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J. K. Rowling, who earned praise for getting herself cancelled this year by refusing to back down from her normal views on genitalia and gender.
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We can be heroes just for one day. — David Bowie
Hans, are we the baddies? — Mitchell and Webb sketch featuring Nazi soldiers
As European and Commonwealth countries act like faithful servants to the autocratic global coup currently taking place, my own home country of England has fallen into step like a good foot-soldier. The government, nominally Conservative but actually a sort of Green Socialist elite oligarchy, has gone full Bezmenov, contradicting itself on a daily basis about COVID and preventing its people from seeing dying loved ones while it parties maskless indoors.
Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who trades on his comical name of “Boris,” is succeeding in his attempt to be the worst Conservative Prime Minister of modern times, and that against a tough field. Johnson has always relied heavily on his loveable goofball act, its sloppiness as carefully contrived as any politician’s public image. A journalist friend of mine once told me he attended a press conference when Johnson was Mayor of London and glimpsed the future PM through a gap in a curtain, carefully mussing up his blond thatch of hair in the mirror before meeting the press. Johnson is a definitive English zero, and is increasingly seen as such by his own party.
Other Conservatives, however, do still seem to understand the meaning of the term. The MP Steve Baker has shaken up the party by actually acting like a Tory, MP Andrew Bridgen has been forthright about the COVID fiasco, and MP Peter Bone (who I have had the pleasure of meeting) is a great servant to his constituency and is for me what a true Conservative should look and sound like. Another true conservative, who is no longer a Conservative, is MP Anne Widdecombe. She may look and talk like your batty grandmother, but she is as patriotic as she is shrewd and insightful, and we wish her long life. Actually, your batty grandmother would probably govern Britain better than Johnson.
Although currently retired from politics, the engineer of Brexit, Nigel Farage, will always be a shining star to any English conservative, and he is almost alone in highlighting the daily arrivals of hundreds of economic migrants on England’s Kent coast. Vilified by the Left, shunned by the media, and hated by Remainers (the nickname for those who wanted Britain to stay in the EU, also known as “Remoaners” because they won’t shut up about it), Farage must be doing something right.
As for sports, England’s soccer manager, Gareth Southgate, managed the remarkable feat of being both hero and zero. He guided a young and vibrant England team to the final of the European Championships in which they lost to Italy after a penalty shootout. It was not losing the game which gains him zero status, however, but the manner in which he conspired to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
As the penalties progressed, Southgate chose not more experienced white players to take the spot-kicks, but three young black players. This was a curious type of virtue-signaling intended to play to the media class by enabling Southgate to crow about the minority sharpshooters’ influence in winning the Championships. They all missed, and this cost the national side the game. The media coverage after the defeat ignored this failed tokenism, concentrating instead on a couple of hundred tweets about the debacle they deemed “racist,” of which just 11 originated from within the British Isles.
It is difficult to find much to trumpet in English soccer, but hero status has to go to Carlisle United FC, a small club in the north of England. On hearing that vaccine passports were necessary for any game attended by 10,000 or more supporters, they promptly dropped their official stadium capacity to 9,999. Goal!
As for cricket, rain didn’t stop play, for once; woke did. Ollie Anderson, who I wrote about here, was dropped by the England team after a great performance in the match prior because of tweets he wrote when he was 18, and the bowler’s enforced absence surely did not help England’s defeat in the following Test match. Off-guard historical comments also did for legendary ex-England skipper Michael Vaughan, ruining his commentary career after Pakistani player Azeem Rafiq complained about Vaughan calling him an “elephant washer” in a game from the dim past. Rafiq — couldn’t you just guess it? — was himself later disgraced for anti-Semitic remarks he made in his social media portfolio, demonstrating the instant karma that is Twitter. So, in 2021 cricket ran itself out without troubling the scorer.
