BY PAUL T HORGAN The ‘Guilty Men’ narrative in the Britain of July 1940 was a necessary myth. The state had given itself such massive powers in the wake of the Dunkirk evacuation as to be a revolution from above, so a superficially credible legend had to be created, as is the case for all revolutions, to justify the legal appropriation of so many traditional liberties. The rapid German … Continue reading Ponzi, Panzer, and Plunder
BY PAUL T HORGAN The news from what is being described as the ‘Iran War’ is that there is no news, well none about the actual fighting. This is normal. A study of war reporting, especially of the wartime periodicals that would emerge for every major conflict up to WWII, demonstrates that the actualité of the combat would take at least several days if not weeks or … Continue reading The Hormuz War
BY STEPHEN PAX LEONARD Erik the Red famously named Greenland as such in the 10th century in order to persuade people to settle there. Greenland is one big sheet of ice, and the only thing green about it is the colour of the vast meltwater lakes that sit on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the summer months. But, don’t take it from me. … Continue reading All that Glitters is not Green
BY PAUL T HORGAN Competitive sports are not, we are constantly told, just about winning. They are also about taking part: This, to a degree, makes sense. If no-one apart from one person took part in a sports contest, it would not be much of a contest. This is also the case in lawsuits. The suit is not only about the result, but about the … Continue reading The Last Trump for the BBC
BY SEAN WALSH When I was a child and showing worrying signs of growing up to become me, my parents put me up for investigation by all manner of psychologists and other con-artists. The experts gave me these “psychometric” tests and also exercises in something called “numerical reasoning”. Some of the questions went a bit like this: What is the next number in the following … Continue reading Trump’s Dylanesque Genius
BY PAUL T HORGAN In retrospect, the American bombing of Uranium enrichment plants in darkest Iran was obvious. There was a central fact that was deliberately ignored or played down by commentators for years. No one in the mainstream media, or indeed in the political bubbles, has actually explored what “enrichment” actually is. Unless a person was familiar with how an atomic bomb works, the … Continue reading Atomic Brinkmanship
BY STEWART SLATER The Dark Knight is an unusually substantial popcorn movie, seen by those for whom nothing can ever be purely what it seems (i.e. everyone whose job title includes the word “critic”) as a meditation on the limits of state surveillance power in the post-9/11 world. Beneath its discussion of civil liberties, however, lie deeper questions about the world and human nature – … Continue reading Dogs Chasing Cars
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN In recent years, populism has risen on both sides of the Atlantic. It claims the mantle of conservatism. But it is not conservatism. Figures like Donald Trump and movements like MAGA do not stand for the ideals that defined Margaret Thatcher. Thatcherism was built on conviction, principle, and a clear vision for renewal. Populism thrives on grievance, division, and resentment. It is … Continue reading Thatcher, Not Trump
BY STEWART SLATER Modelled on Jay Nordlinger’s “Impromptus” in National Review, I’ve written a piece (each month for the last months) which is a series of paras on various ideas: Stewart Slater works in Finance. He invites you to join him at his website. Continue reading March Reflections
BY ALEX STORY Starmer went to Washington to kiss Trump’s golden ring just as a provincial would have a Roman Emperor’s. The UK press thought the humiliating spectacle went well. As a synopsis, on the Chagos Islands and Ukraine, our Prime Minister sought the backing of a foreign power in pursuit of his own foreign policy objectives. Giving Chagos to Mauritius, to which they never … Continue reading Not a Serious Country
BY ALEX STORY Old Europe and the Americas are set on very different paths. Germany, France and the United Kingdom are visibly stuck. El Salvador, Argentina and the United States, on the other hand, are not. Politically, Germany and France have become difficult places to govern, to say the least. The fragile German three-party coalition government collapsed in November 2024 over the beleaguered country’s economic … Continue reading The Great Bifurcation
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN To combat ‘wokeness’, one must first define it. One should assess levels of wokeness based on criteria that highlight divisive factors, ideological rigidity, and rejection of open dialogue, with the intention of identifying these traits as problematic. Otherwise, you’re merely pinning jelly to a wall. Below, as a helpful aid to DOGE, I have created the Wightman Wokeness Valuator (WWV)*. New DOGE … Continue reading Spiking Wokeness
BY SEAN WALSH Did the Mob “Wise Guy” Bring it Home for Trump? I knew that he was going to win when he secured the endorsement of the respected and much-loved former Mafia hit-man Sammy “the bull” Gravano (pictured). These embraces are always the result of a negotiation. No doubt a shadowy Trump consigliere had met for a “sit down” with Gravano’s people in … Continue reading On Celebrity Endorsements
BY GARY MCGHEE It’s not only Trump who dodged that bullet. His glorious victory in the US election means that we in the UK, others in Europe and indeed the whole world have too. At every level the globalist, elitist Woke Left will now be in retreat. The Communist centralisation via the back door of the WEF, Davos and the UN will hopefully be stymied. … Continue reading Dodging Bullets
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN In the still air of a rainy November morning, the weight of history felt too heavy for some: Raindrops slid fast down my window like their ‘liberal’ tears but I thought not of their howling. Instead I thought of those who spoke against silence. Those who dreamt of change. Those who fought and died for our freedoms, paving the way for crucial … Continue reading Power of the People
BY DANIEL JUPP There have been multiple previous attempts on Donald Trump’s life. There have been countless threats, some of them from very famous sources. Let’s recall a few of those: Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters both told Democrats and Antifa to harass Trump administration officials, to get in their faces and make their lives hell. Bob de Niro told us, again and again, how … Continue reading MSM-loaded Bullets
BY MICHAEL HURLEY One of the unexpected gifts of ageing is time. Just when I have so much less of it, I seem to have so much more of it. Time to think. Time to relax. Time to pray. One of the best uses of my leisure, since I jilted that jealous mistress known as the practice of law, has been reading. I revel in … Continue reading Dostoevsky’s Dream
CSM EDITORIAL Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, the Squires trust that You are well and that 2024 is a terrific year for You and Your families. 2024 is election year both here and in the United States (where a fifth of our readership resides). While we suspect that a Trump will be hard to beat stateside (note ‘a’ rather than mere Donald), here in … Continue reading Not My Vote, Starmer!
BY DANIEL JUPP The Hillary Clinton campaign invented a conspiracy that didn’t exist to try and get a rival presidential candidate defeated. They then falsified ‘evidence’ by paying a former foreign spy to create a dossier. The heads of the FBI and CIA knew it was all an invention and not real. They met with departing President Obama and presented a report detailing that this … Continue reading On the Durham Report
BY STEWART SLATER Much of the shock over the recent events at the Capitol in Washington is due to the fact that they seemed so out of character. Some countries might act that way, but not the U.S. This is not what America is. But what if our image of the country is out of date? This is what America is like now, we just … Continue reading A Republic If You Can Keep It
