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England’s Heroes & Zeroes of 2021
J. K. Rowling, who earned praise for getting herself cancelled this year by refusing to back down from her normal views on genitalia and gender. 2,411 words We can be heroes just for one day. — David...
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The Search for a Usable Past
1,659 words Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right Edited by Jonathan Bowden, Eddy Butler, and Adrian Davies. With a Foreword by Professor Antony Flew Beckenham, Kent: The Bloomsbury Forum,...
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Jonathan Bowden on the Ravages of Mass Immigration
4,221 words Editor’s Note: This March 27, 2008, British National Party “stump speech” given in Tameside was transcribed by Hyacinth Bouquet. Sadly, the video is incomplete. If anyone has a complete...
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Some Thoughts on the Hume-Rousseau “Philosopher’s Quarrel”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, left, and David Hume. 3,901 words “No good deed goes unpunished,” as the old saw goes. It puts a cynical, waggish twist on the perspicacious observation that acts of genuine...
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The Union Jackal, July 2022
England’s lily-white Lionesses women’s football team. 2,293 words Rampant lionesses tamed by BBC Women’s football — soccer to my American readers — is often scorned but is actually enjoyable to watch,...
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Queen of the World
1,048 words When anyone on planet Earth spoke of “the Queen,” nobody ever asked, “Which Queen?” Everyone knew that “the Queen” meant Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. In that sense, she was the...
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How I Met Lemmy Kilmister: An Interview with Mark Gullick
Lemmy Kilmister 3,707 words Mark Gullick is a rarity for Counter-Currents. He is a professional writer and an expert on the English cultural milieu. Mark is mainly interested in current politics, but...
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John Locke’s Blank Slate & the Unique Development of Children’s Literature in...
9,202 words There is an elective affinity — a relationship of reciprocal attraction and mutual reinforcement — between a) John Locke’s argument that a child’s mind initially resembles an “empty...
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“Are You So Severe upon Your Own Sex?” Femininity According to Jane Austen
William Blake, Mrs. Q, ca. 1815 7,128 words “The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice The last article of mine that our editors at...
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Mirko Savage, Mother Europe’s Son
2,107 words Lots of books about English skinheads and the band Skrewdriver have been published in English. Personally, I consider the best book on this topic to be Nazi Rock Star by Paul London, aka...
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The Union Jackal, November/December 2022
1,731 words Advanced robotics Brassneck was a cartoon robot schoolboy from a popular comic I read as a young lad in the 1960s, The Dandy. Older British readers will also remember this comic’s great...
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The Worst Week Yet: December 4-10, 2022
Harvey Weinstein’s guilt or innocence in his rape trial may be decided by the appearance of his savagely deformed genitalia. 2,462 words Election Rigging? Kanye West Wins “Anti-Semite of the Year”...
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Catch 2022: That Was the Year that Was
1,342 words For media junkies like myself, the blessed week between Christmas and New Year’s should be rehab. It isn’t, of course. We can’t quit the needle. We spend the week watching myriad round-ups...
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A Fake & Ghey Murder
Brett, aka Brianna (last name unknown) 1,531 words Last Saturday afternoon at a public park east of Manchester in northern England, a 16-year-old male whose first name at birth was “Brett” died from...
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The Union Jackal, February 2023
Riot in Knowsley on February 10 that was sparked by a video of a migrant propositioning a minor. 1,750 words Out, damn’d Scot! So it’s fare thee well to dime-store Lady Macbeth, Nicola Sturgeon. The...
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Enoch Powell, poslední tory
1.293 slov English original here Enoch Powell by nesjpíš v roli vůdce britského nacionalistického hnutí působil jakoby nepatřičně i v lecjaké alternativní historii. Oddaný voják Impéria, příslušník...
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A Nasty Business
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 1,943 words Smoking cigarettes And writing something nasty on the wall. You nasty boy! — Stevie Wonder, “I Wish” [C]ontinual fear, and danger of violent death, and...
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Despite All the Progress We’ve Made, There Is Still, for Some Strange Reason,...
Martin Luther King III 1,157 words Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Probably...
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Despite All the Progress We’ve Made, There Is Still, for Some Strange Reason,...
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s new First Minister. 71 words / 9:12 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Despite All the Progress We’ve Made, There Is Still, for Some Strange...
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British Power and British Glory
4,654 words Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by John Morgan of a British National Party stump speech, once thought lost, that Jonathan Bowden gave in Liverpool on November 28, 2008. The...
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In Defense of English Cooking
1,313 words Jordan Peterson was asked by journalist Camilla Tominey about his views on multiculturalism during a recent exclusive interview with GB News, Britain’s nominally Right-leaning news station....
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The Search for a Usable Past
1,678 words Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right Edited by Jonathan Bowden, Eddy Butler, & Adrian Davies Foreword by Professor Antony Flew Beckenham, Kent: The Bloomsbury Forum, 1999...
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An Ode to Kieron Williamson
One Day Like This (2023) (From Kieron Williamson’s official website) 1,431 words Of the many things in this world which I know nothing about, the one for which I wish this wasn’t the case is art. Not...
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A Family with the Wrong Members in Control: Orwell’s England
2,265 words England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian...