Turning to the media, both mainstream and dissident, British YouTubers of note continue to provide me with the perfect resumé of United Kingdom news without my having to bother reading it myself. These aggregators provide a vital service for us dissidents, going through the news so we don’t have to and distilling the verbiage and stringer-speak into bite-sized nuggets of relevance. They also have what the Left naturally lack: a sense of humor.
This year’s Big Tech champs include: Alex Belfield (Voice of Reason, covered by me here at Counter-Currents). Metaphor-mangling, music-hall loving, ex-BBC whistleblower Belfield continues his rise, and deserves special praise for highlighting the shocking amount of police corruption in Blighty. Simon Webb (History Debunked) was once a teacher, and I wish he had taught me history. This charming gentleman picks apart the many loose threads in the British black narrative. Michael Heaver produces snappy and informative political videos with a special interest in Anglo-French relations. As far as France and England are concerned, all I can say is we need men and ships, laddie, men and ships. Mahyar Tousi is connected at Westminster, and gets stories quickly. Honorable mentions also go to Rotten Politics, We Have a Problem, and Russell Brand. The latter in particular is coming slowly across to normality, like Bill Maher in the States, after having spent years being an unfunny Lefty comedian.
As for the mainstream media, new channel GB News was launched to much conservative fanfare, but soon tripped over its own shoelaces. Despite a £60 million budget, the presentation was amateurish and they were plagued with technical gremlins you would expect from a teenage YouTuber and not a newly-launched, prime-time British TV enterprise. They also had a genuine louse at the helm.
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Andrew Neil is what is known as a veteran journalist, and left the BBC to set up GB News. Within two weeks he had slunk back to his lair in the south of France, then he quit GB News and scuttled back to his natural habitat at the Biased Broadcasting Corporation, leaving those of us on the Right pondering that if the whole thing had been an intentional put-up job by Neil to scupper a much-needed alternative British media voice (an equivalent to FOX News), nothing would have happened differently. Zero points, Neil. GB News, however, rallied. They now have some decent talking heads and have secured the ratings-boosting services of the aforementioned Saint Nigel of Farage.
As for the Royal Family, I don’t want to risk my chances of a Knighthood (the only time an Englishman ever wants to encounter a woman with a sword in her hand) by not making Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II monarchical heroine of the year. She lost her husband, Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and generally agreed to be the most amusing Greek since Aristophanes. His gaffes were legendary, my favorite being when he met an English cricket team in the 1990s which featured just one colored player, the coal-black fast bowler Devon Malcolm. The Duke mistook him for a waiter and asked him to fetch a glass of wine. RIP, sir.
Her Majesty also behaved with grace while her family betrayed her, with Prince Andrew mired in Epstein allegations and the ridiculous PR cavorting of one of her grandsons, whose exploits follow below. Only Prince William and his fragrant wife Kate maintained the dignity one might hope for from a dying dynasty, in bold contradistinction to his brother and attendant trollop.
Yes, sniveling royal shit of the year is an easy choice. When I was in magazines in London, it was rumored that the worst-kept secret in journalism was that the ginger whiner Prince Harry was not even Charles’ son, but the bastard progeny of polo-playing cad James Hewitt, one of Lady Diana’s paramours. Whatever his DNA, Harry has consistently prostituted his royal credentials to the highest bidder, becoming the Fresh Prince of Woke and clearly worked from behind by his hideous wife, Meghan Markle, just as scabrous an American export to Britain as rap music, action movies, and McDonald’s.
Musically, there was not much to celebrate from the sceptr’d isle. A band I have heard of but am far too old to have ever heard, Mumford and Sons, threw one of their members under the omnibus — and out of the band — for daring to praise Andy Ngo’s book on antifa, Unmasked, and The Strolling Bones made fools of themselves by cancelling the perennial Brown Sugar for its racist overtones. This, despite the band now having an all-black rhythm section after the sad death this year of the man Jagger called the “Wembley Whammer,” Charlie Watts. The heroics were performed by uncancellables Eric Clapton and Van Morrison for their anti-vax stance and songs, covered by me here at Counter Currents.
