A Free Country, Stick and Stones and the Inevitable Salvation of the British People.
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…
The Stairway to Heaven – Part 2 – Guerrilla Politics
There can be no more iconic image of romantic derring-do than that of swash-buckling British cavalry soldiers in bright red tunics and all their gold braided finery charging on horse-back, swords drawn, towards the Russian cannons that opposed them during the charge of the Light Brigade. Yet romantic and heroic though the charge of the Light Brigade was, the British cavalry were so depleted in numbers by the withering hail of enemy fire that by…
Sea Changes
The fall of the Left/Liberal consensus has long been anticipated by those on our side of politics; the Left is devoid of ideas and originality, all of its nostrums have been tested to destruction and the consequences – societal breakdown – are all around us. The empty husk waits only for a fresh, strong, breeze to blow it out of the positions of power and influence which it still occupies by sheer inertia. Alex Kurtagic…
My Honour is Loyalty
As the days draw in around Autumn and move towards Winter, we in Britain, Europe and the Northern Hemisphere begin to think of the way Nature sheds its old forms. Travelling in its inexorable way towards closure, it’s entirely appropriate that we should be reminded of past lives and times, as if by some hidden hand, we also find ourselves commemorating the dead from two world wars. Nevertheless, in recent years a controversy has broken…
The Migrant ‘Crisis’ – Some Further Considerations
By Max Musson: I obtained a copy of the results of a YouGov opinion poll taken during the last week of February this year and it was interesting to me that even before the current ‘migrant crisis’ had erupted as fully as it has now, 75% of the people polled stated they thought immigration has been too high over the last ten years, and it struck me that this viewpoint diametrically opposes the impression of…
Sauce for the Goose, …
By Max Musson: In a move that some observers have likened to the enactment of the so called ‘Nuremberg Laws’ by National Socialist Germany in 1935, the Israeli cabinet have by a 14 to 7 majority, approved a controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The new legislation is designed to reserve “national rights” for Jews only and to deny such rights to minority groups; Arab Muslims and Christians,…
The Banning of Art and the Real Monuments Men
By David Yorkshire: A few months ago, the usual suspects in Hollywood released yet another of their big-budget World War Two films, where we were treated to another instalment in that great mythology, complete with the post-modern pantheon of demons, the Nazis. I finally managed to see the film a few days ago. It is perhaps interesting, as an aside, that Germans never referred to themselves as Nazis and the term was rather an allied…