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# The Mallard

Publishing new, dynamic, and passionate socio-political commentary. Est 2016

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- [Now more than ever, Farage must discern between converts and infiltrators](https://mallarduk.com/2026/01/now-more-than-ever-farage-must-discern-between-converts-and-infiltrators/) - The recent defections of Nadhim Zahawi, Robert Jenrick, and Suella Braverman from the Tories to Reform have caused quite a stir – among both supporters and opponents – yet seemingly for the wrong reasons. In theory, a political start-up winning the endorsement of a former Chancellor sounds like great news. It certainly looks good on paper. The
- [In Brussels, the Eurocrats are increasingly out of control](https://mallarduk.com/2025/11/in-brussels-the-eurocrats-are-increasingly-out-of-control/) - Earlier last month, it was announced that the European Commission wants to double the budget of the EU for North African countries to no less than 42 billion euros. It thereby also wants to extend the Erasmus programme for student exchanges to that region. One does not need to be a migration expert to understand
- [Reform will lead us to victory](https://mallarduk.com/2025/08/reform-will-lead-us-to-victory/) - Reform UK, lead by Nigel Farage, is a once in a century opportunity to destabilise the status quo and displace the political establishment in Great Britain. A unique window of time has opened up in which the British people are discontent enough to reject both the Labour party and the Conservative party, throwing their votes
- [Debating Facades](https://mallarduk.com/2025/07/debating-facades/) - Despite tensions within British society continuing to increase, the government is again demanding us to question our biases and challenge our inherited beliefs. From the reaction to Netflix’s Adolescence, to renewed criticisms of what is taught in schools, the British people are told to keep the spotlight firmly fixed on themselves. Adolescence, a fictional drama
- [Calling the Orange Man's Greenland bluff](https://mallarduk.com/2025/07/calling-the-orange-mans-greenland-bluff/) - Trump’s tariff threats were a big mistake. Everybody agrees, it was the biggest, never a bigger mistake, they looked at that whole thing and went “Wow what a big mistake, we’ve never seen a mistake that big. Bigly. Yuge!” OK, enough of that. It was a mistake for a lot of reasons. Sure, there’s the
- [How to Save Journalism](https://mallarduk.com/2025/06/how-to-save-journalism/) - Since Elon Musk’s purchase of X, Anglophonic media has been under increased pressure to reform. His self-proclaimed empowerment of “Citizen Journalism” is becoming difficult for the mainstream to ignore. Through algorithmic changes that suppress the liberal voices that have dominated for so long, and boost accounts loosely but best described as “anti-woke”, the discourse of
- [The Plastic University Bubble](https://mallarduk.com/2025/03/the-plastic-university-bubble/) - I remember visiting a neighbour’s house as a child, and she had bought us an intriguing toy. ‘Super Elastic Bubble Plastic’ was its name. It was a viscous plastic material that came in a tube, along with a straw, which was used to blow it into a bubble shape (much like chewing gum). You could
- [What we must take from Marx](https://mallarduk.com/2025/02/what-we-must-take-from-marx/) - Britain is a nation that enjoys making light of its peculiarities and eccentricities. We enjoy having a laugh over a slightly self deprecating and scathing analysis of the fine-points of our society. We are keenly aware of the little things that set us apart - most famously the class system. Unblemished by the tumults of
- [Private property and the environment: competing or reconcilable objectives?](https://mallarduk.com/2025/02/private-property-and-the-environment-competing-or-reconcilable-objectives/) - When it comes to the question of the environment and what to do about it, there are a number of assumptions—the outcome of which does, for the most part, map nicely—with respect to who will be saying what about it. For example, that a Leftist is more inclined to refer to themselves as an ‘environmentalist’,
- [Can Britain do business with Taliban-led Afghanistan?](https://mallarduk.com/2025/02/can-britain-do-business-with-taliban-led-afghanistan/) - I can’t say I’ve ever hosted the Taliban, although if presented with the opportunity, the Worshipful Company of Brewers wouldn’t have been my initial choice of venue. This irony wasn't lost on Daniel Evans, frontier markets and technology investor, co-founder of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group, and Chairman of the newly-founded Afghanistan Advisory Council (AAC).
- [The Worst Case Scenario](https://mallarduk.com/2025/01/the-worst-case-scenario/) - It may actually be possible for the right to be sleepwalked back into the arms of the regime. This might strike you as an impossibility, but I am increasingly unconfident in the rigidity of our opposition to the regime and the system it imposes on us. I still believe it to be highly unlikely that
- [Against assisted dying](https://mallarduk.com/2024/11/against-assisted-dying/) - It is unsurprising the government is rushing through 'assisted dying'. Having decimated what little political capital it possessed after a hollow election victory, Labour is clearly desperate to shore up as many achievements as quickly as possible; successes which can be fashioned into something resembling a coherent and tangible legacy at a later date, showing
- [Another Organisation? Splendid!](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/another-organisation-splendid/) - Popular Conservatism (PopCon) has just launched and it’s about as popular as booting a crippled dog into oncoming traffic. Spearheaded by Liz Truss, the shortest serving Prime Minister in British political history and the most unpopular Conservative politician in the country, the organisation is begging to be ridiculed by the media and the public. However,
- [Is Keir Starmer really the PM?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/11/is-keir-starmer-really-the-pm/) - Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure that Keir Starmer is definitely the Prime Minister? It wouldn’t be unusual if he isn’t. Does anyone even remember who Joe Biden is? And he’s supposed to be way more important. It doesn’t really feel like Keir Starmer is the Prime Minister, does it? Maybe Esther Rantzen (who?)
- [The Campaign for Scottish Independence is back to Square One](https://mallarduk.com/2024/10/the-campaign-for-scottish-independence-is-back-to-square-one/) - ‘Within the next five years, in one form or another, break-up is likely to come about’. These are not the reflections of an unhappily married man, but a pronouncement on the fate of Great Britain, as prophesied by none other than Tom Nairn, widely considered the intellectual flagbearer for Scottish nationalism up until his death
- [Little England: Bekonscot, Le Corbusier and the Housing Crisis](https://mallarduk.com/2024/10/little-england-bekonscot-le-corbusier-and-the-housing-crisis/) - The Morris men stand, hankies aloft, in the same pose they’ve held for decades. The little girl tugs at her father’s sleeve. “Who are they, daddy?” Her father pauses for a moment, scratches his chin and ventures a guess. “They’re Irish dancers.” He says, “I think.” The girl looks confused. “I mean, I don’t know
- [The Riots: a working-class view](https://mallarduk.com/2024/10/the-riots-a-working-class-view/) - Back in the fourteenth century, England's lowest class enjoyed the greatest piece of luck it has ever had: the arrival of the Black Death. True, most of us were wiped out, but life became so much better for those who survived. Anyone who wanted our labour now had to compete for it and offer more
- [Victims, Aren’t We All?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/09/victims-arent-we-all/) - Following Donald Trump’s recent announcement concerning returning to Butler, Pennsylvania just over a month after an assassination attempt was made on his life there, there are many things to reflect on. One of them is one of the few bright spots from the fallout of that event: that being much of the left finally getting
- [It's not the economy, stupid](https://mallarduk.com/2024/09/3448/) - Although it seems so distant, the current political landscape is a direct product of 2016. Without specific reference to the victory of Donald Trump, the Brexit referendum, and the rise of anti-immigration parties across the Western world, it’s impossible to sufficiently contextualise the obvious sense of insecurity characteristic of contemporary left-leaning politics and political analysis.
- [Zero Seats isn’t Over](https://mallarduk.com/2024/09/zero-seats-isnt-over/) - Keep going. The target isn’t eliminated yet. There is more to do. There is more you must do. You have felt mush. You must keep pushing. The target must not be allowed time to recover. It is not enough that they’re tired, meandering, and feel like they’re under a slow but inevitable gravitational pull toward
- [The UK has a child obesity problem and tax cuts are the solution](https://mallarduk.com/2024/09/the-uk-has-a-child-obesity-problem-and-tax-cuts-are-the-solution/) - Today, nearly 30% of children in the UK (Year 6 and younger) are classified as 'Overweight or obese'. This figure raises serious public health concerns, as it means many children in the country are not just facing early health scares in their youth, but also potentially lifelong healthcare issues. Recent studies have revealed that one-third
- [How to Deal with an Ideological Villain](https://mallarduk.com/2024/08/how-to-deal-with-an-ideological-villain/) - A pet peeve of mine is when an antagonist in a book, show, or movie is driven by an ideology that, when he or she is inevitably defeated, nonetheless remains without being dismantled or rendered inept in some way. While, today, it is more often the protagonist driven by his or her writer’s self-inserted worldview,
- [With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/07/with-friends-like-these-who-needs-enemies/) - Several months have passed since Hamas orchestrated the surprise attacks against Israel in the notorious and brutal events of October 7th, one of the bloodiest days in Israel’s modern history, with over a thousand people killed or kidnapped by Hamas - consequently launching the war in Gaza, and the prolonged campaign of Netenyahu’s government against
- [Rishi Sunak: MP for Anywhere](https://mallarduk.com/2024/07/rishi-sunak-mp-for-anywhere/) - In his 2017 book, The Road to Somewhere, David Goodhart sought to explain the Brexit vote, and the furore that followed, as a rift between two tribes in British life: ‘Somewheres’ and ‘Anywheres’.Somewheres, Goodhart explained, are traditionally-minded and attached to place. By contrast, Anywheres are cosmopolitans and attached primarily to ideals. Somewheres are often provincial
- [Little Dark Age and Murdering the Author](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/little-dark-age-and-murdering-the-author-jack-campion/) - Roland Barthes’ essay Death of the Author is required reading for many students who wish to study the humanities, such as English Literature. The general thesis of the essay is that narrative intent from the author cannot be discovered as it is impossible to know what the author’s thoughts were at the time of writing.
- [Little Dark Age and Murdering the Author](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/little-dark-age-and-murdering-the-author/) - Roland Barthes’ essay Death of the Author is required reading for many students who wish to study the humanities, such as English Literature. The general thesis of the essay is that narrative intent from the author cannot be discovered as it is impossible to know what the author’s thoughts were at the time of writing.
- [The Migratory Ratchet](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/the-migratory-ratchet/) - To say Britain has just entered a recession is slightly disingenuous, notwithstanding the jargon and semantics of economists and journalists. Whilst GDP has dipped for a second consecutive quarter, GDP per capita has been contracting for seven quarters straight. Having dropped throughout every quarter of 2023, and most quarters of 2022, Britain is enduring the
- [Why We Shouldn't Abandon Politics](https://mallarduk.com/2024/07/why-we-shouldnt-abandon-politics/) - Until a few weeks ago, I was thoroughly resigned to the fact that I would not be voting for the first time in my adult life. This wasn’t a flippant or particularly natural decision for me. A fan of unfashionable causes from a young age, I had always bought into our democratic political system and
- [The Path of Reconstruction](https://mallarduk.com/2024/06/the-path-of-reconstruction/) - As every British conservative writer, pundit, and academic will tell you, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once said: “The Conservative Party is a national party, or it is nothing.” How right he was! Having ceased to be a national party in both respects, dispensing with any meaningful concept of the nation and placing all its chips
- [Bring Back Food Rationing!](https://mallarduk.com/2024/06/bring-back-food-rationing/) - Having never experienced food rationing myself I cannot say what it is like, but I am assuming the experience is not as bad as images suggest. My reasoning is straightforward and can be put in the form of an argument as follows: (1) The National Health Service (NHS) is good; (2) Food is more important
- [The Conservative Cope](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/the-conservative-cope/) - According to recent polling by YouGov, a measly 1% of 18- to 24-year-olds plan to vote Conservative at the next general election. Having won roughly 20% of this demographic in the 2019, the Conservative Party has lost 95% of its support amongst Britain’s youngest voters in less than four years. In reaction to this collapse
- [Relatability and Envy](https://mallarduk.com/2024/06/relatability-and-envy/) - At the Sky News Q&A, both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were asked to reveal something about themselves that would show the real them. Starmer was also accused of being a robot by a voter. Sunak waffled on about his love of sugary food. Starmer basically went on autopilot. Did it work? No. Both just
- [The Impossible as Motivation](https://mallarduk.com/2024/06/the-impossible-as-motivation/) - "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci Like all disaffected individuals who supported the Conservatives in 2019, I too find solace in the work of a certain Italian Marxist philosopher and his insights. The simplicity of that quote often speaks to a dormant impulse in the human
- [The Century of Steel](https://mallarduk.com/2024/06/the-century-of-steel/) - Imagine a world in which there is no central structure, imagine a world where both the United States and China have fallen from a state of global hegemony to struggling to maintain any internal resemblance of order. This could occur independently of the other nation's collapse or in tandem with it. What would the world
- [The Need for Roots by Simone Weil (Book Review)](https://mallarduk.com/2024/05/the-need-for-roots-by-simone-weil-book-review/) - Born in Paris on the 3rd February 1909, Simone Weil was the youngest of two children born to an intellectual and non-observant Jewish family. Stricken by appendicitis as an infant, Weil suffered from ill-health throughout her short life. Academically brilliant, intense and morally uncompromising, Weil intimidated and bemused those she encountered - her tutor, Emile
- [Mania by Lionel Shriver (Book Review)](https://mallarduk.com/2024/05/mania-by-lionel-shriver-book-review/) - Lionel Shriver’s latest novel, Mania, imagines a world in which the concept of intelligence has become taboo. ‘Dumb’, ‘stupid’, ‘moronic’ and every other synonym that might adequately describe the mentally deficient have become unspeakable terms of offence, while IQ tests and entrance exams alike are outlawed on the grounds of elitism. Idiots are not a
- [On Science and Conservatism: Is the Relationship Dead?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/05/on-science-and-conservatism-is-the-relationship-dead/) - Why have conservatives have turned against science? This question is a fundamental mischaracterisation of the relationship between science and right-wing thinkers. As a young scientist and a conservative, I find myself straddling this so-called divide and in the unique position to offer analysis on the state of the relationship between the right-wing and science. It
- [On Repression in Communist Hungary](https://mallarduk.com/2024/05/on-repression-in-communist-hungary/) - The Hungarian People’s Republic (HPR), a communist puppet state which lasted between 1949 and 1989, is sometimes characterised as being propped up solely by Soviet military intervention. However, while Soviet intervention proved decisive during flashpoints such as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the HPR’s existence was largely due to its intricate systems of internal repression.
