A Language of an oft Conquered Isle

A Language of an oft Conquered IsleAuthor: P. Henge. Most languages of the world have well defined structures stemming from a single origin, albeit with a few foreign notes – not unlike a good vintage wine. Yet English, to be sure, is non-vintage, but just as stressed grapes create the best wines, so the tortured […]

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From the NCF: Heresies Ep. 4 – Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Customs.

The New Culture Forum proudly presents Heresies, Episode 4: “Britain’s Silent Cultural Revolution”, presented by Emma Webb (#NCFHeresies). In the year of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of the American George Floyd, we have seen Britain in the grip of a revolutionary and iconolastic fervour. Statues have been toppled and defaced, historic buildings […]

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Ministry of Truth

The IPA wrote:The National Curriculum could remove all references to Christianity, Ancient Greece and the history of Western Civilisation in Australian schools, and treat the arrival of the First Fleet as an “invasion” in radical new changes being proposed. Dr Bella d’Abrera’s research was featured on the front page of The Daily Telegraph. Bella said […]

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This other Eden

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,This other Eden, demi-paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea,Which serves it in the office of a wall,Or as a moat […]

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Anti-Colonialism’s Bad History – Quillette

This kind of thinking undermines Western society at two levels. On a macro level, the heretofore dominant narrative of Western success—the gradual development of liberal political and economic institutions and changing attitudes to reason, science, commerce, and innovation—is being undermined by the increasingly popular view that the West got rich by making the rest of the world poor.

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The Cat and the King – D. Duffy

“FOR SOME MEN NOTHING IS WRITTEN UNLESS THEY WRITE IT.” This interesting line was once used in reference to the late T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia).

It is a damn tempting precept to take up and I have often been a disciple when I have creatively jay-walked contrary to traffic regulations and infringed on other municipal by-laws at random – but I value the rule of law none the less.

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licóurOf which vertú engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his […]

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