only 5% of flights world-wide, produced 25% of life-taking air disasters.



OFFICIAL `INSENSITIVITY' CENSORSHIP RAMPS UP

As it came to light that Muesli employees in Britain were being allowed not to process alcohol sales in supermarkets, not to treat sexually-transmitted diseases in hospitals and not to handle contraceptive sales in chemist shops, Daily Telegraph columnist (and top novelist and liberal Edinburgh Book Festival star) Andrew O'Hagan issued a firm reply (9 x): "Your plane awaits. There's a limit to what people should do to please fanatics."

But any scaling down of PeeCee seemed a long way off as American universities shrieked that - after twenty years of their `anti-racist' terror programmes -- they were actually handling more `minority' complaints of insensitivity than ever before so needed to expand sensitivity propaganda classes (American Renaissance, 1 x); and the Home Office in London announced - without any of the Broon-promised consultation with Parliament or the people - that any public criticism of homosexuality (including `humiliating' jokes) would be criminally actionable, like `race hate speech.'

The planned increases in official peecee terror mirrored fresh evidence of the public's free-choice preferences (Daily Telegraph, 7 x): "Primary schools are becoming increasingly segregated because parents want their children to be educated with their own ethnic groups, new research has shown. The study shows that the over-concentration of some ethnic groups in state schools cannot be explained by the social make-up of catchment areas alone. Instead, parents are actively choosing to segregate their children from other groups of pupils, sending them to predominately "black" or "Asian" schools. Researchers from Bristol University who analysed more than 300 primaries in Birmingham found that, from the age of four, children in some schools are being taught in near-isolation from pupils of different racial backgrounds."



`ANTI-RACIST' RANCOUR REACHES THE TOP

In an astonishing attack by France's best-known living philosopher, the handsome, open-necked and filmstar-wife-sporting Bernard-Henri Levy, the top Presidential "special advisor" and lyrical speech-writer, Henri Guaino, whose office was next to that of President Sarkozy, found himself accused of racism (Expatica, 9 x; The Tocqueville Connection, 9 x; Daily Telegraph, 10 x).

Apparently HG, 50, an economist and historian, had written the President's Dakar speech in which it was said that not all Africa's troubles could be blamed on colonialism (see this diary/blog, August). He was quick to reply to BHL: "This pretentious little shit doesn't interest me at all. Who does he think he is? ..He doesn't love France. He has spit on his lips, with hatred oozing from his pores."

Whether the President would defend his aide from BHL, a long-standing personal friend, remained to be seen. African leaders had expressed the expected hysteria at the speech and France's right-wing government had also come under attack from Black Africans over a government immigration bill that would authorise voluntary DNA testing of foreigners wishing to join their families in France. Sarkozy's Algerian-born Urban Affairs Ministress, Fadela Umara, had previously broken ranks with Sarkozy's government over the DNA x immigration issue, warning she was prepared to stand down in protest.

In Britain, a new height of peecee spite was reached by Catholic-turned-Trotskyite Professor Eagleton's accusations of homophobism, anti-Semitism, misogynism and racism against Sir Kingsley Amis (as per this diary/blog, 5 x); but the charges were roundly rebutted in letters to the Daily Telegraph (10 x) from Sir Kingsley's second wife (1965-83) and her (homosexual) brother, Elizabeth and Colin Howard (In the News, 10 x; Daily Mail, 11 x), who called Eagleton a "little squirt" and observed that Amis's comic temper was to be standardly rude verbally about "absolutely everybody."


UNIVICEITY LIFE, U.K. 2007

While Britain's dumbed-down luniversities religiously pursued every form of pious peecee anti-free-speech terror -- getting rid of the likes of Frank Ellis and myself and silencing others (see this diary/blog, passim) -- Cambridge University's prestigious student newspaper Varsity revealed that one Cambridge `escort agency' alone had 400 student and graduate females on its books earning 300 pounds per date (Sun, 11 x). One first-year student lovely claimed to have clocked 1,000 per week having sex with sometimes as many as seven men per night.