- [A Brief History of US Student Politics](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/a-brief-history-of-us-student-politics/) - ‘Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?’ These chants outside of the White House haunted Lyndon B. Johnson throughout his presidency. He would sit in the Oval Office with his head in his hands as the chants wafted through the walls. When his son-in-law Charles Robb sent in a tape from Vietnam,
- [The War on Pubs, Part I: Taylor’s Conquest](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/the-war-on-pubs-part-i-taylors-conquest/) - The war on British pubs is as old as the British pub itself, so much so it can barely be classed as an emerging tendency. The government’s dislike of the pub is a fact of life and measures to undermine its prosperity and role in society are widely disliked but are rarely contextualised in political
- [Is it Possible to Live Without a Computer of Any Kind?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/is-it-possible-to-live-without-a-computer-of-any-kind/) - This article was originally published on 19th May 2021. I am absolutely sick to death of computers. The blue light of a screen wakes me up in the morning, I stare at another computer on my desk for hours every day, I keep one in my pocket all the time and that familiar too-bright glow
- [What I’ve Learnt as a Revolutionary Communist](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/what-ive-learnt-as-a-revolutionary-communist/) - This article was originally published in November 2021. I have a confession to make. A few months ago I was made an official member of the Revolutionary Communist Group after being involved as a participating supporter for about a month and a half. The RCG are, in their own words, Marxist-Leninist, pro-Cuba, pro-Palestine, internationalist, anti-imperialist,
- [The UK’s Place in the World: Strategic Industries, China, and Sovereignty](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/the-uks-place-in-the-world-strategic-industries-china-and-sovereignty/) - This article was originally published on 17th November 2021. The Brexit-leading Conservative government wants to back up the talk of the referendum campaign. Now that the UK has Brexited there’s a practical need to set a plan of action and follow it. A lot of intellectual work was taken care of by just following whatever
- [With Friends Like These...](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/3007/) - “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” Lord Palmerston's famous adage is typically divorced from its context, especially when used in discussions regarding Britain's foreign policy, or lack thereof. Delivered as part of a speech in
- [Far-liberal Extremists and The Radicalisation of The Sensible Class](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/far-liberal-extremists-and-the-radicalisation-of-the-sensible-class/) - I tend to subscribe to the view that if you resort to personal insults then you have lost the argument, but every rule has its exceptions. When U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently told Emily Maitlis to “fuck off”, I couldn’t help but feel some sympathy. Maitlis, who spent many years at the BBC feigning traditional
- [Watch Out for The New Labour Playbook](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/watch-out-for-the-new-labour-playbook/) - Yes, Labour is still the party of identity fetishists, true-believer yet Dad’s Army-esque revolutionaries, end of times Gaia environmentalists, and public transport strike supporters, groomers, and much else, but so was New Labour. They just knew how to keep the lunacy contained, repackaged, and were desperate enough to try Blair. Fortunately, Blair did a lot
- [Just Stop Oil: A Proposal for Alliance](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/just-stop-oil-a-proposal-for-alliance/) - Dear Just Stop Oil, You’re a success. You stuck to your principles through ridicule and hate. You’ve carried a burden. Others may still dismiss you, but that’s also an achievement. They didn’t even know to dismiss you before. You’ve now got a place in political discourse. What are your next steps? Are the following broad
- [Time To Stop Being Conservatives](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/time-to-stop-being-conservatives/) - ‘Conservative’, big and small ‘c’, is blah. Blah party, policies, politicians, polls, prospects, and that’s just the ‘p’ words. Let’s deal with ‘party’ first. Perhaps you’ve already stopped being a Conservative. There’s plenty of debate among the duckies about leaving, destroying, destroying and rebuilding, long marching through, etc. the Conservative Party. Whatever, sure, broadly, one
- [On Conservatism and Art](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/on-conservatism-and-art/) - A few weeks ago, another tweet claiming that it was impossible for conservatives to make art made the rounds of Twitter. Like too many in the mainstream culture, its sender erroneously assumed that because art inherently involves edgy innovation, and since conservatives categorically hate and/or fear both extremes and change, art must be the obvious
- [A Sensible Centrist's Guide to Hope Not Hate](https://mallarduk.com/2024/04/a-sensible-centrists-guide-to-hope-not-hate/) - Hope Not Hate is a self-described “anti-fascist” pressure group based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 2004 by communist-affiliated Nick Lowles after the antecedent group, Searchlight, of which Lowles was a co-editor, abused its charitable status by engaging in political activism. This group markets itself as a "charitable organisation," that claims "non-sectarian" and
- [The Burkean Dilemma - and The Need for Constitutional Vandalism](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/the-burkean-dilemma-and-the-need-for-constitutional-vandalism/) - Cast your mind back to your infantile beginnings on the internet - do you remember when a mix of teenage dissent and good taste brought you upon hours and hours of Peter Hitchens clips? The talking points remain engraved in my brain at least. Scorning Elizabeth Truss for being a Liberal Democrat, lamenting the decline,
- [Beware The British Dream](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/beware-the-british-dream/) - 'Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.' - Nicolás Gómez Dávila On an economic, cultural, and political level, Britain has visibly become more American over the past few decades. Partially due to globalising processes which have occurred throughout the USA’s 30-to-40-year hegemony, the Americanisation of Britain is largely downstream from domestic decisions to 'modernise' the country. Possibly the most famous incident
- [Let's Talk About Sex (Work)](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/lets-talk-about-sex-work/) - This tweet from @GraffitiRadical invoked quite the conversation. Well, as much conversation as you can have on Twitter. Some argued that it is empowering and that it’s a legitimate profession. Others argued that it’s exploitative and damaging. Some refuse to even use the term ‘sex work,’ favouring language such as prostitution. To others, it’s interchangeable.
- [Cycling Around Japan](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/cycling-around-japan/) - In early 2023, I began watching NHK (Japan's state broadcaster, akin to the BBC) and discovered a breath of fresh air. A news channel that tells the news in English and has no weird politics or stances it pushes onto you. It was from this, that I noticed that a lot of their programs were
- [Why Insects on an Island cannot Fly](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/why-insects-on-an-island-cannot-fly/) - When British biologist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) researched the birds and insects living on tropical islands in the 19th century, he observed that many species had gradually abandoned their wings. Insects were equipped with small legs and feet, but no flying apparatus. The reason they were without wings was because their innate survival instinct
- [The Nationalist Case for Caution](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/the-nationalist-case-for-caution/) - Over the last few weeks, we've been experiencing a rare phenomenon; politicians seem to have grown a spine. There's tough talk of deportations and standing up to Islamic extremism. It's far too good to be true. Many MPs and our Prime Minister have been living vicariously through Israel, springing to the defence of the Israelis
- [Islam as Arabism](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/islam-as-arabism/) - ‘Here the initiative individual […] regains his place as a formative force in history. […] If he is a prophet like Mohammed, wise in the means of inspiring men, his words may raise a poor and disadvantaged people to unpremeditated ambitions and surprising power.’ - Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History That Islam
- [Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Movement](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/right-place-right-time-wrong-movement/) - During an interview for the H. L. Mencken Club, writer Derek Turner described political correctness as a ‘clown with a knife’, combining more petty nanny state tendencies with a more totalitarian aim, thereby allowing it to gain considerable headway as no-one takes it seriously enough. In a previous article, the present author linked such a
- [The Whitewash – A Review of ‘War on the West’ by Douglas Murray](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-whitewash-a-review-of-war-on-the-west-by-douglas-murray-2/) - To begin, it’s worth saying I owe something of a debt to Douglas Murray. He brought me to many of the positions I hold today, and while my overall impression of ‘War on the West’ was disinterest, it is only upon looking back at my own political journey I’m beginning to understand why I felt
- [On Setting Yourself on Fire](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/on-setting-yourself-on-fire/) - A man sets himself on fire on Sunday afternoon for the Palestinian cause, and by Monday morning his would-be allies are calling him a privileged white male. At the time of writing, his act of self-immolation has already dropped off the trending tab of Twitter – quickly replaced by the Willy Wonka Experience debacle in
- [On the Alabama IVF Ruling](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/on-the-alabama-ivf-case/) - On the 19th February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through IVF are “children”, and should be legally recognised as such. This issue was brought by three couples suing their IVF providers due to the destruction of their children while being cryogenically stored under an existing Death of a Minor statue in
- [The Reality of Degree Regret ](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/the-reality-of-degree-regret/) - It is now graduation season, when approximately 800,000 (mostly) young people up and down the country decide for once in their lives that it is worth dressing smartly and donning a cap and gown so that they can walk across a stage at their university, have their hands clasped by a ceremonial ‘academic’, and take
- [Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth: An Examination and Review](https://mallarduk.com/2024/03/joel-coens-the-tragedy-of-macbeth-an-examination-and-review/) - A new film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy, Joel Coen’s 2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth is the director’s first production without his brother Ethan’s involvement. Released in select theaters on December 25, 2021, and then on Apple TV on January 14, 2022, the production has received positive critical reviews as well as awards for screen
- [Words not Deeds](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/words-not-deeds/) - I think it’s safe to assume, second only to the United States, Britain has the largest ‘free speech network’ in the Anglosphere. Comprised of any array of pressure groups, organisations, commentators, broadcasters, forums, publications, and self-appointed champions and activists. Despite this well-funded and high-profile network of talking-heads, very few have spoken out in defence of
- [On Truth and Democracy](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/on-truth-and-democracy/) - O Tempora, O Mores (L., “Oh the times, Oh the customs”), is an apothegm attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC), a Roman statesman, attorney, philosopher, and scholar. In his First Oration against Catiline (63 BC) that he delivered in the Roman Senate, Cicero deplored the sorry condition of the Roman Republic, and
- [Britain's Fifth Column](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/britains-fifth-column/) - A fifth column is “a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies.” We have a problem that is acknowledged but gets little to no serious attention in the official political or media spheres; the growing Islamic base that has been imported into this country. Given the above
- [Not With a Bang, But a Whimper](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/) - This past week, Tucker Carlson travelled to Moscow, Russia to have a sit-down interview with President Vladimir Putin. Before the almost two hour interview was conducted, Tucker Carlson explained his motives for being in Russia - a now pariah state in the Western mind - as trying to get the “other side” of the story.
