CSM EDITORIAL It was inevitable—the political equivalent of the last man standing in a ruined room. A one-term socialist administration, handed the keys to Downing Street not by popular enthusiasm but by default, staggering into power amid the wreckage of its opponents. And now, alas, we are condemned to endure them until 2029—or until the economy buckles under their dogma, until public patience snaps into … Continue reading Thin End of the Censor’s Wedge
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The salesmen of atheism are quiet at this time of year. How I miss their clever rants. They remind me of a woman I witnessed last summer in Biarritz, stepping into the Atlantic. She had a great tear in the seat of her burkini, unknowingly exposing her pale cheeks to the world. The atheists’ words are like faith adrenaline, inspiring in their … Continue reading The Divine Side of Reality
BY ALEX STORY Religion is the cornerstone on which all civilisations are built. From that foundation spring culture, laws, social habits, and morality. A culture ripped from its religious soil dies. With that in mind and for that reason, Great Britain is perishing before our very eyes. With the ostentatious Ramadan celebrations in London, the call to prayer organised by Humza Yousaf First Minister of … Continue reading The Cornerstone Matters
BY ALEX STORY In their 2018 report “Islamophobia defined”, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims defined the term as being “rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. This is a surprising definition. Afterall, Race and Religion have nothing in common. Religion has underpinned every human civilisation since the Garden of Eden. In … Continue reading Islamophobia Misdefined
BY MICHAEL HURLEY As a small part of the world is vaguely aware, the Catholic Church is preparing for a “synod” (a fancy term for a meeting of bishops), amorphously called the “Synod on Synodality.” Since the publication in June of Instrumentum Laboris, the working document for the first session of the synod coming this October, the perennial grumbling within the Catholic commentariat has reached … Continue reading It’s Time We Stopped Judging the Divorced & Remarried
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Henry of Huntingdon tells the story of King Canute who set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the incoming tide to halt and not to wet his feet and robes: Continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leapt backwards, saying: ‘Let all men know how … Continue reading Canute Confusion
BY DANIEL JUPP Despite being an atheist, I’ve come to realise how disastrous our abandonment of Christianity has been. Our entire western moral code was built around the Judaeo-Christian heritage. You simply cannot scrap that without terrible consequences. At one time every village church in England would be packed out, all the time. So much so that religious services were only a part of that. … Continue reading The Church Vacuum
BY SEAN WALSH “Then Jesus said to Simon: don’t be afraid. From now on you will catch men. So, they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything, and followed Him” (Luke 5) I think this song is a beautiful recuperation of the Gospel message. He walked the shore of Galilee and invited Peter and Andrew into Mission. Not that they could refuse. And then … Continue reading Always Be The Fisherman
BY PHLEGYAS Let it never be said that the Church of England is lacking in leadership. Always looking ahead to the Big Issues of the day, and in doing so looking out for ourselves, we in the Church have identified a serious pandemic of Sin across the country. Worse, we, who pride ourselves on rooting out the Devil wherever he or they (sic) are lurking, … Continue reading Sin – A Modest Proposal
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN We stumble across many weirdoes in our lives. It’s part and parcel of the interconnected environment within which we exist. In the pre-Internet era, green-inkers were relatively disempowered outliers who kept to themselves. They were Twitter-free curtain-twitchers and entirely Post-Office dependent. Nowadays all the nutters on the bus and spotty attic dwellers possess (literally) social media accounts. In 2021 ‘Care in the … Continue reading The Sacred Fox
BY DAVID EYLES Those of us conservatives, who sit on our park benches and watch and observe the political world go by – scurrying hither and thither, forming allegiances and breaking them up again in their enormous, squabbling rats’ nest – have noticed a strange alliance that has formed in recent years. The Labour Party has almost completely abandoned its Jewish MPs – most have … Continue reading Jesus, Marx & Greta
BY RUTH LEVINE Jews hold that just months after the people of Israel left Egypt in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), they sinned by worshipping a golden calf. Moses ascended Mount Sinai and prayed to God to forgive them. After two 40-day stints on the mountain, full Divine favour was obtained. The day Moses came down the mountain (the 10th of Tishrei) was to be known forevermore as … Continue reading The BBC & Yom Kippur
BY PAUL NEWALL Vladimir Putin inserted himself into the Brexit discourse this week and the result was interesting : “The referendum happened” he said. “What can she do? She should fulfil the will of her nation, as expressed at the referendum. Or it isn’t a referendum.” Is wily Vlad being mischievous or does he have a higher purpose? Nigel Farage took a great deal of … Continue reading The Brexit Putin Remoaner Conspiracy
BY SAM WHITE Have you ever thought you knew a place, looked away for a moment, and when you look back it’s changed? Have you ever had that happen for an entire country? I hadn’t – not for a whole nation – until just now, when I looked at Britain and saw the most bizarre of infernos taking hold. It appears that Britain has been … Continue reading A Strange Revolution
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I wish You a peaceful Sunday and a prosperous, safe week ahead. This year seems to be rattling by. Who would believe that Lent is already upon us and, annoying for many, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday which is also Valentine’s Day this year. So giving up chocolates or wine, or liqueurs may be a tad tricky this … Continue reading A Prayer for Lent
VICAR Dear Readers, I wish you a happy and peaceful Sunday, as ever. Since lambing season is well and truly upon us, this week I would like to draw your attention to sheep. In the Bible we Christians are often referred to as sheep. But let us not be confused by what we see in the green fields of this United Kingdom and how we … Continue reading We Are Not Sheep
