Loose Ends

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...

The Muslim Vote Website Normal person Twitter was recently sent into scare mode after a Muslim political scientist made a bold claim that if Muslims were to collectivise they could decisively shift a parliamentary seat (or 86). Of course, this is cause for alarm. The British public have long since departed from the idea of voting on religious grounds, we vote according to personal values and who best represents them. Now many Brits are very religious, but this is pretty low down on their list of values when it comes to voting. So a Muslim block vote is going to start raising eyebrows. There is a caveat in his tweet, which is hardly surprising, even Muslims are capable of voting of their own free will and not by religious diktat. So when he caveats by saying it would take a huge effort among the Muslim community, how much of an effort would it actually need? So I thought I would also have a look to see if his claims are backed up by the stats. Luckily, we've recently had the latest ...

I am going to keep this as blunt as possible. rather than flood you with academic babble I will try as much as possible to avoid using words that the common man is not normally exposed to. And by common man I mean the literal sense of your every day man or woman who is not usually exposed to the rhetoric of academia. I am also the common man, so this is also easier for me. Where possible I will explain what the words actually mean without you having to resort to a dictionary every 5 minutes. So what is my experience on this topic. I have read dozens and dozens of books, watched thousands of hours of documentary over a 40 year period. Todays topic is the holocaust. The holocaust is the Nazi industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews, of course this number is not exact, it may be slightly over, it may be slightly under. But the majority of Historians agree that 6 million is probably about the right number. the general timeline is that of 1941-1945, of course, the murdering and slaughter ...

The first casualty, when war comes, is truth Hiram Johnson I find propaganda fascinating, being a student of 20th century history, a period which gave us some of the most evil propagandists of all time I'm well versed in spotting propaganda when I see it, but sometimes its not so easy to spot and it happens a lot more often than we think. The best propaganda is when you don't even notice you've been exposed to it. Joseph Goebbels was a master of it, while a lot of his work involved obviously cynical overt propaganda he was also a master at covert propaganda, twisting narratives and re-imagining history in a manner that was eagerly lapped up by the masses who might not have believed everything he was telling them, they simply wanted to believe it. Of course, Goebbels wasn't the only propagandist during the second world war, neither is it something only one side participated in. The allies were no strangers to propaganda themselves. In most cases, it takes an awful lot of...