Dominic Wightman: British Thought Leaders
The Editor of Country Squire Magazine, Dom Wightman, defends the British Countryside on British Thought Leaders. Continue reading Dominic Wightman: British Thought Leaders
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I Survived Jonestown
Leslie Wagner Wilson endured being held captive for sixteen months in a jungle compound known as “Jonestown”. There she witnessed suicide drills, worked all hours in the jungle heat and had her dreams of medical school stolen. She watched those labelled “high risk” be denied medical care and some get medicated for fear they were a flight risk – all under the leadership of … Continue reading I Survived Jonestown
The Not New Economics Foundation
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Watching the Labour conference is as miserable as it gets. I have found that the only passable way to follow it is accompanied by a select scrumpy, which is not available on the market but which a few Somerset farmers give to trusted mates – after a few glugs of it your words are not what you mean them to be and … Continue reading The Not New Economics Foundation
Social Justice
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) are curious creatures. You’d prefer just to walk on by the blue-haired SJW women in the rugby pub, but they jump out at you from tropical vape clouds like Celtic banshees from fog on a bog. Before you can offer any riposte, you know their sexuality upfront, are told that they won’t sleep with you for fear of … Continue reading Social Justice
Badge of Honour
BY THE EDITOR A few weeks ago I was having a cup of tea with some Monitoring BDS ladies in Hampstead – those brave souls who attend Corbyn meetings and video antisemitism from the Hard Left. I asked them why their output on Twitter was so hard to locate, whereas their Facebook pages seemed easy to find and were always replete with content. And their immediate … Continue reading Badge of Honour
Just Don’t Get It
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are certain words and phrases that should stand out as obvious red flags. People who talk in a paranoid fashion about “they” all the time, or warn you to “not use Google and use DuckDuckGo instead”. Those who bring up the “fifth plane” whenever 9/11 is mentioned. Or those whose default position for government spending strategy is “the magic money tree” … Continue reading Just Don’t Get It
The City will be Fine
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Another dinner party. Another Remoaner over-refreshed courtesy of a paddling pool quantity of Sauvignon Blanc… this time the remoaning rant concerning the “imminent destruction” of the City of London because of Brexit. I confess that of late I’ve been having some rather bad luck with dinner parties. Back in July I attended a dinner in Hampshire at which some remoaner complained that … Continue reading The City will be Fine
Field
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Ten years ago today, I was given a field. A field in Venezuela. Not much of a field – more of a dusty plot of land with a small copse in the middle, which comprises a few fruit trees. The field is in the Venezuelan countryside in Monagas state. I do not believe the field to be worth anything at present, as … Continue reading Field
The McStrike Stunt
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Yesterday’s McStrike outside McDonald’s Headquarters and at various branches of the fast-food restaurant were declared as the first ever in the UK by McDonald’s workers. This is not true – there were employee sit-down strikes in the 80’s and 90’s and most of those who “striked” yesterday were protesters holding aloft Labour Party banners. Some of the protesters present were obviously first-timers … Continue reading The McStrike Stunt
The Placebo Effect
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN I was at school with a young man who excelled at rugby but not a lot else. He admits today that he’s still not the sharpest tool in the box but he has turned into a gentleman and a success story, he has an army of faithful friends and is the father of three beautiful daughters. Let us call him Tom. Tom … Continue reading The Placebo Effect
A Letter to Uncle Donald
Dear President Trump, One of the mightiest predecessors in your esteemed office – Ronald Reagan – warned on the eighth of March 1983, “let us be aware that while they [the Soviet leadership] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern … Continue reading A Letter to Uncle Donald
Blair’s Benign Outcome
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The most interesting line in Tony Blair’s Bloomberg speech last Friday was nothing to do with the bolted horse of Brexit. Nor his sly attempts to fuse his stalling concept of globalism with closer connectivity brought about by technology. Nor was it anything to do with the Labour Party he used to lead about whose current (lack of) management he was derisive. … Continue reading Blair’s Benign Outcome
10 Reasons Why Labour’s Doomed
BY ROB BROWNE Paucity of Talent Since the Gordon Brown Premiership there has been an exodus of quality from the Labour Party. In the past Labour could call on safe hands like John Reid or wordsmiths like Jack Straw to face the music when a crisis hit. Now? The Shadow Cabinet is an abuse of the historical eminence of its offices. Titles like Shadow Foreign … Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Labour’s Doomed
Ghana’s Golden Generation
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN To the annoyance of my minders, I stand amongst a crowd of passengers in the bus park next to Nkrumah Circle, in the smoke-filled heart of Ghana’s capital city, Accra. With vehicles buzzing overhead on a fly-over and stationary ones hooting horns in a jam on the road below, it is not easy to hear or be heard. A huge man in … Continue reading Ghana’s Golden Generation
A Time for Change
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are some things in life that are obvious. You drop litter – you pick it up. You bump into someone in the street – you apologise. You see someone being bullied – you jump to their aid. Let’s call these actions instances of civilised pragmatism. In general, Brits are a decent and empathetic bunch. We’re civilised and we’re no-nonsense pragmatic. We … Continue reading A Time for Change
May Plays Boycott Bingo
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN When this week Prime Minister Theresa May’s childhood sporting hero – the cricketer-turned-commentator Geoffrey Boycott – affectionately described her as “like Margaret Thatcher”, many of Her Majesty’s Opposition supporters found themselves in a tricky position. While such opponents of the Government love to denigrate May and the Tories at every opportunity, they know that Geoffrey Boycott has become a much-loved British national treasure over recent … Continue reading May Plays Boycott Bingo
New Opposition Required
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Britain has become too accustomed to cycles of Big Government splurge under Labour followed by Tory Governments cleaning up the mess – only for Labour to eventually get voted in and spend the country to oblivion again. Now we have a chance to stop this senseless cycle. Imagine if – instead of Labour coming to power after the Tories have swept up … Continue reading New Opposition Required
Ban Beauty Pageants?
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The news this week that Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir (pictured), the current Miss Iceland, quit an international beauty pageant after she was told to lose weight has caused quite a rumpus. The 20-year-old was reportedly told by representatives at Miss Grand International that she needed to lose weight before next week’s competition. Instead she decided to quit the competition, posting her resignation letter … Continue reading Ban Beauty Pageants?
Crapitalism
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Not that Britain’s Left could ever be accused of jumping on any available bandwagon, this week’s motion by MP’s to strip Arcadia’s Sir Philip Green of his knighthood has been seized upon by leftist commentators as heralding the death knell of capitalism. How, they argue, can we as a society put up any longer with crapitalism when it produces avarice and inequality … Continue reading Crapitalism