Things Past, Things To Come
With the centenary of the end of the First World War upon us, I found myself the other day contemplating (not for the first time) the War Memorial in a small town in the south of England not far from my home. There they were, the lost boys, row upon row upon row of good English names – and a sprinkling of Irish, Scots and Welsh to keep them company. What did they think they…
Revolution?
By Frederick Dixon: Having ten minutes to waste the other day I wandered into my local Waterstones to see if there was anything new. Indeed there was; Waterstones has an exciting new display about the forthcoming general election. A stand near the door displayed four books, identical in format but coloured blue, red, yellow or green and entitled respectively “Why Vote Conservative/Labour/Liberal Democrat/Green?” You may have noticed the glaring omission. Surrounding these four books were a number of other…
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…
Cultural Struggle: What it is and how to win it
By David Yorkshire: The following is a transcript of a speech I gave at a nationalist meeting in the summer of last year. I’m here tonight not to talk about politics, but about something broader and more far-reaching. I’m going to talk about culture, because culture is that which shapes politics and ideas in general, and we are going to look at how this is achieved. Now even the word culture itself has been politicised…