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IQ DOUBTER ANSWERED

After the New York Times carried fanciful doubts about the importance of IQ (14 ix), I replied via the Human Biodiversity Group as follows:

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Chris Brand here:

It is notable that "op-ed columnist" David Brooks (while doubtless shocking some lefties by admitting 48% heritability for IQ) does not quantify for NYTwits any of the non-IQ factors that he fancies to be so important in life. He shows no sign of having read The Bell Curve, Race, Evolution & Behaviour, The g Factor, or IQ & the Wealth of Nations. Brooks thus fulfils the prediction in Heredity:

"Despite the limitations of their statistical databases and methods, Lynn and Vanhanen have launched a powerful challenge to economic historians and development economists, who prefer not to use IQ as an analytical input. It is likely therefore that this work will be studiously ignored, whereas it urgently needs to be refined and built upon."

Henry PALAIRET (economic historian), 2004. Heredity 92, 4, 61-3. Reviewing R. Lynn & T. Vanhanen, IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Westport, CN : Praeger.

Nor should Brooks be allowed to get away with implying that there are vast emotional/artistic riches and complexities that fail to be captured by general intelligence:

"The chief determiner of human conduct is the unitary mental process which we call intelligence.... ....The intelligence controls the emotions and the emotions are controlled in proportion to the degree of intelligence.... It follows that if there is little intelligence the emotions will be uncontrolled and whether they be strong or weak will result in actions that are unregulated , uncontrolled and, as experience proves, usually undesirable. Therefore, when we measure the intelligence of an individual and learn that he has so much less than normal as to come within the group that we call feeble-minded, we have ascertained by far the most important fact about him."

H.H.GODDARD, 1919, Psychology of the Normal and Subnormal. New York : Dodd, Mean & Co.

"Making art is one of the manifestations of human intelligence; it is difficult to establish its limits, reasoning and needs. There can be no such thing as spatial painting or sculpture, just a spatial concept of art. The element in space in all its dimensions is the only possible evolution of spatial arhitecture. There exists an art which cannot be for everyone, and this is also true of mankind's other creative forms, humanity is checked by them and we owe our civilizations to this process. The only freedom is intelligence."

Lucio Fontana (Italian `neo-Futurist' abstract artist artist and sculptor), 1953, speaking at Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 18 iv. Quoted in Matthew Gale and Renato, Beyond Painting: Burri, Fontana, Manzoni. London : Tate Publishing, 2005.

"What was it that you loved about Dora*?" I asked [art lover and critic,] John Richardson. "Her intelligence," he said. "There was something magical about her."

* Super-busty Dora Maar was the muse and lover of Picasso from 1936 till 1943 as well as being a painter in her own right. Picasso later told his subsequent mistress, Francoise Gilot, that he had wanted a former mistress, Marie-Therese Walter "because she was sweet and gentle and did whatever I wanted her to" but Dora "because she was intelligent."

Mary Ann CAWS, 2000, Dora Marr - with and without Picasso. London : Thames & Hudson.

"..the strongest regiment of all in the army of darkness: stupidity."

Philip Pullman (author of His Dark Materials), 2005 interviewed in Times Higher, 22 iv, pp. 18-19.

"I've got a really high IQ, I was a smart girl. If you're not and you haven't had a good education, and you've got a poor diet, you're at a really massive disadvantage."

Tracey Emin (postmodern artist, 42, and still resolving to learn to spell; famous for exhibiting her unmade bed, complete with soiled underwear, at the Turner Prize exhibition in London, 1999), 2005. Interviewed by Martin Gayford, Daily Telegraph (Magazine), 8 x. In 2007 she was made an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts - one of only 19 artists to achieve that distinction.

Strangely, Brooks could have drawn support for his IQ-bashing from Charles Murray's latest:

"I am among the most emphatic of those who think that the importance of IQ in living a good life is vastly overrated."

Charles MURRAY, 2007, `Intelligence in the classroom.' Wall Street Journal, 17 i.

But evidently Brooks could not even be troubled to read the Wall Street Journal.

A useful academic reply to the unrefereed `op-ed' Brooks was provided by Alex Beujean (Baylor U., Waco, Texas), at Gene Expression, 14 ix.


WAS ANTI-RACISM ENJOINED ON THE JEWS?

