British Democracy In Decline
By Max Musson: As the day of the General Election draws near, falling party memberships, falling voter turnout and diminishing respect for those in public life are all factors signalling a widening gulf between those in government and the people they are meant to represent. In recent decades voter turnout at general elections had been gradually falling, dropping from 83.9 % in 1950 to 77.7% in 1992 and following which there was a marked drop of over six percentage points to…
The Cheek of Mrs Lipman!
By Max Musson: This morning the Daily Mail and Guardian websites contain articles in which well known Jewish actress and alleged comedienne, Maureen Lipman is quoted as saying that she is contemplating leaving Britain and going to live in New York or Israel, so concerned is she about the rise in antisemitic ‘attacks’ in Britain. According to the Mail: “Mrs Lipman, 71, said the Jewish community in Britain ‘give, give and give’ and described the…
Dave Whelan in the Cross-Hairs
By Max Musson: Dave Whelan is a former professional soccer player with Blackburn Rovers and Crewe Alexandra football clubs who was forced to give up his playing career through injury. He is something of a legend however having built up a multi-million pound sports business empire and now owns Wigan Athletic football club. He is the former owner of JJB Sports and the current owner of the DW Stadium where Wigan Athletic and Wigan Warriors…
For Auld Lang Syne
By Max Musson: We are now just a week away from an historic vote which may very well result in a political separation of Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom, and in the news we have David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, apparently pleading with Scottish voters not to ‘break his heart’. During the last week we have in fact seen almost all of the ’big beasts’ of the establishment parties venturing north of…
A Cloud For Every Silver Lining
By Frederick Dixon: We heard last week of the ever greater numbers of youngsters going up to university this year. It looks as if very soon the target of 50% of the age group will be exceeded – what a contrast to the days of my youth when only about one in twenty of my contemporaries were “revolting students”! And a good thing too. Well it is, isn’t it? Of course it is, for the future graduates themselves whose…
Essential Truths – The Third Prerequisite
By Max Musson: No revolutionary political movement can succeed in toppling an existing corrupt regime without a vast network of friends within the existing political establishment, without a 5th column extending deep into the enemy’s power structure, which can corrode that power structure from the inside and sabotage its efforts to suppress the new movement. This is true, irrespective of whether the new movement aims to gain power electorally, by extra-parliamentary means, or by force…
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…
A Strangely Jewish Affair …
By Max Musson: As a political writer who often has to cover issues that hinge upon the racial, religious or ethnic background of individuals in the public eye, and the connections between individuals that are often otherwise concealed, it is rather bemusing to find myself reporting on the spat that is currently taking place between Ed Miliband and the Labour Party on the one hand and the Daily Mail on the other, in which various…
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…
The Rise and Rise of Western Spring!
By Max Musson: When we launched this website as the ‘shop window’ of our organisation, our ultimate aim was to establish Western Spring as the most popular and influential nationalist website in the UK and today we can celebrate the passing of yet another major milestone in the development of our media outreach. For the very first time www.westernspring.co.uk has achieved an Alexa ranking placing us higher than all of the three main establishment parties.…