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 SEAN WALSH If you are one of those people who still puzzle over the identity of Jack the Ripper*, then the Whitechapel Society might be right up your narrow, cobbled, and pitch-black street. Founded some thirty years ago, its membership includes former and serving police officers, academics, tour guides, psychologists, psychics, lawyers and miscellaneous representatives of all trades and none. It meets every other … Continue reading The English and Their Clubs
BY STEWART SLATER The below is part of a series considering how society has come to adopt, and in some cases, celebrate the Seven Deadly Sins. Here below I list 4 sins with the other 3 of the 7 to follow next week. The Angry Society There is a paradox about anger – experiencing it is a sign of impotence, expressing it is a sign … Continue reading 7 Deadly Sins – Anger Through Lust
BY EFFIE DEANS There were a couple of stories a few days ago that illustrate where we are and where we are going if we are not careful. Senior figures in three American universities were asked in Congress about whether crowds calling for the genocide of Jews was wrong. They equivocated. It depended on the context. There was next a scene in a café where … Continue reading What’s Going On?
BY STEWART SLATER Britain is, as Napoleon may or may not have said, a “nation of shopkeepers”. Partly this may have been down to snobbery – nations which have felt the need to invent a caste system have generally accorded a lower ranking to merchants than to soldiers. But le petit caporal (or whoever invented the phrase) put his finger on something important. For the … Continue reading The Enemy Within
BY EFFIE DEANS There were no black children in either my primary or secondary schools. Racist words were commonplace. When I moved to Edinburgh middle class students used racist words to describe shops run by people of Pakistani origin and takeaways run by people of Chinese origin. We didn’t do this in a hostile fashion. It was simply the language of the time. A form … Continue reading Britain Is Being Trolled
