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 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 JOHN NASH Last week, US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum fired a polite paper dart at UK Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds (our Minister in charge of UK Rural Affairs, who unfortunately doesn’t understand that hunting is one of the most important rural management functions). He urged her to reconsider the fraudulent Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Act 2025. Sadly, nobody told him that the wheel of … Continue reading A Letter from America
BY NICHOLAS ENGERT Many years ago I arrived early one morning in St Mark’s Square, Venice, before the crowds had started to gather. The air was fresh and cool and the sky a clear blue. And there, in front of the cathedral facade, an Italian flag fluttered high on one of the flagpoles. It was a glorious sight. The green, white and red vertical stripes … Continue reading Red, White & Blue
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 ALEX STORY “Is it true that you called her a fat pig?”“No,” came the reply, “I called her a pig.”“Come to think of it, Meredith,” he continued, “is she fat?”“Let’s get off the subject,” replied Meredith Vieira of The Today Show. Donald Trump recounts the anecdote in his book Think Big and Kick Ass, published in 2007. It followed a controversy involving Rosie O’Donnell, sometimes described … Continue reading The Art of Retribution
BY NIALL McCRAE & SLOBODAN ANTONIJEVIC High taxes levied to fund war, leading to hundreds of thousands of dead conscripts and a shattered economy: since the birth of nations, this pattern has repeated. Sometimes the ordinary people resist, through individual or collective tax avoidance. In the eighteenth century, as the British government waged costly wars with America and France, ruinous duties on imports and exports … Continue reading Did Sussex Smugglers Inspire the US Constitution?
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 JAMIE FOSTER A Visionary Bridging Conservation, Human Rights, and Storytelling In a world where the delicate balance between humanity and nature is increasingly under threat, few individuals have managed to bridge the gap between conservation, human rights, and storytelling as pragmatically or effectively as Tom Opre. A film director, cinematographer, television producer, best-selling author, and passionate advocate, Opre has dedicated his life to shedding … Continue reading The Noble Mission of Tom Opre
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 DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The argument that people deserve the leaders they get is a seductive one. I heard it expressed in a Janners pub this week. It is simple, clean, and fits neatly into the moral framework we like to impose on the world. Bad people get bad leaders. Good people get good ones. But the world is hardly so tidy. It is messy, complicated, … Continue reading People Deserve the Leaders They Get?
BY ALEX STORY The promise of the European Union, tacit or explicit in every treaty, was a future land of Common Agricultural Policy-funded milk and honey. It would deliver, you see, employment, stability and growth. Let us then take stock. In a quarter of a century, unemployment rates across the beleaguered Union have regularly been twice that of the United States. Over that long period, … Continue reading A Continent on Puberty Blockers
BY STEWART SLATER It is a strange phenomenon in humanity that the same idea will often occur to different people at roughly the same time. Newton and Leibnitz invented calculus almost simultaneously. And spent decades arguing over who did so first. Similarly, the late 2000’s were a (actually, the) Golden Age of animated films about penguins. Film pairs follow the iron law of Highlander and … Continue reading The Meaning of Munich
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 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 NIALL McCRAE Andrew Carnegie and Donald Trump: realisers of the American Dream At Donald Trump’s championship golf course at Turnberry in Scotland, the Guardian reporter found some local dog-walkers to ask them what they thought of the man who will be returning to the White House. ‘How can the Americans be so stupid’ was a typical response. Yet an opinion poll just before the … Continue reading Carnegie and Trump
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
BY PETER HARRIS It is a truism within military history that the outcomes of conflicts have been decisively affected, among other factors, by the terrain and climate in which the conflict occurred. Two of the reasons Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union survived Napoleon and Hitler’s offensives respectively is because of the enormous size of Russian and Soviet territory which was impossible to subdue and … Continue reading How Successful Would a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Be?
BY PETER HARRIS Part I can be read here. Russia regards the five former Soviet Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as part of its sphere of influence. So far, Russia has tolerated and benefited from Chinese initiatives in the region such as the aforementioned Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Belt and Road Initiative. However, China’s moves within the region are … Continue reading Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part II
BY PETER HARRIS Russia and China have never been so close in their relations as they are now. As affirmation of this deeper tie, in July 2023 around a dozen Russian and Chinese warships conducted naval exercises in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and in waters near Alaska. These had the double effect of demonstrating both nations’ commitment to being the hegemon within their … Continue reading Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part I
