A Free Country, Stick and Stones and the Inevitable Salvation of the British People.
Recently, I was prompted to recall a conversation I had as a child with my parents during the ‘Cold War’ period in which my parents explained to me and my siblings the differences between the oppression that once existed in Nazi Germany and which still existed in the Soviet Union and the freedoms that we enjoyed here, in pre-war and early post-war Britain. Key among those differences were freedom of belief, freedom of expression and…
Gagging – Cameron’s Counter Extremism Measures
“Over generations, we in Britain have built something extraordinary: a successful multi-racial, multi-faith democracy. Our country today is more vibrant, buoyant and diverse than ever before in our history.” These are the opening words of our Prime Minister David Cameron’s forward to the document presenting his government’s ‘Counter Extremism Strategy’, and all people grounded in reality will recognise at once how delusional they are. While the population of Britain are indeed more ‘diverse’ than ever…
Country Before Party
By Frederick Dixon: I doubt if many of those who visit the Western Spring web site intend to vote Conservative at the imminent general election, although I’ve equally little doubt that many have done so at various times in the past; I certainly have, particularly when my M.P. was the late racial nationalist, Sir Ronald Bell. Regrettably, the likes of Sir Ronald have never had much sway in the counsels of the Conservative party and never…
Another Crack in the Ice
By Frederick Dixon: In August I wrote a short piece about the Rotherham child sex grooming scandal, and wondered if at last the left/liberal ice which has kept us in a political and intellectual deep freeze since the sixties was beginning to thaw. As the months go by I become more and more optimistic that the ice age is, at last, drawing to a close; I know that it doesn’t always seem like it when schools can be punished for being too…