Anyone who grew up in the British Isles from the 1970s to the 1990s will understand what is meant by “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, and will know that the IRA stands for the Irish Republican Army. From at least 1969 until 1998, this Catholic paramilitary organization was the leading cause of terrorism in the […]
King Charles III has just invited yet another Prime Minister (PM) to form a government of the Union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The current monarch must be becoming accustomed to receiving these visits at Buckingham Palace. He had thought his coronation would just mean more visits to hospitals and mosques to take […]
For those of us on the political Right, going to the cinema has been an increasingly unrewarding experience. Endless comic-book franchises, the absurd over-representation of ethnic minorities in Hollywood movies, the influence of “woke” and its resultant cinematic sermonizing; these are hardly the 1970s, perhaps the greatest decade in the history of cinema. Audiences get […]
If you have ever been a passenger on a large, ocean-going vessel which has had to turn through 180°, then you will know how long it takes. A cruise-liner or a super-tanker moves at glacial speed on the turn, and it is reminiscent of something; the British national consciousness. After almost two years of the […]
“To be born an Englishman is to win first prize in God’s lottery”. The phrase is often misattributed to Johnson or Kipling, but was most likely uttered by Sir Cecil Rhodes. If it is true, then any White Englishman today could be forgiven for wondering just how bad second prize is. England has not declined […]
The hippies of the 1960s had many colorful phrases to express their minimalist grasp of politics. Some of these gnomic one-liners, however, held a grain of truth. “Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in” describes today’s British uniparty to a nicety, even if that is on the way out, at least in its […]
The English author John Le Carré is best known for his novels of Cold-War espionage. His most famous character, George Smiley, has the following to say on the subject: The obsession of the two great economic systems with each other’s identity, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses had produced by the 1970s a state of mutual watchfulness […]