As for academia, and to tweak a phrase from the Bard’s Romeo and Juliet, a plague on all their houses. Professor Kathleen Stock – again, covered by me here — was hounded from her post as Professor of Philosophy at my alma mater, the University of Sussex, for having traditional views on genitalia and gender, and was followed in short order by Professor Jo Phoenix (both women unprotected by their intersectional bonus points of being lesbians) at the University of Essex for the same heresy. Topping them both for dunce of the year, however, was St. Andrew’s University in Fife (not actually in England, I grant ye). Despite beating even Oxbridge colleges in academic league tables, St. Andrew’s now requires freshmen (can you still say that?) to pass an introductory examination on white privilege and contrition for which there are only right answers. Only English 18-year-olds who didn’t start a Humanities degree course this year get a gold star. The rest of the English universities? Fail!
Pre-university education continues to threaten the mental health of children across Britain, although regular readers of my pieces will be surprised to read that the gold crescent for lower education goes to . . . Islam! Yes, when it came to protesting outside school gates against LGBTQ classroom propaganda, drag-queen story hour, and colorful books about gay dragons, it was Muslim parents who barricaded the academic entrances. It must never be forgotten that Muslims are hyper-conservative. Fuddy-duddy old Tories in the Shires merely want England to revert to the 1950s. Why stop there when you can go back to the 700s? Seriously, the mosque is the place to be if you don’t want your children to hear that Kevin has two daddies.
On to English literature. There. That didn’t take long, did it? Dickens and Hardy put in good efforts, but we didn’t hear much from Galsworthy or Arnold Bennett. Oh, my mistake. That was the nineteenth century. Are there still English novels? There are still novelists, but that doesn’t answer the question. Orwell’s Julia is a mechanic tending to novel-writing machines in 1984, and so yet another of Eric Blair’s predictions comes to pass. I am sure everyone is aware of the modern “sensitivity reader” now employed by all major publishing houses. Yet another layer of cultural commissar, these ideological sniffer dogs troll through new manuscripts to make certain there are the same racial and minority quotas being forced onto us in all other walks of life.
So it’s difficult to find heroes among the zeros, but plaudits to J. K. Rowling, another uncancellable. She held her ground on the gender question to the extent that she was not invited to a celebration of the first Harry Potter movie’s twentieth anniversary. Three hideous transgender creatures also paraded outside Rowling’s house, the address clearly visible online, as a reminder that the Left do not care whose life they endanger in their psychotic quest to destroy normality.
Actors are not my area of expertise, and the last time I watched a British TV drama, Duran Duran were probably at number one. Britain has no Hollywood to act as a morality trade union (about all that can be said for its thespians), although deviating from orthodoxy still leads to ostracism. A mention in dispatches, then, for Laurence Fox, scion of the Fox acting clan with James as his father and Edward his uncle. Fox was on a political chat show when he was asked by a chippy Scouse woman of color in the audience whether he was aware that his opinion was that of a privileged white male. I don’t recall anyone ending their career simply by rolling their eyes, but Fox proceeded to do just that, and the bedlamites of social media turned on him with all the vitriol of classical furies, an allusion they would not understand. Fox’s response to being theatrically terminated was admirable: He formed a political party. The Reclaim Party have not exactly set the British political world on fire, but with the increasing electoral instability caused by the Tory shambles, they may end up being vote-splitters, and Fox’s outfit are being supplied with the political lifeblood of funding from genuinely conservative donors. So, an ovation for the fantastic Mr. Fox, a luvvy actually interested in people other than himself.
As for England as a whole, affectionate and patriotic as I feel towards the old country, it looks increasingly like the last days of Rome without the wonderful architecture. The barbarians are not at the gates but inside them, there being no gates, and at least Nero could actually play the fiddle rather than being on it, as are Britain’s political class. Inflation has crossed the herring pond like cold weather, and if the British are paying a fiver for a loaf of bread next year, then the famously stoical, stiff upper lip of the English may begin to quiver.
