Category: Social Commentary

Social Commentary

Will the Saints Go Marching in?

BY NIALL MCCRAE The first port of call, on JB Priestley’s tour of England in 1933, was Southampton. That phrase is appropriate, because the city is best known as Britain’s gateway to the ocean. Cruise-ships proliferate nowadays, but Southampton retains the regular trans-Atlantic service to New York (crossing on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2). Narrowing of the English Channel between the neck of Cherbourg and Portland Bill … Continue reading Will the Saints Go Marching in?

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Another Civil War?

BY JOE BARON According to David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King’s College London, many of the preconditions for civil war exist in Britain today. Using academic studies on social cohesion, civil war causation theory and social attitudes surveys, he argues that the widely accepted causal factors of elite overreach, factional polarisation, a collapse in trust, economic pressures, and the perceived … Continue reading Another Civil War?

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Mourning in Silence

BY ALEX STORY In modern day Britain, we are allowed to mourn our murdered children, friends or relatives. We are free to be appalled. We are also permitted to lay flowers by the coagulating blood of our kith and kin, as our political leaders walk solemnly towards the farewell postcards and tear-drenched bouquets for a tight minute of contemplative silence, broken only by the incessant … Continue reading Mourning in Silence

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Anger is an Energy

BY DANIEL JUPP Back around 2015, when madness was not yet openly declared policy, the punk icon John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) released a searing biography called Anger Is An Energy. It was actually his second biography, but significantly more important than the first one. Both books, and the life they refer to, are about rebellion, about being that awkward person that goes against the crowd. … Continue reading Anger is an Energy

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Raducanu, Rwanda & the Risks of Reputation

BY STEWART SLATER Back in 2013, after his fourth world title in a row, it was clear that Sebastian Vettel was one of the greatest drivers in history. Today, after a stint at Ferrari which was rather less successful than his Red Bull pomp, he appears to have been a very good driver (better than Mark Webber, certainly) who happened to drive an absolute rocket … Continue reading Raducanu, Rwanda & the Risks of Reputation

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Eugenics, Propaganda & Transgenderism

BY DUSTIN BROADBERY When illustrious leaders of the opposition cannot define what a woman is, you should ask yourself, what the hell is going on? Why is all this overrated, X-rated smut being peddled from every direction? Have we really flooded school libraries with homoerotic books aimed at 6 year-olds? Whose idea was it to enshrine drag queen-story hour as a rite of passage? And … Continue reading Eugenics, Propaganda & Transgenderism

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A Sense of Perspective

BY STEWART SLATER The universe loves a coincidence. Thus, it was only fitting that, in the weekend leading up to Sky’s new series based on Watergate, Britain’s current crop of Woodwards and Bernsteins spent their time screaming “What did ITV know and when did it know it?” For in comparison to the goings on at This Morning, Partygate was but a trifle. Suella’s speeding fine … Continue reading A Sense of Perspective

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How Elite are the New Elite?

BY STEWART SLATER “What would the Romans do?” is always a useful way to consider issues of public policy. This is not to say they got everything right – their views on women were a bit iffy while about their attitudes to slavery, the less said the better (even if, on both, the reality was more nuanced than is often assumed). On the other hand, … Continue reading How Elite are the New Elite?

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Still Seymour

BY DANIEL JUPP For longer than most of us have been alive, Seymour Hersch has been an investigative journalist. His record is consistent. His politics may not match mine, but he has always exposed wrongdoing and crimes by American governments, the US intelligence services and US military. He first started doing this by being the man who broke the story of the Mỹ Lai Massacre … Continue reading Still Seymour

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Naked Outrage

BY JOHN NASH Being refined and civilised people of excellent taste, most readers of CSM are probably yet blissfully unaware that a tsunami of bile erupted not long ago among the inhabitants of that strange metaphysical country called Social Media, that place ceramic-toothed, tattooed moderns, Siamese twins of their telephonic apparati, use instead of intelligence.  This particular brouhaha concerned the very excellent and highly entertaining … Continue reading Naked Outrage

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Woke Washing Lard Suckers

BY STEWART SLATER Scrolling mindlessly through Facebook the other day (and is there any other way to consume Mr Zuckerberg’s digital soma?), my diet of friends’ holiday snaps, showing bare skin in increasing degrees of pinkness, was interrupted by a video. Not, as I might expect, of munchkins frolicking on the beach, but about the government’s Rwanda plan. It was, I was informed, a “one-way … Continue reading Woke Washing Lard Suckers

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Transtoryphobia

BY TARQUIN SUTHERLAND After last week’s storm in a soy latte that was the Labour Party Conference and the frankly hilarious inability of the comrades attending to be able to define just what constitutes a ‘woman’ even in this day and age – an imbecilic debacle to be forever known as ‘cervixgate’ – we have the Conservative Party Conference in full swing now held in … Continue reading Transtoryphobia

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Misandry & Murder

BY EFFIE DEANS If there is a terrorist attack committed by a British Muslim, we are not allowed to make generalisations about Muslims. For instance, if I wrote a sign saying “End Muslim violence” this would be considered to be Islamophobic and racist. If there were a murder committed by someone who had arrived in Britain from Turkey, it would likewise be considered xenophobic and … Continue reading Misandry & Murder

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Whiteout

THE CITY GRUMP The august classics faculty of the University of Cambridge has now decided it must explain, as part of its anti-racist strategy,  the “whiteness” of its plaster casts of Roman and Greek sculptures on display at its Museum of Classical Archaeology. The City Grump thinks it is high time he makes his own contribution to stamping out white as used in well-known places and enterprises. … Continue reading Whiteout

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Leftists Snitch Best

BY BEN PENSANT It may come as a surprise to younger leftists, but there was a time when socialism and fun went hand in hand. Yes, really. Indeed, as anyone lucky enough to have been part of the burgeoning activist scene of early ’90s Newcastle will recall how a commitment to fairness, equality, and mass subordination wasn’t always synonymous with having a face liked a … Continue reading Leftists Snitch Best

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The Left is Always Right

BY BEN PENSANT The last two weeks have been the most joyous for progressives since that glorious fortnight when Jeremy Corbyn RATTLED the BBC by accusing them of airbrushing his beret. Because the disappearance and murder of Sarah Everard gave principled leftists a rare opportunity to do what we do best – exploiting dead people to score points against something we don’t like. Or rather, four things: … Continue reading The Left is Always Right

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