Making the rounds

A lovely article by Theodore Dalrymple explaining why he is leaving the UK to settle in France.

I'd say I'm surprised, but of course I am not. A hard left Brit pol named Jenny Tonge mused that if she were Palestinian, she'd consider being a suicide bomber (sympathy for the oppressed, don't you know). Apparently being killed by these psychopaths does not count as oppression as well, just getting in the way of a just cause. Thankfully, the Liberal Democrats saw this for the insanity it was and asked her to step down.

I don't quite know why this strikes me (perhaps I am hungry), but here is how you make bacon. Thanks to An Englishman's Castle for this tip.

Kofi Annan on the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whodathunkit?