Tag: the United Kingdom

British MP Jeremy Hunt, whose surname is as perfect an example of Cockney rhyming slang as you could find.

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A bad month for the Iron Lady and the suffragette

There is never a good time to be a statue in England. You are out in all weathers, for a start, and on the rare days the Sun does shine pigeons seize the opportunity to take a dump on your head. But you do usually get to hang around on your pedestal or plinth for a few decades, or even centuries, before you are abused by humans. That, like much in the old country, is changing, and 2020 shall henceforth be known as the year of the great toppling. But the last month has seen attacks on statues of two famous English women, proving equality is alive and well. (more…)

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The United Kingdom has two world-famous institutions traditionally close to its heart, like a pair of old and beloved relatives. The first is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), often referred to as “Auntie.” The second is the National Health Service (NHS), often referred to as “on the brink,” “under increasing pressure,” and “close to collapse.” (more…)

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Editor’s Note: This March 27, 2008, British National Party “stump speech” given in Tameside 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].

Every element that sustained prior forms of British English life is declining or has dipped down. Marriage and the family are in turmoil, and hardly anyone is marrying. (more…)

Deputy PM Dominic Raab wants to assure you that free speech will be given “trump card status” under the UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill.

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Ukraine? The brochure looks nice

It is not clear that the British government quite understands the habits of the mercenary soldier. After its dithering Foreign Secretary Liz Truss indicated that British citizens were free, should they so wish, to go to Ukraine and fight against Russia, she sympathized with these would-be Lord Byrons. Her staff reminded both her and the men ‘o war of the latest travel advice on its website: (more…)

Sasha Johnson, a BLM activist who was seriously injured in a shooting at a London party but whose case was mysteriously dropped when the only suspects were black males.

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We need to talk about race. This is an interesting sentence in that it could be uttered with sincerity by someone from either end of the political spectrum. From a far-Left perspective, as we are well aware to the point of nausea, it means we need to talk about race all the time. (more…)

Beloved British cartoon character Peppa Pig has been unmasked as a horrible racist after being shown doing such unconscionable things as buying fiddles and attending an Irish dancing festival during a trip to Ireland.

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Late to the party

There seems to be a political axiom whereby it is clear that a party or its leaders are in trouble when they start doing things, or at least start talking about doing things, which the majority of people actually want done. Thus, we see Angela Rayner, the blowsy Deputy Shadow Prime Minister, “talking tough” (translated from politico, that means horse-shitting) on crime. Ms. Rayner recently called Tories “scum” on social media. I don’t know where she thinks these mythical Tories are, but they certainly aren’t in the Conservative Party. (more…)

Nadine Dorries, the UK’s Digital Secretary, says the new law will “make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while enshrining free speech.”

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John Stuart Mill, in On Liberty, provides us with a brief crime report from the nineteenth century:

Penalties for opinion, or at least for its expression, still exist by law; and their enforcement is not, even in these times, so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force. In the year 1857, at the summer assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man, said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced for 21 months’ imprisonment, for uttering, and writing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity. (more…)

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What kind of violent future awaits your offspring? — Tommy Robinson & Peter McLoughlin, Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam

Tommy Robinson divides many people, including some on the Dissident Right. (more…)

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This is the first installment of Mark Gullick’s monthly roundup of the news from the United Kingdom, which we plan to publish during the last week of each month henceforth.

Sometimes I look at the old country and wonder how we ever got an empire organized without tripping over our own shoelaces. (more…)

The consequences of 74 years of “cultural enrichment” in the UK.

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At the start of the millennium in the United Kingdom, an accusation of racism in the workplace might have led to a few cold shoulders in the office. Now, it is more likely you will be clearing out your desk, possibly with a police officer in attendance prior to your arrest. (more…)

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787)

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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. — Exodus 22.18

The lady’s not for burning. — title of a 1948 play by Christopher Fry (more…)

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Nick Jeelvy was joined by Counter-Currents writer Mark Gullick PhD, OMIC to discuss the United Kingdom in the 1970s and ’80s as he remembers it, with a special focus on music of that period, on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)