CHARITY BEGINS WITH RACE

A study from Monash University, Australia, replicated American findings {see Putnam, 2006-7} that people living in ethnically mixed areas are less likely to be helpful to each other - e.g. by voluntarily undertaking charitable work (The Age, 11 ii).


LIGHT FOR DARK CONTINENT?

As the magazine AllAfrica admitted the problems caused by conflict between the continent's thousands of ethnic groups (i.e. tribes) (12 ii), hope beckoned as Africa's new imperial power, China, announced it had by 2007 sent no less than 750,000 workers to countries such as the Sudan and Uganda (Daily Telegraph, 12 ii) - apparently having decided, like the British in nineteenth-century South Africa, that Blacks could not be relied on for useful work and that what Africa needed was Asian labour.

{The attraction of warmer climes for the Chinese workers would have been enhanced in 2008 by the snow and ice that disrupted the lives of millions at the Chinese New Year and destroyed forests areas totalling the size of England. China's help for the murderous Mueslis of the Sudan prompted top film director Stephen Spielberg to withdraw from helping with entertainments at the forthcoming Peking Olympic Games.}


ARCHENEMY OF CANTERBURY EXPOSED

With breathtaking arrogance, `Archbishop' Rowan Williams persuaded the liberal multiculti bigots at the top of what was left of the C. of E. to give him an ovation for his heresy and treachery in handing Britain over to the beginnings of sharia law while he `apologized' if his oh-so-clever 6,000-word speech had `lacked clarity' and thus been `misunderstood' by the media [such as the Times, Grauniad and Torygraph]; but he could not escape the withering fire of top ex-leftie Jewess Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail, 13 ii), the American Daniel Pipes (Jerusalem Post, 12 ii) and splendidly crusading liberal Johann Hari (Independent, 11 ii) (though whether Hari's liberalism could countenance the scrapping of the Race Relations Act and toleration of non-paying paedophilic downloadings remained to be seen).


PEECEE KENYA ADOPTS APARTHEID

As the warring tribes of Kenya waited for America to deliver truckloads of dollars to stop them fighting, it transpired that it had long been de rigeur not to mention tribalism or even to print the names of Kenyan tribes. Apparently, after years of British race realism, when independence came it was thought better to imitate incoming Western practices and simply ignore the elephant in the corner of the Kenyan room (New Statesman, 14 ii).

While Nairobi politicians awaited the arrival of Condoleeza Rice and handouts, ordinary Kenyans in hundreds of thousands continued their treks to distance themselves from Blacks belonging to other tribes ooops ethnic groups. Even the New York Times (15 ii) admitted to its NYTwit readers that ethnic segregation was taking place, involving some 600,000 people; "Luos have gone back to Luo land, Kikuyus to Kikuyu land, Kambas to Kamba land and Kisiis to Kisii land. Even some of the packed slums in the capital, Nairobi, have split along ethnic lines." And the Luos, at least, were not interested in any realistic compromise (Christian Science Monitor, 19 ii).


COME BACK, COLONIALISM! - ALL IS FORGIVEN.

Such was the title of an article published surprisingly in Time (14 ii) detailing from the mouth of a Black riverboat captain how the Congo had gone backwards ever since becoming independent of Belgium.


TOP BRASS REALISM

As British `justice' (the Lord Chief Justice and pals) let off five Muesli fanatics who had been convicted by a London jury of downloading bomb-making advice (the law as interpreted by lordly traitors apparently allowed them, unlike paedophiles, to indulge their curiosity), the ancient order of the Royal United Services Institute emerged from years of obscurity to denounce (with what would probably be its dying breath) British failure to put down "misplaced deference to `multiculturalism'," Mueslis, jihadists and the European Union (the thinktank's fine identification of multiculti Britain having "lost its way" and become "a soft touch for terrorism" being co-authored by an LSE Professor Gwyn Prins and Tory scion the Marquess of Salisbury [former Conservative leader in the House of Lords]*) (Guardian, 15 ii; Sun, 15 ii).

The report thought British security a victim of "flabby and bogus strategic thinking" and Britain so wide-open to "home-grown terror" that the country's security strategy should be taken out of the hands of the Government (cf. arrangements for giving the Bank of England a degree of independence). The RUSI report was promptly and furiously condemned by a Cabinet spokesman,** by Indian MP and ethnic minority guru Keith Vaz, by Grauniadista Jeremy Seabrook (15 ii) and by the Scotsman's Joyce Macmillan (16 ii); but it at least elicited support in the timorous Speccie from Melanie Phillips (blog, 15 ii) and from Shadow Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones who said multiculturalism had been a "disaster" for British national cohesion (probably fortified by the fact that her leader, Daft Dave, was, like all other British pols, on holiday - in a development perhaps reflecting the fact that 80% of new UK legislation was by then mandated from Brussels and Strasbourg).

* According to RUSI: "The RUSI Journal article expresses the consensus of a private seminar series which met at intervals between May 2006 and January 2008. In addition to the authors those participating included Sir Mark Allen, Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, Chris Donnelly, Field Marshal the Lord Inge [former Chief of Defence Staff], Tom Kremer, Lord Leach, Baroness Park of Monmouth, Douglas Slater, General Sir Rupert Smith and Professor Hew Strachan [Oxford]." The report followed unprecedented combined denunciation in November, 2007, by five former chiefs of defence staff, of the low level of funding of Britain's armed services.

** In happier days, Gordon Brown had praised RUSI as "leading the debate about homeland security and global terrorism." According to the Daily Telegraph (15 ii), RUSI was "thought to represent the views of many serving senior members of the Armed Forces."


GENDARMES JUMP ON JIHADISTS

While neosocialist Britain prepared to let Mueslis loudhail their bullying propaganda `prayer calls' in east Oxford and to introduce `sharia law' (as urged by bearded weirdie ArchEnemy of Canterbury) (and to nationalize a useless bank [broke from lending to `sub-prime borrowers, chiefly American Blacks] and to give schoolchildren GCSEs in French without them having to write or speak a word of the language), 1,000 French cops swooped on at least 33 North-African Muesli youf in northern `housing projects' of Paris, arresting them and charging them with rioting and attacking police in November, 2007 (injuring 119 police, 5 seriously) (Guardian, 18 ii). "I have never seen a police operation of this scope," said Marie-Therese de Givry, a local prosecutor, at a news conference, adding "I hope that the inhabitants of Villiers-le-Bel will understand that we are there to re-establish order and peace."


LOOPY LEWONTIN LOST FOR WORDS

Harvard's top evolution theorist and leftist, Richard Lewontin, said he had simply no idea why homo sapiens had evolved a large brain - so desperate was he to avoid admitting that Blacks' lower average brain sizes suggested lower inherited intelligence (Guardian, 19 ii). {The children's song `Here we go Loopy Lew / Here we go Loopy Lie' came to mind..}


SAVANT-GENIUS LINK RE-ATTESTED

The relationship between creativity and psychiatric disorder was not a myth, according to Professor Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, and the author of a new book, Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World (Royal College of Psychiatry, .). Like Robert Prentky in 1995 (Creativity and Psychopathology: A Neurocognitive Approach ), the professor especially claimed to see marked signs of autism / Asperger's syndrome in the personalities of geniuses, especially mentioning Newton, Beethoven Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell, Charles de Gaulle and Enoch Powell. For example, Beethoven who was "clumsy," "emotionally immature," and "had an unusually large head" fitted the criteria for Asperger's. {But an expert on Beethoven, Dr Barry Cooper, had said that he "barely recognized the description of the composer." -- Amy IGGULDEN, 2005, `'Missing link' between madness and genius.' Daily Telegraph, 11 vi 2005.}


TOUGH ON CRIME, EASY ON FUN!

An easy-enough fourteen liberal-conservative proposals which Messrs Cameron (`Conservative' and Clegg (`Liberal Democrat') could have used, as a package, to boost their miserably small poll advantage over Britain's multiply hopeless, cheating and tyrannical NuLabour Government (original winning 1996 slogan (along with EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION!): TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME..):

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1. Most penal tariffs to be doubled. All criminals getting >14 years prison sentences to hang unless availing of 10 (below).
2. Present tariffs for 3rd-conviction offenders to be trebled (i.e. `three strikes and you're out,' cf. USA.)
3. Excess prisoners to be parked on e.g. Isle of Tiree (residents to be paid handsomely for guard duties).
4. Muslim intending traitors (urging killing of Britons) to be charged and executed; actual traitors to be hanged after seeing family and friends imprisoned.
5. No state benefits to relatives - by blood, marriage or cohabitation -- of any undischarged criminals.
6. Drink, drugs, gambling and pornography to be available (taxed at 14%). Female nudity allowed on beaches, unless obese.
7. Kids able to choose their school stream from age 10, 14% of their classes from 12, and to leave school at 14.
8. Age of sexual consent reduced to 14. Penal tariffs for non-physically-injurious sex crimes not doubled (as per 1, above).
9. Votes at 14 for all who can pass an all-party-agreed test of general political knowledge.
10. Prisoners allowed after 14% of their sentences to join Humanitarian Force for Africa - serving thereby the rest of their time.
11. Police and teachers to be exempt from all bureaucracy so long as they are selected and triennially checked by IQ tests.
12. `Welfare state' to be scrapped and replaced with state-aided, self-chosen insurance for health, old age, kids' education etc.
13. Duration of legal trials to be cut by 14% each year, progressively slashing lawyers' fees.
14. State spending to be cut by 14% each year, slashing quangos etc. (presently costing 125 billion pounds annually - up fivefold from when NuLabour came to power).
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Yes, this Diary and its predecessors TgFNewsLetter and McDougall NewsLetter always backed FAMILY + FREEDOM. But this was evidently too complicated for the poor unimaginative politicos; so it became important to spell out precisely what opportunities they were missing. - But Daft Dave Cameron and the LibDems' Clueless Clegg were so politically incompetent that they seemed unlikely even to make an electoral pact, let alone commit themselves to their country's English-speaking youth and a eugenic and family-and-freedom-loving future, however clearly spelled out


HISTORIAN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST BRITISH ACADEMIA

Top British historian Michael Burleigh (an expert on Nazi Germany who had held professorships at Cardiff and Stanford) seemed to have retired from British university life so as to be more able to speak his mind against jihadist-salafists and their university-leftist hangers on. For the Spectator, wettish Sam Leith recorded:

..his attacks on a left-liberal consensus in media, law and academia - which he sees as providing ideological and practical succour to terror - sometimes cross the line from argument to rant. Academics who once studied `the comparative history of parliaments or war finance ... are now more likely to be experts on gay and lesbian body art, serial killers or the persecution of witches, rivalling television in their populist pursuit of the lurid or trivial'. Deploring the `creed of multiculturalism' and `cultural self-repudiation', he states that `in Britain an entire television station, Channel 4, was progressively devoted to propagating it with programmes that are nowadays difficult to parody within the degraded tacky rubbish which it commissions'.

However, it seemed that Afghani cut-throats would be more upset by Burleigh than would his `liberal'-left and multculti ex-colleagues - at his describing Afghans as "child-like, barbaric and venal, with an unhealthy interest in boys" (Blood and Rage: a Cultural History of Terrorism, Harper, 2008).


CRICKET STARS BLAST PEECEE

Top Australian cricketers spoke out against international cricketing authorities who had increasingly given players of various racial hues a hard time for calling each other "monkeys" and "obnoxious little weeds" - evidently all cricket's time-honoured lively epithets of abuse were being interpreted as `racist' when issued against a player of a different race (LiveNews, 29 ii; Melbourne Herald Sun, 29 ii), inhibiting Australians' famed freedom of robust expression and threatening the return of a game in which the serving of cucumber sandwiches with afternoon tea would be the most exciting part.


NUTORIES SAVAGED

Criticizing Daft Dave's fancying himself as the `heir to Blair,' Thatcher loyalist Lord Norman Tebbit produced a rare Conservative condemnation of mass immigration (though still not mentioning descriptors like Black, coloured or Muesli) (Daily Telegraph, 28 ii, Andrew Porter): "It was Blair who introduced uncontrolled, unmeasured immigration of people determined not to integrate, but to establish, first ghettoes, and now demands for separate legal jurisdiction."


SOCIALIST `INITIATIVES' USELESS

As the Cambridge University-based `Primary Review' reported that multibillion-pound increases in gimmicky spending on state education since 1997 had produced results that were only "equivocal or worse" (when positive, depending on `teaching to the test') (BBC, 29 ii; Independent, 29 ii, `Failed! Political interference is damaging children's education, report claims'), able columnist Leo McKinstry predicted a similar result from Labour's wheeze to pay private firms if they found jobs for Britain's 5-million-strong army of layabouts and `disabled' - McKinstry understandably observing that restricting living on welfare to two years of a person's life would be markedly cheaper (Daily Express, 29 ii).

Right on cue, Eton-educated hereditary peer and keen countryman Lord Mancroft, 50 and fresh from a `National Health' hospital stay in Bath for removal of an abscess, chimed in that, despite all Labour's largesse to its favourite national institution, he found the nurses at the Royal United Hospital dirty, drunken, promiscuous (as they had made clear when chatting to each other across his body about their recent and planned `sh*gs'), slipshod, disrespectful and lazy (Daily Telegraph, 1 iii). - Though thus scandalizing the Mirror, Grauniad and Daft Dave Cameron (an NHS addict), the complaint of `Beano' Mancroft's (a personal friend of Prince Charles) drew much support, not least from residents of Bath, terrified of ending their days in the filthy RUH (29 ii).

The Times (2 ii) threw fuel on the fire by reporting research published in the Nursing Times finding that thousands of British nurses were having sex with their patients and that 10% of nurses thought this just fine. At the same time, Labour at last implemented the crackdown long urged by this diary/blog on employers who use illegal immigrant labout - but this was, in 2008, plainly a case of closing the sitting room door ten years after the elephant had already taken up its position in the corner.


OBAMANIA TO ATTRACT RIGHT-WING VOTE?

As American Renaissance leader, ultra-polite US gentleman Jared Taylor, amazed quite a few followers by sanguingly contemplating a US Presidential Election victory for the half-Arab mulatto Barrack Hussein Osama (and Obama's probably even more Black-racist wife, a Communist neophyte in her adolescence) -- and found himself banned for his trouble from speaking at Michigan State University -- it appeared there were at least six reasons why White nationalists might actually vote for Obama:

1. To go - or appear to go -- with the flow of happy-clappy America-uniting idealism.
2. To appear urbane, sanguine, cool - as was presumably Jared's intention.
3. To sock it to renegade `Republican' contender John McCain, who supported multiculti nonsense and affirmative racism as much as Dubya Bush.
4. To see Obama plunge America to disaster, delivering such multi-disappointing results as the Taleban reclaiming Afghanistan and Iran invading Iraq - resulting eventually in the counter-reaction of a White dawn..
5. To have Obama at the helm as American plunged inevitably into recession - resulting eventually in a White dawn..
6. To muddy the waters and disguise what a tiny minority America's White nationalists had become.

BLECK REALISM FROM BEEB

“Though the South African] government denies it, many analysts believe unemployment is still around 40 per cent, roughly what it was during the last days of apartheid. ….With high crime, competition from Asia and now daily power cuts, the struggle to lure investors gets more difficult. ….not even the most optimistic gloss can conceal the horrendously violent nature of [South African] society. ….back [in the pre-Black-rule 1980s] there was always the possibility of dramatic change for the better. Now, when I talk to old friends who were passionate supporters of the idea of a new South Africa, I detect a profound unease.” – Fergal KEANE (longstanding BBC reporter and film-maker), Sunday Telegraph, 10 ii 2008, ‘Not a long walk, but a short step, to disaster.’


RACIAL MAYHEM HOTS UP

As Western and UN ‘aid agencies’ and diplomodiners continued to parade their pious aspirations for central Africa, 12,000 Darfuris were forced to leave their looted and burned villages and seek refuge in Chad as Sudan’s ‘janjaweed’ militas set about the next stage of ethnic cleansing (Associated Press, 10 ii). Sudanese forces and Chad rebels remained dug in in central Chad, waiting to do battle with French-backed President Deby and his Zaghawa fighters.

MUESLIS’ BREEDING PROBLEMS



Amidst widespread outrage in Britain at the idea of giving anything more than the occasional inch to ‘sharia law’ (in whatever of its equally rigid 40 varieties), Government minister Phil Woolas drew attention to the burden to the National Health Service from the Muesli practice of first-cousin marriage (Scotland on Sunday, 10 ii). The toothy, bespectacled young Environment Minister spoke out because research (for BBC2’s ‘Newsnight’ in 2005) found that British Pakistanis accounted for 3% of all births but were responsible for 30% of British children born with genetic illnesses – the problem was especially traceable to families hailing from rural Pakistan in which there had probably been several generations of inbreeding.

(Across a normal range of -- mainly one-off -- first cousin marriages, the Birmingham Primary Care Trust estimated that one in 10 children either died in infancy or suffered serious disability as a result of recessive genetic disorders, as had been known since the 1970s.)

Keighley Labour MP Ann Cryer said: "This is to do with a medieval culture where you keep wealth within a family. Within the Pakistani community it is also widely held that first-cousin marriages are more stable. I have encountered cases of blindness and deafness. The parents were warned they should not have any more children. But when the husband returned from Pakistan within months they had another child with exactly the same condition." Woolas, who represented the north-west ethnically mixed seat of Oldham East and Saddleworth, had previously warned that Muslie women who wore headscarves could provoke “fear and resentment.”


The “infuriated” Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a Muesli campaign group, suggested the minister was ‘demonising’ British Muslims (Telegraph, 10 ii). An MPAC spokesman accused Mr Woolas of "flirting with Islamaphobia" and said: "Gordon Brown should either back him or sack him. We should be told what the Government thinks about this."

Downing Street and the Department for the Environment refused to comment on Mr Woolas' remarks, but the minister received public support from Geoff Hoon, the Labour Chief Whip. {Many London politicians had given themselves a week’s holiday at the time.}

Figures showed that British Pakistani children accounted for as many as one third of birth defects despite making up only three per cent of all UK births (Telegraph, 10 ii). The likelihood of unrelated couples having the same variant genes that cause recessive disorders was estimated to be 100-1. Between first cousins, the odds increased to as much as one in eight. In Bradford, more than three quarters of all Pakistani marriages were believed to be between first cousins.

In 2005, the city's Royal Infirmary Hospital said it had identified more than 140 different recessive disorders among local children, compared with the usual 20-30.
By 11 ii, the story was reported in Pakistani Post: ‘UK warns of inbreeding risk for Muslims.’

NULABOUR JIHADOPHOBIA

Prime Minister Supreme Comrade Grumpy Gordon Brown announced he would ban a notorious Egyptian Islamofanatic cleric, Ding Dong `Carpaki' Qaradawi, 81, from visiting London for medical treatment (Sun, 7 ii). Previously, the Muesli loon had been paid by NuLabour to fly from Qatar to Istanbul for a conference; and he had been welcomed in London by whisky-swilling IRA-loving Mayor `Red' Ken Livingstone to explain that terrorist suicide bombers were actually Islamic "martyrs"; but then it came to light that he wanted all yags to be thrown to their death off high cliffs, so Grumpy felt he had to draw a firm line..

Meantime, the leisurely prosecution of Islamic Jihad convert Ding Dong `Abdul Saleem' BaaLamb continued in Kingston-on-Thames, Silly BaaLamb, already banned from the USA, being charged at phenomenal state expense with referring approvingly to `Mahomet of Massacre' and inciting mass murder of British soldiers in a recorded speech at London's top Regent's Park mosque in 2004. `Moderate' Muesli groups (such as the Muslim Council of Britain) promptly denounced the ban as contrary to British principles of free speech (Guardian, 7 ii).

At Manchester University, neo-Marxist postmodern literary critic Terry Eagleton remonstrated that he was being retired from his professorship at 65 so the University could pay the 80K pounds p.a. salary of `Islamophobic' Martin Amis.