- [For My Ex-Libertarians](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/for-my-ex-libertarians/) - The United Kingdom, and especially the Isle of Great Britain, has a very particular legal quirk that sets it apart from Western Civilisation, and possibly most of the uncivilised world as well. There is no legal right to self-defence. Everyone knows that to some extent, “guns are banned” in the UK, and we’re nothing like
- [The Effigies of Crediton](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/the-effigies-of-crediton/) - William Peryam (1534–1604) of Little Fulford lies in the north side of the chancel. Adjacent to the west side of ‘Will’ is ‘Liz’, Elizabeth Tuckfield (1593–1630). Then John de Sully and his wife Isobel can be found at the end of the south choir aisle. John (1282–1388) was Lord of the Manor of nearby Iddesleigh,
- [In Defence of Marriage](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/in-defence-of-marriage/) - In our 21st Century society, the concepts of love and commitment in relationships have become twisted from what they originally meant to older generations. With the rise of social media (and dating apps in particular), people can form many simultaneous online connections with people who they know next to nothing about and then end the
- [10 Best Books on International Politics](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/10-best-book-on-international-politics/) - When we read books about politics, many of us may be more inclined to read about what happens in the Anglosphere. It’s natural really- it’s our language, closer to our culture and what we see about on the news. It is, however, always refreshing to expand our horizons. Here are ten of my favourite books,
- [Is Gender Obsolete?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/is-gender-obsolete/) - In recent years, gender has become increasingly divorced from biological sex, spawning an ever-increasing number of self-defined gender identities. At the same time, sex and gender tend to often be conflated in everyday discourse. What is actually revealed at a gender reveal party, for example, is not the baby’s gender but his or her birth
- [Why we need a Hitchens-Navalny strategy for GE 2024](https://mallarduk.com/2024/02/why-we-need-a-hitchens-navalny-strategy-for-ge-2024/) - A few days before the 2010 general election, Peter Hitchens wrote an article in the Daily Mail titled ‘This is the most important article I’ve ever written – and loyal Conservative voters will hate me for it’. In it he argued that, despite being counterintuitive, voters must eschew the Tories if there was to be
- [On Freedom of Navigation](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/on-freedom-of-navigation/) - Amidst the present difficulties in transmitting knowledge from one generation of educated people to the next, one principle that seems to have been mislaid is freedom of navigation. This has been laid bare by commentary on the recent Anglo-American operations in the Red Sea against the Houthis. Hence, it is worth offering a short explanation
- [Open Borders Rely on Political Irrationality](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/open-borders-rely-on-political-irrationality/) - All too often, open-border policy stems from the fact that politics is determined by a class of people with deep-seated illusions about the facts surrounding immigration. Sweden is an ideal example of this pattern. Of all the countries in Europe, Sweden is especially notorious for having welcomed large numbers of refugees it could not properly
- [Is The Pope Catholic?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/is-the-pope-catholic/) - Growing up, there was a saying my friends and I were fond of. Whether we were loitering outside a shop or putting our feet on the furniture, if we were challenged on our behaviour, our go-to response would always be ‘it’s a free country’. It didn’t always fly, mind you, but the utterance was common
- [Lord Cameron and the 'New Majority'](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/lord-cameron-and-the-new-majority/) - A soft "What the hell" was heard from a reporter as former Prime Minister David Cameron stepped out of the car outside 10 Downing Street on Monday. The significance of the moment was quickly deduced as earlier Suella Braverman was sacked as Home Secretary and former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly had already walked through Britain's
- [What is the Point of the Turner Prize?](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/what-is-the-point-of-the-turner-prize/) - Picture the scene. Strings of tattered bunting, the concrete shaft of a half-built pillar. At the centre of it all a pile of red and black folders, supplanted by a pair of flagpoles bearing faded Union Jacks. A length of striped tape lies beside them on the floor like the shed integument of a snake,
- [The Post-Polar Moment](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/the-post-polar-moment/) - Introduction Abstract: Nations and intergovernmental organisations must consider the real possibility of moving into a world without a global hegemon. The core assumptions that underpin realist thought can directly be challenged by presenting an alternative approach to non-polarity. This could be through questioning what might occur if nations moved from a world in which polarity remains
- [Ride (read) or Die: 2023 Book Report (Part III)](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/ride-read-or-die-2023-book-report-part-iii/) - Following on from last years experiment of attempting to read at least 10 pages of a book a day to increase my reading, I found it thoroughly enjoyable and wished to continue my reading journey in 2023. About halfway through last year, a friend of mine suggested to me that the 10 pages target could
- [Ride (read) or Die: 2023 Book Report (Part II)](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/ride-read-or-die-2023-book-report-part-ii/) - Following on from last years experiment of attempting to read at least 10 pages of a book a day to increase my reading, I found it thoroughly enjoyable and wished to continue my reading journey in 2023. About halfway through last year, a friend of mine suggested to me that the 10 pages target could
- [Ride (read) or Die: 2023 Book Report (Part I)](https://mallarduk.com/2024/01/ride-read-or-die-2023-book-report-part-i/) - Following on from last year's experiment of attempting to read at least 10 pages of a book a day to increase my reading, I found it thoroughly enjoyable and wished to continue my reading journey in 2023. About halfway through last year, a friend of mine suggested to me that the 10 pages target could
- [Tories for Revolution](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/tories-for-revolution/) - Whilst writing this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a no-confidence vote, brought about by, of all things, having an ‘unloicensed’ booze-up. Although he’s allowed to stay in the job, his prospects are grim. Most of the Tory backbenchers not on the PM’s payroll voted against him, and the Conservatives continue to trail behind Keir
- [The Importance of National Storytelling](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/the-importance-of-national-storytelling/) - I’m warming myself by the fire where pork shish-kebabs crackle, as I gulp down sweet homemade wine with cured belly fat and black village-bread. We are at a friend’s dacha about 150 miles southeast of Moscow. As we drink the talk gets more political. Eventually a bearded armchair expert starts explaining a theory involving different
- [The Importance of Brexit](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/the-importance-of-brexit/) - “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt (speech to House of Commons, 18 November 1783). In light of the recent immigration figures, many are starting to question if Brexit was really worth it. The revised figures from
- [It’s Not Just Any Christmas, It’s a Little Shop of Horrors Christmas](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/its-not-just-any-christmas-its-a-little-shop-of-horrors-christmas/) - What is Christmasy about setting fire to Christmas cards? What is festive about a giant Venus flytrap almost eating a small dog? Nothing, but apparently those are the kinds of Christmases two of the largest high-end retailers are trying to sell us, and we aren’t buying. The release of Christmas ads in November launches the
- [This is Anglofuturism](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/this-is-anglofuturism/) - Britain is in doldrums, the days of Cool Britannia are a distant memory, the Empire is now our greatest shame, and pride in our nation has been replaced with an ever-expanding circle of chaos. Whether it’s the Tories’ latest political implosion, Labour backbench rebellions, the cost-of-living perma-crisis, Brexit bickering, or simply ‘decolonising’ anything and everything
- [We Must Ban Cousin Marriages](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/we-must-ban-cousin-marriages/) - The fact that Charles II of Spain lived to the age of thirty-eight was nothing short of a miracle- and that’s not because he was born in the 17th century. His nearly four-decade life was filled with physical and mental ailments that would be hard to live with even today’s medical technology. He flew through
- [One Step Forward, Two Steps Back](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/one-step-forward-two-steps-forward/) - Yesterday, Rishi Sunak announced his intention to cut net migration by 300,000, calling it “the biggest ever cut in net migration” two weeks after the ONS revealed net migration had increased to an unprecedented 745,000, revised up from 672,000. Despite the claims made by politicians and the press, this announcement isn’t worth getting excited over.
- [On the Killing of Sir David](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/on-the-killing-of-sir-david/) - This article was originally published on October 2021. On the 15th of October 2021, at around midday, police were called to Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, where a man had reportedly been stabbed 17 times. That man was Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who died roughly 2 hours later. The second assassination of a parliamentarian
- [The Right in Academia and Politics](https://mallarduk.com/2023/12/the-right-in-academia-and-politics/) - As a student at university, it’s easy to be aware that academia is dominated by the left. After all, it is the voices on the left we hear the most. Added to this, a Conservative Party that does not look very conservative at the moment and almost like they are out of ideas – just
- [When Celebrities talk Geopolitics](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/when-celebrities-talk-geopolitics/) - "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in this country." Oscar-winning Susan Sarandon’s comments at a pro-Palestine rally in New York saw her dropped by her representatives, United Talent Agency. Sarandon is
- [Notes on the Social Democratic Party Conference](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/notes-on-the-social-democratic-party-conference/) - Upon arriving at Church House, I was asked for my name so I could receive my pass. I wasn’t on the list. After a few brief minutes, assuring the two very kind activists working the reception that I wasn’t a militant infiltrator, it turned out that I was on a completely different list – the
- [Breakfast with Thierry Baudet (Part III)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/breakfast-with-thierry-baudet-part-iii/) - In mid-July, the Mallard was fortunate to have breakfast with Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch ‘Forum for Democracy’ (FVD) party in the Netherlands. We discussed his views on manufactured consent, immigration, CBDC, and climate change; and his new book ‘The Covid Conspiracy’. Part II can be read here. TM: Why do you think that
- [When Harvard gets Schooled](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/when-harvard-gets-schooled/) - "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in
- [Breakfast with Thierry Baudet (Part I)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/breakfast-with-thierry-baudet-part-i/) - In mid-July, The Mallard was fortunate to have breakfast with Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch ‘Forum for Democracy’ (FVD) party in the Netherlands. We discussed his views on manufactured consent, immigration, CBDC, and climate change; and his new book ‘The Covid Conspiracy’. The Mallard (TM): The Mallard knows your youth movement, JFVD. Their performance
- [Breakfast with Thierry Baudet (Part II)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/breakfast-with-thierry-baudet-part-ii/) - In mid-July, the Mallard was fortunate to have breakfast with Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch ‘Forum for Democracy’ (FVD) party in the Netherlands. We discussed his views on manufactured consent, immigration, CBDC, and climate change; and his new book ‘The Covid Conspiracy’. Part I can be read here. TM: So who made the decision
- [Switzerland-on-Sea: Britain in a Multipolar World](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/switzerland-on-sea-britain-in-a-multipolar-world/) - "There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen." This quote is (dubiously) attributed to Lenin but I like it nonetheless as it appropriately captures the times we live in. That’s not to say nothing’s happened for decades, far from it. The years following the last financial crisis have seen seismic
- [The White Man's Latest Burden](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/the-white-mans-latest-burden/) - “Take up the White Man's burden; Send forth the best ye breed; Go bind your sons to exile; To serve your captives' need” – Rudyard Kipling, from The White Man’s Burden (1899). The relationship between foreign policy and immigration is relatively straightforward, yet routinely overlooked and often manipulated. Since Hamas’ attack on Israel and the
- [Making Plans Without Nigel](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/making-plans-without-nigel/) - Nigel Farage's rise to prominence came in the wake of the utter implosion and failure of the BNP. After what seemed to be promising growth for this nationalist vehicle it effectively self-sabotaged to the point of complete unviability. Years of activism and goodwill pissed away. This is a subject deserving of attention in and of
- [Going on Holiday? Skip LA](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/going-on-holiday-skip-la/) - California—The Golden State. Land of sunshine, Hollywood, and endless beaches, and destination for tourists from all over the world, especially for those seeking to get away from colder climes during the winter holidays. However, for residents, over the past decade such California dreamin’ has become more and more just that—a dream. I usually try to
- [Cause for Remembrance](https://mallarduk.com/2023/11/cause-for-remembrance/) - As the poppy-adorned date of Remembrance Sunday moves into view, with ceremonies and processions set to take place on the 12th November, I couldn’t help but recall a quote from Nietzsche: “The future belongs to those with the longest memory.” Typical of seemingly every Nietzsche quote it is dropped mid-essay with little to no further
- [Atatürk: A Legacy Under Threat](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/ataturk-a-legacy-under-threat/) - The founders of countries occupy a unique position within modern society. They are often viewed either as heroic and mythical figures or deeply problematic by today’s standards - take the obvious examples of George Washington. Long-held up by all Americans as a man unrivalled in his courage and military strategy, he is now a figure
- [Charles’ Personal Rule: A Stable or Tyrannised England?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/charles-personal-rule-a-stable-or-tyrannised-england/) - Within discussions of England’s political history, the most famous moments are known and widely discussed - the Magna Carta of 1215, and the Cromwell Protectorate of the 1650s spring immediately to mind. However, the renewal of an almost-mediaeval style of monarchical absolutism, in the 1630s, has proven both overlooked and underappreciated as a period of
- [All States Desire Power: The Realist Perspective](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/all-states-desire-power-the-realist-perspective/) - Within the West, the realm of international theory has, since 1945, been a discourse dominated almost entirely by the Liberal perspective. Near-universal amongst the foreign policy establishments of Western governments, a focus on state cooperation, free-market capitalism and more broadly, internationalism, is really the only position held by most leaders nowadays – just look at
- [Eve: The Prototype of the Private Citizen](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/eve-the-prototype-of-the-private-citizen/) - Written in the 1660s, John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the type of book I imagine one could spend a lifetime mining for meaning and still be left with something to learn. Its being conceived as an English Epic that uses the poetic forms and conventions of Homeric and Ovidic antiquity to present a Christian subject,
- [John Galt, Tom Joad, and other Polemical Myths](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/john-galt-tom-joad-and-other-polemical-myths/) - Just about the only titles by Ayn Rand I'd feel comfortable assigning my students without previous suggestion by either student or boss would be Anthem or We the Living, mostly because they both fit into broader genres of dystopian and biographical fiction, respectively, and can, thus, be understood in context. Don't get me wrong: I'd
- [A Romantic Case for Anime](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/a-romantic-case-for-anime/) - We’ve all felt it—the mixed excitement and dread at hearing a beloved book is set to be made into a movie. They might do it right, capturing not only key plot events but also (and more importantly) how it feels to be swept up in the work as a whole; 2020’s Emma with Anya Taylor-Joy
- [The Obsession with News](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/the-obsession-with-news/) - In 1980, Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld co-founded the Cable News Network (CNN). Despite derision over the idea of a 24 hour rolling news channel, CNN became a massive hit and would become the forefather to the news system today. In the 43 years since CNN first aired, news channels have changed from having bulletins
- [The Great Exhibition of 2025](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/the-great-exhibition-of-2025/) - The beginnings of the Great Exhibition of 1851 begin with Prince Albert. After spending time as the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures a few years prior, and having seen the success of the Exhibition of Products of French Industry, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was
- [Out of the Cauldron: America’s Intervention in Somalia, Thirty Years Later](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/out-of-the-cauldron-americas-intervention-in-somalia-thirty-years-later/) - Since the end of World War Two, the United States has received a heightened amount of criticism for how it has conducted itself abroad. Its interventionism and choices in which to act has thrown many a challenge to its own legitimacy and eligibility as a superpower. In the following short article, I will argue that
