The British People — Which Way Now?
Since the late 1800s, when the British Empire was at its height and we British had our greatest influence over the world, and following two successfully won World Wars the after-effects of which have been devastating for our nation, we British now seem to have reached our lowest ebb and at a time when there would appear to be no clear leader to follow and seemingly, no clear ideological path forward either. This is not…
The Land of Lost Content
Travelling on the London underground is usually an interesting way to observe “diversity”, but earlier this month I was too absorbed in a piece in the Evening Standard to pay much attention to my fellow passengers. The feature which had caught my attention was headed “Ben Fogle and the fine art of being English”. It turns out that Ben has written a new book: ” ‘we hit a funny obstacle today’ he said ‘the book…
Another Crack in the Ice
By Frederick Dixon: In August I wrote a short piece about the Rotherham child sex grooming scandal, and wondered if at last the left/liberal ice which has kept us in a political and intellectual deep freeze since the sixties was beginning to thaw. As the months go by I become more and more optimistic that the ice age is, at last, drawing to a close; I know that it doesn’t always seem like it when schools can be punished for being too…
Heroic Nationalism
By Frederick Dixon: At this season of Remembrance, and as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, we should think about the nature of the sacrifice made by our young fellow countrymen and countrywomen in the two World Wars of the last century. They gave their lives, their health, their youth to save our country from foreign invasion – “for your today we gave our tomorrow”. This is not the…