… So does violence and mayhem follow the ideology espoused by the criminals Irving and Griffin. The Times reports that Oxford is in ‘lockdown’ this evening ahead of the Irving-Griffin circus at the Oxford Union.

[C]olleges today sent their students e-mails warning them to stay indoors during the protest. Students fear that a counter-demonstration by far-right activists could set off scuffles.

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Students said there was anger today that colleges had failed to press the union to cancel the debate, and that their only action appeared to be sending out e-mails warning of violence.

Keren Bagon, from Somerville College, who is planning to take part in the protest tonight, said: “Individual colleges have sent out warnings to students saying that there is a strong chance that it might turn violent and warning people not to go into town. People are worried that extremist protesters are going to come and launch counter demonstrations, and that it could turn violent.”

Don’t go out tonight–the Fash rule the streets of Oxford. What a jolly game the Tarquins and Penelopes are having at the Oxford Union.

Graeme at Hocemo Li Na Kafu? has another excellent post up: Sixty years ago we fought fascism with rifles and bombs, now we do it with a vigourous chinwag over cheese and port.

“Mitt the Mormon”…

New Hitchens available here.

The Swedish libertarian writer and Cato Institute scholar Johan Norberg has today quoted from a recent article in the Daily Wail featuring two childless, middle-class, eco-fundamentalist couples.

Toni Vernelli, 35, who works for an environmental charity, and had herself sterilised at the age of 27, displays her profound understanding of the dismal science thus:

“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet.”

“Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.”

“We both passionately wanted to save the planet - not produce a new life which would only add to the problem.”

I can just imagine Terry Glavin chortling as he reads this.

Johan titles his post “Saving the planet - for whom?”, and makes no further comment. The answer is, of course, “For the rest of us!” If these angst-ridden nihilists choose not to procreate, this will strengthen the gene pool, and we should therefore welcome their heroic and selfless act. It is yet another wonderful example of group natural selection in action.

Barring a last-minute admission of mindless stupidity, or possibly a bloody riot on St Giles, the chinless wonders of the Oxford Union will today host two convicted criminals – British National Party leader Nick Griffin and holocaust denying jailbird “historian” David Irving – at a discussion on “The Limits of Free Speech”. How very, very amusing.

Even arch cold-warrior Tory MP Julian Lewis has denounced the move, and resigned his life membership of the Union in protest. Good for him.

A BNP spokesman is reported to have said:

“This event is a big breakthrough for our party to spread its message in democratic surroundings.”

You don’t say. It sounds to me like the fascists are a whole lot smarter than the supposed cream of the future British ruling class. But then Griffin is a Cambridge chap (third class degree in History with Law), so maybe that explains it. I despair for the future of these once great nations.