Author: Mark Gullick

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“You cannot build a history on fiction.”
David Starkey, English historian.

Tony Blair was a very skilled operator when it came to language, an advocate of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and adept with slippery rhetorical moves. One of his very first speeches in office was quite brilliant due to one of its linguistic constructions. What was his new government’s first priority? he asked. “Three things. Education, education, education.” He wasn’t lying, his government did indeed prioritize education. He just didn’t say what they were going to do with it. (more…)

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On May 22, 2017, an American pop-star named Ariana Grande played a concert at the Manchester Arena in the north of England. The target market for Ms. Grande’s music is young girls, thousands of whom were in attendance. They became targets of a different kind. Salman Abedi was a young Muslim man, and one would not ordinarily expect him to be attending such an example of Western decadence. But he went anyway. He wore a large black back-pack, which his father had helped him to pack. He must have looked out of place, and even suspicious. (more…)

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Two of the biggest stories of the last week look as though they couldn’t differ more. The release of additional police bodycam footage of the murder of Henry Nowak in the UK needs following as closely as any film script, and we will. We all need to be film reviewers here. It shows something about the state of Britain, and the way in which its citizens are policed, particularly its white citizens, which the political and media class don’t want those citizens to notice. (more…)

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Eugenia Cheng
How to Bake ϖ
Profile Books, 2015

Something about my own cognitive ability has always frustrated me. Well, being mediocre at chess after half a century playing the game frustrates me, but perhaps that failure to improve much is linked with my main irritation. I have a PhD and a very high IQ (tested and confirmed at ages 11 and 21), so why don’t I get maths, or “math,” as Americans prefer? (more…)

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Britain is about to get her sixth Prime Minister in seven years. Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation from the highest political office in the United Kingdom from outside the famous black front door of Number 10, Downing Street on Monday, and will apparently leave in September. This is a fast-moving story, and as I write there is talk about Starmer leaving office in July if there is no leadership contest. (more…)

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In January of 2025, Nigel Farage made a pledge to the people of Britain, and he did it on the Left-leaning radio station LBC (London Broadcasting Company). It isn’t unusual for politicians to make pledges any more than it is for them to go on to break them, but he promised to fund an inquiry the government had voted against having. That inquiry was to be into what is, or was until recently, universally referred to as the “grooming gang scandal.” On June 17 this year, not 18 months later, that report appeared. But it wasn’t Farage’s report. Like a Bond movie or a comic-book strip, it was his nemesis, his arch-enemy Rupert Lowe, who produced the report the British deep state didn’t want people to see. (more…)

Nigel Farage. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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White people and black people differ in many ways, and one of these differences is coming to the fore. The difference is one of perception. Whereas black people merely believe they have a white problem, because they are taught that they do, white people increasingly know they have a black problem, even if they are not permitted to talk about it. Black people are told, constantly, that white people are a clear and present danger to their people (despite the fact that they are far more dangerous to one another). (more…)

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Professor David Betz is an academic whose area of expertise includes civil war. His title is Professor of War in the Modern World, and he teaches at King’s College, London, a highly respected university. He has been doing the rounds on alternative media for the last year or so predicting that civil war, or some variant, is imminent not just in the UK but across Europe. Recently, he made an interesting comment. If civil war or something similar starts in Europe, it will start in Northern Ireland. (more…)

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Post-Henry Nowak Policing

It is highly unlikely that anyone reading this does not by now know the name of Henry Nowak. Henry was an 18-year-old English student who died in police custody in December of last year after a false allegation of racism was made by his Sikh murderer, which meant that the attending police officers treated the crime scene as a racist incident rather than the stabbing attack that it was. I covered the details of Henry’s death here at Counter Currents, but I want to look at the consequences of this racist killing, both politically and in the media. (more…)

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Marc de Launay
Nietzsche and Race
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023

On August 1, 1950, Theodor Adorno wrote a letter to Thomas Mann. Adorno was a philosopher and critical theorist, Mann one of Germany’s most famous novelists, having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, primarily for his novel, Buddenbrooks. Adorno wished to tell Mann of a planned book on Nietzsche, to be written with Max Horkheimer and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Horkheimer, along with Adorno, was one of the founders of critical theory, while Gadamer was the “father of hermeneutics,” a specific interpretative method applied to texts qua texts, and a development of Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics. The book was to have a very specific theme and purpose: (more…)

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“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of George Floyd.

“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of Henry Nowak.

Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old Englishman, a student of Polish descent, and was studying for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Southampton University, England. (more…)

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This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all.
–The Zodiac Killer

There many stock characters embedded in the psyche of the movie-going public. Vampires, aliens, cowboys, gangsters; these are the recognizable types that separate movies by genre. And there is one of these types that exerts a particularly morbid fascination on film-watchers; the serial-killer. (more…)

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When I first chanced across Counter-Currents almost a decade ago, two things kept me coming back. Firstly, it was the first site I had seen which featured philosophy from a Right-wing perspective. Philosophy is my academic environment, and my BA, MA, and PhD are all in the subject, but online philosophy magazines are offshoots of mainstream academia, and therefore lean strongly to the Left. (more…)