The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought President Pence Big Pharma in Homosexuals Mark Mantel China and the Law Christopher Leonid Christie Davies Zhe and Wormself The Age of Untruth Money Heaven Lindsey Dearnley Jane Kelly Alistair Miller Spring 2017 Vol 35 No 3 £6.00 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 17 PC: Your Brain’s Red Pencil Ewan Morrison 4 President Pence: After the Assassination 20 Americanophobia Mark Mantel Paul Hollander 6 Homosexuals and the Law - Fifty Years On 21 The Age of Untruth Christie Davies Jane Kelly 8 Standing Rock 22 Gone to Money Heaven? Klara Meister Alistair Miller 10 Mind the Gap 24 From the Lucky Country to Israel Brian Ridley Daryl McCann 12 Zhe and Wormself 26 All True Except the Facts Lindsey Dearnley Theodore Dalrymple 13 Britain Restores the Death Penalty - for Paedophiles 28 Did Big Pharma Push China’s One-child Policy? Penelope Fawcett Hulme Christopher Leonid 15 ‘The men who knew that he knew what he knew’: 30 The Coming Universal Religion Islam, Oil and War Edo Pivčević Mark Griffith Columns Art and Books 32 Conservative Classic — 65 40 Celia Haddon Neil Postman’s Amusing ourselves to Death on Wild Life in the Trenches 33 Reputations — 54 41 Anthony Daniels Thomas Sowell on English Violence 35 Film 43 Brian Eassty Denial on Clement Attlee 36 Roy Kerridge 44 David Twiston Davies 37 Eternal Life on the ’45 Peter Mullen 46 Scott Grønmark 39 ART on Conversion to Christianity Jane Kelly 47 Merrie Cave on Clare Hollingworth 49 John Jolliffe on Great Manuscripts In future subscription payments by cheque should 50 Christie Davies be sent by post to on William Joyce 51 Penelope Tremayne The Salisbury Review, on a Strange War-time Aircrash PO Box 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU 52 Martin Dewhirst on a Soldier Spy Changes of address or other enquiries should be 53 Peter Mullen sent to the same address or emailed to on the Church of England [email protected] or by phone to 01908 281601 Credit card payments by phone 54 In Short 01908 281601 Editor: Myles Harris Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Sir Roger Scruton, Jane Kelly, Christie Davies, PO Bo 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU Tel: 01908 281601 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.com he British Medical Association have given guidance change of the meaning of the words, male or female, even to their staff to stop using the words ‘expectant their outright abolition, upon which much of literature, Tmother’ and use ‘pregnant person’ instead. The music, painting, law, war, religion and myth is based, can ‘guidance’ (disobey if you dare) goes on to declare that anything be real? while ‘a large majority of people who have become Certainly not the story of the Garden of Eden or the pregnant are women, so we must not neglect the feelings of Incarnation. These twin myths, upon which western intersex and transmen who may get pregnant’. The madness civilisation is built, tell of how Adam and Eve fell from does not stop there. An increasingly powerful Trans lobby grace because they ate the forbidden fruit from the tree manipulated by Marxist entryists intent on exploiting some of knowledge of good and evil. Immediately they knew very vulnerable people, backed by large grants from the they were different and because they were different knew taxpayer, demanding that the term breast feeding should shame. Redemption came with the Incarnation, God’s be replaced by the term ‘chest feeding’, vagina by ‘front word made flesh. Children are taught, when they see the hole’ and caesarean section by ‘window birth’. Christmas crib, the story of Mary the mother, Joseph the When the BMA talks about ‘the large majority of people father as guardian and protector, surrounded by a hierarchy who have become pregnant are women’ they are trying to of animals adoring a helpless Christ child who is the creator detach the notion of motherhood from birth by anticipating of the universe. Thus motherhood is defined, the role of the a time not so far off when both sexes will be able to have father established, the animals seen in their place and God babies. This is a lie. The only ‘pregnant male’ in the UK revealed. Like all great stories, it has survived because it at the moment is a biological woman who has retained her is beautiful. It hints at something we cannot see, but we uterus and ovaries and delayed her sex change operation in are certain is there. order to have a baby. A genetically true male pregnancy is A myth to warm the heart? Perhaps, but into this gap far beyond the reach of present biological knowledge. What will step the social engineers with their library of neat may