Greetings from the UK fellow Deplorables. Or perhaps, coming from the other side of the Pond, I’m a Lamentable, possibly a Woeful.
Be that as it may, I’m here, on this wonderfully and unapologetically American site because I believe strongly that the US and the UK are, or at least should be, close, natural and unshakeable allies.
Briefly, I'm a British patriot and constitutional traditionalist with distinct libertarian tendencies and I believe in the UK's independence from the EU.
St George’s Day greetings from a locked down England. Over the last few years, the day has been marked more and more by local authorities, pubs and local groups. Sadly, this year the various events celebrating our national day will simply not be happening. On the upside, maybe the focus on the CCP virus maybe […]
sitting at home, on the net, up too late, been drinking whisky. All of a sudden, I’d come up with this…hope you like it, do with it as you will.
“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 Role play crops up in our lives in various guises. I’ve taken part in it (willingly and unwillingly) for fun, as part of my job and even at school. I’m not talking about […]
The two famous quotes on statistics, the one titling this piece and its sibling “figures don’t lie but liars know how to figure.” could hardly have a better illustration than the CCP virus pandemic we find ourselves dealing with. There is a confusion of figures and percentages flying around like budgerigars on speed. We should […]
More excellent work from China Uncensored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZON-07xnPZs
Once again I am posting a service from the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace. A little slice of normality from our happy, house arrested kingdom. I hope you find it of comfort, or just interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrOIHZKKJ8c
In these troubling and testing times I thought I would share with you something special. A service at the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. The Palace is closed to visitors and Chapel is not open to its usual congregation, and so the Chaplain, the Revd. Canon Anthony Howe, decided to record this morning’s Sung […]
It’s odd how the death of a famous figure you can affect you. Maybe you’d not thought of them for years but the news that they’ve gone on brings them back to your mind and suddenly they swim into focus, bringing back memories and making you realise what impact they had on your life. I […]
When I saw the WHO’s Tedros Adhnom making such a thing about the “approved” specific name for the coronavirus, Covid-19, I thought little of it. When I saw the MSM losing their little minds about the use of the terms Wuhan, or Chinese Flu, the penny dropped. The government in Beijing is highly adept at […]
Some Anglo-Saxon culture, and comfort… Dear friends. The current situation with the virus made me remember of a 10th century poem in Old English, or Anglo-Saxon. It’s called Deor, after the scop (pron. ‘shop’), or bard, who narrates it. I thought I’d share it with you as it is very apt for the situation we […]
Faces at dear old, sad old Auntie BBC are redder than Comrade Corbyn’s politics following two fabulous fubars in the last week or so. Do try to remember, it’s wicked to mock the afflicted, so try not laugh, well, not too much. First, in a report on the tragic death of Kobe Bryant they played […]
Today we lost Sir Roger Scruton, one of the most significant conservative thinkers of the last few decades. A gentleman, thinker, anti-Communist activist, huntsman, writer, modern traditionalist, a friend to freedom and true Englishman. Tonight we are poorer, we have lost a remarkable man. Sir Roger left us many works to think upon, the best […]
Do with it what you will…
Here we are dear friends, good news at last from the United Kingdom. We have a decent Conservative majority in the House of Commons, with a reasonably sound Prime Minister for the first time this century. How do I feel? Relieved mainly. The prospect of a Labour government led by a terrorist snuggling old school […]
Well, the polls close in 3 hour 30 minutes. It still feels as if there’s no election happening here, in one of the most vulnerable and significant seats. Yesterday I saw a small stall run by the Socialist Workers Party urging people to vote Labour, and a lone leftie independent doing the same. I’ve yet […]