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To: The Editor, Daily Telegraph

From: Mr C. R. Brand

Re: `Love the alien'

Whether the "aliens" whom the Jews of the Bible were enjoined to "love" were merely from other tribes (John Hartung, Letters, September 11) or actually from other races (Rev Gilbert McAdam and B.W.Cooper, Letters, September 12), these aliens were still second-class citizens: they were to be left only the remnants of the harvest ("the grapes that have fallen," Leviticus 19:10), could not own Jews permanently as slaves (having to allow their redemption by a "clansman") (Leviticus 25:47-49), and were to be treated on a par with "countrymen ..reduced to poverty," i.e. not expelled (Leviticus 25:35). Hardly multiculturalism!

Yours sincerely, Chris Brand.

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TRUE BREEDING

The grandson of Saint Nelson Mandela was sectioned as insane and detained in a secure London lunatic asylum after he attacked a fellow student (Sun, 20 ix). Dumani Mandela, 30, studying at ex-polytechnic Regent's College and sometimes representing his grandfather at public events despite a history of mental illness, had apparently become `obsessed' with a 27-yr-old classmate whom he had harassed by email and text messaging before finally thumping him over the head. Murderous Saint Nelson, once jailed for 27 years and subsequently the architect of the world's rape capital, Black South Africa, had once said he was "very proud" of his grandson (via a daughter).


RACE REALISM - OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS

Seventy years after American researchers the Clarks found American Black kindergartners to 80% prefer White dolls to Black, despite multi-billion sums to reduce or deny race differences and attribute any such to `segregation' (which the Clarks never proved), the same result appeared to researcher Carroll Thompson in England - presumably reflecting the fact that Black-Black interchanges among preschoolers are rather aggressive and rude and not in fact a whole bundle of childish fun


MULTICULTI MADNESS

After UK police admitted spending tens of millions of pounds annually on translation services for immigrant suspects (whose simple cases of knife-carrying and drunken driving typically took a whole day of bureaucracy to process to the stage of bringing a charge), the goons of the Commission for Racial Equality admitted that their own multi-billion-pound expenditures over 30 years had yielded little but disappointment (which would need to be handled by further massive wage bills for its operatives).

A Daily Telegraph leader recorded: "In its refreshingly forthright valedictory report, the CRE - shortly to be subsumed into the Commission for Equality and Human Rights - in effect concedes that our 30-year experiment in multiculturalism has been a failure. Society is fracturing, segregation growing, the dream of integration further away than ever. This poses profound problems for the country: funding adequate public services is probably the least of them."

In response to these "profound problems," Grumpy Gordon told Labour's annual conference that matrons should be allowed to order cleaning on hospital wards; and Daft Dave proposed `green' taxes on people taking aeroplane flights to their holidays and driving the ultra-safe 4x4 cars that had become fashionable..

And the quislings at the Spectator offered: "The argument that discrimination on the part of a predominantly white society is to blame for the underachievement of one or another ethnic group no longer has the remotest basis in fact. If there are disparities in achievement between the various ethnic communities in this country it is solely down to the cultural forces at work within those communities. Chinese kids do well at school because the Chinese community places a very high value upon education. Caribbean boys do very badly at school because of a corrosively macho anti-educationalist ethos among Caribbean boys, which is gradually transmitting itself to white boys. This is something Trevor Phillips - and other black community leaders - have recognised in the past."


ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IMPASSE ANALYSED

A thoughtful article by Harvard's Christopher Jencks, Professor of Sociology, concluded with the implication that US employers might graciously be prepared to deny jobs to illegal Mexican immigrants (and accept criminal sanctions if they did not) so long as they were allowed to hang on to a goodly percentage of the wage-slaves whom they had already accumulated.. (New York Review of Books, 27 ix).

{Wow, perhaps America's original slavery would still be with us if bosses had had the financial clout in Washington that they currently have in the Republican Party! Still, some - like even the splendid Doc Theodor Dalrymple - say they rather like the South America that the USA will likely become (unless Mexicans prefer to bite off the American southwest for themselves - an unlikely outcome given the benefits of the largesse that comes with even minimal White rule).