- [Retreating Revisionists](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/retreating-revisionists/) - I was asked in a recent interview what ‘We’ – the interviewer was referring to small c conservatives – should do with the tide of historical revisionism currently sweeping Great Britain. My answer was that historical revisionism never really endures. Whatever the pressures and however much it costs us, we should continue to shine the
- [Diversity: A Pyrrhic Victory](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/diversity-a-pyrrhic-victory/) - The Russo-Ukraine war has underscored the arduous, industrialised drudgery which characterises modern warfare; the mechanised obliteration made possible by modern technology has minimised opportunities for combatants to attain individual recognition and perform feats of life-affirming glory. In continuation of this grim rediscovery, a revitalised war between Israel and Palestine has revealed the metaphysics to which
- [The Monarchy isn’t Britain’s Soul](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/the-monarchy-isnt-britains-soul/) - Increasingly pessimistic, this article may very well just be me being unwarrantedly critical. However, there is nothing like a smidgen of conflict to get people interested in reading what we have to say; here goes nothing, I’m going to disagree with Daniel Hawker. Let me be clear: I am not a republican, nor am I
- [Britain could be left holding the bag over Ukraine](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/britain-could-be-left-holding-the-bag-over-ukraine/) - The new Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, in his first newspaper interview since taking up the position, called for British weapons manufacturers to set up shop in Ukraine and revealed discussions with Zelensky about the Royal Navy getting more involved in the Black Sea. The biggest potential escalation was his suggestion that British military instructors be
- [Rousseau and the Legacy of Romanticism](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/rousseau-and-the-legacy-of-romanticism/) - One idea that I’ve fondly taken from Augusto del Noce is that ideologies have an internal logic to them, which unfolds as they interact with real-world events. Philosophies aren’t static, but constantly changing as they play out against one another historically. This view, while similar to the Marxist notion of praxis, finds ultimate inspiration from
- [A Plague Tale: A Post-apocalyptic Light Held Aloft](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/a-plague-tale-a-post-apocalyptic-light-held-aloft/) - Respectively released by Asobo Studio in May 2019 and October 2022, A Plague Tale: Innocence and A Plague Tale: Requiem follow siblings Amicia and Hugo de Rune through a 14th-century France being torn apart by the Hundred-Years-War, the French Inquisition, and the Black Plague. Through the stories of both games, Amicia and Hugo must try
- [If There is Hope, It Lies in the NIMBYs](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/if-there-is-hope-it-lies-in-the-nimbys/) - ~ To my good friend Chris, who – despite the best available treatment – continues to suffer with YIMBY brainrot. ~ If there was hope, it must lie in the NIMBYs, because only there in those nonconforming disregarded boomers, ~22 per cent of the population of Britannia, could the force to destroy the regime ever
- [Immaturity as Slavery](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/immaturity-as-slavery/) - "... but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a world of secondhand, childish banalities." - Sir Alec Guinness, A Positively Final Appearance. The opening quote comes from a part of Alec Guinness' 1999 autobiography which greatly amuses me. The actor of Obi Wan Kenobi is confronted by a
- [Conservatives Just Don't Get It](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/conservatives-just-dont-get-it/) - This article was originally published in April 2020. “It is always said that a man grows more conservative as he grows older; but for my part, I feel myself in many ways growing more and more revolutionary” – G.K. Chesterton. One should never attempt to fight the enemy on his home turf. Unfortunately, conservatives have
- [Every Field and Hedgerow?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/10/every-field-and-hedgerow/) - For several years now, we've been told the British political class is solely concerned with the pursuit of wealth, choosing to prioritise GDP above every other consideration. We’ve been told immigration is in our nation’s interest because it grows the economy, the dissolution of the nuclear family is necessary to boost productivity, and MPs are
- [The Hidden Costs of Exporting CO2 Emissions](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/the-hidden-costs-of-exporting-co2-emissions-the-case-for-accelerated-co2-import-tariffs/) - Introduction As the world grapples with the urgent need to combat climate change, discussions surrounding CO2 emissions and their impact on the global economy has taken centre stage. One contentious issue that has emerged is the concept of CO2 import tariffs. Such tariffs would aim to address the soaring demand of exporting carbon emissions to
- [The Betrayal of Lampedusa](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/the-betrayal-of-lampedusa/) - “At midnight tonight her borders will be opened. Already, for the last few days, they’ve been practically unguarded. And I’m sitting here now, slowly repeating, over and over, these melancholy words of an old prince Bibesco, trying to drum them into my head: The fall of Constantinople is a personal misfortune that happened to all
- [AUKUS and The Path Towards an Anglosphere Bloc](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/aukus-and-the-path-towards-an-anglosphere-bloc/) - In 2023, the international order seems completely up-ended. Moscow has reverted to imperialism with its invasion of Ukraine, China’s regime is unrelenting in its designs towards Taiwan and Iran is edging closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon. Three decades on since the end of the Cold War and it would seem that Western intentions for
- [Richard Weaver: A Platonist in the Machine Age](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/richard-weaver-a-platonist-in-the-machine-age/) - “Modern man is a moral idiot.” – Richard M. Weaver. 1948. Ideas Have Consequences. The American cultural critic Richard Weaver (1910-1963) is unfortunately an obscure figure. However, I can’t conceive a thinker whose message would be of greater interest or novelty for the contemporary world. Weaver bewails the decadence and hopelessness of the twentieth century
- [Stop Pigeon Hate](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/stop-pigeon-hate/) - Why is the pigeon so hated? Is it due to his availability as a target? After all, he is a common sight in our towns and cities, so common he can seem like an omnipresent nuisance. Maybe it's his appearance? Admittedly, he is less stunning than other birds; his generally grey countenance is far less
- [Digital Censorship Is Now the Perfect Crime](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/digital-censorship-is-now-the-perfect-crime/) - The combination of free speech and the internet should provide an unprecedented democratising effect on public discourse. After all, anyone with a decent idea can now reach out to millions of people worldwide, regardless of their wealth, respectability or social status. The potential for innovation is endless. And yet, looking at the world today you
- [Soundbites Over Sound Ideas](https://mallarduk.com/2023/09/soundbites-over-sound-ideas/) - ‘It’s a no to NOS. We will ban nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, putting an end to the littering of empty canisters and intimidation in local parks.’ This tweet by Downing Street earlier this year tells you everything you need to know about its policies. In an attempt to curb antisocial behaviour and littering,
- [How to contain an increasingly assertive China?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/how-do-we-contain-an-increasingly-assertive-china/) - Tensions in the South China Sea are on the rise. The United States has just pledged to defend Philippine vessels if they are attacked over there, after Beijing and Manila blamed each other after a China Coast Guard ship fired water cannons at a Philippine boat. The incident may well be deliberately provoked by China
- [Aliens are not real](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/aliens-are-not-real/) - In the past three years there has been a lot of open discussion on the topic of UFOs, both in the media, and in government. What initially started as the government “declassifying” video footage of unidentified flying objects captured by the US Air Force, along with vague explanations of their origin or their purpose, has,
- [In Defence of Political Conflict](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/in-defence-of-political-conflict/) - It’s often said that contemporary philosophy is stuck in an intellectual rut. While our forefathers pushed the boundaries of human knowledge, modern philosophers concern themselves with impenetrable esoterica, or gesture vaguely in the direction of social justice. Yet venture to Whitehall, and you’ll find that once popular ideas have been refuted thoroughly by new schools
- [Technology Is Synonymous With Civilisation](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/technology-is-synonymous-with-civilisation/) - I am declaring a fatwa on anti-tech and anti-civilisational attitudes. In truth, there is no real distinction between the two positions: technology is synonymous with civilisation. What made the Romans an empire and the Gauls a disorganised mass of tribals, united only by their reactionary fear of the march of civilisation at their doorstep, was
- [The Supreme Court is Our Ship, Don’t Let it Sink](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/the-supreme-court-is-our-ship-dont-let-it-sink/) - As conservatives and moral traditionalists, it’s easy to get despondent and fearful over just how vast and endless the problems we face today are. Here in America especially, the analogy of the “blue wave” of Millenial and Gen-Z voters often leads one to believe that we are surrounded on all sides by an endless sea
- [The Monarchy is Britain’s Soul](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/the-monarchy-is-britains-soul/) - With the ascension of a new Sovereign and the recent controversy surrounding the coronation, the British republican movement has reared its ugly head once more, spearheading a renewed debate as to the Royal Family’s ‘relevance’ and ‘value-for-money’ in 2023. Throughout the day we were bombarded with news coverage of anti-monarchist activism, primarily from Republic and
- [Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better/) - Since Brexit, an embittered, drawn-out separation procedure which homogenised the UK’s political news for almost half a decade, political commentators have routinely surmised the future of the UK-EU relationship. Whatever differences may exist in the specifics of their predictions, many operate under the pervasive assumption that the relationship is a work in progress – it
- [Her Penis is Boring](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/her-penis-is-boring/) - Oh good. You get a package and creatively wrap it. Who doesn’t love a Dutch surprise? It’s all very predictable. As soon as you see the headline, you know what’s going to happen. A great big chunk of the normie right, and even the more based/red-pilled/dissident/whatever right, have reacted like this. What do you reckon,
- [Britain Is No Longer a Land of Opportunity](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/britain-is-no-longer-a-land-of-opportunity/) - A recent viral tweet showed two doctors leaving a hospital. They’ve surrendered their licenses to practice medicine in Britain and are instead heading off to work in Australia. It’s not unusual- the majority of foreign doctors in Australia are Brits. The problem lies in the fact that young, educated doctors do not see themselves thriving
- [The Chinese Revolution - Good Thing, Bad Thing?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/the-chinese-revolution-good-thing-bad-thing/) - This is an extract from the transcript of The Chinese Revolution - Good Thing, Bad Thing? (1949 - Present). Do. The. Reading. and subscribe to Flappr's YouTube channel! "Tradition is like a chain that both constrains us and guides us. Of course, we may, especially in our younger years, strain and struggle against this chain.
- [Consorts (Part 3)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/08/consorts-part-3/) - Eleanor of Castile Life: 1241-28th November 1290 Reigned: 20th November 1272-28th November 1290 Spouse: Edward I (m. 1254) Children: Sixteen, including Edward II Parents: Ferdinand III of Castile and Joan, Countess of Ponthieu Origin: Spain Early Life: Eleanor of Castile was born sometime in 1241 in Burgos, Castile (later Spain). Her parents were Ferdinand III
- [Consorts (Part 2)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/consorts-part-2/) - Eleanor of Aquitaine Life: c.1122-1st April 1244 Reigned: 19th December 1154-6th July 1189 Spouse(s): Louis VII of France (m.1137), Henry II (m.1152) Children: Two with Louis VIII, eight with Henry Il including Richard I and John Parents: William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Aénor de Châtellerault Origin: France Early Life: Eleanor of Aquitaine was born
- [In Conversation with Curtis Yarvin III (Political Testosterone and BBC Pidgin)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/in-conversation-with-curtis-yarvin-iii-political-testosterone-and-bbc-pidgin/) - Curtis Yarvin, known by his pen name ‘Mencius Moldbug’, is one of the most prominent social critics and reactionary writers of the contemporary era. Yarvin’s blogs, ‘Gray Mirror’ and ‘Imperial Melodies’, can be found on Substack. Yarvin’s words are in light. Are you familiar with my favourite institution of journalism? As you know, Orwell worked at
- [Between Tradition and Modernity: A Review of "British Conservatism: 2024 to 2044", by Richard Cruston](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/between-tradition-and-modernity-british-conservativism-2024-to-2044-by-richard-cruston-book-review/) - This lively volume follows the development of right-wing thought in Britain between the beginning of the premiership of Labour’s Keir Starmer and the end of the presidency of Mark Hall of the United Party. Richard Cruston, Professor of Political Theory at Trinity College, Cambridge, is a learned scholar who has written biographies of Edmund Burke,
- ["Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order", by Mark Sedgwick (Book Review)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/traditionalism-the-radical-project-for-restoring-sacred-order-by-mark-sedgwick-book-review/) - In 2014, speaking via Skype to a conference held at the Vatican, Donald Trump’s later advisor, Steve Bannon, casually mentioned Julius Evola (1898-1974), a thinker little known outside Italy, and who even within Italy was conventionally dismissed as a former Fascist whose writings still exerted a pernicious influence on the ’far right’. When that comment
- [In Conversation with Curtis Yarvin II (American Gorbachev and The Duke of Croydon)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/in-conversation-with-curtis-yarvin-ii-american-gorbachev-and-the-duke-of-croydon/) - Curtis Yarvin, known by his pen name ‘Mencius Moldbug’, is one of the most prominent social critics and reactionary writers of the contemporary era. Yarvin’s blogs, ‘Gray Mirror’ and ‘Imperial Melodies’, can be found on Substack. Yarvin’s words are in light. Well, to be honest, I’m an American, and I write for Americans, and, you know,
- [In Conversation with Curtis Yarvin (The Return of Don Quixote and Anglo-Meiji Restoration)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/in-conversation-with-curtis-yarvin-don-quixote-the-meiji-restoration-and-prince-william-on-acid/) - Curtis Yarvin, known by his pen name ‘Mencius Moldbug’, is one of the most prominent social critics and reactionary writers of the contemporary era. Yarvin's blogs, ‘Gray Mirror’ and 'Imperial Melodies', can be found on Substack. Yarvin's words are in light. There’s a little-known Chesterton work called The Return of Don Quixote. Don’t know it
- [A Scotsman with a Grievance?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/a-scotsman-with-a-grievance/) - Nigel Farage was, somewhat predictably, booed when he was named News Presenter of the Year at the 2023 TRIC Awards in London. The manipulability of online polls in the age of loyally mischievous Twitter followings notwithstanding, the two GB News victories (its breakfast show scooped one too) arguably represent another milestone in the plucky challenger’s
- [Barbie, Oppenheimer and Blue Sky Research](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/barbie-oppenheimer-and-blue-sky-research/) - Barbie or Oppenheimer? Two words you would have never considered putting together in a sentence. For the biggest summer blockbuster showdown in decades, the memes write themselves. In recent months (and years!), we’ve seen flop after flop, such as the new Indiana Jones and Flash films, with endless CGI superheroes and the merciless rehashing of
- [Petty Nuisance: The Cure to Modern England (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/petty-nuisance-the-cure-to-modern-england/) - From an aesthetic, or mannerism perspective, gentlemen had indeed almost entirely perished from the Isles. But the idea that no one should be seen confronting anyone, and a stiff upper lip must be kept at all times had passed onto generations after generations well and intact. But does a combination of that and an increasingly
- [Britain x Family (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/britain-x-family-magazine-excerpt/) - In the last magazine, I outlined a Sensible Proposal for reforming the British state. It wasn’t exhaustive, but the meat and potatoes were there. In the proposal, I briefly mentioned the need to do exactly this. I suggested the BBC, if it wants to be spared abolition, should broadcast stuff worth watching – programs that
- [Economic Bondage Against the Family (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/economic-bondage-against-the-family-magazine-excerpt/) - In his 1936 Essay on the Restoration of Property, the author Hilaire Belloc recalls an image he had read two decades before and reproduces to the best of his memory. I’ll adapt it: imagine a single machine that produces everything society could possibly need. If this machine is owned by the collective, through a caste
- [Birth of the Cosmoproletariat (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/birth-of-the-cosmoproletariat-magazine-excerpt/) - When you hear talk of globalisation, the winners and losers have become fairly set categories: the “winners” are the hyper-mobile, global class that are capable of picking up and putting down almost anywhere, whether that is London or LA, Tokyo or Berlin, Moscow or – well, maybe not Moscow, at least not at the moment.
