"Psychosocially positive behaviours such as admiration and indignation are more work for the brain than basic emotions such as pain response.

At least that's what I think this youtube video should be titled

Typical future Obama voters

This is unfortunately not what Micheal Caine said, but he should have.

"The anti-consumer brigade thinks there is a fairer, more rational, alternative to capitalism just round the corner. There isn't."

This BBC documentary aired in February, 20 years after the Fatwa was ordered by Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie, the author of the Satanic Verses.

"Can you tell the difference between them?"

"Here's a slogan for the G20 mob: What do we want? Free trade!"

"Regulation not greed has pushed banks to the edge of ruin."

Anyone who provokes the venom of the left-wing media by giving a speech contesting man-made global warming, like President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, is a hero in my book.

I grew up with the Left and what this looks like to me is a power grab: a seizing of the moment by the forces which always believed in state domination.

It is inconceivable to me that a waking nation in the full consciousness of its freedom would have allowed its government to pass such laws as the Protection from Harassment Act (1997), the Crime and

"I hope it [the spacecraft] fell on Nasa. It’s the most worthless government programme in existence."

I have just watched an excellent film last night and I wanted to share it with you.

According to UK Newspapers Geert Wilders plans to defy the ban on him coming to the UK to screen his film 'Fitna' in the House of Lords, saying 'Let them put me in handcuffs'.

SOLO-International Op-Ed: No to Green Communism!

Marcus Bachler
February 4, 2009

For years the international environmentalist movement has been trying to do what Soviet Russia never could: bring communism to the west.

I watched an excellent BBC documentary on the weekend about the 1929 stock-market crash and subsequent depression. However, it had a huge failing I hope people here could address.

John Mortimer, former Barrister and author of 'Rumpole of the Bailey', died last week at the age of 85.

I thought that many on SOLO would get a kick out of this story from Deborah Haynes' (Baghdad Correspondent)

A excellent response to Iain Martin's Kass UK Daily Telegraph article (quoted earlier on SOLO) was posted on the Telegraph Blogs site by Alex Epstein

...is a four-part TV series that just aired in the UK. It is a dramatization of the English Civil War and aftermath.

Last night on UK TV, Jeremy Clarkson and the gang from Top Gear reviewed and compared cars manufactured in communist countries. If you like Top Gear and you dislike communism, you will love this!

Michael O’Leary: Ryanair's Rebel with a Cause

From The Sunday Times
December 7, 2008
Michael O’Leary: Ryanair's rebel with a cause
Michael O’Leary has a reputation as a tough cost-cutter and a loudmouth. Could that count against him in his second bid to buy Irish rival Aer Lingus?...
“Look,” says O’Leary, “if people are gobshites and wankers, you should call them gobshites and wankers.”

"The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels--the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming--has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

Think of my surprise today when I caught the last few minutes of this BBC radio documentary about Ayn Rand, hosted by a former UK conservative leader Michael Portillo.

"I remember being young and foolish and a leftie. Reality was always a problem. Communist countries were clearly dreadful.

This is serious!

I fear we are all entering that last part of Atlas Shrugged when all the lights go out.