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The future Jeremy Corbyn wants for the UK
Was out for a wander this evening and saw this right in front of the Venezuelan Embassy in London. It is astonishing that in 2017, anyone can still openly call themselves a socialist in polite society...
View ArticleChild stealing, then and now?
A senior English police officer has called for children of extremists to be taken away from them. Terrorists should have their children taken off them in the same way that paedophiles do, Britain’s...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
Recent reports only help raising more questions, and eyebrows, as a staggering 87% of Venezuelans are reportedly now under the poverty stats. When it comes to food, 6 out of 10 lost an average of 11...
View ArticleThe view from Brazil is that peace is also the health of the state
The most recent of my Last Friday of the Month meetings was actually not on the last Friday of March because that was Good Friday, and my speaker Bruno Nardi and I decided to hold it a week earlier, on...
View ArticleThe spirit of Nongqawuse lives on
Nongqawuse was a fifteen year old Xhosa girl who in 1856 had a vision in which three ancestral spirits told her that if the Xhosa people showed their trust by destroying their crops and killing their...
View ArticleVenezuela is a mess due to terrible policies
“Why is Venezuela a country in turmoil?” asks Adam Parsons, writing for Sky, whereupon he talks about monetary policy, the price of oil, hyperinflation, increases in the minimum wage. I suppose this...
View ArticleWhat could have caused the crisis in Venezuela? It is a total mystery
It was tides. No, chemtrails. Or Trump? No, Jews, you can never go wrong blaming Jews. Or maybe it was just ‘bad luck‘. Or perhaps Brexit? Ah, it was global warming! Yes, global warming is what stymied...
View ArticleA crime control measure from the new president of Brazil
PJ Media, quotes the Wall Street Journal, to the effect that in Brazil, the new far-right (meaning: not-left) President is going to crack down on gun crime by allowing the law-abiding citizens of...
View ArticleMeanwhile, back in the batcave…
As described by Paul Canning in “Venezuela: the Left’s giant forgetting”, Jeremy Corbyn prudently deleted a slew of pro-Chavez and Maduro content from his website in 2016. The same pattern was followed...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
After years of having their dignity drained from them by corrupt, ruthless and cold men, Venezuelans are now fighting for their freedom and demanding an end to an illegitimate regime. They know what so...
View ArticleThe King of Spain is belatedly singeing many a landlord’s beard…
Mr Ed: This post is made on behalf of Paul Marks, the Sage of Kettering, as he appears to have some issues with posting. I have put my pennyworth in. Centuries ago the Kings of Spain forbad landlords...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
It is untrue that the fires are historically huge or unprecedented. NASA says the Amazon fires are ‘slightly below average this year’. Many are pointing out that we are witnessing the highest number of...
View ArticleThis is the country Dems wish an open border with ???
Then the coup de grace: as the Chapo sons’ forces engaged in direct combat with their own national military, kill squads went into action across Culiacán, slaughtering the families of soldiers engaged...
View ArticleCould you live in this socialist country?
Is the challenge from YT Vlogger ‘bald and bankrupt‘, in this video, filmed recently in Cuba. ‘bald’ as he is referred to, appears to be a chap from Brighton (if you watch his oeuvre) who walks around...
View ArticleA recorded conversation about the Falklands War
Just to give a light tap to a small drum, which nobody else will tap if neither of us does, and just to say: fellow Samizdatista Patrick Crozier and I recently did one of our recorded-and-internetted...
View ArticleIf Corbyn had won we’d have had free broadband by 2030
As in we would have had it. 15 November 2019: General election 2019: Labour pledges free broadband for all Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by...
View ArticleModern slavery
At CapX, James Bloodworth writes, And yet, left-wing politicians and activists still flock to anything emitting a whiff of revolution “like bluebottles to a dead cat”, as George Orwell once put it. The...
View ArticleThree very ill-judged tweets from the Biden-Harris campaign
I still fear, but my hopes have risen a little more. In the last 24 hours I have seen three tweets from the official Biden-Harris campaign that might have been designed to help Trump: Joe Biden:...
View ArticleArgentine leader Alberto Fernandez tests positive for the coronavirus…
Reuters tell us that Argentine leader Alberto Fernandez says he tests positive for the coronavirus… He is white, male, 62 years old and he says he is in good health. He is the national leader, so...
View ArticleBLM comes out in support of the Cuban communist regime
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you… that the communist BLM organisation supports the Communist Cuban government’s repression of protests.
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