Perhaps all that can be done is to allow employers the cheap labour they want but to deny such workers full citizenship, voting rights and benefits until they have kosher qualifications, marry second-generation Americans and distinguish themselves by contributions to the Exchequer? Indeed, if such second-class citizenship were available, quite a few Whites might themselves opt for it themselves so as to get low tax rates and free themselves from the West's lunacies of welfarism.}


CAPITALISM DEFENDED - UNREALISTICALLY

A fine defence of capitalism and economic liberty was provided by my one-time colleague, the ex-Nuffield College economist Dipak Lal. Having excellently converted from Indian national socialism to Thatcherism/Hayekism, Dipak was emerging as a fine opponent of what he nicely called `dirigisme dogma' (Independent Review 12, 2 (2007)). Sadly, Dipak's fine enthusiasm for freedom failed to admit that the major worldwide sources of lack of choice were actually low-IQ, corruption and the Western `experts' who traded massively in happy-clappy ignoracism.


RACISM A SIGN OF HEALTH

Non-racists were found to be incapable of negative emotional conditioning in general and thus should not be let out of the house without a minder (Science Daily, 26 ix).


`SOME IMMIGRANT GROUPS A DRAIN ON BRITAIN,' ADMITS LEFTIST THINK-TANK

Less than half of Britain's 650,000 Somalis, Bangladeshis, Turks and Pakistanis had jobs, and these four `communities' had high levels of welfare-dependency - so said the close-to-Labour Institute for Public Policy Research, which had been commissioned by TV Channel 4 for a programme `Immigrants: the inconvenient' truth' to be broadcast on 1st October (Sunday Telegraph, 30 ix; ThisIsLondon, 30 ix).

The IPPR's report further declared: "Several groups seem to be struggling to improve economic outcomes across generations. Children of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Turkish and Somali ethnicity achieve below-average results in British schools". The IPPR'S tables seemed to show that people from Iran, Somalia and Bangladesh claimed the most unemployment benefit -- five per cent of the claimants coming from each nationality, against the average one per cent coming from Britain's non-ethnic adult population. Immigrants from Somalia also topped the council house league table -- with 80 per cent living in subsidised social housing. One in ten Pakistanis claimed sickness or disability benefit --almost twice the level of claims by people born in the UK.

Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, complained there was a risk of stirring up racism by airing such facts but Channel 4 pointed out that some first-generation immigrants did well under their own steam, notably Americans, Australians, Indians and Poles. {IQ and the Wealth of Nations estimated the IQs for the countries-of-origin of the least useful immigrants as Somalia 68, Bangladesh 81, Turkey 90, Pakistan 81 and Iran 84. Jamaicans (mean IQ back home 72) did a bit better since 50% had found jobs in Britain's NHS and social services - and doubtless used their longstanding contacts to get the many nicely paid jobs they had with London Underground.}

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NOBELIST DEMANDS END OF POSTMODERNISM

The boot was heard going into the late Jacques Derrida's `intellectual' descendants as the greatest living British novelist, Vidia S. Naipaul, a true heir to Joseph Conrad, called for the closure of all university departments of English Literature for being full of postmodernist nonsense* (Times, 26 viii; Times Higher, 1 ix 2007). But these hell-holes of quasi-philosophical relativistic leftism** were not alone in attracting the ire of the notoriously curmudgeonly and realistic Indian but Caribbean-born 2001 Nobelist and devotee of European culture, for in a new 2007 book, A Writer's People, he turned out to have declared that, after sixty years of independence, "India has no autonomous intellectual life" (Daily Telegraph (Review), 1 ix). In The Middle Passage (1962), he had infamously offended his Caribbean birthplace by stating: "Nothing was created in the West Indies."

* Times: "I think it would be a great fillip, a great boost to the intellectual life of the country. It would immediately have a great impact. It would release a lot of manpower. They could go and work on the buses and things like that." Huge chuckle. In fact, he believes universities should "deal in measurable truth" and teach only science.

** In Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, published in 1981, simply by letting people speak, he had exposed the delusions, anger and fanaticism in Islam that would lead, twenty years later, to 9/11. That book was a phenomenally prescient document, but it seemed to isolate Naipaul - notably infurating the great & good of Harvard.


