I Vow to Thee, My Country
Those who know me will be aware that I am not a Christian in terms of my religious beliefs, although I would claim to be culturally Christian in that I was raised within a nominally Christian family at a time when that religion had a much more prominent a solid position within our society. The England of my youth was a country steeped in Christian tradition, and in which almost everyone was at least nominally…
Strong Fences Make Good Neighbours
People come up with all sorts of ideological reasons to try to explain conflict – “religion” is a favourite (Islam now, Christianity at various periods in the past), or nationalism, inequality, tyrannical government, whatever the bee may be in your particular bonnet. The truth is that these are mere excuses, evasions of the true causes of conflict which are ineradicable human characteristics – fear, or greed, or envy and thus the hatred which those emotions engender. The search for a solution…
The Need for a New Religion
By Max Musson: We live in a world in which many people have a dark sense of foreboding. Particularly in Western European countries where we have experienced better times within living memory, there is a feeling that many facets of our lives are deteriorating and have been relentlessly deteriorating for several decades at least. In material terms we appear to be better off than ever before and yet the material benefits themselves do not seem…
Moral Particularism and the Imbalance of Nature
By Max Musson: In this modern age of concern for environmental issues, many people and even some naturalists who should know better, often talk of the ‘balance of nature’, and in reference to the impact of mankind’s growth and expansion across the globe, are highly critical, citing current trends as evidence that ‘we’ are “destroying the planet”. Worse than this however, is the tendency to view the lifestyles of the indigenous peoples of the ‘developing…
Armageddon and the Coming of a Charismatic Saviour
By Max Musson: The belief that our current political and economic system is coming to an inevitable end has long been held, as has the belief that when that end finally comes it will be cataclysmic and will present we nationalists with the once in a lifetime opportunity to sweep away all that is corrupt and create a new and just society in it’s place. This belief is not only common among nationalists however, as…
Yazidis & Others
By Frederick Dixon: There are lessons to be drawn from the unfolding tragedy in Northern Iraq. Some of these are obvious; the crass ignorance and arrogance of the “New World Order” elite which tried to remake an ancient society into a socially liberal western “democracy” safe for gay marriage (and is now tentatively wondering if might not have to go back in to clear up the mess which it created), and the savagery and cruelty of those Moslems…
“Useful” Nationalists
By Nick Grifford: The 2006 film entitled 300 was the brainchild of graphic novelist Frank Miller and director, Zackery “Zack” Snyder. The story charts the military exploits of a small Spartan army (the eponymous 300) during the campaign against Persian invasion, circa 480 BC. The film is suitably emotive and clearly provides an allusion to invasive Muslim incursions into Europe during the the past few decades, which, in itself, is not unwelcome. However, being Hollywood, there…
Pot Calling Kettle …?
The Dean of Durham has recently written an open letter to the new Italian manager of Sunderland Football Club, Paolo Di Canio, calling on him to renounce Fascism publicly or risk being associated with “toxic far-right tendencies”. An open letter of this sort, irrespective of how diplomatically worded, is of course a thinly veiled attack upon the recipient, suggesting as it does that someone expressing admiration for Benito Mussolini is by definition unfit to hold the…
The Need For A New Religion
We live in a world in which many people have a dark sense of foreboding. Particularly in Western European countries where we have experienced better times within living memory, there is a feeling that many facets of our lives are deteriorating and have been relentlessly deteriorating for several decades at least. In material terms we appear to be better off than ever before and yet the material benefits themselves do not seem to adequately compensate…