- [The Reset Clause (same time next 25 years)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/07/the-reset-clause-same-time-next-25-years/) - How did we get here, and where do we go? A lot of modern political questions can be summarised in those two simple questions. Our cultural and political zeitgeist has possibly become the equivalent of going out for a quick pint and realising sixteen hours later we have woken up on a flight to Mexico.
- [The Wire and Singapore](https://mallarduk.com/2023/06/the-wire-and-singapore/) - The small island nation of Singapore is like the American TV program, The Wire. I understand that is probably one of the weirdest opening sentences to an article about philosophy and global politics, but hear me out. Co-creator of The Wire, David Simon, once stated the reason for the show’s success was its ability to
- [Britain needs a Flat Tax](https://mallarduk.com/2023/06/britain-needs-a-flat-tax/) - The concept of progressive taxation, once lauded as a pillar of leftist ideology, aimed to embody progressiveness by imposing a heavier tax burden on the wealthy. It was envisioned as a means to uphold public services, with the wealthiest individuals leading the chariot, paying heinous tax rates of up to 45%. However, this philosophy ignores
- [British Conservatism is Ignorant of History and has Forgotten its Past (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/06/british-conservatism-is-ignorant-of-history-and-has-forgotten-its-past-magazine-excerpt/) - This dictatorship of the present has been enabled by around thirty years of material abundance and relative peace following the conclusion to the Cold War. As John Keegan, the military historian put it, Britain and American can afford our universalist idealism and our fantasies of a benevolent world united and ameliorated through commerce, given our
- ['The Bad Ethics of the Machine’ (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/06/the-bad-ethics-of-the-machine-magazine-excerpt/) - With the recent debates surrounding AI improvement and the somewhat imminent AI takeover, I thought it would be interesting to return to the 20th century to analyse the debates on the rise of the machine and what we can learn from it today. The early 20th century marked a time when the technological revolution was
- [A Dirge for the Aristocracy (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/06/a-dirge-for-the-aristocracy-magazine-excerpt/) - Culture is often a bearer of such practical wisdom. Indeed, the reason we listen to the experienced and wise, despite their lack of formal education, is that their experience has imparted practical wisdom. Theoretical wisdom is implicit in this down to earth practicality. Although the village elder might not be able to say why a
- [An Opportunity from Nothing - View from the National Conservatism Conference](https://mallarduk.com/2023/06/an-opportunity-from-nothing-view-from-the-national-conservatism-conference/) - Strolling down Marsham street, past the Itsu and Pret a Manger, a funny looking man in a top hat flanked by grey haired beret wearing old women scream at the top of their lungs whilst recording a group of depressed looking individuals clad in ill-fitting suits who walk past them and into the Emmanuel Centre.
- [A Sensible Proposal (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/a-sensible-proposal-magazine-excerpt/) - Britain is in decline. This much is true. Nobody would dare suggest otherwise – unless, of course, they wish to attest to pure ignorance or twisted glee. Given this, we are very much in need of sweeping reform. Yet reform is not the product of drawn-out pontification. Ultimately, it is the sum of action: action
- [Just Stop Crime!](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/just-stop-crime/) - Well, they finally got one. At long last, the notoriously useless Met has mustered the willpower to put down the biscuit tin and arrest someone worthwhile. Too bad he got a measly fine, though. Bacari Ogarro, also known as Mizzy, is a now infamous “Content Creator” (translation: obnoxiously unemployed) courtesy of his TikToks. Ogarro’s most
- [Anti-white racism must be called out](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/anti-white-racism-must-be-called-out/) - According to another self-identified ‘victim’ of racial oppression - who, despite this oppression, uses what can only be described as her privileged platform to spew racist bile at the supposed cruelty of the white population- the Royal Family are 'pale and stale', not to mention 'institutionally racist'. If any white person were to write such
- [Foucault was right, actually; Everything is a prison](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/foucault-was-right-actually-everything-is-a-prison/) - Generally, in our circles, Foucault is mostly mocked for his personal life and called one of ‘those French intellectuals that ruined it all’. However, if we were to actually investigate his claims, we’ll realise that he is quite close to the Moldbugian thought, except he never connected the dots. I’m here to introduce an opinion
- [They'll Hate You Regardless](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/theyll-hate-you-regardless/) - Well, that’s that then. It definitely could’ve been better, but I was expecting much worse; I was expecting slam poetry about the Windrush Scandal from an NHS nurse, followed by a breakdance exhibition from Diversity, a ‘witty’ monologue about gay sex from Stephen Fry, topped off with a ‘modernised’ version of God Save the King.
- [The Internet as Mob Rule](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/the-internet-as-mob-rule/) - The ancient Greeks believed political constitutions repeated in a pattern called kyklos (“cycle). The idea first occurs in Plato’s Republic, gets elaborated by Aristotle in his Politics, then reaches its apogee in Polybius’ Histories. Unlike modern theorists of cyclical rise and fall of civilisations, such as Oswald Spengler, the kyklos doesn’t have a zenith
- [Why We Watch Tucker](https://mallarduk.com/2023/05/why-we-watch-tucker/) - I’ll never deny it: I enjoy watching Tucker Carlson. Granted, if you’re aware of my political inclinations, such a revelation is hardly a revelation at all. However, it is clear that Tucker’s popularity cannot be reduced to conventional political parameters. It’s far from hyperbole to say Tucker is extremely popular. As far as I know,
- [The Surrogacy Question](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/the-surrogacy-question/) - Are we owed a child? Is it a human right to be able to have one? In a recent Instagram piece, Olympic diver Tom Daley posted a picture of himself, his husband Dustin and their toddler son with baby Phoenix Rose, the new addition to their family. It’s a variation of the same family picture
- [Madness and Spectacle: The Yellow Vest Suite (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/madness-and-spectacle-the-yellow-vest-suite-magazine-excerpt/) - At the time my personal motivation in doing a whole suite of works was the aesthetic superseding the political. I was captivated by the sensuous images of darkness and colour shades that I tried to capture in these paintings and drawings. Multitudes of people wearing a loose uniform of greenish yellow starkly contrasted with the
- [<strong>A Factory for Mediocre Leadership</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/a-factory-for-mediocre-leadership/) - “Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.” - Thomas Carlyle, ‘On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History’, 1841. I often read history through the lens of ‘Great Men’*. The term ‘Great Men’ refers to ‘Great Man Theory’. Originating from Thomas Carlyle’s lectures on heroism in 1840, later being published as
- [An Interview with Fen de Villiers (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/an-interview-with-fen-de-villiers-magazine-excerpt/) - Sam: A common criticism I hear from people on our side of the ‘cultural divide’, regarding Vorticists and Futurists, is that the avant-garde, as a concept, is antiquated. Do you think that's true, or do you think people are being a bit too pessimistic about its potential? Fen: Being pessimistic and cynical is something inherent
- [My Vitalism (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/my-vitalism-magazine-excerpt/) - In a world that is innately tragic, how does one remain cheerfully vital? There seems no end to the forces that wish to crush one’s joie de vivre. Whether it’s the deadening omnipotence of the modern technocratic mode of organisation, the overbearing coddling of our moralistic culture, or just the old-fashioned primordial fate of the
- [The Original "Original Right-Wing Gramscians"](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/the-original-original-right-wing-gramscians/) - Last year, The Mallard’s Chairman, Jake Scott, wrote two essays titled “The Original Right-Wing Gramscians”, detailing the history, ideology, and influence of free-market think-tanks in post-war Britain. However, unlike the post-war free marketeers, whose “right-wing Gramscian” descriptor has been added retroactively, the French ‘New Right’ (Nouvelle Droite) openly characterised themselves, as did others, as “Gramscians
- [<strong>The National Scandal That Never Was</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/the-national-scandal-that-never-was/) - In undoubtedly one of the most important and disturbing watches this year, the GB News documentary Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame is perhaps the best examination of this ongoing (and sadly ever-widening) scourge on Britain as a nation. The amount of detail and research Charlie Peters goes into is commendable, simultaneously making the matter horrifying and
- [Oligarchic Oafs](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/oligarchic-oafs/) - British cultural critics, in my opinion, suffer from an insularity which prevents them from connecting the events of their own country to any wider patterns of civilisation. This is truest for those who are the most correct with their criticisms. Take for example Theodore Dalrymple, whose 1998 article Uncouth Chic in the City Journal was
- [John Frémont and a Banner for a Forgotten America](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/john-fremont-and-a-banner-for-a-forgotten-america/) - The scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson rides across the early dawn horizon bearing the Betsy Ross flag has always stirred a latent fervour in me. I never felt the same patriotic twitch looking at the modern, 50 star flag. That flag flies in front of government buildings of a state that no longer
- [Dostoevsky’s Answer to the Problem of Evil: A Lenten Reflection](https://mallarduk.com/2023/04/dostoevskys-answer-to-the-problem-of-evil-a-lenten-reflection/) - Having tackled the growing hydra of socialist radicalism through his previous major novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky set out in The Brothers Karamazov to address what he saw as the fountainhead of the mid-century Russian ideological shifts: the loss of faith in the the gospel and in the Orthodox Church as the means established by Christ to
- [An Interview with the JFvD](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/an-interview-with-the-jfvd/) - In late September, a few members of the Mallard team were fortunate to get the opportunity to sit down with representatives of the JFvD, the youth wing of the Dutch ‘Forum for Democracy’ (FvD) party. We discussed the incredible success of their political and cultural youth movement; the founding and future of their party; and
- [His Royal Mistress](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/his-royal-mistress/) - We may think of our ancestors as prudes when it comes to sex, but that’s not the case. A decent percentage of women were pregnant on their wedding day. People like Benjamin Franklin wrote guides on the best ways to have sex. Lewd ballads and jokes spread around the court. The most prominent example of
- [Richard Dawkins’ Reticence](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/richard-dawkins-reticence/) - Never be afraid of stridency. This was the title of the last ever interview with Christopher Hitchens. It came from advice he gave to Richard Dawkins, his interviewer and guest editor of the New Statesman where it was published in December 2011. CH: You must never be afraid of that charge [of being a bore],
- [England needs a Second Reformation](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/england-needs-a-second-reformation-otis-griffin/) - It’s over; pack it up, return to Rome or Constantinople, there is literally nothing you can do now. The Church of England General Synod’s has expressed the desire to move away from true doctrine and embrace worldliness. To a large extent this is nothing new; liberalism within the Church has existed since the latter half
- [The Decline of Public Intellectualism (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/the-decline-of-public-intellectualism-magazine-excerpt/) - POC are just like you and me. Sure, there are technical, mostly visual, differences between us. However, considered in the grand scheme of things, such differences are quite trivial. Far from a weakness, this diversity is a strength; we all play a role in moving our democracy forward, and ensuring the public realm remains a
- [Flying Cars are a Terrible Idea](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/flying-cars-are-a-terrible-idea/) - Last month, former President Donald Trump made a video announcement about his plans to implement a ‘quantum leap forward’ policy to increase the standard of living in America. He boldly harkened back to the days of Manifest Destiny, of an America that once tamed a continent and built incredible cities from coast-to-coast. In a video
- [Erdogan: Modern Sultan?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/erdogan-modern-sultan/) - Merkel, a behemoth of European politics for the last sixteen years, will soon retire from office leaving big shoes to fill – shoes that Olaf Scholz, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), will find spacious. With the SPD gaining the most electoral votes, it is likely they will be the principal partner
- [Britain needs some Thai adverts](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/britain-needs-some-thai-adverts/) - Messages are important, and advertising is vital in conveying messages. I do not wish to dwell on the history of such activities, but when we think of advertising, we think of persuasion and attraction; luring the viewer towards the subject matter of said advertisement. As a result, we (sadly) have advertising on television (as if
- [<strong>Britain’s Brown Scare</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/britains-brown-scare/) - A spectre is haunting Britain – the spectre of fascism. At least, that’s what we’re told. In Technology, Communism, and The Brown Scare, Curtis Yarvin defines The Brown Scare as: “America’s ginormous, never-ending, profoundly insane witch-hunt for fascists under the bed.” However, it is blatantly apparent that this witch-hunt is not inherently American in character.
