Tag: the United Kingdom

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Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera
Expresión de tu vida nos da.
Bajo el límpido azul de tu cielo
Blanca y pura descanza la paz.

Noble homeland, your beautiful flag
Expresses for us your life.
Under the limpid blue of your skies
Peace reigns, white and pure. (more…)

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Patrick J. Buchanan
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
New York: Random House, 2008

See also: “The Collapse of British Power,” “The Audit of War,” “The Lost Victory,” “The Verdict of Peace,” “The Forced War,” “America First,” “Colonel McCormick,” & “Wind Down the Empire of Nothing” (more…)

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Patrick J. Buchanan
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999

See also: “The Collapse of British Power,” “The Audit of War,” “The Lost Victory,” & “The Verdict of Peace”

If ever there was a call which went unheeded, it is former presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan’s admonition that once the Cold War ended, the United States should have reduced its military footprint to a size capable of dealing with its own national interests. (more…)

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Stregoneria Politica is the title of Guido Taietti’s “manual of non-conventional political communication.” It translates as “political witchcraft,” and one can see why such a title was chosen. There may be nothing new under the Sun, and doing politics has always been a messy business no matter which system of government was employed, but the advent of the Internet and social media has rendered the political realm today even more bewildering, heaving with with a multitude of parties and actors who are all noisily vying for attention. (more…)

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Sepoys on the dark side of the Moon

India may not seem to lie within the remit of this column, but bear with me. Britain’s ex-colony — which seems to be a description that fits a lot of nations now outpacing the old country — has just landed a spacecraft on the Moon, although it has not been confirmed whether, in line with Indian trains, there were dozens of people hanging off its hull. (more…)

The Bibby Stockholm today.

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Thou shalt have a fishy
On a little dishy.
Thou shalt have a fishy
When the boat comes in.
— Traditional English folk song (more…)

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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $66,365.84 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) But first, Mark Gullick explains why your support is so crucial given what we are up against today. (more…)

David Starkey

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In recent years an attempt was made to reshape Britain on the model of a totalitarian dictatorship. We were constantly being urged to report each other to the authorities.

This was done by the government, which wanted us to denounce our neighbors if they left their houses more than once a day, and by the police, who did all they could to attract reports of “hate incidents.” (more…)

Nigel Farage may have been able to get Britain out of the European Union, but now he can’t even maintain an account at the bank that Queen Elizabeth used to use.

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Farage against the machine

De-banking has arrived in Great Britain. Or rather, it has been going on for some time, but now it’s happened to someone with media leverage. Nigel Farage, the ex-financier who engineered Brexit, was contacted by his bank and told his account was being closed down. The bank in question is Coutts & Co., an exclusive concern who won’t even let you sit down if you haven’t got a million quid. The Queen used to bank there, although the current King seems the sort of personage who might give his money to that nice Nigerian chap who emailed him about his uncle also being a King and having made a will. (more…)

Richard Thaler thinks you may need a little nudge from above to make the correct decisions.

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When the subject awoke from the state of somnambulism, he seemed to have lost all memory of what had happened while he was in that state. — Sigmund Freud, An Autobiographical Study 

That’s like hypnotizing chickens. — Iggy Pop, “Lust for Life”

Why is it so easy to control the masses? I’m sure you have seen the phenomenon in which one person in a crowd of people suddenly looks up and stares at the sky, followed by the people around him, followed by the people around them and so on until everyone is gazing upwards at nothing. (more…)

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The French-language news portal Breizh-Info has published a long interview in French with Hungarian Member of Parliament László Toroczkai, who is the leader of the opposition nationalist parliamentary group Mi Hazánk Mozgalom. The following is an English translation.

László Toroczkai has been a leading figure in Hungarian nationalism for 25 years. His biography has few equals in this political milieu. He began as a young parliamentary assistant working with the Hungarian Justice and Life Party, or MIÉP, in the late 1990s, which was a nationalist party that had parliamentary representation between 1998 and 2002. (more…)

The blacks brought by the Empire Windrush in 1948: cheap labor for Britain, or the result of cheap tickets?

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(Post-)modern history

Have you ever talked yourself out of a job? The Cambridge University Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic have. The Dons have declared that Anglo-Saxons did not exist, which should free up a third of their time. (more…)