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Beowulf: England’s Myth
2,164 words Listen, there’s a poem, it speaks in the voice of England’s past like a flame beyond the language of the living. It’s more than a thousand years old and yet it still speaks to us. It’s...
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Ian Curtis: A Northern Soul
3,496 words Someone take these dreams away That point me to another day A duel of personalities That stretch all true realities That keep calling me They keep calling me Keep on calling me They keep...
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 257 Culture Jamming with Morgoth
185 words / 59:55 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Greg Johnson talks to Morgoth of Morgoth’s Review on the web,...
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Monarchs & Mountebanks
895 words I thought things could not get worse for the Royal Family after the future King Charles the 3rd was caught out claiming he wanted to be his aging mistress’s female sanitary product while his...
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The BBC: A Blatantly Biased Corporation
Geeta Guru-Murthy, BBC World News presenter. 1,039 words “All beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and...
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Angel of Avalon
1,746 words “My favorite singer out of all the British girls that ever were.” — Robert Plant I first came across the name Sandy Denny on the liner notes of the classic Led Zeppelin IV. Apparently, she...
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Golden Gods & Guitars: Led Zeppelin IV
Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977. 2,100 words Someone told me there’s a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair — “Going to California” Led Zeppelin’s back...
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Torchwood: Children of Earth
2,727 words Children of Earth, or more accurately “Children of Britain,” was the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood’s third outing. Torchwood dropped the Doctor and asked what happens when he’s not around...
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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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