Are MSM journalists completely lacking in self-awareness? Let's just consider that sub-genre of writing where a hackette writes a hand-wringy article about whether or not citizens should tackle yobs, even while she herself hides behind wheenie euphemisms like 'kids'. Who knew the Men Of No Appearance had a youth wing? To the point: folks tackling 'youths' are risking being stabbed to death. All th...

Jon Gaunt, a popular presenter on TalkSport was sacked after calling Conservative councillor Michael Stark a 'Nazi'. Before I go on, I must stress that I was writing the article without knowledge that he was a Conservative, that was found during research and I would have written this article if he had been from any party. Now calling somebody a Nazi live on air is a ridiculous thing to d...

Warning: This is a long and tedious article and I would not blame anyone who decides to skip it entirely. I have disabled comments for this specific article (something I have never done before in my almost 7 years of blogging). I am writing it only to document for archival purposes an unpleasant series of comments made last night on an article I wrote almost two weeks ago; I regret nothing I

Any regular reader of newspapers will be familiar with the phenomenon of the newspaper article which says one thing, but with a headline above it, written by someone completely different, saying something completely different. Yesterday's Telegraph piece written by Bruno Waterfield, and entitled Brussels admits defeat in EU blog wars is, I think, a good example. I read the headline and rejoic...

My article on CIF went live today - on the drama that is the infighting on the anti-jihadi far-right in the United States. As I also say in my article there are plenty of players in the UK who are also related those nutjob, but who are studiously trying to avoid condemning their friends. I’ll

I mentioned yesterday how much I enjoyed Captain Victor Addison's article in the January 2010 issue of Proceedings, but I didn't mention why. If you have not read the article, You Can't Always Give What You Want, I highly recommend it. I am sure the force structure discussion representing the bulk of the article will draw the most attention, but for me this writing jumped off the pa...

Recently I posted an article about the Islamization of the Alsatian city of Mulhouse, and the building of a giant mosque destined to teach Islamic culture and the Arabic language to Muslims and Alsatians alike. Joachim Véliocas, writing at Islamisation, has a complementary article containing some new, some old information. He titled his article "The flag of Hamas flies over Mulhouse.&q...

This was probably one of those days when the great British public, those who aren't sunning themselves or wisely ignoring the news completely, find themselves remarkably disengaged by just how insular and geeky political reporting and machinations are. The government's foreign minister writes an article for an national newspaper. Article is deeply average, but because there's not a lot of news aro...

After their last satirical masterpiece, it looks like Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci have been at it again, writing a fawning article on Peter Mandelson for Guardian Unlimited, including the line “This is not so much the rebirth as the final maturing of new Labour,” this time under the pseudonym of Derek Draper. The article is

On Harry’s Place, it seems finding intelligent writing requires scraping a barrel. Yesterday I wrote for an article for CIF comparing different kinds of racial insults that are used to dehumanise people. Rather than understand what the article is getting at, which he always fails to do, Neil D on HP assumes that someone using