Grumpy Gordon further ripped into the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, when he appeared to abandon both Christian proselytization and the human rights enshrined in Eurolaw in proposing that `some aspects' of Sharia law* should be introduced in Britain, at least covering women who were agreeable, just as Jews were allowed their own marital courts - the Archbish did not say when was the last time a Jewish girl committed suicide after being bullied into an arranged marriage with an uneducated non-English-speaking racial compatriot.

Strangely, Williams thought Sharia-acceptance would improve `social cohesion,' little considering that expelling jihadists would do the job quicker for Britain and that Islam-dominated societies like Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, the West Bank, Algeria, Afghanistan et al. had no inspiring record of social cohesion.

Williams was also condemned by other Labourites, including a Muslim M.P.; and the Sun called for him to be sacked. Even Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said Dr Williams' comments were "muddled and unhelpful". Some 15K Sun readers voted 20-1 by phone for the 'ArchEnemy'** to be sacked.



The Sun bus visited the Archbishop's Lambeth Palace residence in South London with navel-flashing Page 3 girls Mel and Peta - and blasted out `Rule Britannia.' { The public argument was likely to continue, since the Archbishop's lecture, which had been heard by an audience of about 1000 people and chaired by the Lord Chief Justice, was the first in a series of six lectures and discussions being given by senior Muslim and other lawyers and theologians at the Temple Church on the general theme of 'Islam in English Law'.}

At the same time, it turned out the police had been allowed to bug conversations in prison between a suspected terror-jihadist and his (`radical') Muesli M.P. (Spectator, 7 ii); and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith got round to extraditing hook-handed hate-preaching jihadist Abdul Hamza to the USA where he could be jailed for 99 years on charges of violence, kidnapping and terrorist training (Sun, 8 ii). But NuLabour tempered the wind to the shorn Islamic lamb by saying it would respect Muesli sensitivities by the Orwellian move of not actually referring to `the war on terror,' `Muslim extremism,' `Islamofascism,' `Islamofanatics,' `mad mullahs' etc., and even (especially weirdly) `Islamophobia,' at least in the presence of Mueslis - though the move was splendidly resisted by columnist Melanie Phillips (Spectator, 7 ii).

* Graphic examples were provided by the British National Party at http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/02/08/this-is-sharia-law/.

** The Sun's coverage of the Archbishop appeared under the heading "What a burkha!" and invited readers to phone, email or write to "Bash the Bishop!" and "Whack Williams!"


INHERITANCE ADMITTED

As University College researchers re-invented the wheel, in a twin study finding obesity was 77% heritable, the Guardian explained to readers more used to being told of the meaningless of twin studies in view of the omnipresence of `complex interaction effects' (7 ii, Alok Jha, Science Correspondent): "A twin study allows scientists to work out the extent of the genetic contribution to a pattern of behaviour compared with the environmental contribution. Identical twins, who share all their genes, are compared with non-identical twins, who share half their genes. By spotting behaviour or traits that occur more often in identical rather than non-identical ones, scientists can work out the relative contribution of genetics."

At the same time, a twin study conducted from universities in Montreal found aggression in children to be markedly heritable - though having aggressive friends had a multiplying effect (Daily Telegraph, 7 ii).

By contrast, a review of twin studies found genetic factors of onlly minor importance in homosexuality - as I had pointed out in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1993. `Shared environment' was of even less importance; but `unshared environment' accounted for some 70% of variance. Only for `inactive' agreeability to secret same-sex advances did genetic factors account for more than 30% of variance (46% for women). - National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, 10 i 2008.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/02/political_views.php (cf. Eaves &Eysenck, 1974, Nature 249):

..The idea that our politics are in part shaped by our genes is not itself new, but it has only recently come to the attention of political scientists. In 2005, John Alford [Rice U., Houston, Texas] published a paper in which he analysed two decades of work in behavioural genetics, including a huge database containing the political opinions of 30,000 twins from Virginia (American Political Science Review, vol 99, p 153). He found that identical twins were more likely than non-identical twins to give the same answers to political questions. For example, on the issue of whether property should be taxed, four-fifths of identical twins gave the same answer, compared to two-thirds of non-identical twins.

What could account for this? Well, given that identicals have the same genes while non-identicals share only half their genes, the fact that identical twins gave the same answer more often than non-identicals suggests the answer must be influenced by their genes.

A much stronger link exists between political orientation and openness, which psychologists define as including traits such as an ability to accept new ideas, a tolerance for ambiguity and an interest in different cultures. When these traits are combined, people with high openness scores turn out to be almost twice as likely to be liberals.

Combine the genetic influences on personality with the political tendencies of different personality types, and the idea that genetics shapes political tendencies seems very plausible indeed. All of the big five personality traits are highly heritable (Journal of Research in Personality 32, p. 431), with several studies suggesting that around half of the variation in openness scores is a result of genetic differences. Some traits that are linked to openness, such as being sociable, are also known to be influenced by the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain. And levels of these chemicals are controlled in part by genes. So while there isn't a gene for liking hippies, there is probably a set of genes

`STOP-AND-SEARCH' TO REVIVE?

A bidding war opened between Britain's biggest political parties as to which could appear to move back a little to the `sus laws' of the 1980s under which police could relatively easily (especially, without onerous bureaucracy) stop suspicious pedestrians (viz. Blecks) and ask questions - such practices had been restricted after 1997 when a Labour-appointed loony old Scottish judge, McPherson of Luny, had been taken in by the `anti-racist' lobby, denounced (without evidence) `institutional racism' in the Metropolitan Police, and begun an explosion of violent Black criminality and weapons-carrying.

{In England and Wales around 2000, 28 percent of people arrested by the police for robbery were Black. In 1999, the British Crime Survey found that 31% of victims identified a Black person as the offender based on 203 "mugging" incidents. - Black Information Link, 25 vii 2002. Blacks were only some 1.5% of the U.K. population. In 2006, 15% of stop-and-searches were of Blacks - though that percentage would have been higher in the London and Birmingham areas, where more Blacks lived.}

In this case, Equality boss Trevor Phillips was not on the side of the angels - declining even to admit that Mayor Rudi Giuliani had slashed New York crime by tough `stop-and-search' swoops in the 1980s (Daily Telegraph, 7 ii); but a Torygraph leader and a letter from lifelong Labourite Norman Dennis of Civitas (7 ii) urged the parties onward to undo the McPherson Report.

MULTICULCHALUNACY

A senior Bedfordshire policeman, Garry Weddell, 47, who had murdered his errant wife and gone on to murder his mother-in-law and commit suicide was in the process judged "stable," `no matter for concern' and suitable for bail by psychiatrist Tony Nayani - a Pakistani (Sun, 1 ii 08).


OZ BETRAYED BY ITS POLS

As Australia moved to issue a grovelling apology to its aborigines for having brought them civilization, rugby and beer, its liberal-bigot politicians - who already passed an absurd 80% of third-world applicants applying for citizenship - announced they would no longer as would-be citizens be required to know when the first Whites landed in Oz or who Don Bradman was.


KENYA PREPARES FOR CIVIL WAR

As multiculti Kenya was thought by the Sunday Herald [Scotland] (published 3 ii) to be bringing in arms from neighbouring Ethiopia and Somalia to prepare to cope with the country's unresolved tribal grievances, I wrote to the paper as follows:

Since racism and ethnic hostility are substantially associated with low IQ and education, it would seem unrealistic to expect the inhabitants of Kenya (average IQ 72), Sudan (71), Chad (68) and Congo [ex-Zaire] (64) to manage without the walls and barbed wire that have provided the backbone of solutions to ethnic strife in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. So Oxfam et al. should move promptly to fund British manufacturers of such products; though the Government could perhaps chip in by unloading the multiculturally propagandized inmates of the country's jails (average IQ 85) to guard vital installations and set a model of harmonious biodiversity.

{Chad's President Idriss Deby, from the same ethnic group - the Zaghawa tribe -- as the non-Muslim rebels of Sudan's Darfur province, was at that time besieged in his capital N'Djamena by Chadian rebels backed by troops from 600-mile-distant Sudan. Chad was thought to have at least 1 billion barrels of oil and in 2006 the President had amended the constitution to give himself a third term in office in which to exploit the oil reserves. Since Chad got independence from France, power had only ever changed hands by force of arms. As France and the European Union declined to get more involved, it seemed that the fate of millions in central Africa would be decided in a few days of fighting. To add to the area's troubles, an earthquake struck in the Rift Valley, killing 40 in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.}

By 5 ii, Der Spiegel talked of "ethnic war" raging in the Rift Valley, and of `large parts of the country having spun out of control,' with roads littered with bodies and burning trucks and tyres.


MARCHING MUESLIS

Minutes of a clinical academics' meeting at Liverpool University revealed that female Muesli students at Alder Hey children's hospital had objected to rolling up their sleeves to wear gowns. Similar concerns had been raised at Leicester University. Minutes from a medical school committee said that `a number of Muesli females had difficulty in complying with the procedures to roll up sleeves to the elbow for appropriate handwashing'. Sheffield University also reported a case of a Muesli medic who refused to `scrub' as this left her forearms exposed (Sunday Telegraph, 3 ii).


OBAMA - THE WORMS TURN

As Barack Obama moved towards a devastating 55% - 27% victory over femininnie White environmentalist starlet Hillary Clinton, the press began to realize it was at last time to get the knives out and start dissecting Obama's manic Black racism ooops "Black Value System": Fox News, 23 i; Economist, 24 i; Edmonton Sun, 26 i; American Conservative Magazine, 28 i; New York Sun, 28 i.

This resulted in Obama denying he shared the anti-Semitism of his pastor/mentor, Jeremiah Wright, and distancing himself from Louis Farrakhan (who had won a `lifetime greatness' award from impulsive and acerbic Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, to which Obama had belonged since 1991). But, with his very name so closely incorporating the names of America's two worst enemies of recent years, `Barack Hussein Osama', raised in Muslim Indonesia, seemed likely to attract critical scrutiny from all but the most idealist, multiculti-longing, gult-ridden, happy-clappy-aspirant Whites.

Bizarrely, the New York Times and similar multiculti prayer sheets said Osbama had `triumphed across racial lines." But 55% of the voters were Black and 78% went for Obama. Among the White voters 76% voted for Clinton or Edwards.

