Immigration – the Testimony of William Hogarth and Jane Austin
By Kasredin: Pupils in British schools are to be taught the history of multiracial Britain. It is reported that the OCR GCSE History syllabus will include a module on immigration. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2856839/Now-pupils-study-2-000-years-immigration-GCSE-Pupils-learn-reasons-impact-country-new-history-exam.html There has of course been a lot of immigration to the British Isles over the last two millennia. The Romans came, built their temples and sewers, and then returned to sunny Italy. Various Germanic people – Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and maybe some Franks –…
The Clacton Rebellion
By Kasredin: Five years ago, the British National Party was the great hope of the nationalist movement in this country. Nowadays it is largely an irrelevance. We need to be realistic however. Even if the British National Party still had around fourteen thousand members and over one hundred councillors then it would still only be one notch above an irrelevance. The plain fact is that the British National Party has always faced too many obstacles…
Genetics & Culture
By Kasredin: Some of the world’s most eminent geneticists have condemned a new book claiming there is a biological basis for race and for racial differences in behaviour. So reports The Independent in an article discussing a recent book entitled, “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History“, by author Nicholas Wade. I don’t intend in this essay to try to answer the debate, but instead to assist readers in reaching their own conclusions. Basically, it…
Tax Credits: Impact on the Family
By Kasredin: The Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi has recommended that the government should restrict child tax credits and child benefits to only the first two children in each household. This is not yet government policy, and the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to give it their wholehearted support, but the public reaction in the comments section of at least one national newspaper is very strongly in favour. The coalition government is in trouble. As I have…
Poverty in London
By Kasredin: Sadiq Khan, the MP for Tooting who is of Asian extraction has recently written an article for The New Statesman about poverty in London. He notes that, “A new report released today shows that the government and Mayor are turning London into a divided and segregated city”. The report’s findings regarding poverty in London are probably accurate. Having lived there myself, I know only too well how expensive it can be. Bus tickets…
Was Hitler a Nationalist?
By Kasredin: I have hesitated before now to write anything about Nazi Germany, not least because I am sure that many readers of this site will be better informed on that subject than I am. The story effectively begins in 1918 when Germany agreed an armistice with its enemies, thereby bringing the combatant phase of the Great War to an end. On paper however the war continued until the following year when the major players…
Give My Regards to Fleet Street
By Kasredin: I never buy national newspapers. I cannot recall when I last bought a national newspaper, but it must have been years ago. For me it is a matter of principle, and let me explain why. The Daily Express has recently reported that Malala Yousafzai has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time of writing, this report has attracted seven comments – none from me, I assure you – of which…
The Origins of the Banking System
By Kasredin: In order to understand how banks work, it helps if we go back in time and explain how banks first came into existence. The topic of inflation is linked to the development of banks. As a teenager I studied the Elizabethan era in history lessons at school, and I remember reading that prices rose sharply during this period of English history. I wondered why this happened, but my history textbook did not explain.…
A Brief History of Democracy
By Kasredin: During the nineteenth century there was a struggle in this country and elsewhere to achieve real democracy – or, as it was then termed, universal suffrage. There was a groundswell of opinion that every man should have the vote, and some people even felt that women should not be excluded. Parliamentary democracy took a long time to gain popularity. The first parliaments were held in the thirteenth century, and were basically a way…
Carnival of Crime and Debauchery
By Kasredin: This year’s Notting Hill Carnival has ended with 279 arrests having been made. The Notting Hill Carnival is Europe’s biggest street party, and takes place every summer. It began in the late 1950s, and for its first twenty years or so it was a fairly peaceful affair. Then things began to go downhill, and violence became a perennial feature. In 1987 the carnival had its first ever murder. Sanity appeared to prevail in…