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…
Would you trust a Tory?
By Frederick Dixon: Remember those dim and distant days of yore (well, last May actually, following UKIP’s victory in the Euro elections) when we were told that the Westminster elite “got it”, that they had seen the “elephant in the room”? The elephant that they now said that they had got was, of course, the public concern about immigration which had so greatly contributed to UKIP’s victory. Doubts about the sincerity of our rulers’ conversion to immigration realism soon…
Rivers of Blood
By Enoch Powell: The full transcript of Enoch Powell’s so called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20th 1968. The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their…
D-Day!
By Max Musson: As events to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day take place over the next few days, our news media will be full of personal stories retelling tales of the heroism of those who took part in the Normandy landings, unfortunately without making any connection between the outcome of World War Two and the dire situation we find ourselves in as a nation today. Undoubtedly those who took part in the Normandy…