SWISS NATIONALISTS MOVE AGAINST UNDESIRABLE ALIENS

The nationalist Swiss People's party (SVP), sharing power in Switzerland's governing coalition, proposed new legislation that would see entire families of immigrants deported if their children were convicted of crimes involving violence, drugs or benefit fraud. By this time, 20% of Switzerland's population were foreigners. It was thought likely that the SVP would be able to collect the 100,000 signatures necessary to triggering a referendum.


FLYNN CHANGES TACK

Kiwi liberal-leftist Jim Flynn abandoned his historical position that his grandfather was probably just as intelligent as himself and urged that easy exposure in the twentieth century to tasks of abstraction had yielded real IQ-type gains for those who had availed themselves of such opportunities, with special gains on such Wechsler subtests as Similarities and Picture Arrangement (VDare, 3 ix, Steve Sailer).

Unfortunately, Flynn's theory ignored the facts that test score gains had been found in infants (hardly spending their time practising abstraction|), that he could not demonstrate the widening standard deviation on `abstract' sub-tests that his theorizing had to predict, and that what all his high-boost subtests had in common (as they also had in common with multiple-choice tests which show even bigger gains) was that it helped if testees were willing to make guesses - as explained in Chapter 4 of The g Factor.


DAFT DAVE'S DESPERATION

Rather than take a lead from Tory grandee Michael Ancram, Marquess of Lothian, and back freedom (re sex, drugs, track choice, speech) and the family (to choose health insurance type, schools, pensions, level of policing), Eton-educated `Not the Conservative Party' leader (taunted by Prime Minister Brown that he lacked admiration for Lady Thatcher) compounded his already expressed dislike for grammar schools by urging that nice rural schools take in pupils from inner-city `deprived' areas.

The Daily Mail percipiently warned (5 ix): "Transporting children from the inner cities to more affluent areas would be reminiscent of the hugely-controversial bussing of black children into white areas in the U.S. Deep South in the 1960s and 1970s in an attempt to integrate the communities."

{At the same time, Dave's apparently equally dotty Shadow Chancellor was proudly announcing that he would keep public spending up to Labour levels through the first three years of any Conservative government - giving no hope of relief from bureaucrats, Eurocrats, quangoes, human rights judges and devolved assemblypersons.}

{Soon, Daft Dave revealed his Mafia streak, telling Michael Ancram et al. that they were "blasts from the past" and should "think carefully before they open their mouths." As his policy-for-the-day initiative, intended to suggest he had been thinking, he came up with modernized national service for youf - lasting a mere six weeks and being entirely voluntary, so hardly the jail-emptying Humanitarian Task Force for Africa long proposed in this diary/blog.}


MUESLI SCIENCE DEFICIT EXPLAINED

An article in Physics Today (7 viii) documented the abysmal failure of Mueslis to contribute to science in the past century. It did not blame low Muesli IQ - itself probably fuelled by fundamentalism and religious divisions among Mueslis; but its writer, a senior Pakistani academic, was express that it was not the West that was to blame, saying that, after a 7th-century flourishing of the alphabet, algebra and medicine, "Internal causes led to the decline of Islam's scientific greatness long before the era of mercantile imperialism."


GENE THERAPY FOR OBESITY IN SIGHT

Scientists at University of Texas Southwestern identified a genetic "master switch" that tells the body whether to store or burn fat (Daily Telegraph, 5 ix). The `adipose gene', known for fifty years to be present in fat fruit flies, was turned on and off by researchers and directly affected fat accumulation in mice.


CITIES SURVIVE SOCIALISM

Confirming that my life and times in Britain had not been entirely mis-spent, a Conde-Nast survey of the 30,000 trend-setting readers of its travel magazine gave the country's top ten cities as (Daily Telegraph, 5 ix): (Last year's position, if any, in brackets)

1 Durham (new); 2 Edinburgh (2); 3 London (3); 4 Glasgow (1); 5 Manchester(12); 6= Canterbury (new), Liverpool (7), York (11);
9 Oxford (6); 10= Bath (8), Cambridge (10).

Yes, I had lived in 3, had relatives in a further 2, lectured or debated in 8 (as also in the attractive Irish cities of Dublin, Cork and Coleraine), and visited all at some time.