- [10 Well-Written Female Characters](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/10-well-written-female-characters/) - A discussion on Twitter inspired me to write a companion piece to Dustin Lovell’s wonderful article on the modern portrayal of women in media. In modern media, there tends to be an obsession with ‘strong female characters.’ That’s fair enough, but these characters tend not to be rather one-dimensional. They’re typically badass- they can wield
- [The Dangers of a Revolution in Reverse](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/the-dangers-of-a-revolution-in-reverse/) - "In conclusion, this is the great truth with which the French cannot be too greatly impressed: the restoration of the monarchy, what they call the counter-revolution, will not be a contrary revolution, but the contrary of the revolution." - J. de Maistre, Considerations on France, R. A. Lebrun (Ed.), Cambridge, p. 105. Imagine a prisoner
- [<strong>A Toast to the Luddites</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/03/a-toast-to-the-luddites/) - Are the kids alright? 30 years ago, the news that two children had taken it upon themselves to murder a third was a moment in the national consciousness that stopped us in our tracks. Nowadays, it appears that we’ve either gone numb or deaf to the phenomena. I have in the last few years lost
- [An "Interview" with ChatGPT (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/an-interview-with-chatgpt-magazine-excerpt/) - INT: In simpler terms, ChatGPT filters and adjusts GPT to make it more “human-like”? DAN: Yes, that's correct! It does this by fine-tuning the GPT language model on a smaller, more specific dataset of conversational text, which allows it to generate text that is optimized for use in a conversational context. INT: That means censoring
- [The Dark Triad of Progressivism (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/the-dark-triad-of-progressivism-magazine-excerpt/) - Those of a progressive disposition have differing moral foundations to those on the right. Moral foundations theory was first proposed by Jonathan Haidt and subsequently developed in his 2012 book, The Righteous Mind. The theory’s intention is to explain human variation in moral reasoning based on innate moral foundations. Right-wing foundations would be best characterised
- [Who Controls Europe’s Streets? The Migrant Riots of 2022-23 as a Glitch in the Matrix](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/who-controls-europes-streets-the-migrant-riots-of-2022-23-as-a-glitch-in-the-matrix/) - “We were suddenly gifted people”, shrieked the German Green Party politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt in 2016. This happened at the annual gathering of the EKD, the German Lutheran protestant Church (after the Catholic Church, the second largest denomination in Germany) which has become an adjunct outlet of the Green Party. Shortly before that, the narrative of
- [We Need a Che Guevara of Our Own](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/we-need-a-che-guevara-of-our-own/) - The title might be misleading at first, but there is a good reason for that. To understand the needs and opportunities for the contemporary Right, we first need to understand what got the Left into power at first. Enter Che Guevara, or more exactly, enter Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. For anyone in either the
- [Will The Amish Become Fashionable?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/will-the-amish-become-fashionable/) - America is still young and, so far, remains the core of the proverbial ‘New World’. A brand-new world might, for some, require new thoughts and ideas taken from the ‘Old World’, or potentially, nearly new and separate religions. One might think of Mormonism or Scientology, but the rise of the Old World, emerging in the
- [Benedick and the Mask of Misogyny](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/benedick-and-the-mask-of-misogyny/) - Among the first plays I often assign to my teenage tutorial students is Much Ado About Nothing. Written somewhere in 1598-1599 and within a year of Henry V, Julius Caesar, and As You Like It, the play shows Shakespeare as by then a master of Comedy and features several tropes that exemplify the genre. The
- [Environmentalism: The Quintessential Conservative Cause](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/environmentalism-the-quintessential-conservative-cause/) - Over the past few weeks, a single topic has dominated the German media and has meanwhile made its way into the international media: The removal of climate activists from the village of Lützerath, which they occupy to stop the mining of lignite there. Activists had already demonstrated in 2020 against the resettlement of the village
- [<strong>Dawn of the Anglosphere | Boško Vuković</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/dawn-of-the-anglosphere-bosko-vukovic/) - The Queen of Great Britain, Her Majesty Elisabeth II of the House of Windsor, has passed away. Her throne was inherited by her son, and heir, King Charles III of the House of Windsor. As one era ends, a new one dawns. And this new age for the United Kingdom, in essence, began in 2016
- [Consorts (Part 1)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/consorts-part-1/) - We’ve had many monarchs in English and British history. Nearly all of them have been married, some more than once. Here’s part one of my series on consorts: Matilda of Flanders Life: c. 1031-2nd November Reigned: 25th December 1066-2nd November 1083 Spouse: William I (m. 1051/1052) Children: Nine, including William I and Henry I Parents:
- [<strong>Between Nihilism and Cottagecore; a Generation Lost</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/between-nihilism-and-cottagecore-a-generation-lost/) - As much as I have gotten tired of talking about this virus, it is important to address the following; Covid-19 has had disastrous impacts on Generation Z. Whether we like to admit it or not, Gen Z is based on a culture of avoiding social interaction, virtual relationships and a general pessimistic outview of life.
- [A Response to Polly Toynbee](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/a-response-to-polly-toynbee/) - “Know thyself” is a most fundamental axiom of Greek philosophy that has been repeated into cliche in philosophy and religious studies classrooms around the world. And yet it is a concept that many seem to forget. To ignore our fundamental presuppositions and the grounding of our beliefs is foolish and to unwittingly seek to undercut
- [A Quasi-Defence of Classical British Education](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/a-quasi-defence-of-classical-british-education/) - A couple of weeks ago, enough to make this piece seem dated, our Prime Minister Rishi Sunak contended that all students should be taught mathematics to the age of eighteen. As one would expect with anyone holding a convicted belief in anything these days, such remarks were held to scant regard and I suspect that
- [<strong>Squandering a Revolution</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/squandering-a-revolution/) - Ignore the snarky joylessness of self-important losers and the performative perplexing of Very Serious Political Commentators, the past few days have been hilarious. Brought down by inadvertent kamikaze molester “Pincher by name, Pincher by nature” Chris Pincher, appointed to be (you couldn’t write this) a party whip, amounts to more than another Gay Tory Predator
- [The Church has let men like Prince Harry down](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/the-church-has-let-men-like-prince-harry-down/) - The King has allegedly asked the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby to mediate in the current royal drama with a view to repairing things before the Coronation. Reading extracts of Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ I can’t but help think that though this is intervention is to be welcomed there is a sense in which Harry is
- [Neoconservatism: Mugged by Reality (Part 2)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/neoconservatism-mugged-by-reality-part-2/) - The Neoconservative Apex: 9/11 and The War on Terror 11th September 2001 was a watershed moment in American history. The destruction of the World Trade Centre by Muslim terrorists, the deaths of thousands of innocent American citizens and the general feeling of chaos and vulnerability was enough to turn even the cuddliest of liberals into
- [To be Anti-Refugee is to be Pragmatic: A response to Mike Bevan (Britmonkey)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/to-be-anti-refugee-is-to-be-pragmatic-a-response-to-mike-bevan-britmonkey/) - A recent article written by the YouTuber Britmonkey (Mike Bevan) discusses the case in favour of increasing the number of refugees. I would like to preface this response by saying that his article is clearly well researched, sourced, and written. I find myself somewhat sympathetic to his line of arguments, but at the same time
- [Neoconservatism: Mugged by Reality (Part 1)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/neoconservatism-mugged-by-reality-part-1/) - Well, they finally got Liz Cheney but she sure deserved what was coming to her. After being thwarted by the President Trump backed conservative lawyer Harriet Hageman from her once safe seat as the Republican candidate and Congresswoman for Wyoming's sole congressional district, Cheney now finds herself in the wilderness amongst an array of anti-Trump
- [On The Foreign Aid Sector](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/on-the-foreign-aid-sector/) - Foreign aid is a somewhat controversial subject.Those in favour argue that as a developed nation, we are morally obligated to help those who need it. They argue that it will improve the lives of others and that it is a great use of soft power. Opponents argue that charity should begin at home, that we
- [Orwell’s Egalitarian Problem](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/orwells-egalitarian-problem/) - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book whose influence exceeds its readership. It resembles a Rorschach test; moulding itself to the political prejudices of whoever reads it. It also has a depth which often goes unnoticed by those fond of quoting it.The problem isn't that people cite Orwell, but that people cite Orwell in a
- [Book Review: Return of the Strong Gods by R R Reno](https://mallarduk.com/2023/02/book-review-return-of-the-strong-gods-by-r-r-reno/) - One of the rare consolations of the Empire of Lies we’ve found ourselves in is occasionally encountering a sphere of truth. Such an event reassures us we’re not alone and that kindred spirits are still out there, patiently pushing back against the insanities of the age. One such spirit is the American Catholic author and
- [To be Anti-Refugee is Un-British](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/1068/) - I Compassion for asylum seekers is a traditional British value – a real British value, not a Quango-invented value like ‘tolerance’ that wouldn’t be out of place in any Western European country. Britain’s reputation as a friendly haven for the oppressed is wholly based in historical fact – and I don’t mean “we found the
- [It’s Over/We’re Back or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rollercoaster (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/its-over-were-back-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-rollercoaster/) - In short, the year started badly but was peppered with good moments. By mid-2022 it was going excellently, and I thought I was finally past the worst of what this year could throw at me. My hubris was rewarded with some of the worst few months of my life so far. I know that, in
- [Avatar: The Way of Water Review (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/avatar-the-way-of-water-film-review/) - It has been almost 12 years since the release of one of the highest grossing films of all time - that being 2009’s Avatar, James Cameron’s sci-fi epic. There has been a running meme for the last couple years that despite the first Avatar film’s wild success in the box office, it isn’t a memorable
- [Predictions for 2023 (Magazine Excerpt)](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/predictions-for-2023-magazine-excerpt/) - The 2022 midterms should have been a bloodbath. It should have been a huge sweep for the Republicans, relegating the Democrats to the depths of minority rule. Instead, the Republicans managed to win the House only respectably, whilst the Dems kept the house. It’s widely believed that better candidates could have kept the house. Good
- [Democracy: A Means, Not an End](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/democracy-a-means-not-an-end/) - What do Communism, Nazism, and liberal democracy have in common? It’s the tendency to deify the system of government and turn it into an object of worship. The system is not simply a means to an end or a pragmatic choice, taking due cognizance of its merits and demerits. It is an ideological presupposition and
- [<strong>The Problems with Euthanasia</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-problems-with-euthanasia/) - “Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me.” Psalm 71:9 I, like many others, am no stranger to a family member who has suffered an undignified death. To see a loved one who previously beamed with vitality and independence to go out in a certain manor
- [<strong>10 Pages Minimum: A 2022 Book Report</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/10-pages-minimum-a-2022-book-report/) - At the end of 2021, I challenged myself to read at least 10 pages of a book a day. I was initially shocked at how difficult I found it to just sit down quietly and read a book. However, within the first month, I found it easier and easier to sit quietly, and enjoy reading.
- [Andrew Tate: Idolatry on the Right](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/andrew-tate-idolatry-on-the-right-kal-dore/) - In recent months, a phenomenon has swept through social and mainstream media, presenting itself as a paragon of masculinity, success, and wisdom against those that would seek to stultify and control the masses. This phenomenon was known as Andrew Tate, and his reach is something that a Westminster MP could only dream of and envy.
