Recently, I was prompted to recall a conversation I had as a child with my parents during the ‘Cold War’ period in which my parents explained to me and my siblings the differences between the oppression that once existed in Nazi Germany and which still existed in the Soviet Union and the freedoms that we enjoyed here, in pre-war and early post-war Britain. Key among those differences were freedom of belief, freedom of expression and…

During the last forty-eight hours the news has been dominated by reports of a random, cowardly, ill-conceived and deplorable attack on members of the Muslim community of Finsbury Park, London. The attack appears to have been carried out by a man who has no previous history of racist or Islamophobic behaviour; who has no history of membership of so-called ‘far-right’ groups or political parties; who has according to the police, ‘no far-right digital footprint’; and who was…

By Colin Liddell: How quaint! Today Prince George, the third-in-line to the throne – behind his father William and grandfather Charles – was christened in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. Interesting the names involved. Of course, the name George is very much part of the Windsors’ family tradition. But it ultimately derives from St. George, whose cross is the flag of England as well as the symbol of the medieval Christian crusaders. St. James’s Palace…

By Max Musson: My attention was caught recently by an article published on the Jewish Chronicle website entitled, “Police pledge to crack down on antisemitic graffiti“.  The article states, “Police are investigating an increase in antisemitic graffiti in Manchester.  “Since October there have been five incidents in Prestwich and Whitefield, areas in the north of the city that are home to large numbers of Jews.”  I wondered what kind of graffiti had been sprayed or…

The multicultural, transgender paradise that is present-day Britain seems to be getting cold feet recently about its sacred mission to immeasurably enrich the lives of its citizens. This is a pity because without a full-frontal, 24-7 media blitzkrieg promoting every form of diversity and perversity, there is a real danger of progress slowing to a halt and reactionary tendencies setting in. The problem seems to have started with the revelation that a certain segment of…