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La révolte contre le mondialisme
D’après la gauche, les peuples du monde sont sur le point de se donner la main et d’entrer ensemble dans un nouvel âge de gouvernement mondial et d’harmonie multiculturelle sous le règne d’élites cosmopolites bienveillantes. Mais il y a eu un petit problème sur la route de l’utopie, c’est-à-dire la montée du national-populisme : le Brexit, Trump, Orbán, Salvini, les Gilets Jaunes, etc. (more…)
The map of the European Union after Brexit.
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Recently I had dinner with an Englishman who could have stood in as “a good man from the Shire” sort of character on an episode of PBS’ Masterpiece Theater. I raised the question of Brexit: good or bad? His response was very negative. He then went on to describe the many problems of Britain’s exit from the European Union. (more…)
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Tamás Fricz is a political scientist and research consultant at Hungary’s Center for Fundamental Rights, which is an institution of Hungary’s ruling party, Fidesz.
I know it is taboo, but somebody has to write down the term (and not necessarily as a deterrent): Huxit. (more…)
Morgan Johansson, Sweden’s Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy. Sweden has the highest percentage of immigrants in Europe.
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An Arab proverb warns that it is better to have a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside. For Europe, it is too late. Worse, the enemies inside the house were elected.
Relentless, government-sponsored Islamic immigration into Europe for more than half a decade means that Muslim attacks on the indigenous population are now part of the rhythm of European life. (more…)
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Tim Marshall
The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018
Tim Marshall is a British journalist who had a long career with Sky News. In response to Trump’s win in 2016, he wrote a book about walls around the world and how these walls are affecting geopolitics. (more…)
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Imagine that your house catches fire. You run out, family and pets in tow, to try your darndest to put out the fire. Imagine your neighbor looking on, saying “well, it’s not my house.” What’s wrong with that situation? Well, fire has a tendency to spread. Pretty soon, if your house is on fire, your neighbors’ houses will likewise catch fire. (more…)
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When Brexit won and I heard “Land of Hope and Glory” played at one of the celebrations, I found myself tearing up, much to my surprise. Of course, it makes sense. England is my ancestral homeland. But actually feeling it came as a surprise. It was one of those “Welcome to the human race” experiences. (more…)
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London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
–The Clash (1979)
Forty years ago this month, the punk poet Joe Strummer penned his apocalyptic lyrics, heralding a step-change in the ongoing culture war that has dogged Britain for decades and reduced our nation’s capital city to a multiracial melting pot akin to the Tower of Babel. (more…)
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Let me make this very clear, Mr. Sassoli. You have no right to go and speak to the UK Speaker of Parliament, having conversations that are directly interfering in our domestic politics. (more…)
Jeremy Corbyn
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God save the Queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the Queen
She’s not a human being
and There’s no future
in England’s dreaming
— The Sex Pistols
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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here)
“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”
— William Morris, A Dream of John Ball, about the very first English Peasants’ Revolt against an alien elite
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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)
(The title comes from De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, a work written by the monk Gildas the Wise in the sixth century AD.)
While bumptious Boris leads a Tory bounce in the polls, Little Englander Brexiteers seem to have finally had their way, and the civic nationalists wear their molded-plastic Union Jack hats and wave their paper-thin flags with pride. (more…)