October 18, 2006

Salman Rushdie: “They’ll say we tied our own hands and slit our own throats…”

Via Laban Tall’s UK Commentators blog, this interview with Salman Rushdie in the Independent. A highlight: I have spent a lot of my life looking positively at the consequences of migration. Now I’m being forced to see that there’s a…

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October 17, 2006

Newsflash: Diversity Kills Trust

A lot of blogs picked up on this story last week (see here, here and here) but it is still worth noting for the record (more particularly, the I-told-you-so department therof). Esteemed Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam has said what…

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October 11, 2006

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT: GEORGE BUSH LET US DOWN

So says out-going Mexican Foreign Minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, in an interview with French center-right daily Le Figaro (translation here). It appears that Mexico is unhappy with Congress’ decision, last Wednesday, to authorize construction of a 700 mile long fence…

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October 7, 2006

MORE ON EUROPE’S POROUS BORDERS

From my latest VDare piece: When Poland and seven other former Soviet bloc countries joined the European Union in 2004, Tony Blair’s government assured the British public that the country would not be flooded by job-seeking migrants from the East….

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