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…

By Rudyard Kipling: Now, this is the cup the White Men drink When they go to right a wrong, And that is the cup of the old world’s hate – Cruel and strained and strong. We have drunk that cup – and a bitter, bitter cup And tossed the dregs away. But well for the world when the White Men drink To the dawn of the White Man’s day!   Now, this is the road that…

By H. Millard: Once upon a time there was a wonderful and prosperous nation inhabited by sentient corn. It was called Cornfield. This nation had a low crime rate and a high standard of living. The Cornians could live their lives in freedom and tranquility and pursue their ideas of happiness. Cornfield was the envy of the world. The genetically determined characteristics of the corn, gave Cornfield its unique character and first rate place in…