Having a Giraffe
BY JOHN NASH On July 8th, The Maverick published an article by Don Pinnock, a well known Greenie pillock, entitled, with more neck than even his subject, “Giraffes under siege: The silent crisis of trophy hunting and its threat to survival”. The article is a textbook example of paltering – eco-junk food, fed to non-hunters by snake-oil spinners, eco-mendicants and certain lying UK MPs. It carries … Continue reading Having a Giraffe
Music’s AI Revolution
BY JONATHAN LEVITT The Music of GM Jon After many decades in the chess world, many people know me as a chess Grandmaster and few know me as someone connected with music. Since the start of 2025 I have developed some fresh skills and produced over 50 new songs on my Suno page. These songs are all created on my computer, collaborating with an AI … Continue reading Music’s AI Revolution
Remember How Liberty Slips Away Quietly
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Freedom is rarely abolished in thunderclaps. It disappears in murmurs – a statute amended here, a civil liberty waived there, always with plausible justification. These small surrenders accumulate like snowfall, each flake weightless until the branch snaps. By the time we notice the drift, we’re already buried beneath it. History’s lesson is written in palimpsest: the Roman Republic’s slow strangulation by emergency … Continue reading Remember How Liberty Slips Away Quietly
The Bigger the Lie
BY ALEX STORY “Persecutors are convinced that their violence is justified; they consider themselves judges, and therefore must have guilty victims,” wrote the late French historian René Girard in The Scapegoat (1986). “The more unlikely the accusations,” the more fervently persecutors believe them—and the more total the destruction of the ‘guilty’ becomes. He adds that the “absurdity” of the persecutors’ claims strengthens, rather than weakens, their conviction. Lying, distorting, exaggerating, obfuscating, … Continue reading The Bigger the Lie
A Conservative Student’s Struggle
BY JACK WATSON Holding Conservative Views in a Woke Education System At sixteen, most students look forward to sixth form college for the freedom, new friendships, and fresh academic challenges. For me, there’s another reason: the hope of escaping the suffocating political bias and social backlash that comes with being a young conservative in modern Britain. Under a Labour government that seems more interested in … Continue reading A Conservative Student’s Struggle
Wildfires in Moray: Lessons Learnt?
BY CALUM CAMPBELL The recent wildfires in Moray have left a trail of destruction, with stories circulating and facts still emerging. What’s clear is that lessons must be learned—and acted upon—to better handle such disasters in the future. While many are more qualified to speak on this, here are my thoughts. How the Fires Started The Coastguard, during an exercise near Carrbridge, fired a flare … Continue reading Wildfires in Moray: Lessons Learnt?
A Prayer for the Weary of Heart
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I hope this finds You in good health and spirits, enjoying the blessings of each new day. This week, let us turn our hearts to those who carry heavy burdens—the weary, the discouraged, and those who feel weighed down by life’s trials. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew … Continue reading A Prayer for the Weary of Heart
Rachel Reeves: A Chancellor Out of Her Depth
BY JOHN ISMAEL The spectacle of a Chancellor in tears is never edifying, but in the case of Rachel Reeves, it was something worse—it was revealing. Here was a woman entrusted with the stewardship of the nation’s finances, buckling under the ordinary pressures of political life, her distress paraded before the cameras like a public confession of inadequacy. She claimed, of course, that it was … Continue reading Rachel Reeves: A Chancellor Out of Her Depth
Eco-Charlatans’ Festival of Flatulence
BY JOHN NASH A small queef of excitement has crept into the Westminster Asylum, that island reserve where the rare creatures of Homo politicus vulgaris live in splendid and well-appointed isolation. A sub-species among them, H. politicus tetraodontiformicus, known as ‘Westminster Greenies’, are in a state of near hysteria. Fascinating and easily identified by their piscatorial aroma, they are related to the puffer and blow … Continue reading Eco-Charlatans’ Festival of Flatulence
Grouse Shooting Triumphs as Packham’s Extremist Campaign Crumbles
