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.
Transport for London (TfL) is the local government body that runs public transport in Greater London, they come under the Mayor of London and the advertising on their vehicles and property is seen by millions of people from all over the world. The passing of new (or rather 7th century) sexual laws in Brunei, and […]
Forty years ago today the Conservative Party won a sizeable majority in the General Election and the next day Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s first female Prime Minister, ushering in a new era in British politics. A huge amount will no doubt be written about her legacy and much of it will be revisionist tripe. […]
The Death of Stalin, if you’ve not seen it yet, then you should. You won’t be surprised to hear, it follows the events surrounding the death of one of the greatest monsters in human history. Joseph Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union was a time of constant, gnawing paranoia. The creeping fear that one wrong […]
St George’s Day greetings to all. Politically, I’m still very much a Unionist who loathes the idea of the United Kingdom disintegrating any further than it already has in the last century. I am British, first and foremost and I’m proud of my Scots and Irish heritage, nevertheless, I am also very much an Englishman. […]
Here’s a powerful, passionate song from an English rock band called the New Model Army. For a fiercely leftist band, they can be oddly rightwing… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF2LL3K0pmU Take away our historyTake away our heroesTake away our valuesAnd leave us here with nothingWe were in the garden of EdenJust as children mess aroundWe only leant against the […]
I’ll leave the excellent Douglas Murray to tell you the disgusting story of how one of Britain’s foremost thinkers has been ambushed by a vile lefty “journalist” and how our toxic, spineless government has just rolled over. https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/roger-scrutons-sacking-exposes-the-tories-cowardice/
Here’s a video from a northern lad called Daniel Bostock. He does some clever, funny stuff. Sometimes a bit much for me, but you don’t win a tug of war by standing still… Hope you like it. https://www.bitchute.com/video/BmcpYnJ4jmcC/
…it’s meant to be all about the future, yet how often it takes us back. This evening I was sitting, quite innocently, eating chicken biryani and drinking Chilean chardonnay, watching Big Bang Theory (I know, I know, don’t judge me, I’m a philistine, all I ask of a white wine is that it’s cold and […]
I’ll leave this lady to speak for herself.
2016, Britain gets in the car, 2019, we realise the people driving are in brown shirts… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7r0Rr1Qy I feel like the old guy looking on and despairing. To anyone who objects to using Nazi imagery about the EU, tough. The EU has just sub-contracted anti-Semitism to Hamas and other groups.
I lay before you two stories from Britain (or possibly Airstrip One) that say a lot about the situation in our country in 2019 and may serve as a dire warning to our friends and family over the Pond. 1984 was not a meant to be a blueprint First, we have the story of a […]
In 1969 George MacDonald Fraser, a journalist on the Glasgow Herald, published his first novel, Flashman. His idea was inspired. He took a character from a popular 19th century book about life in an English public school, Tom Brown’s School Days, and followed his subsequent life and career. The character was Harry Flashman, the seventeen […]
Oxford college decides to investigate itself Not to be outdone by Cambridge in the Varsity SJW Cup St John’s College Oxford (est. 1555) has decided to investigate its own murky Imperialist past. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/21/oxford-college-hires-staff-investigate-colonialism-links-rhodes/ Ex Africa semper aliquid crazy This all follows on from the “Rhodes must fall” campaign, which started in South Africa when it […]
There are a number of TV series that I have enjoyed a great deal and that I have watched from end to end on many occasions. The BBC’s Elizabeth R, with Glenda Jackson (far more magisterial and impressive as Great Bess than she ever was during her peevish twenty-three years as an MP) and I […]
I thought I might take some time to lay before the assembled ranks of Whittledom an interesting (and worrying) aspect of the tangled and frustrating story of the UK’s attempt to re-establish independence from the EU, or in the vile, degraded shorthand of modern journalists “Brexit”. Although the Leave vote won the referendum, at 52% […]