BY NIALL McCRAE Parked continuously at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a Dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with the owner, giving him a copy of the Light newpaper, a publication that focuses on powerful forces conspiring against the masses. QAnon, however, is discredited by critical thinkers as a CIA trap, a … Continue reading Notes of a ‘Conspiracy Theorist’
BY NIALL McCRAE ‘Do not engage’ instructs a woman wearing a yellow vest. She is talking to two young male counter-protestors outside a hotel accommodating illegal immigrants. The independent journalist’s question ‘what brings you here today?’ goes unanswered, as they dutifully step back and put their masks on. Why so compliant? In all likelihood these are students, and they must do what they are told. … Continue reading Paid Counter-Protestors: A PR Disaster
BY NIALL McCRAE To paraphrase a saying from the Second World War, when some citizens seemed blissfully ignorant: ‘there’s a revolution on, you know!’ Throughout my lifetime there has been no major war, but by stealth there has been a radical overturning of conventional society and its institutions and norms. This has now reached a Woke crescendo, and in Orwellian style everything good is bad, … Continue reading Scholars of Britain’s Cultural Revolution
BY NIALL McCRAE The nations of Scandinavia, until recently, were idealised as modern, progressive places to live. Their highly educated populace embraced liberal values and eschewed ethnocentric patriotism to open their doors to immigrants, particularly Muslims. They had nothing but token armies, which pursued diversity and equality policies. Pacifism no more: Sweden and Finland, after decades of neutrality, joined NATO. Their ‘woke’ female leaders seem … Continue reading Conscription is Coming
BY NIALL McCRAE Millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money spent on changing the sex of mice – surely that’s just Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated bluster to please his following? According to CNN, there was no truth in this claim, and the broadcaster delighted in marking the president’s homework as a failure. However, undeniable documentary evidence showed that this research was indeed conducted with federal funding. Trump … Continue reading Transgender Mice True, Fact-Check False
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 NIALL McCRAE London mayor Sadiq Khan urges the Premier League to start staging matches around the world. So Chelsea versus Manchester City might be moved to Jakarta or Abu Dhabi. Like the exhibition matches of American football, there would be much money to make, but Khan is pushing the globalist agenda, in which the idea of English or British football clubs becomes outmoded. … Continue reading The Best Decade of British Football
BY NIALL McCRAE Hardly a week goes by without the powers-that-be or commentators in the servile mainstream media warning us of the ‘forces of hate’. Any challenge to the official narrative is cast as extreme, with slurs of ‘conspiracy theorist’ or ‘far right’. Hate, according to our progressive leaders, is a disposition of traditionally privileged groups striving to keep minorities in check, thereby ‘punching down’. … Continue reading ‘Hate’
BY NIALL McCRAE The forthcoming general election has had a dire quality of candidates and campaigning – at least from the mainstream parties – but it is also an exciting opportunity to reform British politics. On Wednesday I attended the hustings for the parliamentary seat of Bexhill & Battle, among a group supporting independent candidate Nigel Jacklin. It was both exasperating and enlightening on the … Continue reading The Election of Unelectables
BY NIALL McCRAE Everyone knows of the vinyl revival, which has steadily grown since the turn of the millennium. Remarkably, cassettes are now making a comeback too, and the biggest interest is in youth. Indie bands are releasing music on tape, sometimes as the only medium offered. In a backlash against the digital world, anything tangible gives a sense of radical resistance to the Great … Continue reading Audio Nostalgia: The Unexpected Return of Cassettes
BY GLORIA MOSS & NIALL McCRAE How Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers in print. The gatekeeper is the peer-review system, which people take for granted as a screening process to ensure rigour in scientific … Continue reading Tinker, Tailor, Publisher, Spy
BY NIALL McCRAE How football clubs are taken from local communities and how supporters fight back ‘You make me happy when skies are grey’, sang the fans of Morton FC (quite appropriately in the west of Scotland climate). But the last line of the adapted popular song, ‘please don’t take my Morton away’, became awfully prescient when the club was threatened with a move to … Continue reading Uprooted by Moneymen
BY NIALL McCRAE Net Zero not only means no petrol, but also no pets. The authorities haven’t quite told us this yet, but the writing is on the wall. As more councils sign on to the UK100 scheme to accelerate the quest for decarbonisation, expect to hear more about the environmental damage caused by Fido and Tiddles. Dear Readers, this is not a joke. Take, … Continue reading They’re Coming for Your Cats and Dogs
BY ROGER WATSON Published under the auspices of the Bruges Group, Green in tooth and claw by Niall McCrae, no stranger to the pages of CSM, is an action packed tour through scams perpetuated by the green movement. This is not a scientific treatise demolishing the green movement, especially its Malthusian ‘zero carbon’ slogan. For that, see Not Zero by Ross Clark. Rather it is … Continue reading Green in Tooth and Claw
BY NIALL McCRAE ‘We will cut immigration’, say the Tories for the umpteenth time. That’s after 13 years in government, and enabling a transformation in British society that exceeds even the efforts of Tony Blair’s New Labour. Conservative voters have only themselves to blame, for electing a party that deceives them every time. Multiculturalism and selectively applied laws against ‘hate’ have changed Britain for the … Continue reading Woke Racism: How the West is Divided & Ruled
BY NIALL McCRAE “There are too many people“ Such thinking can be traced back to Social Darwinism and a perceived reversal of nature: instead of survival of the fittest, society was supporting procreation of tainted stock. The intelligentsia of the early to mid-twentieth century was obsessed with eugenics, and although the term was sullied by Nazi atrocities, it never went away. Population control became a … Continue reading 17 Sustainable Goals for Depopulation?
BY NIALL McCRAE & RICHARD INGS Who’s awake, who’s ‘woke’ – and who’s working for the other side? An intriguing and sometimes exasperating feature of the Great Awakening (an enlightened reaction to the Great Reset) is the tendency for members of the movement to accuse peers of duplicity. James Delingpole, for example, wrote on TCW last week of the dubious motives of the Together Foundation. … Continue reading Controlled Opposition?
BY NIALL McCRAE Products are made in factories, but brands are processed in the mind. A remarkable feat of the government’s Covid-19 response in March 2020 was the readily produced slogans (such as ‘hands, face, space’) and other messaging. Initially the colours were red and yellow, signifying an emergency, but later the colour scheme changed. The constant barrage of marketing for the booster injections in … Continue reading Blue & Yellow
BY M.L.R. SMITH & NIALL McCRAE From ‘leftwing firebrand to right-wing conspiracy theorist’. That, according to the Spectator, is the trajectory of the celebrity figure of Russell Brand. In March 2023, having completed a tour of the United States, Brand appeared on talk shows such as The Joe Rogan Experience, The Rubin Report, Tucker Carlson Today and Bill Maher’s Real Time and Club Random. Famed … Continue reading Russell Brand: Reaching the Parts MSM Can’t Reach?
BY NIALL McCRAE My first car was a Morris Marina 1800 Super. There was nothing super about it; merely seven years old, it was fit for the scrapyard. Having replaced the Austin Cambridge / Morris Oxford in 1971, the top-selling Marina came to be regarded as the worst British car ever. Although the 60s cars appeared antiquated, they were much better built than the products … Continue reading ‘See you Soon’: The Showroom’s Polite Warning