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Wholesome Escapism: The BBC Farm Series
2,062 words I made a resolution several months ago that I would, to the best of my abilities, write mostly about positive, constructive things. “Mostly,” because there will always be not-so-positive...
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The Certainty of Chance
2,072 words “I believe in the certainty of chance,” sang Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy in 1998, a wonderful songwriter musing on one of philosophy’s oldest conundrums. Are events pre-ordained or as...
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
1,256 words Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow...
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Richard III: England’s Favorite Evil Uncle
Detail, John Everett Millais’ foreboding The Princes in the Tower, 1876. 5,894 words No author would be able to get away with writing such a story in a novel, it was so fantastic. Providence and...
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The Tangled Web of Life
William Hogarth, Canvassing for Votes, from The Humours of an Election, 1755. 1,881 words Since the last US presidential election, my life has been a tangled web of travels and adventures. I was...
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Colin Jordan’s Merrie England 2,000
5,336 words Colin Jordan Merrie England 2,000 Sandycroft Publications: 1993 In earlier times, there was much speculative fiction about conditions around the turn of the millennium. (We’re still waiting...
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Anglis Anglia, or England for the English
Detail, George Vertue, King Edward I, 1734. 2,706 words In many ways, America and Britain’s sociopolitical circumstances parallel those of the reigns of King John, King Henry III, and King Edward I, a...
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John Seymour’s Retrieved From the Future
1,307 words John Seymour Retrieved From the Future London: New European Publications, 1996 John Seymour’s Retrieved From the Future depicts a Britain when the oil runs out, caused by the CRASH, when...
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British TV & Cutting Down on Booze
British television presenter Adrian Chiles 1,837 words Not too long ago I got an app for my streaming service that features British TV shows, which led to me developing an obsession with reality shows...
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The Bitch is Back
Meghan Markle and Wallis Simpson 3,216 words Meghan Markle is not the first conniving, social climbing, American divorcee to imperil the British Monarchy. Before her, there was Wallis Simpson, the...
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British Broadcasting Coercion
Alex Belfield with his 100,000 YouTube subscribers plaque. 2,768 words It is no secret to those of us from the UK who have not been vaccinated against reality that the British Broadcasting Corporation...
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Murder Maps: Agatha Christie’s Insular Imperialism
George Barbier, “Eventails (Fans)” 7,971 words Twentieth Century Studios is threatening to release a remake of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile (1937). And if Kenneth Branaugh’s previous outing as...
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You Must Be Joking
1,787 words When I first said I wanted to be a comedian, everyone laughed. Well, they’re not laughing now. — Bob Monkhouse If you and your friends were to have a séance, and you channeled the spirit...
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Withnail & I Viewed From the Right
10,882 words Editor’s note: This is a transcript of Millennial Woes’ speech at the 2017 London Forum. We would like to thank Hyacinth Bouquet for this transcript. Announcer: Some people need an...
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Caught Out
Ollie Robinson bowling 1,418 words Cricket. Not as homely as “mom and apple pie,” but, to the Englishman, just as evocative of home. If American readers don’t know the game, I won’t attempt to explain...
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The Ways of Weeds: Better Living through Botany
3,018 words The singer Édith Piaf famously, and throatily, regretted nothing about anything. But the poet John Betjeman wished that he’d had more sex. And the economist John Maynard Keynes that he’d...
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PC at the Bat
2,285 words The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; the score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, a...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
3,304 words When I was in college, the campus offered a film series called Twice-Told Tales. You would view a film followed by its remake three days later. Films like Dangerous Female (1931), starring...
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Jamestown, the Virginians, & Leadership
Captain John Smith, one of the Jamestown colony’s early leaders. 4,356 words The Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony receive a great deal of glory. This glory is well deserved, but other shiploads of...
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Steptoe, Slade, and Santa
2,607 words The first thing we heard was the bells, the familiar ching ching ching coming through the frosty air from a distance. My mother would turn out the living-room lights and we would all crowd...
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Magnificent Anarchy
2,315 words One of the saddest things about the tragedy that England has become is the loss of its comedy. Traditionally seen as a nation of sober, sensible yeomanry with a philosophical tradition of...
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High Culture & Patriotic Purpose
964 words Jonathan Bowden This brief, privately circulated essay by Jonathan Bowden is from early 2001. I wish to thank Adrian Davies for providing it. —Greg Johnson, Editor-in-Chief *** Any patriotic...
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Dirty Northern Bastards The Damned United
2,083 words To do anything to a high level, it has to be a total obsession. -Conor McGregor An obsession is when something will not leave your mind. -Eric Clapton *** As much as I love movies, and as...
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Death And The Maiden: Martin Amis’ London Fields
2,020 words This is London; and there are no fields. Only fields of operation and observation, only fields of electromagnetic attraction and repulsion, only fields of hatred and coercion. -Martin Amis,...
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Ripe For Reform: How Aliens Invaded My Home-Planet and Helped Swing a Local...
1,906 words Here’s how white my hometown used to be: the first time I ever saw a black man there, I thought he was an alien. He pulled up at a bus-stop in his car when I was walking back home from...
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The Sun Finally Sets: The End of Empire
2,230 words A ceramics business in Stoke, in the Midlands of England, closed this month. Moorcroft Potteries’ problems were economic, but they were not failings of the business itself, rather the...
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