In 2005, Rev. Wright had suggested that "white America" had the 9/11 attacks coming to it, while calling for business "divestment from Israel," which he referred to as a "racist" state along with America.

A former Israeli ambassador in Washington, Daniel Ayalon, attacked Mr. Obama's record on Israel, writing in the Jerusalem Post that he was "not entirely forthright with his thinking."


HOPE FOR ACADEMIA

An unwonted ray of hope for UK universities emerged as the Daily Telegraph (26 i) revealed that novelist Martin Amis, who had shifted to the right after time in Montivideo with his Uruguayan-mothered wife of the previous ten years, the writer and heiress Isablel Fonseca, was being paid 3,000 pounds an hour to lecture at Manchester University. The extremely good value of this arrangement could be even better appreciated by considering that, at prevailing market rates, 3,000 would buy only 8 minutes talk from the Dalai Lama, and only 4 minutes from the Duchess of York (Daily Telegraph, Craig Brown, 29 i).


JEWISH MULTICULTI MEDDLING NEARS EXPOSURE?

As NuLabour big man Peter Hain came under scrutiny for donations to him (and his sham `Progressive Policy Forum,' which had no staff, meetings or publications) that had been perhaps forgotten and certainly left undeclared, the possibility that Jewish money to Labour and the feminists had been used to achieve `Anti-Nazi League' and nigga-lovin' objectives was articulated impressively in `The O'Farrell Column.'

However, no further assistance in identifying the political goals of Jewish largesse was to be forthcoming from the world's best-known anti-Semite, chess wizard Bobby Fischer - for he (himself a Jew of IQ 181) had died in poverty in Iceland at 64 after two decades of paranoid-schizophrenic ranting against the Jews and his native America (which he had wished destroyed at the time of 9/11).


WHITE RELIEF

Coming to the relief of the beleaguered, self-hating, peecee, semi-socialist, `disabled' and welfare-dependent Whites of the West was an impressive legion of (mainly) White sultry lovelies from around the Caucasus, notably (starring in Oz tennis) Russia's Maria Sharapova and Serbia's Ana Ivanovic: Spectator, 24 i; Slate, 28 i.


PAEDOHYSTERIA CONFRONTED

Ryanair slapped down the UK's paedohysterics who had demanded the withdrawal of an advertisement featuring a hot mini-kilted blonde teenage schoolgirl (Sun, 30 i).

{And it transpired that the Roman Catholic Church had long supported 'two boys in a bed' "cruel and long-term sexual predator" and fund-raiser, Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the Mexican order 'Legionaries of Christ,' only depriving him of active ministry a year before his death (Daily Telegraph Obituary, 2 ii 08). It was said in the 1950s that Maciel had been wont to 'rape' teenage boys while telling them he had a special dispensation from Pope Pius XII to have sex with them, and then absolve them from sin, because he suffered from acute pains in the stomach.}


MULTICULTI MADNESS MANIFESTED

The violence in Kenya's Rift Valley was "clear ethnic cleansing", said the most senior US official for African affairs (MWC News, 30 i). Jendayi Frazer said that machete-wielding gangs that had burnt homes and businesses in the western province, were trying to force out the Kikuyu people, the tribe of Mwai Kibaki, the president. A UN colleague added: "We're not talking the G-word at this point, but the kind of atrocities we're seeing could easily escalate to dangerous [genocidal] levels."

One Luo professor told the BBC that a Luo mob had looted and smashed up his 100,000 pounds home and threatened the life of his wife, a Kikuyu whom he had married twenty years previously. In another case, a Luo man beat his Kikuyu wife with a metal rod after the results of the presidential election were announced. It had taken just a month from the initial bit of election rigging (conventional in Africa) to bring Kenya, much admired for its beauty, prosperity (based on tourism and flower growing) and multiculturalism, to the brink of non-nationhood.

Multicultural Malaysia also looked headed for increasing mayhem as its Indians (poor) and Chinese (rich) got fed up with massive affirmative action programmes of job creation helping indigenous Malays (International Herald Tribune, 30 i).


TORIES TO TOUGHEN UP

Languishing with only a small poll lead despite mammoth Government incompetence, bossiness and sleaze, Conservative Opposition leader David Cameron announced he would probably repeal NuLabour's restrictions on police being able to stop and search those they thought likely to be criminals - mainly young Black males (Sun, 30 i). Grumpy Gordon Brown promptly followed suit, and both politicians were condemned as "two cheeks of a backside" by Islamofascist M.P. George Galloway in a packed town hall in Oxford (Oxford Mail, 31 i)

FLYNN EFFECT RE-EXPLAINED

For those not content to trace secular IQ-score gains to non-g factors (Rushton) such as willingness to make guesses (Brand), Richard Fuerle proposed an ingenious new possibility: that the gains, already typically traced to improved nutrition by Lynn and others, are seen chiefly in children and reflect earlier maturation in modern times due to higher calorie intakes are substantially less marked in adults (i.e. once maturation is completed) (Majority Rights, 11 i).

{Flynn had got a dusty reception from Scientific American correspondents - i 08)


`FREEDOM IS SLAVERY' etc., 2008

In a hilarious Orwellian move, terrorism by Muslim fanatics was re-named "anti-Islamic activity" by fat Home Half-Secretary Jacqui Smith. The `Home Secretary' (lacking 50% of the powers of previous Home Secretaries, though still enjoying full traditional pay) said that -- rather than acting in the name of Islam - Muslim terrorists and kindred propagandists should be seen as behaving contrary to their faith. By this convenient `logic,' critics of Islam were labelled as terrorists..


GOBSMACKED MULTICULTIS FACE FINAL CHALLENGE

Just as Britain seemed to have got its immigration problem in some kind of check -- limited chiefly to pretty girls and plumbers from Poland and a few thousand Albanian pimps to keep prostitution going in the face of feminazie hysteria - the Grauniad admitted (13 i) to its readers that up to a million migrants had gathered in Libya, from where they would attempt to sail across the Mediterranean for Europe and, ultimately, the UK. Amusingly, quite a few of the intended invaders came from Ghana, once `the jewel in the crown' of Britain's African empire and still yielding the savings of 1,000 pounds necessary to pay for a boat from Libya to Italy.


`SMALL' GENETIC DIFFERENCES YIELD HUGE EFFECTS

After years of left-wing bleating that racial differences in genes were tiny, a study led by McGill University researchers demonstrated that small differences between individuals at the DNA level can lead to dramatic differences in the way genes produce proteins. These, in turn, are responsible for the vast array of differences in physical characteristics between individuals (American Renaissance, 19 i).


FRANCE TOUGHENS ON IMMIGRATION - A LITTLE

Although France's new President Sarkozy had superficially had his hands full with divorce and a new celebrity girlfriend, his government claimed some success in 2007 in reducing immigration, expelling illegal migrants and doubling the number of employers caught employing illicity immigrant labour - though whether such modest successes would have kept up with breeding rates of les banlieux seemed dubious (American Renaissance, 19 i).


RACE REALISM, 2008

Continuing to demonstrate that the problems of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sierra Leone and Dafur were not isolated examples of Black incompetence, rapism and aggression, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was found to be killing its own people at the rate of 1,000 per week in conflict that had killed 5.4 million (cf. the population of Denmark) since 1998 (Guardian, 23 i). Twenty-eight of the 30 countries of the world with the highest child mortality rates were in sub-Saharan Africa.


FEMINISTS BLASTED

As the Oxford mosque moved to tannoy broadcasting from its central St Clements new mosque, near Magadlene College, and its screeching was probably within earshot of Queen's, I wrote to the Oxford Mail (congratulating a correspondent who had deplored a clergyman who had warned of the Muslim no-go areas for Christians being called "a nutter") :

Congratulations to Alan Bourne ('The real nutters', 23 i)! Yet one can surely rely on the University's legions of devoted feminists to oppose the daily preaching of their 'subjection' that the 'call to prayer' from the Oxford mosque would involve? If even Oxford feminists cannot venerate the lives and principles of Queen Elizabeth I, Emma Hamilton, Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Lady Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, wouldn't one say Old England's done? Sincerely, -- Chris Brand.

But Oxford was well and truly in the hands of leftist loons who had even invited pro-Muesli `Respect' MP George Galloway to talk in the city, thereby initiating a national speaking tour..


OBAMA EXPOSED AS RACE TRUMPS SEX

As 85% of America's Blacks (including feminoid Oprah Winfrey) lined up dutifully behind the Democratic presidential contender of their own race against Hillary Clinton, nice-boy US Presidential contender Black Barack Obama's close `Christian' mentor (following Obama's supposed conversion from Islam in the 1980's) was exposed single-handedly by Steve Sailer (American Renaissance, 20 i). Quoting Raban:

Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., apostle of black liberation theology, delivers magnificently cranky sermons on how the "African diaspora" struggles under the yoke of the "white supremacists" who run the `American empire'. . . . Under a universal tyranny of "corporate greed and rampant racism", AIDS flourishes ("it runs through our community like castor oil"), so do gang-bangs, murders, injustices of every kind. Slavery is here and now, and Fifth Columnists, traitors to their own kind, are all about us-like the black Republican Alan Keyes and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. On the issue of affirmative action, recently visited by the court, "Uncle Remus -I mean Justice Thomas-nodded his Babylonian head in agreement before pulling off his Babylonian robe and going back home to climb into bed beside his Babylonian wife." (Thomas's wife is white.)

Needless to say, Rev. Wright had in late 2007 endorsed the maniac Black racist Louis Farrakhan:

"His love for Africa and African American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose."

One seemingly representative AmRen correspondent added:

Obama's long term close relationship with his black Nazi minister and church PROVES that the public face of campaigning Obama is all show, purely phony: Underneath is a rotting hateful half-black bigot, a pure ingrate considering it was his WHITE MOTHER and his WHITE GRANDPARENTS who sacrificed and gave him unconditional love, and raised him up. Obama is a thoroughly disgusting evil creature. And any non-black who votes for him is a pandering ding-bat. Any black who votes for him is a bigot.

