20th Century
On this day, 1945
On this day 80 years ago, the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender, bringing an official end to World War II in Europe. We in the U.K. celebrate 8 May as Victory in Europe Day, [more…]
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America
They call him the Great Disruptor
It’s been interesting (but entirely predictable) to see the world reaction to Trump’s tariff speech. I suppose that hysteria is warranted, because what Trump has done is indeed unprecedented and likely to have seismic effects, [more…]
Politics
Why we Fight, Part Two
A sense of civil war is abroad in “The West” – between liberal remnants who seek to frame globalist values as identical with “Western” values – and a rising populist tide that prefers sanity and order to the politics of national suicide. [more…]
Politics
Why we Fight, Part One
The cool kids table at Davos has become a truly funny place as a tribe of self-anointed, self-credentialed, self-referential, and self-styled “elites” gather to discuss their eliteness and why it’s time that the rest of [more…]
America
DJT has come out
(not the words you were perhaps anticipating…) to claim that the 11th hour Biden pardons are illegitimate because they were signed by autopen and, moreover, “Joe did not know.” Hmmmmmmmmmm I suspect this will be [more…]
America
Mr Zelenskyy goes to Washington
On October 17, 1939, Frank Capra’s film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiered, becoming a landmark in American cinema. Starring James Stewart as the sincere and unassuming Jefferson Smith, this political drama explores the conflict between [more…]
Arts
Briefs Encounter – A reappraisal
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, [more…]
21st Century
Biden – An appraisal 2021-2025
Joe Biden’s presidency ended on January 20, 2025. There is already an orchestrated legacy media campaign to hallow his reign and trumpet his virtues, but surely this will fail – Biden perpetually trampled his oath [more…]
America
He’s Baaack
So………… 20/1/25 was Trump’s inauguration. It was also likely his apotheosis – the vertex of Trumpness, the culmination of years of struggle. It’s hard to believe it could get any more glorious for him than [more…]