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.
There’s not much for me to say about this. A bunch of enthusiastic and dedicated chaps are flying a silver WW II veteran Spitfire around the world. What’s not to like? Currently she’s in the US. Apologies for not posting this sooner. https://www.silverspitfire.com/ Built in 1943 the craft being flown flew 51 combat missions in […]
There’s a great episode of the sitcom Becker where the eponymous doctor played by Ted Danson gets into hot water when one of his legendary and magisterial rants is overheard by a journalist. The self righteous liberal accuses him of racism in his column. Becker confronts him on a radio show and the journo quotes […]
In the Chamber of the House of Commons there are carved and painted shields in the wood panelling commemorating the forty-two serving MPs that died in the World Wars. There are also another four for the more recent sitting MPs that have been murdered. The last two are for Ian Gow, killed in 1990 and […]
For the last sixteen years I have worked at one of England’s foremost historical sites. Forgive me if I’m a little reticent about exactly where but given the way things are these days, I don’t wish to give any hostages to fortune. Suffice it to say it’s a highly significant building covering more than six […]
Wishing the BW family, and the USA generally, a great 4th July. Here’s a vid from 2001 that still brings tears to my eyes. It’s prompted by an awful, vicious attack, but serves to celebrate a genuine and enduring friendship. On the day after 9/11, at the Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace, […]
While looking through back issues of the Fortean Times I came across a wonderful little snippet from their Sidelines section, odd news reports from around the world. I reproduce it verbatim here, for your delectation. Ravindra Nath Halder applied for a civil service job in West Bengal in 1968. Now the owner of a Calcutta […]
Here is a story that somehow has a faintly familiar whiff about it. Two lesbian actors, innocently walking a Southampton street, were (so they tell us) subject to a “cowardly homophobic attack”. People in a passing car shouted homophobic abuse (no details given other than the voice was a young male) and they were […]
I know I should be giving an erudite exposition on the recent European elections just now, but I don’t wannna. I’d rather show you this deeply English, deeply Saxon cultural event that means far more and has far more weight than the EU elections. The Haxey Hood Game is one of deep old ones. There […]
As an antidote to the rather doomladen content I’ve been posting, and in the spirit of BW being a community, I thought I’d share one of my favourite recipes. It is a Tudor recipe, and I won’t be giving scientifically exact details. It’s quite an unusual flavour for modern palates, feel free to vary the […]
A story from my Wednesday evening in the pub with my mates. While we discussed how Moslem lasses didn’t used to wear niqabs when we were younger, (it says a huge amount that this by no means an unusual conversation in pub these days). A friend who is a recently retired Met police Sgt told […]
You may not have heard of this story from England’s Midlands. A doctor of 23 years experience is “under investigation” after politely asking a Moslem woman to remove her niqab so that he could hear her better as she described her child’s symptoms. Here is the Mail’s take on it. If you search “Dr Wolverson […]
There is a joke, told during the final days of the Soviet Union when there was a new openness. At the back of a church stood a KGB man, watching the congregation shuffle out after the service. When the church emptied, he sneered at the priest. “Ha! We have nothing to fear from your church, […]
This coming Thursday the UK will be taking part in the elections to the body commonly called the “European Parliament” although it doesn’t represent all of Europe and it’s not really a parliament. It does not initiate legislation and is really just a big, expensive, democratic fig leaf for the Commission which holds the real […]
More from the ever expanding file of ludicrous, scary, news stories from Airstrip One (formerly the United Kingdom). A well established and well liked writer and broadcaster called Danny Baker is currently floating face down in a spreading pool of his own internet blood after being at the centre of a Twitter feeding frenzy, he […]
If Odinist/Asatru pagans behaved like Moslems…