SEX DIFFERENCE IN VARIANCE DISCUSSED!

Thirty years after London School psychologists began to assert that the human sexes differed in IQ range (males wider), as for many other traits, and that men tended to `go to extremes' in pursuit of evolutionary success (some, like Genghis Khan, populating the planet, but many leaving no great-grandchildren at all), such faxalife were set before a high-level American Psychological Association audience (though not with any mention of who discovered them) (Dennis Dutton, 24 viii).

The late-in-the-day acknowledger of such realities, Professor Roy Baumeister, Florida State University, did a good popular job of soothing his audience of feminist harridans and hangers-on into concluding that nature and culture both treated men as dispensable (as Doctor Johnson had perhaps been the first to explain when demanding the law should back men to make up for females' otherwise overwhelming advantages) and finished with: "A few lucky men are at the top of society and enjoy the culture's best rewards. Others, less fortunate, have their lives chewed up by it. Culture uses both men and women, but most cultures use them in somewhat different ways. Most cultures see individual men as more expendable than individual women; and this difference is probably based on nature, in whose reproductive competition some men are the big losers and other men are the biggest winners. Hence it uses men for the many risky jobs it has. Men go to extremes more than women, and this fits in well with culture using them to try out lots of different things, rewarding the winners and crushing the losers."


HOW BLECK LIFE WORKS

American Renaissance (25 viii): "I worked in the Nigerian oil-patch some 40 years ago. During my time there I was constantly offered child `daughters' on an exclusive monthly rental basis as `comfort girls' by nigerians working for the national oil company or international contracting companies. Let's be clear about this, these men were not unemployed, poor starving, non-english speaking or poverty stricken. I couldn't understand how they could do this until I was advised by long-time expats that these men would pay poor families to `rent' their children to sub-contract."


APARTHEID DUBLIN

Anyone wondering how the Eirish were coping with their 25,000 African slaves ooops asylum seekers over the previous decade got their answer as the nice north-Dublin suburb of Balbriggan turned out to have closed the doors of its schools to immigrants - by the traditional expedient of demanding that would-be pupils should be Catholic - or at least Gaelic-speaking (American Renaissance, 3 ix).


MORE & MORE MILEAGE IN `IQ' - BUSINESSMEN

Struck by the commercial success of the (scientifically empty) `Emotional Intelligence' (EQ), South African business studies personages advanced to invent `Spiritual Intelligence' (SQ) - complete with nudges to Harvard's Howie Gardner that he should acknowledge the breakthrough, with its "transformative power" amidst his own multidimensional nonsense (Marketing Web, 4 ix). - Nice to see businesspersons trying to square the circle! Perhaps they will next turn their hands to explaining the doctrine of the Trinity? Come on, boys, don't you read the core message to you, `Why ignore the g factor'?


GAY PAEDOPHILIA - BACKED BY PEECEE

Though yag leaders unfailingly protest that homosexuality has nothing do with paedophilia, a strong connection emerged in the case of two men, Ian Wathey, 42, and Craig Faunch, 33, jailed for repeated sexual activities with 8-14-year-old boys (including having boys watch others' masturbatory feats) in their care as council foster parents. Yes, the pair were homosexual and had a same-sex `civil partnership.' These facts, together with the couple being known as excellent carers who dealt `well' with difficult cases, encouraged social workers to send 18 boys in 15 months for the special attentions of Wathey and French, and discouraged them from pursuing inquiries even when shown pictures taken by W&F in a toilet at a Butlins holiday camp - for, yes, the social workers feared being accused of discrimination


RIGHT SHIFT FACTOR?

