Tag: the United Kingdom

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It’s Grim Up North, So Let’s Make a Film About It

Britain is renowned for its social realism, whether it’s the likes of the world’s most disturbingly mundane soap operas, film classics likeThis Sporting Life, books like A Kestrel for a Knave, and plays like Look Back In Anger. Even Orwell’s seriously over referenced Nineteen Eighty-Four has a social realist tone despite its fantastic, allegorical elements, and all too apparent politics. (more…)

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Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided . . . will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual, and economical exhaustion.

That is a line from an apocryphal letter claimed to have been written by the nineteenth-century American Freemason Albert Pike, in which he made a few amazingly accurate predictions about the future of civilization. He never wrote those words, but by the gods, someone should have. Does that sentence not perfectly describe the state of the West right now? (more…)

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Election special

There is only one game in town at the moment in the Disunited Kingdom, and it’s the imminent General Election. Until a month ago it was as dull as ditchwater, with Labour expected to trounce that loose collective still inexplicably using the name “Conservative Party” and take the uniparty baton from the oldest political party in the world. There was nothing of interest other than the scale of the drubbing. (more…)

Photo courtesy of Number 10 on Flickr.

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Dependence Day

Rishi Sunak, Britain’s diminutive Hindu Prime Minister, has named the date of the British General Election, and it will fall on American Independence Day. In Britain, of course, this would have to be re-christened Dependence Day as, in line with all European states and globalist requirements, dependence is what the state wishes to see in its citizenry. (more…)

Sir Keir Starmer, the likely next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and also the author’s former schoolmate. (Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum’s Flickr)

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It is the run-in to a British General Election in which the Labour Party is certain to replace a Conservative Party which has been in power for almost 15 years. The charismatic Labour leader is warning his party against what he calls “triumphalism,” although he knows almost to a certainty that in half a year’s time the keys to 10 Downing Street will be in his expensively-tailored pocket. (more…)

Tschabalala Self’s Lady in Blue, coming soon to Trafalgar Square. (Image from Ewan C. Forbes on Twitter/X)

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New Model Irish Citizen Army

Éire may not seem the concern of the Union Jackal, but we would all like to see a united Ireland, one country without borders and troubles. Unfortunately, Ireland already has no effective border with her sister to the north, and its troubles are due neither to the British nor the Irish Republican Army, but self-willed via its importation of the Third World. Many of the immigrants who come ashore on England’s Kent coast use the country merely as a travelator to get them to Northern Ireland. (more…)

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English football fans in Europe during the 1980s and ‘90s were not ambassadors either for the British game or Britain itself. Increasingly cheap flights across Europe meant that vast numbers of fat, pasty, sweaty, bald or balding men were able to enjoy spoiling the afternoons of those wishing to use cafés and bars in Portugal, or France, or Malta.

Whenever England or a top English side played in Europe, a town square somewhere would soon fill with beer bellies on shirtless, gross, and grubby torsos. (more…)

One of the Ramadan messages that appeared on the signboards at London’s King’s Cross railway station last week. Photo courtesy of @surplustakes on Twitter/X.

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That elusive last puzzle-piece

The jigsaw puzzle that is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland has a piece missing. Of the puzzle’s four parts, as of this month the only non-white premier in Great Britain is Michelle O’Neill, a worryingly white-skinned blonde who obstinately stands in the way of an ethnic minority clean sweep of the UK’s top posts in government.

With the resignation of Welsh premier Mark Drakeford, a black man, Vaughan Gething, was duly elected in his place, and he wasted no time celebrating the fact that he is the first black premier in the European Union. There, you might be tempted to say, goes the neighborhood. (more…)

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I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet.
Put your braces together and your boots on your feet.
And give me some of that old moon-stomping.
— Symarip, “Skinhead Moonstomp”

People look at you in the street. Makes you feel proud. — a skinhead

Tribalism and Western youth go together, and from the 1960s to the 1980s in Britain the most feared tribe were skinheads. (more…)

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Old England is dying.
— The Waterboys, “Old England”

Looked at from the outside, even the cockney and the Yorkshireman have a strong family resemblance. — George Orwell, “England Your England”

Cultures change, and forms of their rituals and practices shift and mutate in their wake. Perhaps it’s the other way around, and the latter is upstream of the former, to mix aquatic metaphors. Either way the coin falls, the times they are a-changing, and in perpetuity. They always have been. (more…)

Harmonie London

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Delivery for Airstrip One!

America and Great Britain were trading together long before Sir Winston Churchill minted the phrase “special relationship” to describe the transatlantic accord. (It wasn’t Reagan or Thatcher who came up with that one, as is commonly supposed; they just pulled the term out of mothballs). Some American imports were and still are loved in Britain: pre-woke Hollywood, jazz, the great American novel, actually preparing food rather than just killing it and eating it with mushy vegetables. The list is extensive. (more…)

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Arthur F. Loveday
Spain 1923-1948: Civil War + World War
Allentown, Penn.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2022
(originally published in the United Kingdom in 1948)

Of all the nations that make up Western Civilization, Spain was the first that faced and overcame the challenges that eventually troubled all the others. In the 1400s, Spain threw off the Jewish yoke and freed its government and society. A century later, they also expelled the Muslim settler-colonists. Then, in the 1930s, the Spanish defeated a Soviet-led effort to carry out a Communist revolution in their country. (more…)

Kemi Badenoch

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This year’s run-up to the British General Election is reminiscent of 1997, when Tony Blair was so spooked by the enthusiastic backing he was getting from the media that he warned his party about “triumphalism” in the weeks leading up to the ballot. That election was a forgone conclusion, and this year’s looks much the same. (more…)