In the meantime, wherever you are and wherever you are from, have a very merry Christmas, and a hopeful New Year.
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Let’s not get all exited just because rowling stated the obvious.Her books are nothing but marxist propaganda for children and she catered to the woke mob for decades before they turned on her.
Mr. Gullick didn’t say that we should lionize everything about her, only that she deserves praise for not backing down to the woke mob on this issue, and he’s right. A celebrity making a stand against liberal madness, even if it’s only in one area, is valuable.
Well exactly. It won’t happen overnight, but celebs are a strong lobby, sadly.
From one fellow anglophone country to another, you have a lot to deal with across the pond. Acid attacks, machete killings, elite pedophile rings, paki grooming gangs, islamic terrorism. Stay strong. Across the world people will begin to resist this coronavirus hoax. There will be a brighter future.
The Royal Court Theater in London put on play about a greedy industrialist who wanted to dominate the world and the playwright named the protagonist Herschel Fink. After the Jews of England were through with ripping them a million new ones, the theater and playwright got up off their knees and the character had a new name: Henry Finn. Grudging permission to proceed was granted, but everyone was quite aware they were on notice.
Is Fagin in Dickens´s Oliver Twist yet not cancelled or “forbidden”?
The original head of an early grooming gang!
I would be surprised to see Fagin on screen or stage again without re-writing to make him the victim and white society the villain.
A few years ago there was a concerted attempt in the UK to oppose performances of Bach’s St John Passion because of its “problematic” references to “the Jews”. Thankfully they are not quite strong enough yet to successfully take on the combined authority of John’s Gospel and JS Bach, but the key word is “yet’. They will keep trying.
Russell Brand is insane from drug damage and childhood sexual abuse. And Boris Johnson is American – he was born here, and spent the first formative 14 years of his life here. He’s selling Blighty back to its bastard child out of smirking revenge. And he won’t be PM much longer. The sharks are circling…
But beware. Johnson could become US President, no?
Fortunately for the US, and unfortunately for us, Johnson renounced his American citizenship when he became PM. But I think Prince Harry can become First Eunuch when Meghan Markle becomes president.
He renounced his US citizenship for tax avoidance reasons.
https://observer-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/observer.com/2017/02/british-foreign-secretary-boris-johnson-renounces-us-citizenship-over-tax-dispute/amp/?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#aoh=16401935958072&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fobserver.com%2F2017%2F02%2Fbritish-foreign-secretary-boris-johnson-renounces-us-citizenship-over-tax-dispute%2F
That makes sense. He wouldn’t have done so out of a belief that a country’s prime minister ought to have undivided loyalty to it.
For a split second I thought you meant Greg Johnson. Confucius said if he were head of state the first thing he’d do is rectify the language. I concur. Other suggestions for the box?
Again? He did enough damage in his previous life.
Just discovered Simon Webb over the weekend–what a gem! Will be checking out other mentions forthwith.
A few more recommendations from England.
Ed Dutton, The Jolly Heretic.
This is a video channel on Youtube with live streams on Youtube on Mondays and Thursdays. The livestreams are taken down immediately and put on Bitchute and Odysee for reasons which will be obvious. There is also a recorded video of about 15-20 minutes every Friday which stays on Youtube but of necessity covers a narrower range of issues. The channel covers “based science”, typically genetics and race, but goes much wider to cover more or less any academic topic which is banned or distorted by woke culture. As ever with a long running livestream, there are in-jokes which take a while to understand, but it’s worth persevering.
Andrew Lawrence
Andrew is a comedian who was cancelled (literally and metaphorically) when he sent a tweet about the football match Mark refers to above, saying something like “All I said was that the white players scored”. All his live bookings were cancelled and the woke mob have tried to destroy his livelihood.