IQ x GENDER

A simple-minded exposition of why males think themselves brainier than females was provided for Newsweek (23 i) by Britain's pop psychologist Adrian Furnham - without ever mentioning that men have higher visuo-spatial and logical abilities and, being one standard deviation less neurotic, are generally more confident than women.

NUYEAR NULABOUR NUTYRANNY

Beggaring belief in unparliamentary statism, Supreme Comrade PM Gordon Nailnibbling Grim announced without a day of open-minded discussion that he proposed to cannibalize the bodies of all people dying on British soil unless their previous owners had filled out forms and registered with yet more overpaid Brownite bureaucrats their wish to have a traditional Christian burial. Not even the closest relatives would be able to spare a beloved deceased `donor' from being cannibalized by barely-English-speaking NHS staff fixated on `targets' to provide spare parts for needy substance abusers and kindred riff-raff who had to be kept alive to vote gratefully for Labour.

At the same time, the Supreme Comrade, Change-Agent and self-selected Planner for the 2020s demanded police cease using their discretion to merely caution rather than take to court youths found with knives - a discretion typically exercised in cases where youths had no aggressive intent but wished merely to warn off the Black hoodlums admitted to Britain and encouraged to breed by the Labour Party.

(Just what right the PM had to tell the police whom to prosecute remained unquestioned in a society that had grown all too familiar over ten years to Labour `initiatives.' - These were typically as un-followed-up and futile as Rev Blair's original 1996 call for a reintroduction of educational streaming.)


OXFORD RESISTANCE TO MUESLI TAKEOVER GROWS

As the plans of Oxford's Central Mosque (on the Cowley Road - nearest college Magdalene, nearest college annexe Queen's) to instal loudspeakers to pump out wailing `calls to prayer' (actually sermons) three times a day became increasingly widely known, historian of science Professor Allan Chapman, Wadham College, reported his campaign of opposition to have been "inundated" with messages of support, many of them angry (Daily Telegraph, 14 i).

(Unlike church bells, which are merely a signal of an imminent service, Muesli `calls to prayer' typically involve actual preaching.) (The Quisling Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev John Pritchard, said those opposed to the plan for Muesli noise pollution in East Oxford should instead "relax" and "enjoy community diversity.")


RACE AND INTELLIGENCE REVIEWED

A useful pro-hereditarian survey of academic work on racial psychology was to be found at `Metapedia - the alternative to Wikipedia' http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Negro.


MASSIVE CANCER RACE DIFFERENCE IS "BIOLOGICAL" - RESEARCHERS

Though Black women have lower rates of breast cancer than White women, the type of cancer to which they are prone was found to be more aggressive and to set in on average at age 46, compared to the average age of 67 in Whites. The senior author of the study, Rebecca Bowen (working for Cancer Research UK) said the differences could be "put down to the biological differences between the two ethnic groups" (Daily Telegraph, 17 i).


SENSE AND ROMANCE (SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY..)

Just six years after I published a letter in Edinburgh University's Student newspaper counselling against armpit shaving and other interference with body odours lest girls miss the man of their dreams, a Boston-based internet dating site began offering to match would-be romancers with partners having major histocompatibility indexes (MHCs) desirably different from their own, using body odours and odour preferences as a guide at a cost of $2,000 dollars per applicant (Economist, 10 i 08).


GENE EXPLAINS VERBAL DEFECTS IN AUTISTS

"A genetic link to autism was found explaining why it takes affected children several years to learn to speak" - Daily Telegraph, 19 i, noting that the new gene, CNTNAP2, had been identified by three American research groups and was a part of the general picture of autism (which affects three times more boys as girls) being highly genetic.


MULTICULTURAL HARMONY = NO-GO AREAS

As Britain debated the proposition of top CofE bishop Michael Nazir-Ali that the Mueslis had established no-go areas for English Whites (a proposition confirmed by occasional gratuitous attempted murders of "White honkies" - as venomous Mueslis shouted -- found traversing council estates in Stepney, East London - Sunday Telegraph, 13 i, Ed Husain; for more see http://www.heretical.com/ofarrell/infest.html), a timely reminder of the essence of `peace' in Northern Ireland came as the Ulster Volunteer Force paraded on its famed Shankill Road, Belfast, locally adjudicated thieves and rapists who had been whipped to within an inch of their lives before being tied to lamp-posts with placards round their necks detailing their `crimes' and under strict instructions to tell police nothing lest their relatives suffer similar UVF justice. - Thus, by tolerating the localization of justice, had Rev. Bliar [lionized as world peacemaker, wanker ooops banker and top candidate for the EU presidency] `solved' the Irish Question.

The phenomenon of local militias in one part of the UK, providing the basis of such `peace' as Blair had presided over, made it all too likely that NuLabour's solution to the multicultural slave-labour society which it had imposed on England, would involve (some said was already involving) the development of Shariah-law-controlled no-go areas. How nice that Northern Ireland, hailed a Blairite triumph (along with his sidekick apparent fraudster and arselicker Peter Hain), was providing clear evidence of exactly what NuLabour meant by `the peace process'!

`RACES' ADMITTED IN Grauniad

In a surprise start to the New Year (distinguished chiefly by the collapse of Western multicultural ambitions/delusions in ex-Palestine, Bosnia, France, Iraq, Congo, Sudan, Kosovo and Kenya but also marked by an authentic-seeming photo of a UFO `flying saucer' approaching the Cornish coast (Sun, 1 i)) an `evolutionary biologist' (was there any other kind?) from the University of Reading, Mark Pagel, was allowed to tell Guardianistas: "Like it or not, there may be many genetic differences among human populations -- including differences that may even correspond to old categories of "race" -- that are real differences in the sense of making one group better than another at responding to some particular environmental problem. This in no way says one group is in general "superior" to another ... But it warns us that we must be prepared to discuss genetic differences among human populations."(Guardian, 1 i)

However, as a church was burned 100 miles west of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, killing 50 refugees from ethnic violence, the wretched media of the West did not dare to say whether the damage was done by the famously aggressive and politically dominant Kikuyus or their Marxist-led Luo (and kindred*) ethnic-minority opponents {the perpetrators were in fact the Luo, a relatively intelligent tribe, though some of Kenya's other 38 tribes probably joined in} - but even the normally race-slumping Guardian admitted that 100,000 Kenyans had been displaced in four days of Bleck-on-Bleck "ethnic cleansing" (2 i) in which more than 300 had been slaughtered by their fellow Blacks.

Western powers called for calm and warned their citizens against visiting the popular tourist destination that had been regarded by the commentocracy as one of the most stable democracies on a volatile continent. Many Kikuyus sought refuge in police stations, where thousands of people were packed together without food or water. People no longer felt safe in churches after the Eldoret church in Western Kenya and its refugee Kikuyus were torched by youths. Many Kikuyus in rural areas fled the violence, an estimated 75,000 Kikuyus heading for Uganda, but others took revenge by circumcising Luo men and raping Luo women. The violence in supposedly stable Kenya led to major fuel shortages in neighbouring Uganda and Burundi. The country's radiant future seemed likely to disappoint egalitarian niggalovers..

Kenya was not Rwanda, where the genocide had been orchestrated and hate radio urged militias from the majority Hutu tribe to kill Tutsis "like cockroaches". Kenya's violence was spontaneous -- not organised -- and the scale of killing as of 2 I had not remotely reached genocidal proportions. But many civilians were trapped. Under armed escort, police organised the evacuation of about 500 people from the western town of Kisumu -- but only those who could afford the fare. Most of the city's displaced lost all they had. Fleeing on foot was out of the question. On virtually every road across western Kenya, armed tribal warriors -- machete-wielding children among them -- had erected checkpoints to search/kill members of tribes loyal to Kikuyu President Kibaki. Hospitals reported a surge in rapes, and Kikuyu boys as young as 5 were said to have been serially sodomized. Quite apart from mayhem in the Nairobi slum of Kibera, a British woman living in the prosperous suburb of Kilimani reported a pretty, slim Black girl of about 20 in white jeans being raped on a verandah across the way from her by three Black males.

An editorial in Kenya's Daily Nation warned: "If no urgent step is taken to arrest the killings, Kenya is bound to sink into the abyss ... like C“te d'Ivoire, Somalia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone and others which have experienced genocide on an unimaginable scale." Africa's borders had been drawn up by Western powers, largely ignoring ethnic differences and imposing a convenient-to-them multiculturalism.

Despite an economy that grew at 6.2% in 2007, 55% of Kenya's 36 million population lived on less than $2 a day. Though Kikuyu President Kibaki had been elected on an anti-corruption ticket in 2002, he had proved a disappointment: graft and cronyism thrived and his anti-corruption tsar John Githongo fled to London in 2005.

Perhaps the biggest damage, which would seriously affect foreign investment and tourism for some time, was to Kenya's reputation. Its image as a place of peace, stability and tolerance was shattered. Countries such as Uganda and Rwanda, which for years had looked to Kenya with envy, now looked on with pity.

* The Kalenjins were reacting to the injustices brought down on them by the Kibaki administration over the previous five years. The violent and ruthless eviction from government-controlled forests without compensation, the massive sacking of Kalenjins from top civil service jobs without compensation, the discrimination against Kkalenjin in police and army recruitment, minimal representation in the Cabinet etc.The Kalenjin voted overwhelmingly against Kibaki because they were fed up with the intimidation. that is why no single Kalenjin MP was in Kabaki's camp. All the 29 MPs-elect were from pro-ODM, they were sure that the next five years would not be the same and that they would have a say in the Governmen t. That is why not even the former powerful Kalenjin power brokers like Biwott, Kirwa, Moi etc made it to parliament. They had a clear message and they passed it on peacefully, but Kibaki and his cronies trampled on their voices by stealing the election. (The Kikuyu made up 17% of the population; the Luo comprised 11% and the Kalenjin 10%.)


MZ GALS DELIVER



Twincredibly sexy pairs of curvaceous identical lovelies from around the world stepped forward in bikinis to provide a HAPPY NEW YEAR calendar for all psychogeneticists, hereditarians and supporters (Sun, 2 i).


MUESLIS MAKE CLEAR WHAT FUTURE HOLDS

Muesli vandals torched 372 cars in a single night (144 in Paris) as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure of 397 the previous year after a night the police described as "relatively calm"..