An engaging Speccie article (8 ix) by Anthony Browne gleefully pointed to defections over recent years by top lefties Andrew Anthony (Observer), Nick Cohen (Observer), Melanie Phillips (Observer), Christopher Hitchens (New Statesman), Frank Field (Labour MP and Minister), Alan Milburn (Labour MP and Minister), Polly Toynbee (Guardianista who had turned to opposing low-skill immigration), Trevor Phillips (CRE supremo with doubts about multiculturalism - see this diary/blog, above) as giving reason to hope the tide of Clinton-Blair multicultural neosocialism was at last turning. Encouraging as this was, the happy process had not resulted in anyone actually becoming a Conservative. By contrast, there had been plenty of defections from right to left:

Sion Simon (from right-wing columnist to Labour MP, 1990s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%B4n_Simon
Simon Jenkins (top columnist, from Times to Independent, sometimes Guardian, c. 2003))
John Bercow MP (homosexualist, becoming adviser to PM Brown, 2007)
Patrick Mercer MP (`racist', becoming adviser to PM Brown, 2007)
Johan Eliasch (big donor to `Conservative' Party, becoming adviser to PM Brown, 2007) http://www.politics.co.uk/news/party-politics/johan-eliasch-confirms-move-labour-$478085.htm
Quentin Davies MP (switched over homosexuality, vi 2007) http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/06/tory-turncoat-joins-labour.html
Robert Jackson MP 2005 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/19/nelec319.xml
Bill Newton-Dunn MEP (to Liberal) 2002 http://www.rogerhelmer.com/wnarchive2.asp
Shaun Woodward MP xii 1999 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/571883.stm
Peter Temple-Morris MP http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/572545.stm
Alan Howarth MP http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/572545.stm

So the picture was more one of `a plague on both your houses' - with Labour idealism having delivered little but remaining attractive to the usual suspects (notably homosexualists, who were being promised opportunities to use the criminal law by any who `humiliated' them) and the Conservatives having no fun to offer, certainly not the restoration of classical British freedom (of speech, substance-use, gun ownership, property defence, spanking, school leaving, sex & marriage from 14 etc.) or the 3-child family with stay-at-home mother.


TOP COP SQUEAKS OUT

After ten years of abject subservience to NuLabour's Sir-Wm-McPherson-o'CLuny-backed peecee nonsense (that police should not stop and search Bleck youf), top British bureaucop Chief Superintendent Ian Johnston, President of the Police Superintendents' Association, was sufficiently miffed to mumble (Daily Quislingraph, 7 ix): "Some of the biggest challenges facing the police service and our society today relate to violent crime, anti-social behaviour, youths [sic] out of control, knife crime and gun crime. Violent crime is a cancer that eats away at the very heart of society. A failed education system, family breakdown, alcohol and drug abuse, inadequate prison and probation services, an unresponsive criminal justice system, an entertainment industry that promotes violence and a media that glorifies in [sic] failure rather than success are all symptoms of a society in desperate need of treatment." Of course, the words race, Black, IQ and immigration were not allowed to pass his lips.


CLASS DIVIDE WIDENS UNDER NULABOUR

Reflecting the disappearance of the grammar schools which once made for social mobility, Sheffield University researchers reported widening SES divisions, with children in some areas 50 times more likely to get into a decent university than children in others (Sun, 8 ix; Guardian, 8 ix). Comparing the 2007 class divide to that of the 1930s, report author Dr Bethan Thomas said: "Our conclusion is that Britain is becoming increasingly segregated across all ages by class, education, occupation, home ownership, health status, disability and family type." {And this clear demonstration of Labour's hopeless inability to achieve its most treasured objective of advancing equality was obtained even without using the most meaningful method of social classification of people, into the HAVE YACHTS, the HAVE TOTS [no single parents allowed in this high-responsibility group], the HAVE BOTS [beauties with prospects of rapid advance] and the HAVE NOTS..}


LABOUR FAILS ON CRIME - Observer

While PM Gordy's right-hand man, Ed Balls tried to persuade Brits horrified by the killing of 10-year-old Liverrpuddlian Rhys Jones that they `had nothing to fear but fear itself,' top left-wing columnist Nick Cohen admitted the reality: "The idea that it's middle-class paranoia ignores the fact that lawlessness really is getting worse" (Observer, 9 ix). The NuLabour wheeze of `AntiSocial Behaviour Orders' (ASBOs) had not worked, said a police chief who had conducted research from the Cambridge University Department of Criminology (Guardian, 10 ix).