He responded by coming out on the attack and he has somehow managed to stay on Youtube, posting a short video most days. The humour is very British, mostly satire on recent UK news, and the language used means that you need to be careful where you watch this material. Andrew does a wonderful Prince Harry series which I’m sure will cross the Atlantic easily. You must despise him at least as much as we do.
Apostolic Majesty
Another youtube channel, this time covering serious historical topics from a traditionalist perspective. AM is either one of us or sympathetic to us, appearing with Millenial Woes on Milleniyule this year.
Thanks. I know Dutton and Lawrence is v funny. I will check the last one. Cheers!
As much as i enjoy Dutton Sean Gabb is my quintessential englishman. A classicist, not a psychologist.
Normies respond to the Rowling Question, take of that what you will.
I disagree that Kathleen Stock has traditional views on gender. Merely pointing to “trans women” and noting that they have (or had) penises and a y chromosome isn’t upholding a traditional attitude toward gender. Mark Richardson covers Miss Stock’s views on gender at his blog (link below). The same is true of JK Rowling. TERFs are trying to make the transgender debate about body parts, as if we’re suddenly clueless about basic human anatomy. The issue is the role of women. If women were under cultural pressure to conform to traditional gender norms, a man wishing to impersonate a woman wouldn’t get anywhere. Think about what would happen to an Amish man who got a sex change and was able to pass himself off as an Amish woman. How long would it be before his people started asking why she (he) was unmarried and had no kids? Under those conditions, hardly anyone would consider impersonating the opposite sex. A return to traditional gender roles would be met with howls of protest by the likes of Stock of Rowling. They would call them “limiting” and “outdated.” Fine, you don’t want women to return to their traditional roles, then you’ll have to live with female impersonators. There are no cultural barriers to stop them from insisting that they are women.
http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/2021/09/kathleen-stock-2.html
Ian Brown of the Stone Roses has been a Covid skeptic from the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHn6KurHE0
Noel Gallagher of Oasis has also been saying a lot of based things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcgyJ7HNCo
Gen X are finally turning into their parents.
Quick editorial note – Ollie Robinson, not Anderson. Im a huge cricket fan and get a big kick out of the fact that nearly all the racial vilification sanctions are applied, embarrassingly and awkwardly, against south Asians (especially Pakistanis) who just cannot keep their mouths shut about blacks when playing south africa or the west Indies. Is hilarious.
Oops, that is me caught behind, sir. Good ball!
Elephant washers is a good one to add to my slur arsenal. Spengler speculated on the rise of Caesarism to offset the death of a polity-culture in its last days, but I don’t see even the shadow of such a figure emerging as Savior and certainly not the secret service nor dan bongino as the Praetorian guard. It’s kind of surprising that Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais haven’t been purged by the cancel cult, or the start of monthly reparations payments; I’d love to hear Irwin Schiff’s take on that who died in prison protesting theft by income tax.
The Queen doesn’t get involved in politics too much, but when she does, it’s appalling. Two examples: Rhodesia, South Africa. More recently, the whole climate change racket.
I am perplexed why Taki writes so fawningly about BoJo. Almost as shocked as when I read Tucker Carlson (In his latest book) say he liked Al Sharpton. Wait, what?!
Hear hear, La-Z-Man! The Queen could have said or done something about mass immigration, Woke, and the corruption of all of the institutions. All of this is clearly destroying Britain. Instead, “crickets.”
The monarch is mostly a figurehead now, but the Queen does have certain constitutional rights, which she doesn’t seem to have exercised at all regarding these issues, in such very dark times. What would it take for her to do so? I didn’t hear anything about the grooming gangs. Instead she chose to make a statement about climate change, as you mentioned.
In a word, Her Majesty and all the clan (not just her douche grandson) are less than useless.
Merry Christmas, Traddles.
Merry Christmas, La-Z-Man! Thank you.
“last days of Rome without the wonderful architecture”
there was a meme which run as thus:
Are we like in the final days of the roman empire?
Yes, but without the roads.
Who will build the roads indeed…
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