Loose Ends

 It never fails. One minute you're taking part in a street protest about some issue or another, because you are a soul of purity, truth and good virtue. And a snap of the fingers later its affecting something you like. A tale as old as time One of my favourite historians James Holland, who is a good and kind man, who spoke out about the lack of compassion for migrants desperately fleeing war torn France.  Just as long as it didn't affect something he liked No, i never meant right here. This is a thing I like Indeed, where is the compassion. It's only an old airfield after all (I'm kidding, I'm a huge WWII buff) The things is with migrants. They don't pitch up on our shores with their own houses on their backs a full bill of good health and 5 miles of road. Of course, there is very little mention of what the villages surrounding Scampton would have to suffer (there are more than half a dozen villages close to Scampton, some with a population of under 200) No, the...

In my spare time, I love reading through academic articles. There was a time when i would hear that someone was an academic and think to myself  "wow! this must be a smart person" which, on the face of it, is rather absurd. Going to a university is no guarantee that it will make a dumb person smart. in fact, it very often will make them even dumber. The other day i came across this article about the British war on woke. This is an insane article Written mostly by Huw C Davies. He's a researcher at Oxford. But don't let that fool you into thinking he must be really smart then. Because he isn't. In the abstract, he describes the British war on woke as an intensive, ideological campaign. Odd framing, because its not a campaign by any stretch of the imagination. The founding principle of the University was an exchange of ideas, the hope would be that the better ideas come out on top. it seems Huw is not keen on accepting ideas outside his bubble of cultural Marxism. I...

The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution Great line, i wont go into the deep history of who said it and why, because that's not what this (hopefully) short blog is about. But it does chime an important bell. The issue they raise is never the important thing. Be it men oppressing women, whites oppressing blacks etc. What the issue is really about, is bringing about a revolution, a movement that would tear down something (sometimes an entire society) to enable you to build a new one in its place. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Stalin tried that in Russia, Mao tried it in China. Hitler and Mussolini tried it in Germany and Italy. The French had 9 goes before getting something workable. And the good old Brits tried it once, then decided it really is a bad idea. In order to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs (people will die) but, the omelette never actually gets made. What we find is, an ugly mess of scrambled eggs. Meet the new regime, very much...

In order to tackle a problem, its important to first identify the root cause of the problem, how it manifests and what are the causes and effects of this manifestation. I first looked into queer theory sometime around 2015. Having taken a long hard look at the ideology behind it I was satisfied by what I'd concluded (satisfied & alarmed) Fast forward a few years and we are seeing more and more of the devastating effects of queer theory coming to fruition, the worst of which is centred around biology which is the bedrock of the whole trans rights agenda. Coupled with the creeping tenet of biological men competing in sporting categories created purely for biological women, we are living through dystopian times. Yet over the past couple of years or so, I've also noticed a growing trend to steer the conversation away from the actual problems by offering up something else as its root cause. The following image is a typical example of deflecting the real root cause by bringing so...

♫  Cheese & Onion Sandwich's & Derby chinaware. ♫ (Chas & Dave - That's what I like) What is British culture? Like a fish swimming in water, you cant properly define it because its everywhere. So without much ado, I shall define it. Avoiding the far left/right dichotomy of what they think British culture should be, allow me to explain not what it should be, but what it actually is. We are, after all, the masters of understating things "Things are a bit sticky sir" Thanks to this radio broadcast from Brigadier Tom Brodie during the Korean War to his American superior an entire regiment of what later came to be known as the Glorious Gloucesters was virtually wiped out. Had his superior also been British, he would have understood exactly what Brodie meant, a Brit would have known this almost instinctively and understood that the Gloucesters were in fact, looking into the face of total annihilation. They were, and it happened. Being British is also a sudden an...

"It only happened when the unthinkable became normalised." Sounds pretty frightening doesn't it? Echoes of past descents into chaos, culminating in horrible atrocities that normally just would not happen. They are just, well, unthinkable. Of course, this is fair comment because when we think of the unthinkable our minds cast back to events like Holodomor, the holocaust or the Rwandan genocide. All these things happened and they largely happened because we normalised the unthinkable. Hyperbole (exaggeration) A very common use of language. For example  "I ate a ton of food at lunch today so I think I'll skip dinner" Obviously, I didn't actually eat a ton of food, otherwise I would be dead, not forgetting I would have been violently sick long before I managed to eat a ton of food, its an exaggeration (hyperbole) Just keep this in mind, hyperbole will come up lots in this blog post (maybe even, a ton of times) Other things worth remembering. I shall be refer...