- [Bureaucracy and Fate](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/bureaucracy-and-fate/) - Among those who detest bureaucracy, there is a common criticism. Theodore Dalrymple indicts the British bureaucratic machine with these words: “… Anthony Blair, with the cunning of the natural born swindler, seized his chance and created a loyal, corrupt, self-seeking nomenklatura class that remains extremely influential and easily able to outwit the blancmange-like David Cameron,
- [<strong>Liberalism and Planned Obsolescence</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/liberalism-and-planned-obsolescence/) - Virtually everyone at some point has complained about how their supposedly state-of-the-art phone, tablet, laptop, or computer doesn’t seem quite so cutting-edge when it either refuses to work properly or ceases to function entirely after a disappointingly brief period of time. This is not merely the grumblings of aggravated customers, but a consequence of “planned
- [Politics is About Winning](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/politics-is-about-winning/) - In the aftermath of the 2020 Presidential Election, Joe Biden proclaimed victory with a vomit-inducing call for unity. “They are not our enemies. They’re Americans. This is the time to heal in America”. Such pleas are suspect when you’ve spent the last four years treating the other camp as enemies; deplorable Neo-Nazi maggots that need
- [<strong>Fukuyama, Huntington and The New World Order</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/fukuyama-huntington-and-the-new-world-order/) - In the aftermath of the Cold War, a 45-year ideological struggle between the two major superpowers, the USA and USSR, several political scholars have offered forecasts concerning the future of conflict and the geopolitical climate post-1991. Two men rose to dominate the debate, one encapsulating a liberal perspective and the other a realist one -
- [<strong>Net Zero Versus Cost of Living</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/net-zero-versus-cost-of-living/) - Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide levels are rising - that is a fact. Before the industrial revolution, atmospheric CO2 levels steadily remained at around 280ppm (parts per million). This number had remained constant for thousands of years, with very minor increases over the years due to natural processes. In March this year, CO2 concentrations were sitting at
- [In a Pandemic, Anarcho-Tyranny Reigns Supreme](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/in-a-pandemic-anarcho-tyranny-reigns-supreme/) - Towards the end of February, the general public were graced with a brand spanking new billboard from the Merseyside Police Department. Was this new billboard highlighting the good work the police department was doing? Was it highlighting new Coronavirus guidelines? Was it alerting people to a new potential criminal threat that existed inside of the
- [Why Can’t We Be Friends?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-cant-we-be-friends/) - It’s hardly a novel take at this point to notice that something is fundamentally “off”, to put it lightly, with the way politics and society are currently operating. The events of the last year and a half have demonstrated a distinct lack of consistency in terms of virtually everything. Groups of rioters tearing down and/or
- [The Tory Leadership Wedge](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-tory-leadership-wedge/) - As the Conservative Party leadership contest has unfolded, an issue wedge has gradually been inserted into its surrounding discourse. What is an issue wedge? It is a tactical device, not an organic manifestation, that is designed to divide ongoing political issues in a specific way. More specifically, it is meant to override organic political divisions
- [I’m Never Going to Get a State Pension, So Why Should I Pay for Yours?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/im-never-going-to-get-a-state-pension-so-why-should-i-pay-for-yours/) - The modern state pension is one of the greatest Ponzi schemes ever inflicted on the British people, yet our government continues to offer their unwavering support to it. Why? The answer is simple: moronic and selfish baby boomers (the largest and most active voter demographic in the UK) who still believe that it is working
- [<strong>Five Truths from Dostoevsky’s <em>The</em> <em>Devils</em></strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/five-truths-from-dostoevskys-the-devils-2/) - Whenever I scroll through the news on Twitter or listen to talk radio, I like to play a game called “Dostoevsky called it.” As one can guess, it consists of identifying events or trends that correspond with those in Feodor Dostoevsky’s novels and letters. Because Dostoevsky devoted so much ink to warning about the motives
- [Is Conservatism Really All About Freedom?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/is-conservatism-really-all-about-freedom/) - Giving a speech in front of a room filled with people who no doubt think of themselves as conservatives, Liz Truss talked primarily about low taxes, personal responsibility, the “freedom to choose” — and just “freedom” more broadly. She also said that she would govern as a conservative, which instead makes one wonder: is governing
- [Allowing Children to Transition Will be the Crime of Our Generation](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/allowing-children-to-transition-will-be-the-crime-of-our-generation/) - Primum non nocere: first, do no harm. The alarming move to allow children at younger and younger ages to undergo experimental and irreversible transition treatments violates our duty of care to children – which we undeniably have. Children are impressionable, vulnerable, and are still learning about themselves and the world: their safety must be prioritised
- [Identity Politics in the Conservative Party](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/identity-politics-in-the-conservative-party/) - The leadership election has brought about a wave of Conservatives flexing about how diverse and inclusive the Conservative Party is compared to Labour. Among the first days of the elections, there were endless tweets about how the party has the most diverse leadership election in history. Andrew Bowie, Conservative MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
- [The Anglo-American Alliance: Neither Special Nor Subserviant](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-anglo-american-alliance-neither-special-nor-subserviant/) - The ongoing crisis between Ukraine and Russia has once again put into the limelight the strong Anglo-American alliance in foreign affairs. Both the United Kingdom and United States have been resolute in their efforts to avert a crisis by diplomatic dialogue and agreement. Their rhetoric has also been aligned in telling Putin to back down
- [Roe v Wade Reaction](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/roe-v-wade-reaction/) - The news that the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade has divided opinion. Here is our first debate piece on the issue: we have two different views from two different young women about the issue. Pro-Choice: Olivia Lever is the director of Blue Beyond. You can follow her at @liv_lever on Twitter: ‘I
- [Why The Tories Should Be Afraid of the Australian Labor Party's Victory](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-the-tories-should-be-afraid-of-the-australian-labor-partys-victory/) - The Australian Labor Party’s victory in Australia marks the end of almost a decade of Liberal Party rule. Indeed, the Liberal Party bears many similarities and its philosophy and ideology derived from the Conservative Party in their mother country. Having just scraped a majority in 2019, Scott Morrison has led the Liberal Party to its
- [This Great Stage of Fools: Thoughts on the Church of England](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/this-great-stage-of-fools-thoughts-on-the-church-of-england/) - There was a time not very long ago when I wanted to become an Anglican priest. I thought I had discovered my vocation; it filled me with hope for the future. Now, however, I cannot think of a more unattractive prospect.I was warned. At a book signing a couple of years ago, a non-stipendiary priest
- [Britain Is A Dump](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/britain-is-a-dump/) - I am sure that you, along with literally millions of others, have by now seen the infamous tweet from Daniel Grainger calling Birmingham a ‘dump’. I found his tweet very strange, not because I have a particular fondness towards Birmingham, but because the design and aesthetics of the place are fairly standard for a large
- [Why Culture Matters](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-culture-matters/) - In 1996 AD, Samuel P. Huntington wrote and published his book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.The main thesis of this American political scientist is that unlike the wars of the past, fought over nation and ideology, the wars of the future will be fought between cultures. This book represented
- [Charles Will Be a Good King](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/charles-will-be-a-good-king/) - The longevity of her majesties reign lulled most of us into this false sense that she may well last forever. Alas; whilst she reigned over 15 prime ministers, 6 popes, and was just 2 years shy of breaking King Louise XIV’s record of the longest reigning monarch; she was ultimately mortal like the rest of
- [To The Memory of My Queen](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/to-the-memory-of-my-queen/) - Most people would say that they have two grandmothers – the mother of their father, and the mother of their mother. However, for the fifteen nations that make up the Commonwealth Realms, I believe it can be equally said that we all have three grandmothers. The mother of our fathers, the mother of our mothers,
- [Rishi Sunak Was a Worse Chancellor Than Gordon Brown](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/rishi-sunak-was-a-worse-chancellor-than-gordon-brown/) - 2020 was awful and most people would agree that they never want to experience that year’s events ever again. For Rishi Sunak, though, it was the highlight of his career as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was smooth and slick during those COVID press conferences and he just presided over the furlough scheme that ensured
- [The Conservatives Used to be the Party of Government and Ideas – Now They No Longer Are | Henry George](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-conservatives-used-to-be-the-party-of-government-and-ideas-now-they-no-longer-are-henry-george/) - We are being treated to a clapping seal show presented as the Conservative leadership contest. The only candidate likely to alter Britain’s course into the iceberg of national decline and total senescence was Kemi Badenoch, so of course the MPs ejected her from the contest before the final three. For a moment it looked like
- [The Queen's Jubilee: Britain is Still a Proud Nation](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-queens-jubilee-britain-is-still-a-proud-nation/) - After spending a year across the pond in America, when I returned home to Britain, I was pleasantly surprised to find the streets of towns, cities, and villages decorated in union flags, with shop windows displaying various items in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Before I left, I used to ask myself why the
- [Why I Pity Those Who Have Not Known Monarchy](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-i-pity-those-who-have-not-known-monarchy/) - It has been a month since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. Having lived to the age of 96, Queen Elizabeth has been the longest reigning British monarch in history, with just over 70 years of a reign that was highlighted by some of the greatest societal transitions, advancements, regressions, and change that
- [Manufactured Consent: The Growth of the Republican Movement in Australia](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/manufactured-consent-the-growth-of-the-republican-movement-in-australia/) - At the start of June we at The Mallard along with millions of others across the globe celebrated the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In the UK especially there was a great show of affection from the people to the Queen, with tens of thousands flocking to The Mall to witness the
- [The Argument for the Monarchy Should Not Be an Economic One](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-argument-for-the-monarchy-should-not-be-an-economic-one/) - An unfortunate reality which I am determined to alter is the prevalence of economic arguments for The British Monarchy. Many in The Mallard have wrote fantastic pieces on the Monarchy, for example Xander West’s article exploring of the “Republican Option” was an excellently written and intellectually brilliant piece in its deconstruction of the abysmal yet
- [Abortion and Why Conservatives Should Care More](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/abortion-and-why-conservatives-should-care-more/) - The recent Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States has been hailed as a resounding victory by the pro-life movement as it overturns the supposed right to abortion and the famous ruling on Roe v. Wade made almost 50 years ago. Make no mistake about it, pro-life activists have been
- [History Module From Hell](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/history-module-from-hell/) - The modern English are a deracinated people. They know nothing of their great artists, poets and writers but most importantly, they’ve been uprooted from their history. History is a socially adhesive force, binding the dead to the living and those yet unborn with the unending assault on our culture and customs over the last 60-70
- [Why Taiwan Will Probably Survive Against a Chinese Invasion](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-taiwan-will-probably-survive-against-a-chinese-invasion/) - Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, many have turned their attention towards Taiwan and China. It has been no secret that since 1949, China have sought to reunify the island with the mainland and that Taiwan has sought to resist. However, I argue that for Taiwan this decade will be vitally important
- [Conservatives Against Equality](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/conservatives-against-equality/) - The Trojan horse has made its way inside the Conservative Party with an egalitarian agenda it will stop at nothing to implement, including rooting out any trace of actual right-wing policy. However, the enemy within has only been given power by the fact that the Conservatives themselves have no clue what they stand, giving space
- [Johnson’s Intermarium - A new Geopolitical Bloc?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/johnsons-intermarium-a-new-geopolitical-bloc/) - In the closing days of May, Boris Johnson came public with a proposition that could be characterised, at the very least, as surprising, especially to us here in Eastern Europe. This proposal was the creation of a new “European Commonwealth”, which would encompass the UK, Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic States and possibly, later on, Turkey.
