THOUGHT FOR THE DAY LI: ON PETER HITCHENS

In this video, I look at Peter Hitchens' modus operandi, and how the Hitchens Brothers interlinked to keep discourse within certain parameters.

MJOLNIR HAMMERS....CONSERVATISM

This is the inaugural edition of "Mjolnir Hammers...." As Roger Scruton died not long before the recording of this episode, we decided to hammer conservatism. We look at the historical foundations of conservatism as a rebranding of Burkean liberalism, its religious aspects grounded in Christian Protestantism and mercantilism, its primarily economic outlook as a world view, and its legacy in the present in how it has shifted the Overton Window. We explore such topics as elitism, aesthetics, the politics of decline, pessimism and respond to the the fundamental question: do conservative ideas and ideals hold any value for our people?

 

 

ANN WIDDICOMBE AND USEFUL IDIOCY

It is the current fashion in populist and nationalist circles to be anti-Brexit. As I have mentioned before, I think Brexit is a distraction and that nothing can change until the present dispensation of politics in Westminster is also eliminated, which is identical to that of the European Union. Having seen various podcasts and posts by so-called nationalists who have latched onto Brexit as some kind of potential quick fix to our problems, I also think that becoming too involved in Brexit often turns nationalists into populists. They then quite quickly become attached to the cults of personality of various celebrity politicians, one of whom is Ann Widdicombe, who returned from retirement to join the Brexit Party just in time for the European elections at the end of May, resulting in her being elected as an MEP. I recently saw that many alleged nationalists had posted this video of her first speech in the European Parliament on Facebook and elsewhere: