BY ALEX STORY European Union gross domestic product (GDP) halved since 1980 to less than 15% in 2023 as a proportion of the world economy. EU GDP is set for another spectacular fall to 9% of the global economic activity pie by 2050, according to PwC, one of the big four global professional services firms. The plan, as formulated by the European Council in 2001 … Continue reading Progressives are the Real Reactionaries
BY ALEX STORY As winter gives way to spring and days lengthen heralding a longed-for summer, the eighteen men of Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Club can now rest their limbs having met yesterday on the Tideway, the 4.25 mile stretch of the Thames that runs through London from Putney to Chiswick Bridge. The first race, in 1829, took place 14 years after the end … Continue reading A British Institution
BY ALEX STORY The sirens are calling us to surrender territory for peace. The Windsor Framework rips the United Kingdom apart and robs us of our sovereign dignity. Northern Ireland is to be thrown to the European Union wolves and subjected to rule by diktat. The United Kingdom will have to consult the European Union if it wishes to pass a law that might lead … Continue reading The Constant Lie
BY ALEX STORY The United Kingdom is now a bureaucratic dictatorship. We have known for some time that our government does what it wants, not what we would like it to do. But until relatively recently, officials played along with the political theatre. Their shamelessness still needed a fig-leaf. Elections provided the required cover. Our current bureaucrats no longer feel they need any. They display … Continue reading A Bureaucratic Dictatorship
BY ALEX STORY As Mr Sunak and Mrs Van Der Leyen shook hands on a “historic deal” that will still keep Northern Ireland in the European Union’s regulatory orbit and strip the United Kingdom of her territorial integrity, the facts are now beyond dispute. Our politicians and bureaucrats, the former’s puppet masters, do not work for our common good. In their minds, as we know … Continue reading Wishful Thinking
BY ALEX STORY The demise of Nicola Sturgeon can be attributed to many things. History, however, will record that the Scottish independentist’s career died on the most unlikely hill of all. She chose what she thought would be the high ground for a longed for constitutional tussle with Westminster. The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill would be her Battle of Bannockburn. The bill sought to … Continue reading A Rare Victory
BY ALEX STORY “The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies” said former Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn upon winning the Nobel Prize in 1970. He had written The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume non-fiction investigation on the notorious Soviet forced labour camp system in which millions were imprisoned, tortured and often killed – Most for no reason. Much more quickly than … Continue reading No Rights
BY ALEX STORY Eating bugs used to be the preserve of small children. Whilst not officially on any recommended menu, the practice was part and parcel of a toddler’s journey to adulthood. What looked eminently edible to the untrained eye of an infant as it crawled around playgrounds or gardens was sometimes, at best, an insect. Sometimes, in parks frequented by busy dog walkers, it … Continue reading A Question of Taste
BY ALEX STORY The men were gathered around the barbecue toying with red coals. A Down Syndrome boy slid the glass door and stepped into the garden. He looked up and said as clearly as his disability allowed: “The Queen is dead”. A long silence followed. He then added: “It’s ok because her son is now King”. As he made his way back into the … Continue reading Looking Back on 2022
BY ALEX STORY “You look around and see a world that cannot be made sense of — you either raise your fist, or you say ‘hallelujah” said Leornard Cohen, the late singer song writer, before adding: “I do both”. The Western World, filled with so much potential, with so much intellectual capacity, with such past glories in all spheres, from music to architecture, from science … Continue reading A Fist or a Song?
BY ALEX STORY Poison is being injected daily into Britannia’s body. State-led and taxpayer funded propaganda is the venom. Its dissemination is facilitated by the regime’s many organs: non-governmental organisations, “charities”, media outlets, local councils, schools, universities, government ministries, established churches and more. The same messages are being pumped incessantly into every sinew of our country’s body politic. No area of life is left unaffected. … Continue reading Working Against Us
BY ALEX STORY The British Government is engaged in a war of attrition against its own people. Our borders, defended over centuries at such high costs, have vanished. Sue Braverman, our current Home Secretary, sounded earnest when she said the country faced an “invasion” last October. She was promptly attacked by government lawyers as either “reckless” or “deliberate” – Lawyers for whom we pay. They, … Continue reading The Long Road
BY ALEX STORY We live in the era of revelation. In earlier times, politicians hid their scorn from us, the people, behind smiles, heartfelt assurances and thick curtains. Betraying your country was, whilst par for the course, something that needed to be done discreetly. On the 13th December 2007, for instance, Gordon Brown, signed the Lisbon Treaty, the revamped and rejected European Constitution, alone and … Continue reading The Era of Revelation
BY ALEX STORY “Rashid Sanuk is now the Prime Minister” said Joe Biden at a White House gathering last week to celebrate Diwali, an important festival in the Hindu calendar. Not long afterwards, White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean Pierre, arguably the worst living embodiment of politically-correct driven public appointments, added that “President Biden looks forward to speaking with minister Sanuk, Sanak in the upcoming … Continue reading That Sinking Feeling
BY ALEX STORY After an eleven-day interlude from the Queen’s passing to her funeral on the 19th of September 2022, the media hounds have once again been unleashed. For Conservative Members of Parliament who really believed that the media storm would die away after Boris’s clinical removal, it must have been a wake-up call. That this was on the cards must have been obvious early … Continue reading Special Interest & Their Hounds
BY ALEX STORY Edmund Burke wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790, a year after the storming of the Bastille: “Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those … Continue reading Grasshoppers in the Fields
BY ALEX STORY Patriotism is a beautiful thing. It is even more so when it is natural and spontaneous. The Jubilee gave most who are free from political motivations the opportunity to bathe shamelessly in the warm and comfortable waters of our rich inheritance. On one level, we celebrated the person of the Queen; on another, the Great British family, of which we are all … Continue reading Patriotism is a Beautiful Thing
BY ALEX STORY “A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it’s a miracle,” Nurse exclaimed joyfully as she remembered the birth of Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder II. She then added “and then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed”. Bells, the first episode of Blackadder II, aired on the BBC in January … Continue reading Last Days of the Asylum?
BY ALEX STORY The French Presidential elections are about to run their course. The two round election was introduced by General De Gaulle as the Fifth Republic was installed in 1958. It will be the eleventh such election since then. The first round would enable the populace to vote with their hearts. They would be able to vote for any and every party under the … Continue reading Boiling a Frog
BY ALEX STORY Rare were the occasions when the term “conspiracy theory” was used. Only a few years ago, conspiracies were whispered between last orders, a brawl and a trip to the kebab van, around the corner from the pub. Three such “Conspiracies” stood out: Firstly, Neil Armstrong never actually landed on the Moon in 1969. He and his colleagues in fact, the theory stated, … Continue reading The Conspiracy Theorists