MET. TO CONFRONT MULTICULTURALISM -- A LITTLE

Together with the Waris Dirie Foundation, an international campaign group formed by the Somali-born supermodel who suffered genital mutilation as a five-year-old child, London's Metropolitan Police announced a œ20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone who performs or abets cutting. Under the 2003 Female Genital Mutilation Act, those involved could be jailed for 14 years. Yet the fact that no one had been prosecuted says much about the problems the police are facing."There are thousands of girls being cut in your country," said Waris Dirie spokesman Walter Hutschinger. "We are sure it's going on, and on a very big scale. Your law is one of the most comprehensive in the world, but it is useless if nobody will help to implement it. "We have been contacted by girls from all parts of Britain-London, Cardiff, Sheffield, Birmingham, Liverpool, Reading, Slough, Milton Keynes, Crawley-anywhere there are big African communities. "Many of these girls know they are about to be cut and are desperate for help, but they are even more afraid of what might happen to them if they come out in the open." One young woman wrote recently to tell us that she was about to be taken home to Somalia to be cut, and she was terrified because her older sister had died after cutting. [To avoid detection, the mutilation was often done in a girl's native country.]


NO FREE SPEECH FOR CRICKETERS

Although the 2006 soccer World Cup saw players foul-mouthing each others' sisters' and wives' sexual prowess and head-butting each other, when an Indian spin bowler (who apparently wore a penis extension in his white flannel trousers) called a Black player for Oz "a monkey," all hell broke loose as Australia statutorily cried `racism' and India -- hysterical because they were used to being holier-than-thou over issues like apartheid -- promptly cancelled the remaining three matches in the series (i.e. 15 days of well-paid international cricket) (Guardian, 7 i).


TWIN JOY AT REUNION

Two beautiful blonde-haired blue-eyed girls, forcibly put out to separate adoption by East German communist authorities (because their mother already had `too many children'), were reunited after 26 years - with the usual delight and discovery of countless similarities in humour, career, age at first pregnancy, fecundity etc. despite having grown up on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall (Daily Mail, 21 xii - with picture).


BLACK BARBARISM - A SEASONAL VISUAL AID

Lest Christmas good cheer should get excessive, two young Black men circulated mobile phone footage of them `roasting' (cf. `spit roasting') a White girl in a toilet of a Manchester hotel. Victims of colonialism, poverty, low expectations or racism? No: one was England's (multiply disgraced) soccer team's ace player Micah Richards and the other was an equally overpaid Premier League pal (News of the World, 23 xii).


E.LU. TAKES ON STUD FARMING

In a hilarious development, Edinburgh University's `biological scientists' claimed that racehorse genes accounted for only 10% of variance in horse racing success - entirely ignoring that the multi-billion-pound horse industry would only pour training investment into those horses which actually seemed especially capable of high accomplishment (BBC, 19 xii). Some thoroughbreds cost millions of pounds, with the most expensive racehorse in history, Seattle Dancer, costing US$13.1m in 1985 (9m eurods at today's exchange rate). Dr Alastair Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who carried out the study with one Andrew Rambaut, said: "The offspring of expensive stallions might tend to win more money, but not necessarily because they have inherited the best genes.It is likely that those breeders best able to pay high stud fees are also those who are able to spend more on care of the horse, how it is trained, and who rides it -- all of which will contribute more to how much it will win.'' The failure to appreciate Genetic x Environmental interaction was never more laughable. Businessmen 5, `Scientists' 1, Luniversity of Edinburgh 0.


NULABOUR TO IMPLODE

Britain's grisly neosocialist control-freak `government' (which had just lost ID details of 30 million people in the post) proposed to greet the New Year with attempts to control the world's oldest trade - prostitution. In a charter for vicious pimps and bent policemen, Labour - itself notorious for accepting illicit monies from donors in return for honours - proposed to criminalize men frequenting prositutes, thus driving the already lucrative trade still further underground and maximizing criminality and the enslavement of women (Libertarian Alliance, 24 xii).


TYRANNOUS PEECEE FOR ALL TO SEE

The Islamosceptic Canadian-Jewish journalist Mark Steyn looked set to become the first martyr at law to PeeCee as Canada's `human rights' busybodies began setting up a judicial inquisition into Muesli complaints that he had gone too far in arguing that Islam was incompatible with Western liberalism (New Party, 25 xii). - Till this action, PeeCee had not used the law but had relied instead on semi-private bullying of employers to silence, suspend, early-retire or sack workers who had supposedly `given offence to minorities' etc. Whether the Canadian inquisition would spell the formal end of free speech in the West would be determined in 2008. Fortunately, the robust, witty and excellently informed Steyn would at least provide a worthy memorial to the treachery of the West's multiculti neosocialists and the gullible idealists who had gone along with them; and a corresponding trial was scheduled in Britain for one `Luke O'Farrell,' deemed - the contrary of Steyn - to have been too critical of Jews and the bogus multiculturalism which they had foisted on the West.

American Renaissance also came into the far-left's firing line - ten years after having failed to give me significant backing, it found its scheduled February conference in Washington was due to attract major attention from peecee-leftist thugs.


RAY CATTELL CELEBRATED

A well-deserved eulogy finally appeared on the internet to the greatest-ever psychometrician-psychologist, Raymond B. Cattell (b.Birmingham, grew up in Devon), author of 55 books and a martyr to leftism - though without any noticeable respect for the mighty Cattell's race realism. And American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor was invited to speak at Michigan State University in March 2008 - though the invitation was likely to be rescinded once the Southern Poverty Law Centre and kindred goons got their act together.


RACIAL REALITY RESURFACES

In a fine demonstration of Black African incapacity for democracy, peace or shared prosperity, the Kikuyu and Luo tribes of Kenya (mean IQ 72) turned on each other (looting, raping and killing some 100 per day - hacking them to bits with machetes) after the latter accused the former of rigging an election (Reuters, 31 xii). (The BBC naturally declined to mention the ethnic element to the rioting, which killed >1,000 in ten days.)

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STUDENT JOURNALIST BACKS FREEDOM!

In a new anti-left fortnightly newspaper for Scottish students, called The Journal, staff writer Scott McCombe bravely deplored the Oxford Union being attacked by "unwashed thugs" when it hosted `fascists' for debate (see November). I replied (published 4 xii):

Congratulations to Scott McCombe on backing the freedom of the Oxford Union to invite whomever it likes; and on his percipience in looking to the future! Ten years ago, Edinburgh University fired me, a psychology lecturer, for telling too many home truths about race, IQ, feminazism and paedohysteria. Ten years later, not even Nobelist James Watson (of DNA's 'double helix') is allowed to speak at E.U. -- banned because he had ventured just one sentence of race realism about the problems of Africa. Students need to appreciate the left's remorseless advance towards tyrannical neoStalinism and take action before Government outlawing of criticism of homosexuality and Islam is followed by the banning of jokes about the ugly, the bald, the fat and, of course, mothers-in-law.

SOCIALISM EXPOSED

After ten years of NuLabour socio-environmentalism, egalitarianism and massive increases in state spending on useless crony `trained' `teachers' (many of them obese and/or bedraggled when screened on TV), British children dropped out of the world's top ten in international educational league tables (Sun, 5 xii), exposing the neosocialist target-mad Government's own internal `standards' as a dumbed-down charade of feats of rote memory for girls. The latest study of 57 countries by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development showed British 15-year-olds as barely "average" in reading and "below average" in maths. Labour's lying-bastard `Government ministers' promptly swore the new results were just wonderful - not even having the grace to do the minimal apologizing that nail-chewing trembly-handed and secretary-slamming P.M. Grumpy Gordon had managed over his party accepting illegal donations from anonymous donors (e.g. the Labour Friends of Israel who had spent fifty years paying out to make Britain a `diverse' `multicultural' society of marching morons run by socialist swindlers).


NULABOUR FUNDED BY JEWISH CASH

After a childless Jewish Newcastle property developer, David Abrahams, was found to have given œ666,000 anonymously, and thus illegally, to the Labour Party, the Jewish community hastened to distance itself from such insalubrious largesse - though, like the rest of the press, without asking, let alone ascertaining what such donation to a sitting Government with a large majority was intended to achieve and whether it was but the tip of the iceberg of other Jewish support for NuLabour multiculti ideals. Subsequently, London's Reform Club also distanced itself from Abrahams, banning him from introducing the socialite and Holocaust-sceptic former beauty queen Michele Renouf, 60 (once married to the 28-year-older financier Frank `the bank' Renouf) (Daily Mail, 15 xii).


CHRISTMAS TALE FOR LEFTIES

Santa showed up early for NYTwits, in the form of Michigan `psychologist' Richard E. Nisbett assuring them that, despite 250 years of scientific racism, `All brains are the same colour' (9 xii) Yes, "In fact, the evidence heavily favors the view that race differences in I.Q. are environmental in origin, not genetic," wrote Nisbett - triumphantly citing in his conclusion the work of James Flynn, even though Flynn himself does not think the twentieth century changed actual general intelligence a bit. One correspondent replied:

To the Editor, New York Times:

As heartening as I found Richard E. Nisbett's arguments against a correlation between race and intelligence, I find it difficult to overlook the fact that one of the world's most eminent scientists, James D. Watson, recently lost his job for taking the opposite position. Under such circumstances, essays like Professor Nisbett's take on the air of dogma. One is left to wonder what researchers might find or say if their careers and reputations weren't threatened by academic McCarthyism.

Joshua P. Hill, New London, Conn., Dec. 10, 2007

Art Jensen and Phil Rushton also sent in a letter, but NYT could not be bothered to publish it:

To: Letters Editor, New York Times
December 9, 2007
Re: All Brains Are the Same Color

Nisbett engages in wishful thinking. Larger brains contain more neurons and process information more efficiently. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows that brain size correlates with IQ within race about 0.40. As we reviewed in 2005 in Psychology, Public Policy and Law, the races differ in brain size. One study followed 50,000 children from birth to age 7. The East Asian Americans in the sample averaged a larger head circumference at birth, 4 months, 1 year, and 7 years than White children who averaged a larger head circumference than Black children. By age 7, East Asian American children average an IQ of 110; Whites, 102; and Blacks 90. These findings on race differences in brain size are highly reliable and have been confirmed using four independent procedures-MRI, endocranial volume from empty skulls, wet brain weight at autopsy, and external head size. Black, White, and East Asian twins show equal heritabilities.

