Tag: Brexit

Official Portrait of Ann Widdecombe. EU Parliament, 2019.

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Ann Widdecombe is dead, and what has emerged since should unsettle anyone paying attention to the state of political discourse in the West. Her death was confirmed Friday morning by her management, after she was found dead in her isolated rural home near Haytor, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park. Police believe she was attacked around 12:30pm the previous Wednesday, having failed to appear for a scheduled TV interview that afternoon. A 28 year old man was arrested on suspicion of murder in South Yorkshire on Saturday. Initially, police said there was nothing to suggest a terrorism link. That has now changed. Counter Terrorism Policing has taken over the investigation, and the suspect has been re-arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. (more…)

Nigel Farage.

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The term “folk-horror” has blossomed over the past two decades, being used to describe a sub-genre of horror films, novels, and TV shows set in the European countryside, where strange rural ways and rites of pagan worship become mixed up with ghosts, demons, murder, and sorcery. (more…)

Matt Goodwin in Budapest last month. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Last time around we discussed Suicide of a Nation, a generic but perfectly serviceable beginner’s guide to the intentional immigration-based destruction of Great Britain by the former academic turned TV presenter and Reform UK politician Matt Goodwin. So far, we have focused upon how his book was critiqued by opponents on the United Kingdom’s Left. Although Goodwin has critics further to the Right to deal with, too — namely, people like us, who you may have thought would be broadly sympathetic to Matt’s cause. Evidently not. (more…)

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Back when Brexit was being debated, I encouraged Britons to be done with the European Union. Indeed, I encouraged all the EU member states to leave. But I cautioned them not to be naïve. The same globalist policies pushed by the EU could and would be pushed by home-grown globalists, just as they are in non-EU states around the world.

But many Britons thought that they had bad globalist policies because Jean-Claude Juncker telephoned London and dictated them. (more…)

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Here was a population not convinced that old England was as good as possible.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical

 In October, 2009, I was ranked No. 41 in a list of the 100 most powerful right-wingers in Britain. I am not sure about the “right winger” bit, preferring to consider myself a Whig.
Nigel Farage, Flying Free (more…)

David Lammy, the UK’s new Foreign Secretary, who made sure to mention in his very first speech in the post that he is “a descendant of enslaved people.” (Image source; UK Parliament website)

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England swings like a pendulum do.
Bobbies on bicycles two by two.
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben.
The rosy red cheeks of the little children.
— Roger Miller, “England Swings”

And so, as they say, it begins. Labour’s predicted landslide in last week’s United Kingdom general election proved to be just that, with the party winning 412 seats out of the parliamentary total of 650. It is the second-largest Labour majority in history in a general election which had the second-lowest voter turnout (a pathetic 52%) in that same history. (more…)

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Následující text je překladem přednášky F. Roger Devlina z jarního setkání Counter-Currents 2023

Termín populismus se v Americe hojně rozšířil od vzestupu Donalda Trumpa, v Evropě pak ještě o něco dříve, jako negativně zabarvené zastřešující označení protiimigračních protestních stran. Po všelidovém hlasování o Brexitu a zvolení Trumpa prezidentem se v anglicky hovořícím světě vyrojily knihy o populismu jako houby po dešti. Vsadil bych si, že za mnoha z nich stojí zadání vypočítavých vydavatelů, kteří doufali ve snadný zisk z náhle módní materie. (more…)

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This is a response to Asier Abadroa’s “Is Ethnonationalism Compatible with Genetic Interests in Practice?” His answer is, on balance, no. He argues that ethnonationalism is often connected with romantic ideas about faraway oppressed peoples that are not based on fact, that peoplehood is hard to define, that ethnonationalism is often connected to bad ideas such as chauvinism and Marxism, (more…)

Ramadan lights near Leicester Square in London, March 2023.

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Christ, you know it ain’t easy

So, the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland staggers through another year of our Lord, although that’s not a much-used phrase just at the moment. (more…)

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F. Roger Devlin talks about translating Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment as well as about how populism developed out of the traditional Left-Right dichotomy in this video from the 2023 Counter-Currents Spring Retreat. The text of the talk is here. (more…)

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The following is the text of Gregory Hood’s opening statement in the “Ethnonationalism vs. Imperialism” debate with Greg Johnson that was held at the recent Counter-Currents Spring Retreat. Dr. Johnson’s opening statement, which preceded this one, can be read here.

It’s not a question of whether you want to live in an imperium or not. You’re going to live under an imperial rule of some kind. The only question is whose it’s going to be. (more…)

Alain de Benoist

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Czech version here

The following is the text of a talk that was given at the recent Counter-Currents Spring Retreat.

The term populism has been on people’s lips in the United States since Donald Trump’s rise, and its popularity goes back a bit farther in Europe, where it had already gained currency as a kind of curse word for anti-immigration protest parties. Following the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election, books on populism began proliferating in the English-speaking world. I expect many of these were solicited by the publishers, hoping to capitalize on a suddenly fashionable subject. During the Winter of 2018-19, Counter-Currents published a series of reviews of these new titles; I contributed four. (more…)

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[C]onsistently and comprehensively they have been deceived. — Christopher Booker, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union

We gotta get out of this place
If it’s the last thing we ever do.
— The Animals (more…)