be possible in the very distant future is an hybrid with psychological and political theories, every word dross. its DNA rearranged so that two sexes live in one person: Nothing they have to offer is in any way heart-warming. the ovaries, uterus, breasts and the chemistry that goes Their solution is cold, cynical and narcissistic. In an with a woman, coexisting with a man with a beard and the engineered world all of us will have the same gender. In secondary sexual characteristics of a male, the external anticipation of this, intense lobbying is taking place for genitalia swappable. Such hybrids would be well back government and industry to install non-gender toilets, even in the queue of engineered humans: spacemen who can non-gender traffic lights in cities. breathe the Martian atmosphere, athletic hybrids who run Pedestrian crossings in London’s Trafalgar Square at sixty miles an hour, and those with hitherto impossibly now show gay and lesbian couples, as well as large IQs or hugely enhanced artistic or intuitive abilities. the symbol for transgender people, designed to However at the moment we live in a pre-genetic show Transport for London’s support of diversity engineering world, one in which we can only alter in the capital. Mayor Sadiq Khan called them ‘a somebody’s sexual appearance by the crudest of twin celebration of difference’. Daily Mail assaults on the body with surgery and chemicals. It is a long way to 2100 and the designer human. A true hybrid however Once people can be disciplined into thinking there is no is not the immediate concern of the transgender lobby; such thing as man or woman, the state can take over the just being able to change the sex of a person outwardly role of parenting children, assigning their sex and their will be sufficient to persuade people there is no difference sexuality. It is never too soon to anticipate the coming between the sexes. They can then change society’s language genetics when total control will be achieved by the state to sow doubts in people’s minds as to political reality. If of the very basis of human society, sexuality and love. The the difference between the sexes is merely a matter of a transgender lobby can have that control now and it looks few pills a day and skilful cosmetic surgery, resulting in a as if it will take it. The Salisbury Review — Spring 2017 3 Web: www.salisburyreview.com President Pence: After the Assassination Mark Mantel rumor floated about recently that Trump completed. Unless one happens to be a Plutarch, it is declined to give former Ambassador John not even especially easy to write about such a man. A Bolton a place in his cabinet because Mr Bolton In a way, the best criticism for him would be La wears a big mustache and Trump, it is said, heartily Rochefoucauld’s maxim that he who lives without folly dislikes big mustaches. So, the first thing that must be is not always so wise as he thinks. said for Mr Pence, as he and Trump dismount and tie Pence was raised an American Catholic. He was down their stallions together, is that he is not the sort an altar-boy. And once upon a time he even believed of man ever to go and wear in the social gospel of the a mustache about town. He progressive wing of the is not like that. Roman rite. His family were Indeed, Pence is essentially largely Irish Democrats, a virtuous man. He is who worshipped John F well made, with a manly Kennedy. Mr Pence still face, and possesses many boasts of keeping a box in his innate excellences. He is garage filled with Kennedy good-natured, maintains memorabilia. Pence’s people an unostentatious dignity, were generally the folks who and is knowledgeable. He backed Vatican II, wishing also knows how to pretend to purge the liturgy of its to listen while preparing a more sacerdotal aspects and riposte. ceremony. In America, after W h e n i t c o m e s t o the French revolution, most lampoons, or even insults, of the Catholic bishops were Pence remains calm and cultured Frenchmen. They patient, genuinely believing represented an aristocratic that quarrelsome factions Catholicism not unlike your ought to speak freely. And Archbishop Laud’s, perhaps. he is not quite a typical But the Gallic wing was politician, either. There is soon overthrown by Irish a kind of high decency to him that allows him to immigrants, making things more extroverted, break from the herd when necessary. There were even rebellious and plebian. The Pence clan sprang forth instances when Republican legislators overwhelmingly from this stylistic and ecclesiastical change. voted against Pence in Indiana – like when he vetoed However, at Hanover College, Pence became ‘born a bill to retroactively impose a local tax in 2013.