Tag: Manchester

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The most memorable slogan in British electoral history was invented by a nine-year-old girl. “If You Want a Nigger For a Neighbor, Vote Labour!” was the unofficial catchphrase of the Conservative/Tory Party in the parliamentary constituency of Smethwick during the UK General Election of 1964. (more…)

Pep Guardiola, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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As I discussed in a previous article, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner of Manchester United Football Club, caused controversy last week by saying that, thanks to uncontrolled mass immigration, his home-country of the UK was being “colonized by immigrants.” Across the city at United’s local rivals, however, the prospect of Europe being conquered by outsiders seems to be an altogether more welcome one to other leading lights in Manchester’s football (as in “soccer” for US readers) hierarchy. (more…)

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) upset some people this week by releasing a series of t-shirts branded with logos from previous iterations of the Olympic Games—including the 1936 Munich ones, held in Nazi Germany. Cue howls of liberal outrage. It was said that Including the Nazi Olympics was just not on, with the whole shameful episode being an appalling example of the unnecessary politicization of sport upon behalf of a sinister totalitarian regime. (more…)

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This coming weekend sees the conclusion of most major football (or soccer, for US readers) leagues across Europe. I doubt whether the prominent anti-immigration French philosopher Renaud Camus, the man who coined the term “The Great Replacement”, is a big sportsball fan himself, but if he is, he should be keeping close tabs on the contrasting final-day fortunes of two distant teams: Manchester United, of the English Premier League, and SSC Napoli of Italy’s Serie A. (more…)

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Mark E Smith
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Marc E Smith
Viking, 2008

I hope this book turns out like Mein Kampf for the Hollyoaks generation.
–Mark E. Smith, Renegade

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I’ve written about a number of English bands for Counter-Currents: Joy Division, Killing Joke, Morrissey, Ultravox (the original, good Ultravox). (more…)

Whittaker Chambers

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The first significant anti-Communist victory in the Cold War’s early years did not involve any soldiers. In a century filled with warfare, the two principal contenders in this fight were men who were just too young to have served in the military during the First World War and yet too old to have served in the tragic and disastrous Second World War. (more…)

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Editor’s Note: This March 22, 2009 British National Party “stump speech” given in Manchester was transcribed by Hyacinth Bouquet. Sadly, the video is incomplete. If anyone has a complete version, or information about where it was filmed, please contact us at [email protected]. (more…)

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Here are the young men.
But where have they been?

— Ian Curtis, “Decades”

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (more…)