CSM EDITORIAL There is a peculiar madness sweeping through Britain’s polling stations. While the country frets over the usual inadequacies of Labour and the Conservatives, a far more insidious force has crept up on the inside. The Green Party, once a harmless receptacle for earnest students and angry pensioners, is now within striking distance of power. And its programme is not merely eccentric. It is … Continue reading The Loony Green Menace
CSM EDITORIAL Labour’s Inheritance Reforms Are an Act of Rural Cleansing There is a certain kind of politician who views the British countryside not as the nation’s larder or the keeper of its ancient traditions, but as a spreadsheet of undrawn capital gains. For seventeen months, we in the rural community warned Westminster that Labour’s ‘Family Farm Tax’ would drive a dagger through the heart … Continue reading The Ploughshare and the Guillotine
CSM EDITORIAL There is a rhythm to the countryside that city clocks do not measure. It is marked not by the chime of the hour, but by the turn of the season, the rise of the beck, and the quiet, relentless work of those who manage the land. For generations, that rhythm has included a practice that, to the uninitiated, might appear jarring: the row … Continue reading Keep Them Hanging
CSM EDITORIAL One should not, in the normal course of events, be overly surprised to find the odd eccentric at a village fête or a county fair. A certain amount of harmless embellishment is part of the rich tapestry of rural life. However, the spectacle of a man brazenly parading as a Rear Admiral, chest ablaze with unearned medals, at a sacred Remembrance Sunday service … Continue reading When Deceit Trickles Down
CSM EDITORIAL A new kind of war is being fought in Britain, a cold war of symbols. Its front line is not in any foreign field but in the streets of villages and towns, and its weapon is the flag. On houses and in pub windows, the St. George’s Cross and the Union Jack are appearing again. To the political cliques of London and other … Continue reading In Defence of ‘Flagshaggers’
CSM EDITORIAL It was inevitable—the political equivalent of the last man standing in a ruined room. A one-term socialist administration, handed the keys to Downing Street not by popular enthusiasm but by default, staggering into power amid the wreckage of its opponents. And now, alas, we are condemned to endure them until 2029—or until the economy buckles under their dogma, until public patience snaps into … Continue reading Thin End of the Censor’s Wedge
CSM EDITORIAL It is a curious thing, but no government in living memory has been so estranged from the British Countryside as the present Labour administration. There is something in the very sight of a wheat field or a hedgerow that seems to unsettle them, as though the land itself were a rebuke to their vision of a managed, multicultural Britain. The rural districts, with … Continue reading The Labour Party’s Fear of the British Countryside
CSM EDITORIAL The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said recently that there may be an ‘issue with young boys and men’ around toxic masculinity. Three fires. Three arrests. One Prime Minister. Maybe he has a point. The sequence is as follows: May 8, 2025 – A car, once owned by Sir Keir Starmer and since sold to a neighbour, is set alight in Kentish … Continue reading Tackling Britain’s Rent Boy Menace
CSM EDITORIAL One might be forgiven for thinking that His Majesty’s Government has taken leave of its senses–or at the very least, been spending too much time in the rarefied air of Petty France’s lesser think tanks. News reaches us that £50 million of public money is to be lavished upon experiments to dim the sun, all in the noble pursuit of cooling the planet. A … Continue reading Solar Schizophrenia
CSM EDITORIAL People really don’t like Rachel Reeves. They know she’s a liar. They know she plagiarises others’ work. They know she accepts bunged expensive clothes and freebie Sabrina Carpenter tickets. All the while she targets the people that so many people love – the farms, the elderly, local businesses. Farmers have committed suicide over her farm tax. The elderly have frozen. Businesses are going … Continue reading Brits Will Never Strive for Reeves
CSM EDITORIAL The scorpion, a creature of venom and survival, asks the frog, a simple beast of water and mud, to carry him across the river. The frog hesitates, knowing the scorpion’s nature. But the scorpion pleads, his voice sharp and desperate. “If I sting you, we both will die,” he says. The frog, swayed by logic, agrees. Midway across, the scorpion strikes. As they … Continue reading Frog or Turtle?
CSM EDITORIAL The latest spat between the Tories and Reform over the alleged automated membership counter on Reform’s website misses the key issue: party membership numbers do not directly correlate with election success. In the last decade, Jeremy Corbyn famously spiked Labour’s party membership. The number of full members moved from 190,000 in May 2015 to 515,000 in July 2016 – an influx of 325,000 new … Continue reading Peak Farage and ‘Automated’ Clickers
CSM EDITORIAL The Marxists only took over last summer. They concealed a monster from the people, a terrorist whose hands were stained with the blood of children. The streets erupted in fury; voices raised against their tyranny. They dared call the rioters far-right thugs. One woman was jailed for raising her voice to a police dog. With each command, the light of the nation flickered, … Continue reading With Each Decree the Spirit of the Nation Dimmed Further
BY THE EDITOR Sir Roger Scruton famously said that the fashion for government by petition is out of step with representative democracy in which representatives are not elected to relay the opinions of their constituents but to represent their interests. Once, on a BBC radio show, he opined that, “The common good, rather than mass sentiment, should be the source of law, and the common … Continue reading The Great Petition
CSM EDITORIAL In 2019, we had the chance to bury Labour once and for all, but we weren’t ruthless enough—or patriotic enough—to do the decent thing for Britain. Then came Covid, which distracted those capable of performing the final rites on an unpopular party that, once again, is proving to be a blight on this great nation. Starmer lied to us. Look around: from shivering … Continue reading The Opportunity to Bury Labour Once and for All
CSM EDITORIAL As readers of this magazine will know very well by now, there is a farmer protest organised for Tuesday 19th November in London. The organisers are claiming, soundly, that the planned rally will “help deliver a strong and clear message to the government while in the heart of London, that family farms and the rural community stand united against the government’s catastrophic Budget.” … Continue reading Met Police Farmer Protest Strategy Backfiring
CSM EDITORIAL A Disastrous Blow to Family Farms Labour’s inheritance tax (IHT) reforms, announced today by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, have sparked anger and deep concern within Britain’s farming community, confirming that this government has abandoned its commitment to rural stability. The Chancellor’s decision to freeze the IHT threshold until 2030, coupled with severe changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR), amounts … Continue reading Farm Wrecker Reeves
CSM EDITORIAL The dead cat strategy is the political strategy of deliberately making a shocking announcement to divert media attention away from problems or failures in other areas. In the PR world, it’s the introduction of a dramatic or sensationalist topic to divert attention from a more damaging issue that someone wants to keep hidden from the media, and therefore the public. ‘There is one … Continue reading These Days Nobody Falls for Tingay’s Dead Cat
CSM EDITORIAL Now that the rioting seems to have passed, one wonders what was the point of it all. It has created no tangible change. The ‘no-go’ areas in Britain remain – not the kind of places one would go out of one’s way to send a postcard from, rather than places one cannot enter. The motive of the perverted Southport child murderer is no … Continue reading Riots, Knives and Double Standards
CSM EDITORIAL The Squires chose to ‘do a Cummings’ this week and, out of a deep sense of public service, visited a series of public houses to survey public opinion. (Conveniently for the Deputy Editor, this exercise amounted to working from home). Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will claim that the Sunak government left no money and an economy on the brink, telling Parliament that the … Continue reading The Plastic Chancellor
