On the day Mrs Thatcher announced that she was leaving Downing Street I travelled to Westminster from west London, where I was living at that time. A fellow student asked me on Richmond Bridge why I was doing so. “Because this is a historic day,” I replied. I don’t know whether she thought I was […]
In the last half century or so, we Brits have been asked to tolerate a lot. Every decade we are asked to tolerate a bit more. What is our limit? Is there one? Do we just go on into infinity tolerating more and more? Sixty-odd years ago, following legislation to legalise homosexuality, the Establishment tentatively
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Back in 2020 I published a series of messages on my old blog that I was receiving from a friend who was then working as a taxi driver in a northern city. Below I republish them. Because I think it gives an authentic window into that terrible time, told from the perspective of someone ‘at
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After being thrown out of my job in publishing by mediocre tyrants in thrall to a twisted ideology, I went four months unemployed but recently secured temporary work at the Royal Mail doing Christmas sorting. Echoing Charles Bukowski, here’s what I’ve found there. Everyone is very nice. Or at least, they are real – unlike
What future does this country have? 2029 At the general election, no party is able to get an overall majority. And so a coalition of Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, Muslim independents and other assorted Left-wing MPs come together to form a government. 2030 A dozen churchgoers are slaughtered by Islamic terrorists on Christmas
Back in 2007 I authored this blog. I fully expect you to have just consumed every word of it before reading this sentence, but if you somehow haven’t (you don’t like noughties style text formatting?) let me pick out a few random bits from it: The ghastly Macpherson Report has been to blame for much
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Fraser Nelson can easily be criticised for his hagiographic attitude to 21st century multiracial Britain, with his belief that we generally rub along fine, violent crime has never been lower and things are really pretty good, but his detractors miss the point. Nelson misses something far more fundamental about what we’ve become. He’s not the only
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Atheism isn’t very fashionable on the Right nowadays. It never really was. But I never saw a conflict between unbelieving and Right-wing notions, in fact they seemed highly compatible: evidence-based; a rejection of utopian thinking; rational; grounded in reality. Thus around 20 years ago I was basking in ‘thrilling godlessness’, as Martin Amis had it,
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Recent research by Channel 4 showed that black people, despite making up 4% of the British population, are present in 50% of advertisements. Why is this? To even ask the question is to play with fire. But let’s get our hands warm. Essentially, I compare it to foreign dictators’ rallies, where no one can be
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In this post I will give a version of my defenestration from my job in an industry I had worked in for over 30 years. I say ‘give a version’, because legally I am forbidden from going into the details. Everything I write will be true, but I will alter some details, blur others, not
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