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…
Windrush – And an Unpleasant Smell in the Air
Much has been printed and broadcast recently about the plight of many West Indian immigrants who entered Britain legally between 1948 and 1971, as children, on their parent’s passports. They have now been dubbed the ‘Windrush Generation’ after the first ship to arrive in Britain carrying West Indian immigrants, the SS Empire Windrush. We are led to believe that the arrival of these children was never documented and that as a result of that lack…
Enoch – What if?
On the 20th April 1968 the Conservative statesman Enoch Powell spoke in Birmingham on the subject of non-White immigration from the Commonwealth, and although the current transformation of our country had at that time barely begun, this was already the subject of great public concern. He spoke of the rapid increase in the numbers of immigrants, of the soaring immigrant birth rate, of the harassment of White people in the inner cities, of the conspiracy…
The Land of Lost Content
Travelling on the London underground is usually an interesting way to observe “diversity”, but earlier this month I was too absorbed in a piece in the Evening Standard to pay much attention to my fellow passengers. The feature which had caught my attention was headed “Ben Fogle and the fine art of being English”. It turns out that Ben has written a new book: ” ‘we hit a funny obstacle today’ he said ‘the book…
Sixty Five Point Three Per Cent
By Frederick Dixon: If you were lucky – because it received little coverage – you will have caught that news item the other day; that the percentage of White British births in England and Wales fell in 2014 to its lowest level ever of 65.3%. Well, of course it was the lowest level ever (so far) because until not so long ago, and well within living memory, nearly everyone in the country was White British and so, naturally,…
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…
Further reflections on Boris’ Britain
By Frederick Dixon: In his excellent article on this website “Tory Toffs, Cosmopolitanism and Greed” Max Musson said of Boris Johnson’s 28th November speech “Deprived of racial, religious or national identity, the truly cosmopolitan individual has no real sense of community with any of the population groups among whom they live”. Boris’ speech was a vindication of Thatcherism delivered in his very own inimitable style; rousing, spirited, amusing, persuasive, and in his remarks about immigration…
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe – A Book Review
By Richard Deacon: Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europe was first published in 2009. It looks specifically at Muslim mass immigration into Europe, its impact and its future trajectory. It is an accessible and well argued book; it avoids the esoteric, unlike some writing from the Right. Caldwell is neither a nationalist nor a racialist. He is an American journalist writing primarily for conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard and the Financial…
On the Strange Madness of Conservatives
By Frederick Dixon: Demographic change in the West is having a curious effect on some politicians and commentators who would no doubt think of themselves as conservative. “Curious” because it has driven them mad. Obama’s easy victory in last year’s American presidential election was not due to the success of his government, presiding as it did over the sub-prime crisis and the resulting economic near-collapse; by any normal standards Obama should have been a one-term…
Our Homeland
By Frederick Dixon: “One of this country’s great unappreciated achievements is that through everything – industrial revolutions, millions of people living here – still today, you can go fifteen minutes outside any British town or city and be in glorious landscape. Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. This is an intensely beautiful country that has been extremely well looked after for centuries.” Perhaps it takes someone who isn’t…