Anyone who has read the papers or watched the news in recent days would have been shocked and appalled at the revelations of the Rochdale grooming scandal. Journalists from the width and breadth of the political spectrum have brought to public attention a story that highlights the most corrupt and depraved instincts of man, and yet above and beyond the warranted condemnation of those convicted, the facts of the case illuminated a far greater malady that has splintered our society.
Despite the fact it promotes what is today called politically incorrect language-but used to be called free speech- Enoch Powell is a victim of posthumous character assassination from the political left due to an inordinate focus on this single incautious statement. To racially divide in such a way was perhaps unwise in 1968, but no more unwise than when Black MP Diane Abbott claims ‘White people love playing divide and rule’ in 'progressive' 2012.
There is much about The Communist Manifesto that is valid from a conservative / traditionalist viewpoint. Marx was a product of the “spirit” of his Age, or zeitgeist. This 19th century zeitgeist remains the same today. Hence, Marx provides an insight into materialism, or what might also be called economic determinism, which has continued as the dominant ethos of the 20th and present centuries.
By Alex Calvo. The Falklands may lie in a different ocean, and thousands of miles away, from the Senkaku Islands, but in addition to also being claimed by another country, the latter have recently provided a reminder of what went wrong in the South Atlantic in the decades leading to the 1982 Argentine invasion.
On June 16th the Traditional Britain Group is to hold the Enoch Powell Centenary Dinner, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of almost certainly Britain’s greatest and most acclaimed politician of the post-war era. He is best known for his fervent and constant opposition to mass immigration which he referred to as a nation erecting its own funeral pyre. He was also implacably opposed to the European Union. He believed that Parliament was a place to “voice grievance, to demand that wrong be out right” and not a place for careerists.
Henry Hopwood-Phillips responds to Searchlight's article about the Traditional Britain Group. "I am sure that I am not the only one that finds your menacing "investigative journalism" into the right-wing of British politics to have an ironically gestapo-ish feel. Imagine if a rightist were to set up "Der Tag", a group which "investigated" and published information on all groups with leftist affliations in Britain. It is a sinister practice and I suspect deep down you know as much, not that you'll stop it because it's for the elusive 'greater good'. A reminder of the totalitarian impulses your 'enlightened' organ represents."
By "Democracy" most people also assume a limited government, securing
property rights and constrained by law but that is not inherent in the
word itself which simply means "rule by the people" who can be stupid,
brutish, selfish, capricious and destructive.
By David Hamilton. There is confusion about what art is. The qualities that make something art are intrinsic, not external. It is the artifice, the organising of elements, perspective, choice of colour etc, that make it art. The result is obtained by transforming reality and thus nature through human imagination and emotion and is realised by skill and technique.
The word Beauty (or beautiful) is descriptive if used as an adjective to express the response of the beholder to an object, or if used within a clear context; if used as an abstract noun it is universal, and therefore meaningless.
By Henry Hopwood-Phillips. The Establishment were morally and intellectually helpless on those balmy summer days in 2011 when it came to condemning the rioters because ultimately the rioters were acting out the hypocritical double-think nihilism that the Establishment profess to believe in but would never carry out to its natural conclusion.
In 2009 Ben Stephenson, the controller of BBC drama commissioning, said that the corporation should encourage "peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking." Yet, according to its own royal charter, the BBC must "be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output". To show how we got to this undemocratic, totalitarian state I give a survey of the war on our culture and history carried on against us in our theatres for over thirty years.
