Zero Hour – And a New Beginning!
During the latter part of 2009 I can remember a recurring theme at the local BNP meetings at which I spoke, something that is not spoken about now, the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon, which effectively turned the pre-existing consolidated European Treaty into the ‘Constitution of the EU’. As such, the Treaty of Lisbon negated all prior attempts by member states of the EU to retain their sovereign nation status and resist absorption into a European…
All Tomorrow’s Parties
I was reminded recently of a song I became familiar with when I was a student sharing a house with a group of other students during the mid-1970’s. We lived at 122 Pinnox Street, in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent and my housemates were typical of ‘Hippie’ students at that time and we listened to an eclectic mix of music. I remember that house in particular because at the time, the tiny rear garden backed onto an enormous…
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
By Max Musson: There has been a mixed reaction to the recent broadcast on German TV of a three-part series entitled ‘Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter’ (‘Our Mothers, our Fathers’), depicting the effect that the Second World War conflict had on the lives of ordinary German citizens, and on the lives of five young Germans in particular. The five young friends are; brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm; a young nurse Charly; aspiring singer Greta; and her Jewish…