By Michael Woodbridge: “Take up the White Man’s burden And reap his old reward, the blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard…” When the United States relieved Spain of the responsibility for administering the Philippines, Kipling wrote these words to his friend Theodore Roosevelt, as a warning about the consequences of taking on an imperial role. Likewise, Mark Twain declared that the colours of the American flag should be changed from…

By Frederick Dixon: Some of you will remember the late Michael Wharton who wrote in the Daily Telegraph for many years under the pseudonym of ‘Peter Simple’. One of our greatest twentieth century political satirists he was entirely a man of the racial nationalist Right, an astonishing exception to the processed group-think which usually passes for journalism in these times. He had what he called “the columnar reverse effect”  – it was certain that whenever…