It’s a Fishy Story, Gary, a Fishy Story!
Recently the humanitarian aid group, International Rescue Committee, released a promotional video promoting the cause of migration into Britain with the bold claim that we’ve “got refugees to thank for” our nations favourite take-away dish of fish and chips, and with the spurious punch line, “Britain wouldn’t be Britain without refugees”. The video, starring BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker appears to ‘drive a coach and horses’ through the public relations initiative recently…
Monsters on the March
I suppose most of us, when teenagers, enjoyed horror films and ghost stories for the pleasurable shudder of fear while being perfectly safe at home or in the cinema and I was no different. So it was that one day I picked up a slender paperback called “The Lurking Fear” by H.P. Lovecraft. I still have it, and looking at it again I see that it cost me 3/6, which will tell you that it’s…
The Proroguing of Parliament and the Abuse of Democracy
Following Boris Johnson’s recent announcement of the temporary suspension of Parliament in the run up to a new Queen’s speech, and as the deadline for our exit from the European Union (EU) looms closer, there is much spoken about “the abuse of democracy” or “the death of democracy” by spokespeople for the liberal-left. Their calls for people to “take to the streets” have largely gone unheeded however, despite the best efforts of our mass media…
From Rebuilding Britain to the Rebuilding of the British!
If we were to believe the hogwash currently being spouted about the so called ‘Windrush Generation’, we might think that in the aftermath of World War 2, Britain was in a parlous state, lacking both the funds and the manpower to recover from the damage inflicted by the bombing raids of the Luftwaffe. The commonly held belief is that Britain was bankrupted by our involvement in World War II and that so many of our…
Windrush at 70 – The Traitor State
Seventy years ago today, on the 22nd of June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury with several hundred Jamaicans on board. Thus began something quite unprecedented in all of our history – the displacement of the native population of these islands, hitherto entirely representative of the human stocks of north western Europe, by peoples of quite alien origin. What was then “a cloud no larger than a man’s hand” now overshadows the whole sky…
Commonwealth or Common Woe?
I’m not sure whether or not the Commonwealth conference has quite finished yet. I thought it had, but then caught something on the radio the other day about a related function or reception, but as my interest in the institution is limited I didn’t really pay attention. Perhaps I should have, because this seemingly moribund organisation is coming back to bite us. It is not by coincidence that the conference was overshadowed by the Windrush…
Windrush – And an Unpleasant Smell in the Air
Much has been printed and broadcast recently about the plight of many West Indian immigrants who entered Britain legally between 1948 and 1971, as children, on their parent’s passports. They have now been dubbed the ‘Windrush Generation’ after the first ship to arrive in Britain carrying West Indian immigrants, the SS Empire Windrush. We are led to believe that the arrival of these children was never documented and that as a result of that lack…
Enoch – What if?
On the 20th April 1968 the Conservative statesman Enoch Powell spoke in Birmingham on the subject of non-White immigration from the Commonwealth, and although the current transformation of our country had at that time barely begun, this was already the subject of great public concern. He spoke of the rapid increase in the numbers of immigrants, of the soaring immigrant birth rate, of the harassment of White people in the inner cities, of the conspiracy…
Good Night Stories for Boys and Girls
I was a post-war baby-boomer raised in a family in which my mother played a more dominant role than in most other households at that time. This was not a reflection of anything innately lacking in my father, he was badly injured fighting during World War 2 and was left partly disabled as a result, and when we encountered issues that my father struggled to cope with, my mother naturally stepped up and handled things…
A Blue Eyed Caucasian
So now we know that “the first Brits were black” (or so say some headlines). No doubt we have all seen the reports of the DNA analysis of “Cheddar Man” and the reconstruction of his appearance proving, with a three to one degree of probability, that he was dark skinned. The glee of the usual suspects does not need to be imagined with quotes such as “the multi-racial roots of the first Briton” and “we…