BY ALEXIA JAMES Oh, what a glorious day for rural Britain! A few days ago, in the hallowed halls of Westminster, the campaign to ban driven grouse shooting was left in tatters—and we can’t help but spare a thought for poor Chris Packham (who showed up looking like a darts player) and his sidekick the propagandist Ruth Tingay who must have found the whole affair … Continue reading Grouse Shooting Triumphs as Packham’s Extremist Campaign Crumbles
Chapeau, Mr Tilbrook
BY DR NIALL McCRAE How a provincial solicitor forced Starmer’s U-turn on rape gangs inquiry At last, the Prime Minister has ordered a statutory inquiry into ‘grooming gangs’. Critics believe that Sir Keir Starmer had turned a blind eye to the systematic sexual abuse of white girls by gangs of Pakistani men, when he was Director of Public Prosecutions. That’s quite a charge, when you … Continue reading Chapeau, Mr Tilbrook
The Madness of Ancestral Guilt
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The modern obsession with ancestral sin reveals a dangerous intellectual impoverishment in our society. The manufactured outrage over MI6’s new chief Blaise Metreweli’s Nazi grandfather isn’t just misguided—it’s a deliberate distraction from the genuine security threats facing Britain today that our now desperate enemies picked up on and use against us. While the chattering classes hyperventilate over century-old ghosts, China’s MSS recruits … Continue reading The Madness of Ancestral Guilt
The Labour Party’s Fear of the British Countryside
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
A Prayer for the Addicted
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well and that You are enjoying the summer weather. This week I’d like us to remember those who are addicted to alcohol, drugs or something else, who need our prayers. “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you … Continue reading A Prayer for the Addicted
An American Goes to Tea
BY DAVID CAMPBELL My first encounter with the hallowed tradition of afternoon tea was in 1992, in the quaint seaside town of Littlehampton, West Sussex. Janet and I, then wide-eyed Americans in London for work, had been graciously summoned by our dear friend Peter Farmer—the illustrious set and costume designer—for a weekend steeped in English refinement. Peter, ever the arbiter of propriety, informed us we … Continue reading An American Goes to Tea
The Old New Again
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN My Friend Roger Watson’s well-intentioned but fundamentally flawed attempt to position Continuism as an innovative political philosophy in the pages of this magazine (‘Continuism’ June 20th 2025) reveals an exquisite irony: the more strenuously one attempts to distance oneself from conservative thought, the more thoroughly one demonstrates its inescapable logic. His manifesto, clothed in the modest attire of commonsense preservation, unwittingly conducts … Continue reading The Old New Again
The GCSE Gauntlet: A Sixteen-Year-Old’s Lament
BY JACK WATSON The GCSE season—that great, grinding machine of stress and sleeplessness—has finally shuddered to a halt. For two years, we have been its fuel. Now, hollow-eyed and frayed at the edges, we sixteen year olds emerge, blinking, into the light. We are told these exams are our first real credentials, the golden tickets to college, the gatekeepers of our futures. But one must … Continue reading The GCSE Gauntlet: A Sixteen-Year-Old’s Lament
In Defence of the Hunter
BY JOHN NASH There are moments when, even ignoring the vegan propaganda, one article captures a much wider malaise. Such was the case when I recently read a Psychology Today piece by Dr Marc Bekoff, titled “Keeping Cecil the Poster Lion Alive to End Trophy Hunting.” What troubled me was not just its truth-bending and the familiar disapproval of hunting— particularly trophy hunting—but the … Continue reading In Defence of the Hunter
Palm Oil Saves Forests
BY BRIAN MONTEITH Last Sunday was World Rainforest Day – who knew? Not many I suspect. Such the plethora of special days, weeks and months that you cannot be expected to know them all. And with Mothering Sunday and Father’s Day marked differently from one country to the next the days are not even universal. So don’t feel guilty about not knowing about World Rainforest … Continue reading Palm Oil Saves Forests
On the Way to Calvary
BY ALEX STORY The subjugation of Great Britain carries on apace as does the violation of our defenceless daughters and the rapine of our treasure, paying for the invaders’ full board in hotels as troops in barracks, with our government’s tacit approval. Further, last week, suicide and infanticide won support in the House of Commons. All this in June, Pride Month. Observing the scenery, George … Continue reading On the Way to Calvary