Into the Melting Pot
I suppose it’s quite normal and predictable for people to gush over a baby, (even if the more reserved among us might find it a little embarrassing). At least such gushing is usually confined to a family and its friends, but not when the baby is a royal baby because royal babies belong to all of us. There was huge excitement when Prince George was born in 2013 because one day he is going to…
Enough Already!!
Sick of the “Royal” wedding? Yes, so am I. In fact I was sick of it even before I penned the earlier piece which appeared here on the 18th May. Nevertheless, I thought it worth looking at the aftermath. Very much as I expected, the press went completely gaga over the fact that she’s a half-caste. Here’s a couple of very different but still fairly typical journalistic reactions:- Bonnie Greer in the Daily Telegraph, 21.5.2018…
My Honour is Loyalty
As the days draw in around Autumn and move towards Winter, we in Britain, Europe and the Northern Hemisphere begin to think of the way Nature sheds its old forms. Travelling in its inexorable way towards closure, it’s entirely appropriate that we should be reminded of past lives and times, as if by some hidden hand, we also find ourselves commemorating the dead from two world wars. Nevertheless, in recent years a controversy has broken…
Aria Going Home!
By Max Musson: In a case that exposes the ineffectiveness and ineptitude of Britain’s supposed immigration controls, it was reported yesterday in the Daily Telegraph that an Iranian migrant had recently walked into a police station in the Greater Manchester area and demanded to be deported – because he’d ‘had enough’ of Manchester. It appears that Arash Aria, 25, complained of his loneliness and disillusionment in the city and of the rudeness and “violence” he…
Encountering Antisemitism
By Max Musson: Since the Charlie Hebdo shootings and the siege of the kosher supermarket in Paris, the authorities on both side of the Channel have gone into overdrive in pandering to Jewish sensibilities, as if the issue of security in the face of Islamic terrorism revolves solely around the security needs of Jews and so much so, that the needs of the rest of us don’t really warrant attention. We have seen the Prime Minister, David…
A Forgotten Hero?
By Frederick Dixon: Some of you will remember the late Michael Wharton who wrote in the Daily Telegraph for many years under the pseudonym of ‘Peter Simple’. One of our greatest twentieth century political satirists he was entirely a man of the racial nationalist Right, an astonishing exception to the processed group-think which usually passes for journalism in these times. He had what he called “the columnar reverse effect” – it was certain that whenever…