The Carnival

BY ALEX STORY The August Bank Holiday weekend fills the good people of Notting Hill with dread. Those who can flee do; those who can’t board themselves up inside their houses. Their front gardens, if they have one, front doors and outside walls will be used by the throngs as municipal facilities. A couple of years ago, after two fatalities, eight stabbings and over sixty … Continue reading The Carnival

Fat or Sugar?

BY ALEX STORY We beat Argentina and lost to France, not in football unfortunately, but in the fat stakes. With nearly 40% of its adult population being obese, Argentina ranks 36th out of 193 countries in the world. France, with only 10%, is 172nd. Britain, for her part, is listed as 77th according to the Global Obese Observatory. American Samoa wins the overall prize with three quarters of … Continue reading Fat or Sugar?

Progressive Erasure

BY ALEX STORY The goals of Progressivism are “continually receding ones”, which is, to paraphrase Mussolini, “like a trodden road leading on and on to the land of heart’s desire, which though it grows closer and closer, will never be reached”. To advance towards the mirage, progress must convince. Indeed, one needs to emancipate oneself from the past and its many thorns. Complexity, you see, … Continue reading Progressive Erasure

A Fresh and a Ripe Pair

BY ALEX STORY Standing at the top of Salzburg’s thousand‑year‑old fortress on a sunny day, facing south into the heart of the Alps, one sees the Nonntal below, nearly at one’s feet. In spring, it is lusciously green. There, in fact, sang the nuns of The Sound of Music, their chanting still echoing enchantingly across the landscape. The Nonntal is split in two by the AlmKanal, a … Continue reading A Fresh and a Ripe Pair

Progress Back to Naught

BY ALEX STORY The United Kingdom is no such thing. The disingenuous promises of the recent past, such as devolution, multiculturalism, and “gender” (also known as the politics of biology), have disunited the country. These have created irreparable fissures across our country’s body politic. The carefully laid mortar, built over centuries between the state’s institutional building blocks, is coming off. However, in the meaningless vacuum … Continue reading Progress Back to Naught

Ignorant Self-Righteousness

BY ALEX STORY “Whose you for?”, asked the rotund lass with a swarm of multi-hued father-less children running around the front porch. “Cambridge”, I replied. “Tough luck, chuck. I’m Oxford”. The colours had a lot to do with it, I discovered, and the fact that the Boat Race, like the Old Queen, had always been around. The lady and her children watched it every year, … Continue reading Ignorant Self-Righteousness

In Another State

BY ALEX STORY “You are 6’8.31” inches tall,” said the nurse. “We measured you just before the operation.” That’s 0.31 inches taller than I thought I was. “I keep on growing,” I smiled. The good news never stops, I thought, in a half-comatose state. In the practical world, there are really no advantages to being a giant. Rarely will you be fashionable or sit comfortably … Continue reading In Another State

Pride and Humility

BY ALEX STORY Societies are defined, in part, by their celebrations. Two of these expose the cultural battlefield on which we currently stand. In one corner, sporting the red of the Poppy, we have the withered, dignified, but dying Remembrance Day; in the opposite one, we have the Rainbow-coloured, indecorous Pride month. To the first is dedicated a single minute of silence, its centrepiece; to … Continue reading Pride and Humility

Zero Negotiation

BY ALEX STORY “You can’t negotiate with Leftards”. They “don’t care if they ruin your whole life”. They “will kill you”, said Javier Milei during a fiery exchange on a TV show three months before winning the Presidency of Argentina in December 2023. Argentina, the richest country in the world by the end of the 19th century, and top 10 throughout the 1920s, now ranks … Continue reading Zero Negotiation

The Complete Equation

BY ALEX STORY All is known about Pakistani rape gangs operating in Britain. Over the last 25 years, inquiry after inquiry have revealed the same thing: For the sake of “community cohesion”, our civil service and much of our media covered up the true scale of the horror, their role in it, and attacked all who sought justice, labelling them “Far Right”, as our Prime … Continue reading The Complete Equation

The Sighted Led by the Blind

BY ALEX STORY Rachel Reeves, our Chancellor, has much to ponder ahead of her autumn budget. Larry Summers, an economist, noted a few years ago that the country was “behaving like an emerging market”. He wasn’t talking about rape gangs, shoplifting, or burglaries, though he might have thought it. He was referring specifically to our financial situation. Professor Jagjit Chadha, from the National Institute of Economic and … Continue reading The Sighted Led by the Blind

No Solution as Policy

BY ALEX STORY “There is an enemy. There is a project which is detrimental to our country” said Keir Starmer to The Guardian last week. For the first time in his career, people nodded in agreement. Finally, the multitude thought, “he gets us”. After years of being ignored, humiliated, and branded, finally, the Prime Minister acknowledged what hundreds of thousands of flag carrying patriots had … Continue reading No Solution as Policy

Arses and Elbows

BY ALEX STORY Some questions are difficult to answer, others not.For Starmer the seemingly easiest ones are the most difficult.During a press briefing with President Trump at Chequers a few days ago, Beverly Turner, an intrepidly enchanting reporter, asked a simple question: “Are we still a Christian country?”A patriotic man would have said: “yes”.He would have known, implicitly, that our laws, their application and our … Continue reading Arses and Elbows

Reaction as Revelation

BY ALEX STORY Tragedies abound. Humanity, in its mortal coils, is beset by them. Often, they are self-inflicted. Plunder, rape, murder, treason, and conflicts are nothing other than the manifestations of man’s war of all against all in perpetuum, irrespective of race or creed. “Crimes against other men are committed when emotions, which spur us to action, are corrupt and rise in revolt, without control”, … Continue reading Reaction as Revelation

Surprising Things

BY ALEX STORY Some things are surprising; others less so. Lord Peter Mandelson spending an inordinate amount of time with the late Jeffrey Epstein, his “best pal”, raises few eyebrows. African leaders asking for “reparations” leaves Britons cold. We have become inured to officialised insanity – dangerously so perhaps. Where once our politicians’ misdemeanours fuelled conversations in pubs across the country, now, in the few … Continue reading Surprising Things

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

BY ALEX STORY On one side, girls are arrested for waving Union Flags; men for admitting to liking bacon; and comedians for telling jokes. Indeed, playwright Graham Linehan had his collar felt by the armed Old Bill for writing that old-fashioned women, those without a penis, should “make a scene” when a trans woman enters a female changing room and punch “him in the balls” … Continue reading A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing