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Why we Fight, Part Two

15th April 2025 Going Postal 2253 Comments

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

8th April 2025 Going Postal 1969 Comments

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…]

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A Declaration of Independence in Thought and Expression and Action

19th July 2022 Going Postal 3452 Comments

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with their government, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the [more…]

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The Revolution in Zanzibar

24th February 2022 Zombie Ramboz 5509 Comments

I had probably already heard of the Zanzibar Revolution, perhaps I had read that Freddy Mercury arrived in the United Kingdom as a result of his family having fled the violence that took place there [more…]

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Postcard from Romania – Part Five

4th August 2021 SharpieType301 3200 Comments

Part Four of this Postcard from Romania revealed the joys of First-Class train travel through the ever-changing landscapes of this beautiful country, and a taste of Ursus, Romania’s most popular brew. We’d arrived at our [more…]

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Postcard from Romania – Part Four

9th June 2021 SharpieType301 3189 Comments

Part Three of the Postcard from Romania covered our visits to the indoor and outdoor sections of the terrific Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei), a jaunt to Satu Mare on the wild [more…]

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Hungary 1956; ‘Normalization’ in Budapest

23rd June 2020 Going Postal 4584 Comments

The crushing of the 1956 Hungarian uprising led to repercussions far beyond the borders of the country itself.  In its wake communist fellow travellers were forced to confront the grim realities of Soviet realpolitik, the [more…]

15th Century

Disintermediation

9th February 2020 1642again 2453 Comments

My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more…]

20th Century

Emmet Dalton and the raid on Mountjoy Prison

2nd April 2019 Going Postal 5637 Comments

This is a story about one of the rebels against British rule over Ireland and about one incident in that rebellion in the early 20th century. Emmet Dalton was born in the United States in [more…]

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