J. Philippe Rushton, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada; Tel: 519-661-3685 E-mail:rushton@uwo.ca

Arthur R. Jensen, The University of California at Berkeley, 3300 Southlake Drive, Kelseyville, CA 95451; Tel: 707-279-8126, E-mail: Nesnejanda@aol.com

The NYT article was followed by an equally desperate and selective piece in the New Yorker (17 xii) in which Malcolm Gladwell backed the much-muddled Flynn (who had given a seminar at the Manhattan Institute at which The g Factor was not mentioned but Japanese IQ was claimed to be merely 99) and castigated Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray for proposing that Americans with low I.Q.s be "sequestered in a `high-tech' version of an Indian reservation" (a criticism for which the magazine had to issue an unqualified retraction).

AmRen correspondents did a good job of picking Nisbett apart (9 xii ff.).


ENVIRONMENTALOSERS

As United Nations health experts moved to remedy iodine deficiencies in the worst-affected countries, it turned out to the dismay of environmentalists about Black IQ that subSaharan Africa [average IQ 70] was not over-represented in the top twenty countries needing to get iodised salt - indeed, three of the top twenty U.N. places went to Russia [IQ 97 for Lynn & Vanhanen, 2006], Vietnam [94] and China [105] (Physorg, 12 xii).


GOOD NEWS FOR PHILOSOPHER

The `dualist' French philosopher-scientist Renee Descartes (1596-1650), who had claimed (to general ridicule) that the interface of mind and body occurred in the brain's tiny (but unitary) pineal gland, was vindicated at the National Taiwan University as researcher Jyh-Horng Chen found it was exactly this area that showed higher activation as students engaged in religious meditation (Daily Telegraph, 13 xii).


SANTA SET TO PRODUCE MULTICULTI MAYHEM

A full-blown race war looked imminent as the Europeans and Japanese of eastern Bolivia (around gas-rich Santa Cruz, and constituting 35% of Bolivia's population) got fed up with the high-taxing socialism foisted on them by the native Red Indians in the poor and mountainous west of the long-troubled country (led by gas-nationalizing President Evo Morales) (Los Angeles Times, 16 xii).

In once-happy Bermuda, home to 4,000 rich Brits and having zero unemployment and average GDP 50% higher than the U.S.A., the Whites prepared to leave rather than face the increasingly preposterous demands from Black P.M. Ewart Brown that the island's international firms introduce swingeing programmes of affirmative action (Daily Telegraph, 18 xii).

South Africa's Whites (and many top ANC Blacks) also seemed likely to leave as Blacks voted for funky obese Jacob Zuma, having 20 children by 9 different women, fresh from having to face accusations of rape and corruption and believed to enjoy the occasional sighting of Whites begging in the streets. President Mbeki was humiliated when, at his ANC party's gathering, Zuma's supporters sang the challenger's campaign song "Bring Me My Machine Gun" at him.

{Yet, amidst all this failed multiculturalism, polls showed that American minorities reckoned Whites were the best thing about the USA - certainly preferring them to each other (American Renaissance, 12 xii).}


JOLLY GENE NEWS FOR XMAS

In an end-of-the-year flurry of good news (unexpected in the dire year of 2007 which had seen even Nobelist James Watson banned from speaking about genes and race and Arthur Jensen banned from posting even a short factual letter in the New York Times), anorexia was linked to brain wiring (University of Pittsburgh), a third of bowel cancer cases were traced to two genetic defects (Cancer Research, London), and a gene was discovered (AVPR1a) which made students 50% more likely to give money to anonymous others (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) (all stories in Daily Telegraph, 17 xii).

In a small breakthrough for race realism, a female Chinese sociologist working in a Californian university was said to be using Richard Lynn's (2006) Race Differences in Intelligence: an Evolutionary Analysis with one of her graduate classes, on race - and the university bookstore had ordered copies for her students to buy.


BNP NO BAR TO LOVE AND CULTURE

English National Ballet principal ballerina Simone Clarke, 37, announced that - even though she had a daughter by fellow ENB dancer Yat-Sen Chang, a Cuban immigrant of Chinese descent - she would wed British National Party councillor Richard Barnbrook, 47, a former art teacher who had met and defended her in early-2007 when her BNP membership became known (Sun, 20 xii).

PAEDOPHILIA LINKED TO BRAIN -- BUT NOT TO DEVIOUSNESS

Male paedophiles have less white matter in the brain than do non-sexual offenders, claimed Toronto researcher James Cantor and team in the Journal for Psychiatry Research (BBC, 28 xi; Times, 28 xi). The result came from MRI scans comparing c.60 paedophiles with 60 controls. Dr Cantor added that paedophiles tend to be shorter and of lower IQ and are three times more likely to be left-handed - all features compatible with an explanation in terms of brain damage while still in the womb. Cantor told journalists that he would no more propose to excuse paedophilic assaults or advances than he would excuse rape by normal heterosexual men - he saw no reason to doubt that paedophiles would have as much self-control as anyone else.

CRB comment:

The brain's white matter (involving heavily myelin-sheathed nerves travelling long distances) connects different grey-matter central brain areas rather as cables connect computers, is found in greater quantity in males and is sometimes held to assist with spatial orientation and visuospatial abilities (though females are more likely to use the system for ordinary intellectual work, according to neuropsychiatrist Richard Haier). Press reports did not say whether the paedophiles in the study had boys or girls as their inamorata.

The Cantor et al. finding of white-matter deficiency in paedophiles was intriguingly complemented by an observation of substantial white-matter superfluity in `pathological liars' made in a book newly published to acclaim (e.g. from Steven Pinker) in the USA (by a female ex-US Army linguist, adventurer, mother of four and engineer at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, whose family had suffered at the hands of her her sister, who showed some of the pathological characteristics of psychopathy) (Barbara Oakley, Evil Genes, Promotheus, citing Yang et al., 2005*; Times Higher, 1 xii).

For paedophiles to be biologically `opposite to' pathological liars would shock Britain's tabloid newspapers but not those (like criminologist David Cantor and myself) who have long maintained that most classical paedophiles are gentle souls fixated on the world of childish innocence and even wishing to help children with the transition to adulthood which they failed to make successfully themselves; as such, many would be ill-suited to the lying, deviousness, emotional indifference and cruelty of the classic psychopath or pathological liar. - Paedosadists would of course be a different matter.

* YANG, Y., RAINE, A., LENCZ, T., BIRHLE, Susan, LACASSE, L. & COLLETTI, P. (2005). Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars. British Journal of Psychiatry 187, 320-325. Postdoc researcher Yaling Yang and colleagues compared 12 self-admitted liars (malingerers, conmen and benefit frauds recruited via advertising at temporary employment agencies in Los Angeles) by prefrontal MRI scan to both antisocial and normal controls, finding the liars to have 22-26% extra white matter. Deception itself resembles an executive task: it elicits greater activation of the prefrontal regions (compared with telling the truth) and also incurs a processing cost, manifest in longer response times (for review see Spence et al, 2004). In 2007 Brit.J.Psychiat. 190, 174-5, Yang et al. localized their result more closely, reporting 23-36% greater white matter in 14 liars at orbitofrontal, middle and inferior gyrii. Yang et al.'s liars tested as fully `anti-social' in 25% of cases; and 67% of them were substance-abusers.

NB There are many complexities in results concerning grey and white matter as indicated previously in this diary/blog. Some researchers have found `growth trajectories' more important than simple volume; and, in July, evidence was offered that paedophiles have less grey matter in the right amygdala of the brain (Gene Expression, 30 vii). Excessive white matter may be the result rather than the cause of lying, for Kruesi and Casanova found no such excess in 6 mid-adolescent liars (2006, Brit.J.Psychiat. 188, 293-4). Reduced prefrontal white matter had been reported by others in chronic schizophrenics, elderly alcoholics and the hyperactive.



E.LU. LANGUISHES

Despite priding itself on arranging an `apology for slavery' conference (starring my nemesis, the `Anti-Nazi' former E.LU. Chaplain, Iain Whyte), on banning the energy drink Rockst*r from its student bars (because of the company's link to right-wing U.S. commentator, Michael Savage) and on constructing a giant 20-professor Informatics Department, Edinburgh LUniversity could not have been pleased to get the local blame for its building works blacking out a third of Edinburgh South for several hours of a dark and stormy night in November; nor to find that it remained outside the Times' Good University Guide, dropping from 11th to 13th among U.K. universities; nor to have one of its Student Association officials apparently found sodomizing a homosexual minion in a Student Union toilet - at least that seemed to be the story that E.U.'s Student newspaper was determined to hush up in November.


`ENGLAND JUST A MEMORY' -- MORRISSEY

Irish-parented Los Angeles-based pop star Morrissey, who had grown up in Manchester, told the New Musical Express that England/Britain had been changed out of recognition by immigration. He was reported by the magazine as saying: "It matters because the British identity is very attractive. I grew up into it, and I find it quaint and very amusing. But England is a memory now. Other countries have held on to their basic identity, yet it seems to me that England was thrown away." Later he denied `racism' and threatened to sue, but the NME let his deadline expire.


ABORIGINAL FALLACY

The first act of the newly elected Prime Minister of the Workers' Paradise, loopy-Labour Kevin [sic!] Rudd, replacing US and UK ally John Howard, was to apologize to his continent's throwbacks to prehumanity for having - according to so-advanced socialist t'inking down-under - driven the poor aboriginals to alcoholism, wife-maiming, child abuse, incarceration, unemployability, IQ 62 and general under-achievement. Just how Australians of the past 250 years -- many of them Irish, mostly egalitarian and half of them republican - could have inflicted such a fate on the native people of Oz remained unexplained.

MULTICULTI MADNESS RESUMES

After two years of being bought off by soft policing, job creation programmes, equal opportunities legislation, training programmes, affirmative action and government largesse to imams,* Muesli mobs from grimy Parisian tower blocks once more showed their multicultural mettle in suburbs 12 miles north of Notre Dame, injuring 77 police and a journalist in a single night (5 critically), torching dozens of cars and setting fire to a police station and two schools (Sun, 27 xi). The night's violence was even more intense (though less widespread pro tem.) than the three weeks of Black rioting two years ago, said police official Patrice Ribeiro. Police were facing "genuine urban guerrillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," he told Associated Press.

North African youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. Angry residents said the police left the scene of Sunday's crash without helping two unhelmeted teenagers whose stolen, unlicensed and speeding moped had collided with their police car. Police, who made six arrests, said they had been attacked with guns and petrol bombs and that kids as young as ten were being used as spotters and police radio scanners to give advance warning of police movements (BBC, 27 xi). Prime Minister François Fillon called the attackers “criminals who would be treated as such.” Some youths, interviewed in French newspapers, claim to have "declared war" on the cops and wanted two dead.

At stake here was whether the French model of multiculturalism – with its clear and dogmatic separation of church and state – was finally unravelling as Mueslis declined to offer loyalty to even the most important element of the French constitution, the police. The parents of the dead teenagers called for calm and were invited to meet President Sarkozy (lately alleged to have a glamorous eleven-year-younger girlfriend) on his return a trip to Peking. Meantime, a half of France’s 85 universities remained closed by striking students….

* A note re 2005 from Bits of News, 27 xi 07: “The riots were eventually put down and limited government concessions relating to immigrants' status and legality to work were introduced by Nicolas Sarkozy, then minister for the interior, who, ironically, had argued for a reduction in the separation of Church and State and for government subsidies of mosques. This went some way towards placating the immigrant community in France and, for the timebeing, the barricades were removed and the philosophers and booksellers came back out on to the streets of Paris. The concessions, however, were no more than a sticking plaster.”

OXFORD DEBATE REPORT

First pictures

Only 500 protesters turn up 7p.m. -- barely exceeding the 450 with tickets to attend the debate.

Novelist Anne Atkins is one of four main speakers

Leftists break into Oxford Union. Leftist thugs get through police cordon to barricade themselves in and stage sit-down protest

Union security officers said the protesters got into the building by jumping over the wall while others created a diversion by gathering and crushing at the front gate. The sit-down mob at the gate prevented about half the students who had tickets from getting in to the debate.

Incompetent police, their Thames Valley force headed by a womyn, finally restore a semblance of order -- After a delay of about an hour and a half, the debate finally got under way -- at about 10 p.m., to much rejoicing from the BNP.

Different speakers had to speak from different rooms -- thanks to police inability to get them across a quadrangle to be together.

Indie fesses defeat: the liberal-left Independent’s headline as dawn broke was Debate ends 40 years of solitude for the far right But the Socialist Worker’s headline was 1000 anti-fascists wreck Oxford’s sham debate.

The BNP declared (27 xi): “University debating chambers have been lining up for several years to invite Nick Griffin and other BNP spokespersons to address their students. All of the organisers have given in to threats of violence, disruption and campus ostracism. Oxford Union have broken the mould and the door is now open for other universities to follow Oxford’s lead. Despite death threats delivered to Luke Tryl, the President of the Oxford Union, was bold enough to go ahead with significant backing from fellow members of the Union.”

For the Guardian (27 xi), Micah Smith said Irving and Griffin had “a shamefully easy ride” in such debate as had been possible in the confusion; and he added “On his blog, student Jonny Wright described the chaotic situation. As it unfolded before my eyes, I wrote the following thoughts down: "I am sat here feeling threatened by my own side ... this is theatre alright, but it's the wrong side playing the thugs." Their actions will be exploited by Irving and Griffin, to paradoxically paint anti-fascists as the real fascists.At the end of the day, Irving and Griffin were handed exactly what they wanted by simply being invited to the Union. Unfortunately, those few protesters who chose the path of aggression provided them with the cherry on top.”

After the night of furious disruption, delay, chaos and disgrace for the forces of law and order, police congratulated themselves and all students on their good behaviour and said no arrests were made because no criminal offences had been committed. But Liberal-Democratic speaker Evan Harris MP criticised police for “failing to put a cordon around the Union” and giving protestors the chance to storm in. Mr Harris said he was “disappointed” in the police response to the anti-fascist rally, adding “The failure of the police is outrageous.”

One Times correspondent wrote: “The right will recall the events of tonight as an example of leftwing democracy for decades to come. Tonight the morality of the left went into the red.”

A happy outcome was that students at the University of East Anglia voted 75% in favour of abandoning the National Union of Students’ policy of ‘No platform for fascists and racists’ (Guardian, 27 xi) – and they were supported by Britain’s minister for higher education, Bill Rammell. And Times correspondents who had attended the debater were thankfully horrified at the authoritarianism of the left (28 xi).

OXFORD UNION STANDS FIRM FOR FREE SPEECH

After a month of mounting protests from thousands (including some top Labour bigwigs) at his having invited BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust-sceptic historian David Irving to discuss ‘the limits of free speech’ on 26th November, Oxford Union President Luke Tryl, a Conservative, was standing his ground over the invitation (Independent, 19 xi). Jewish Oxford West Liberal Democrat M.P., Dr Evan Harris, had also agreed to take part in the debate -- defending his involvement on free-speech grounds and gaining the support of national Liberal leadership candidates Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg. Leftists planned rowdy protests in central Oxford in the evenings of 20th and 23rd November to intimidate the Oxford Union into cancelling the debate. However, Raghib Ali, one of the founders of the Oxford Islam and Muslim Awareness Project, said there were dangers in depriving Griffin and Irving of a platform.

{Over the previous ten years, cancellation rates for ‘controversial right-wing’ speakers had been 100%, beginning with my being barred from addressing gatherings in Edinburgh (1996) and Oxford (1997) after police advice to conveners that staff serving the gatherings could not be protected. – My 1997 Cambridge debate had gone ahead only because it was organized by leftists who turned up early at the debating hall and filled it so I could be defeated in the final show of hands; thus the 30 police surrounding Gonville & Caius College had been assured by the left there would be little or no serious trouble.}

I wrote to the Oxford Mail as follows (published 20 xi):

In the eighteenth century, top British philosopher David Hume could not get a job in any Scottish university because he was rumoured to be an atheist. Ten years ago, I was fired by Edinburgh University for too much free speech about race, intelligence, feminazism and paedohysteria. This year, Nobelist James Watson was sent to the doghouse for his own scientific racism. This week, even such victims of anti-free-speech hysteria as Nick Griffin and David Irving face being disinvited from even discussing free speech itself at the Oxford Union. As British leftists take the country back to the days of the Inquisition, one just wonders whether they ponder the determination of Queen Elizabeth I 'not to make windows into men's souls.' The Martyrs' Memorial, just a minute away from the Union in central Oxford, should daily remind them.

Only 100 left-wing goons turned up 20 xi at Oxford Town Hall to protest the Irving/Griffin visitation (Oxford Mail, 20 xi) – but they still won the support of Oxford’s right-on pacifist and atheist Lord Mayor, John Tanner, who was leading an overwhelmingly left-wing Council (where Conservatives had only two seats out of 48). Stephen Altmann-Richer, co-president of the Oxford University Jewish Society, told the BBC News website that, while freedom of speech was important, it was “overshadowed in this instance".

The Guardian’s Padraig Reidy protested that there was no ‘right to speak at the Oxford Union’ – without considering that there was (surely) a duty to let a university-chosen speaker be heard. The Archbishop of Canterbury, fresh from presiding over the dismemberment of the Church of England over yag rights to leadership also joined the thousands who had objected to the debate.

President Luke Tryl thought he had 75% of Oxford Junior Common Rooms behind him; but David Irving, noting O.U.’s cancellation of seven debates in the past few years thanks to Jewish pressure, said he had provisionally accepted a speaking engagement in Liverpool for 26th November.

The Jewish press (Totally Jewish, 22 xi) cleverly reckoned that, whatever happened in Oxford, the outcome would be a victory for the ‘far right’ – vindicating the general Jewish policy of maximum silence about the suppression of racial outspeakers (as had eventually been achieved in my own case at E.LU., where the LUni paid up rather than go to court against me). But its columnist Jonathan Hoffman had no compunction about calling for cancellation (22 xi).

I wrote to Nouse (the York University student newspaper, where sporty blonde Comment Editor Stephanie Dyson had backed the debtate) (22 xi) and Oxford Mail (published 22 xi):

Congratulations to Stephanie Dyson on her robust defence of free debate at Oxford! When British universities have suppressed the race realism of six of their academics in the past ten years, it would ill behove the Oxford Union to join the ranks of PeeCee. All students have a duty to support free speech in universities at this critical juncture before it is finally whisked away. One's heart goes out to O.U. President Luke Tryl, faced as he is by hysterical leftists (whose political forebears actually did nothing to oppose Hitler c. 1933-41) and doubtless by spineless modern Oxford 'academics' (who have done precisely nothing to contribute to debate about race, intelligence and the problems of sub-Saharan Africa over the past generation). Luke's position is even more precarious since the recent withdrawal of the 'scholars' of London, Bristol and Edinburgh from hearing the race realism of Nobelist James Watson. Luke is a brave man and it is lucky for today's shamelessly ignoracist and Enoch-denying Not-the-Conservative-Party that he has got his eye on leadership -- hopefully taking the party towards the national liberalism of Palmerston and Lloyd George, including free speech for Englishmen. One hopes the gals of Oxford will make it all worthwhile in time-honoured fashion for their fine President-with-Balls.

PS to Alan Page: Sorry 'The g Factor' is a bit rebarbative. Just enjoy Hans Eyenck's 'The Inequality of Man,' to which TgF is merely an updated academic footnote.

FLYNN BOOK A YAWN

Jim Flynn’s new book on intelligence (What is Intelligence?, Cambridge University Press, saying secular gains are erratic across test-types, may well not continue, and that genes have some of their effect by influencing a child’s environment) was reviewed by neuroscientist Richard Restak in The American Scholar (xi 2007) – revealing it to contain no arguments not already considered in The g Factor (1996) and by the rest of the London School.