BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There is a madness peculiar to the over-educated, chronically online progressive—a psychosis of over-correction, not always malice, though the post-Widdicombe-Kirk strain is real and includes those capable of more than mere cruelty. It is the fever of a machine built to measure injustice, running so hot it melts its own circuitry. Thankfully, we are hearing its death rattle. But death rattles can … Continue reading The Eradication of Difference
BY JOHN MACNAB Following the excellent Country Squire writer Roger Watson’s entertaining column on Urban Fox Hunting in these pages, I was inspired to share two of my favourite fox recipes—braised leg of fox and fox stew. I received so many queries via direct message on Twitter (as it was then) for further recipes and information on how I obtained my foxes. The editor of Country Squire—not himself a hunter of foxes—declined … Continue reading For Fox Sake
BY NIALL McCRAE The more people, the fewer amenities. This phenomenon may seem counter-intuitive: surely a booming population in our cities would generate a greater market for goods and services? But that depends on the commodity. Yes, there will be more consumption, but local community life is not necessarily improved by ever-expanding housing development, particularly if the influx is mostly from foreign countries and cultures. … Continue reading Suburban Desert: London’s Loss of Local Football Clubs
BY SEAN WALSH If you are one of those people who still puzzle over the identity of Jack the Ripper*, then the Whitechapel Society might be right up your narrow, cobbled, and pitch-black street. Founded some thirty years ago, its membership includes former and serving police officers, academics, tour guides, psychologists, psychics, lawyers and miscellaneous representatives of all trades and none. It meets every other … Continue reading The English and Their Clubs
BY STEWART SLATER Virgil started the Aeneid in medias res as a matter of choice. I start this piece in the same way out of necessity, for the altercation was already in progress when I got to the supermarket. What follows may, therefore, not be a strictly accurate record of events. As best as I could tell, Mr A had met Mr B on the … Continue reading Reflections on a Shoplifting
BY STEWART SLATER The below is part of a series considering how society has come to adopt, and in some cases, celebrate the Seven Deadly Sins. Here below I list 3 sins (and a conclusion) with the other 4/7 in a separate article here. The Slothful Society To be honest, I just can’t be bothered… It is easy to see why sloth has been regarded as … Continue reading 7 Deadly Sins – Sloth Through Greed
BY STEWART SLATER The below is part of a series considering how society has come to adopt, and in some cases, celebrate the Seven Deadly Sins. Here below I list 4 sins with the other 3 of the 7 to follow next week. The Angry Society There is a paradox about anger – experiencing it is a sign of impotence, expressing it is a sign … Continue reading 7 Deadly Sins – Anger Through Lust
BY STEWART SLATER There is a trauma which unites the females of Britain. Which tortures them in the small hours. In Leith, Rotherham, Port Talbot and all across the land, the country’s womenfolk talk of little but the moment they learned that they could never join the Garrick Club. But relief is at hand. For after a solid month of articles in The Guardian, many … Continue reading Clubs and Karens
