BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN I walked past the Old Town Hall, now a museum, its neat neoclassical facade a monument to certainties dead and buried. He was sitting on the war memorial steps opposite. A tramp, unquestionably. His face was a geological survey of the West Country; crevasses of hard winters, upheavals of cheap cider. His hands, wrapped around a can in a paper bag, were … Continue reading Before the Noise Began
BY STEWART SLATER That the West is becoming less Christian is noted so frequently as to have become a cliché and, since nature, or perhaps human nature, abhors a vacuum, enquiring minds have turned to what comes next. Which belief system will supplant it at the centre of our lives? To those of a socially conservative frame of mind, the answer which seems both most … Continue reading The Successor Ideology
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN A quarter of a century ago, when I was at university, Feminism had won. Equality was a done deal. The few women who joined the Feminist Society tended to be sturdy lesbian oarswomen likely blissfully ignorant of the distinction between a leotard and Lyotard. The women students who subscribed to the Cocktail Society outnumbered them fifty to one. Over the next decade … Continue reading I, Feminist
BY DUSTIN BROADBERY CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan: ‘We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public believes is false.’ Fast forward thirty years, and there’s no piece of fiction the masses will not swallow. From Woke to COVID to the war in Ukraine, people no longer make their own ideological pilgrimages to the truth – … Continue reading Revelation of the Method
BY ROGER WATSON Over twenty years ago when I lived with my family in the halls of residence at The University of Edinburgh the best time of the year was the Christmas break when the students went home. Only a handful of families who served as wardens remained and we had twenty two frosty acres, under the shadow of Arthur’s Seat to ourselves. One evening … Continue reading Urban Fox Hunting: Worth Considering?
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” ― George Orwell, 1984 ‘Just imagine’, a particular kind of civil servant drooled in 1985, ‘if we could create a message capturing device with which we could trace miscreants and get to know what they were planning and thinking’. ‘Even better than that,’ his colleague retorted, ‘we could … Continue reading Gifts that Keep On Giving