COWARDLY CONSERVATIVES CLOBBERED

Having failed for years to discuss race, IQ and what to do about useless, state-dependent, illiterate and criminal immigrants and asylum seakers, Daft Dave's `Not the Conservative Party' found itself upstaged as PM Gordon Brown demanded GCSE-level qualifications in English for new settlers in Britain (Guardian, 10 ix) - though whether the demand would apply to Pakistanis' imported brides as well as to jobseekers remained unclear (not that Daft Dave would be likely to ask..).


PHYSIOLOGY OF POLITICS

Differences between self-styled American `liberals' and `conservatives' in brain activity in the anterior cingulate cortex were reported in Nature Neuroscience by a New York University researcher, David Amodio (Chicago Tribune, 10 ix). Liberals, who were better at suspending habitual reactions when suddenly asked to do so, showed higher electrical activity. {A strong link of liberalism-conservatism to genetic factors was first made by Eaves & Eysenck in 1974 (in Nature); and linkage of attitudes to personality and information-processing was envisaged by me in 1997 (in The Scientific Study of Human Nature).} { From "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce: "Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones."}


`TOUGH ON CRIME' POLICY APPALS FRENCH MANDARINS

Seven top legal eagles and adminpersons in France's Department of Justice resigned in protest at what they called the "incompetent Stalinism" of Sarkozy-appointed iconic Black female minister Rachida Dati who had promised tougher minimum sentences and harsher treatment of recidivists (Gulf Times, 10 ix; Daily Telegraph, 10 ix). But Dati apparently knew whereof she spoke, for two of her eleven Bleck siblings were in trouble with the law; and her willingness to get tough on crime was going down well with punters, according to French polls.


AMERICAN ELITE'S ANTI-WHITE RACISM EXPOSED

As the widely-celebrated charges by Blacks and hangers-on of gang rape against Duke U.'s partying lacrosse players collapsed in total ignominy (after a multi-million-dollar year of legal investigation), the Wall Street Journal felt brave enough to mention the scandal of Whites backing even the most ludicrous allegations against other Whites in order to spare themselves from accusations of the dreaded `racism.' (6 ix). Apparently, the local prosecutor, `Michael' Nifong, "was desperate to win a close primary election and needed black votes, so he proceeded with an unjustified prosecution and publicly vilified innocent young men."

Apparently: "The vitriolic rhetoric of the faculty and Durham's "progressive" community--including the local chapter of the NAACP--helped to intensify the scandal and stoke the media fires. The New York Times' coverage was particularly egregious... It ran dozens of prominent stories and "analysis" articles trying to plumb the pathologies of the lacrosse players and of a campus culture that allowed swaggering white males to prey on poor, defenseless young black women. As one shrewd Times alumnus later wrote: "You couldn't invent a story so precisely tuned to the outrage frequency of the modern, metropolitan, bien pensant journalist." Such Nifong allies--unlike the district attorney himself--paid no price for their shocking indifference to the truth."


BIOLOGY OF INTELLIGENCE SUMMARIZED

A handy, up-to-date and welcome summary of London School research was provided at http://members.cox.net/bvv/Heritability_of_Intelligence.doc and http://members.cox.net/bvv/h2b.html by `new boy on the block' Bob Williams, an early-retired reactor physicist of hereditarian persuasion and with nice gifts for rapid mastery of a new field and clear exposition of the major results.

No, nothing had changed hugely since The g Factor; but new confirmatory contributions by Phil Rushton, Richard Lynn and Alex Beaujean were summarized and the recently re-realized importance of iodine to child intelligence was mentioned along with newer dietary discoveries of iron and folate being important - whereas TgF had identified only breast-milk and Evening Primrose Oil (providing fatty acids, important to myelination of nerve sheaths) as offering a route to IQ-boosting.

According to Williams, some workers were linking IQ-assisting myelination to vision-limiting myopia - an idea that would have delighted Sir Cyril Burt, who was the first to identify the myopia-IQ link as being genetic (rather than due to swots ruining their eyesight as so many educators once thought, leading to studious children being pushed on to games fields). Williams concluded with a reasonable faith that assiduous, Labourite and low-key Bob Plomin (lately Cambridge and London) would be the first to come up with precise genes for IQ - not perhaps knowing of the work of Sudha Seshadri at Boston University (told to aficionados of this diary/blog, 14 v 2007).

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