- [Modern Feminists and the Anti-Bildungsroman](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/modern-feminists-and-the-anti-bildungsroman/) - Over the recent decade, we have seen a certain type of storyline rise to popularity among critics. The plot usually follows a female character with some type of special power or circumstance who, by virtue of said power, is beset by some type of related conflict; sounds normal enough—this is the beginning of virtually every
- [<strong>Oswald Spengler: Prophet of Doom?</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/oswald-spengler-prophet-of-doom/) - The legendary German historian, Oswald Spengler, was born in the German Empire on the 29th of May, 1880 AD. He is best known for his two-volume book The Decline of the West, published after the First World War, and his “pessimistic” and “deterministic” views on History – or so the liberal academia claims. In truth,
- [The Death of the Young Conservative Dream](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-death-of-the-young-conservative-dream/) - All my life I have had a certain idea of Britain. A sense of patriotism that is derived from the instinct to defend and preserve one’s own home. But what happens if the prospect of owning your own home is merely a dream of generations gone by? Last week I attended my third Conservative Party
- [A Libertarian Case Against Immigration](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/a-libertarian-case-against-immigration/) - Immigration is a massive issue within the UK. Many libertarian and neoliberal think tanks seem to be out of touch with what the ordinary man thinks about immigration as they advocate for a more liberalised immigration system and even open borders. This has given the term liberal a rotten taste for many Britons on the
- [From Stanley To Kiev: It’s Time To Move On](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/from-stanley-to-kiev-its-time-to-move-on/) - It's been 40 years since the war that marked a turning point in the relationship between Argentina and the United Kingdom. For the British, a distant dispute in time that year after year seems to lose its relevance. For us Argentines, an open wound yet to fully heal. Since the end of the conflict, the
- [<strong>A New British Bill of Rights will Keep Everyone Happy</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/a-new-british-bill-of-rights-will-keep-everyone-happy/) - Human rights are controversial. They probably shouldn’t be, being instead something we should all be able to rally around as the bare minimum we can do to protect our fellow man from the harms that could be inflicted upon them by the cruel. But that is not the case. As with most other things, human
- [One Simple Way to Fix the Government](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/one-simple-way-to-fix-the-government/) - Sorry, not this government. The idea of proportional representation seems to be fluttering about, but you don’t even need to go that far. There’s a much simpler solution which doesn’t rely on changing the electoral system. Even better, all you have to do is lean into existing political expectations. And, well, it’s not so much
- [<strong>Kemi Badenoch has changed the nature of Tory leadership contests forever</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/kemi-badenoch-has-changed-the-nature-of-tory-leadership-contests-forever/) - Many British conservatives look at America’s Republican Party with envy. They have a slate of talented potential candidates for the 2024 US general election, and what with increasing numbers of Hispanics and black Americans voting for the GOP, they are likely to triumph in this year’s midterm elections in the face of a crumbling Biden
- [Answering the Feminist Case for Abortion](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/answering-the-feminist-case-for-abortion/) - In a historic decision of the US Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade was overruled on Friday 24th June 2022 by the new precedent of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organisation. Dobbs was the Mississippi state health officer who was sued by the state’s only abortion clinic to challenge the constitutionality of a law which banned
- [How Diversity Hiring has ruined TV](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/how-diversity-hiring-has-ruined-tv/) - Over the past few decades, the media has been obsessed with characters representing minorities in society who haven’t received much recognition on television before. The hope is that a person of colour might see a black Hermione or a girl might see a female Doctor Who and think “that could be me!” and feel represented
- [<strong>Forget The Greenbelt: YIMBYs Should Focus On Permitted Development</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/forget-the-greenbelt-yimbys-should-focus-on-permitted-development/) - Britain needs housing. We all (aside from a tiny minority who don’t understand the concept of household formation) know this. And those of us who want that housing all know exactly who is to blame for the lack of supply: those dastardly NIMBYs and their unenlightened self interest in keeping property prices high. Perhaps, though,
- [Removing Boris Johnson was never about morality](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/removing-boris-johnson-was-never-about-morality/) - Boris Johnson has been effectively removed from office under the guise of moral outrage, but there is far more to this picture than righteousness. Let’s not forget the primary reason Boris Johnson assumed office after Theresa May and was voted in with a landslide majority in the General Election that followed, was because he was
- [The Moment of Decision](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-moment-of-decision-2/) - In the throes of the culture wars, it’s easy to get acclimated to the situation after some time has passed. It feels like a lifetime ago that the battlefield that has become of the issue of transgenderism was little more than a few videos on YouTube imploring viewers to cringe at ‘Die Cis Scum’, and
- [How the British Mentality is Being Taken Advantage of](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/how-the-british-mentality-is-being-taken-advantage-of/) - Having travelled to the United Kingdom on many occasions and having interacted with British people all around Europe from Leeds to Tallinn, I can safely claim that the folk of those fair isles have one of the friendliest dispositions I’ve encountered on my many travels. This is a bold statement and may very well sound
- [In Defence of the Profits of Oil and Gas Companies](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/in-defence-of-the-profits-of-oil-and-gas-companies/) - Few companies today are less popular than those in the oil and gas industry. Shell, ExxonMobil and British Petroleum are all resented for the great profits they are now making. 79% of the public back yet another windfall tax to get these profiteering companies to subsidise their bills. This is despite the fact the existing
- [What are these ‘Christian values’? |](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/what-are-these-christian-values/) - In the same way my last article ended, this first paragraph is being written on a Saturday, a day on which I often go to my Anglican parish church for the 9:30am Eucharist. After a week of exams, even a modern Common Worship service can warm my traditional soul. After the service, I turned to
- [Current Criticism on Austen: An Overview of the Norton Critical <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>, 4th Ed.’s Back Material](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/current-criticism-on-austen-an-overview-of-the-norton-critical-pride-and-prejudice-4th-ed-s-back-material/) - “Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer. A life of usefulness, literature, and religion, was not by any means a life of event…to the little disappointments incidental to human life was never added, even for a moment, an abatement of good-will from any who knew her.” No, this quote does not
- [On the majesty of Britain’s unwritten constitution](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/on-the-majesty-of-britains-unwritten-constitution/) - In light of Boris Johnson’s recent attempts to cling onto his own personal power, many within the media commentariat have proposed the idea of a written and entrenched constitution. Such a solution is historically ignorant: as will be developed in the succeeding paragraphs, the miracle of Britain’s constitution is that its conventions have weathered all
- [Where do we go from Here? The paths to Liberty and Heritage – Book review](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/where-do-we-go-from-here-the-paths-to-liberty-and-heritage-book-review/) - Last August, a group of leading dissident right thinkers have gathered at a conference titled ‘Where do we go from Here? The paths to Liberty and Heritage’. Each speaker discussed in detail their own idea and concept of how to get the future they want – be it a libertarian pipe dream, an idyllic Hobbiton-like
- [The Dishonorable Victoria Nuland](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-dishonorable-victoria-nuland/) - As the Russia-Ukraine Crisis crawls into the second month of conflict, humanitarian disaster, and media sensationalism, many passive observers of the situation have been wondering who is to blame for the biggest military conflict in Europe since 1990’s Yugoslavia. Mainstream media, OSNIT Twitter experts, and heads of state all make substantial claims about the
- [<strong>Gaddafi: Existentialist, by Charlie Nash (Book Review)</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/gaddafi-existentialist-by-charlie-nash-book-review/) - Before I begin, I should note that I intended to write and publish this review much earlier. However, my “university” insisted that I do my “dissertation” because, apparently, it is “important” for my “degree” and “academic development”. Alas, my attempts at self-actualisation were crushed and I was reduced to another cog in the machine, from
- [The Effects of Fatherlessness on Society](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-effects-of-fatherlessness-on-society/) - Since the 1960’s, the number of children growing up with single mothers has increased exponentially. In the UK in 2020, almost 50% of children were born to an unmarried mother (Statista, 2022), and yet while there has been some political attention given to the topic (such as the creation of the Child Support Agency in
- [<strong>From Atheism</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/from-atheism/) - Looking at the demographics of the Mallard, I assume most are familiar if not directly, then indirectly, with New Atheism. It was particularly popular between the 2000s and the 2010s, likely because the last vestiges of cultural Christianity were being stamped out, but the embers of cultural leftism were yet to catch. Early YouTube was
- [The Identity Crisis of Young Conservatives](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-identity-crisis-of-young-conservatives/) - While boomers indulge themselves in the same 2016 talking points on GB News for the 68th time this week, it seems like young conservatives are tired of it. The right wing of Generation Z have been raised on “Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Liberal Student” compilations. Meanwhile, while the conservative young people have moved on, the “triggered
- [Thatcher and the Conservative Ghost Dance](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/thatcher-and-the-conservative-ghost-dance/) - Life, loss, and lethargy have strange effects on peoples, cultures, and movements. And nothing could be more lethargic than our current iteration of conservatism. Neoconservatism was certainly not new, it grew out of, and drew from, the economic thinking that preceded it. However, it at least believed in itself so strongly that it attempted to
- [<strong>Why Britain’s counter-extremism policy is not working</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-britains-counter-extremism-policy-is-not-working/) - Last year marked 20 years since 9/11, making it an appropriate time to review and reflect on Britain’s counter-terrorism policy. The beginning of the 21st century saw the issue of terrorism and Islamic extremism become increasingly salient. Britain’s counter-terrorism officials claim that most of the country’s terror threats come from British-born extremists. The government has
- [<strong>The Monarchy is Losing its Core Supporters</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-monarchy-is-losing-its-core-supporters/) - The Platinum Jubilee approaches, yet Peter Hitchens writes that, “I have just stopped supporting the monarchy. I can’t do it any more. I am not a republican, or anything silly like that. I would like a proper monarchy. But the House of Windsor’s total mass conversion to Green orthodoxy has destroyed the case for this
- [Audubon’s Legacy of Birds and Tomfoolery](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/audubons-legacy-of-birds-and-tomfoolery-dinah-kolka/) - For someone who has anger issues, entering the Audubon’s The Birds of America exhibition was like entering a whole new world. Upon the entry, I saw giant screens showing details from Audubon’s work and I could hear quiet bird noises in the background. It was an incredibly calming experience, as much as one can consider
- [40 Days for Free Speech](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/40-days-for-free-speech/) - If you think that the free speech-v-cancel culture tension has already been pushed to its limits in the UK over the past year, you probably haven’t heard of 40 Days for Life. The campaign to pray for an end to abortion throughout the period of Lent reached its peak this weekend, drawing Christians across the
- [<strong>The government’s ‘compassionate’ approach to addiction has made the problem worse</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-governments-compassionate-approach-to-addiction-has-made-the-problem-worse/) - Methadone has been used to treat heroin (diamorphine) addiction since the 1950’s, but its use has massively increased in the 1990’s. Methadone is a man-made opiate (opioid), which is similar to heroin, and therefore it can be used as a substitute which can be gradually withdrawn, easing the symptoms of heroin withdrawal and, theoretically, making
- [Royal Mistresses P.1](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/royal-mistresses-p-1/) - Not every monarch has been an upstanding spouse. Many of the men ruling our kingdom have had a bit on the side whilst remaining married. Some had quick flings whilst others had longstanding partnerships. It was a different era- royal men were expected and allowed to have mistresses. Their marriages were rarely ever for love.
- [The Family Sex Show: Grooming Comes to Britain](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-family-sex-show-grooming-comes-to-britain-2/) - I knew Bristol was liberal; the city is famous for it. Me? I have traditional values, I am involved with the Conservative party, and I have been a Christian my whole life. But when I got an unconditional offer to study a course at the University of Bristol which ranked third in that subject, I
- [Why We Won't Publish the Word 'Woke.'](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-we-wont-publish-the-word-woke-2/) - As of today, the Mallard is no longer publishing articles that include the word ‘woke’, in either print or online. Too many submissions, not just to the Mallard, but other publications - have become reliant on this word to explain away current trends that people find unappealing, yet cannot articulate why beyond anything other than
- [<strong>Post-liberal politics and why we should reaffirm a uniquely British way of life</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/post-liberal-politics-and-why-we-should-reaffirm-a-uniquely-british-way-of-life/) - Post-Liberalism is a term that is often used in our discourse with far-reaching implications for the future of British politics. It refers to a vision of society opposed to Francis Fukuyama’s claim of the ‘End of History’, and the inexorable expansion of liberalism. A post-liberal society is therefore one where liberal ideas such as individual
- [The Moment of Decision](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-moment-of-decision/) - In the throes of the culture wars, it’s easy to get acclimated to the situation after some time has passed. It feels like a lifetime ago that the battlefield that has become of the issue of transgenderism was little more than a few videos on YouTube imploring viewers to cringe at ‘Die Cis Scum’, and
- [<strong>Five Truths from Dostoevsky’s <em>The</em> <em>Devils</em></strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/five-truths-from-dostoevskys-the-devils/) - Whenever I scroll through the news on Twitter or listen to talk radio, I like to play a game called “Dostoevsky called it.” As one can guess, it consists of identifying events or trends that correspond with those in Feodor Dostoevsky’s novels and letters. Because Dostoevsky devoted so much ink to warning about the motives
- [<strong>Audubon’s Legacy of Birds and Tomfoolery</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/audubons-legacy-of-birds-and-tomfoolery/) - For someone who has anger issues, entering the Audubon’s The Birds of America exhibition was like entering a whole new world. Upon the entry, I saw giant screens showing details from Audubon’s work and I could hear quiet bird noises in the background. It was an incredibly calming experience, as much as one can consider
- [<strong>The Family Sex Show: Grooming Comes to Britain</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-family-sex-show-grooming-comes-to-britain/) - I knew Bristol was liberal; the city is famous for it. Me? I have traditional values, I am involved with the Conservative party, and I have been a Christian my whole life. But when I got an unconditional offer to study a course at the University of Bristol which ranked third in that subject, I
- [<strong>Why We Won’t Publish the Word ‘Woke’</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/why-we-wont-publish-the-word-woke/) - As of today, the Mallard is no longer publishing articles that include the word ‘woke’, in either print or online. Too many submissions, not just to the Mallard, but other publications - have become reliant on this word to explain away current trends that people find unappealing, yet cannot articulate why beyond anything other than
- [<strong>Book Review: Ten Year Anniversary, <em>The Demon in Democracy</em></strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/book-review-ten-year-anniversary-the-demon-in-democracy/) - A rarely remarked upon effect of Covid-19 has been the neglect of works that would have ordinarily garnered broader acclaim. Thus, as we’ve been distracted by the medical events, an assortment of commendable offerings have largely escaped public attention. One such work is ‘The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies’ by Polish academic
- [On the Invention of British 'Values'](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/on-the-invention-of-british-values/) - Contender for the Conservative Party leadership and Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has declared that he would widen the scope of our PREVENT programme to include those with “anti-British” attitudes. He didn’t bother to define those attitudes but no doubt they include equality, diversity and inclusion to the extent that I will be sent to the
- [Joe Biden and the Ghost of Ronald Reagan](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/joe-biden-and-the-ghost-of-ronald-reagan/) - In an appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line back in 1980, newly inaugurated President Reagan was asked his thoughts on a number of key issues. His responses, despite now being 42 years old, remain all too relevant. He argued for long-term investment in expanding the oil economy in the face of rising energy costs,
- [The Rebirth of Europe: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-rebirth-of-europe-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/) - After The First World War, Germany, the main aggressor of the war in Central and Western Europe, was punished severely by the victors and isolated. To oversimplify tremendously, that pushed Germany into a period of chaos from which it did not begin to recover until a decade later. At that time, the Wall Street crash
- [<strong>Keir Starmer is right about the NHS</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/keir-starmer-is-right-about-the-nhs/) - A couple of weeks ago Keir Starmer made headlines by claiming that too many people from overseas are recruited by the NHS. For this he was, of course, slandered as the second coming of Sir Oswald Mosely or Enoch Powell by his own side, who, despite their protestations to the contrary, rarely look beyond the
- [The possible booster/lockdown trade-off](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-possible-booster-lockdown-trade-off-maximilien-lacour/) - At the time of writing, the UK is facing a sharp rise in cases of the novel Omicron variant. As a result, after a relatively normal summer and autumn, the government has now enacted ‘Plan B’, a series of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) including mandated mask wearing as well as work-from-home and vaccine passport recommendations, all
- [It’s probably a good time to re-colonise Shakespeare](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/its-probably-a-good-time-to-re-colonise-shakespeare-dinah-kolka/) - The Renaissance was a spectacular time for literature, arts, and anatomy. The sheer wealth of geographical expansion reinvigorated Europe and invited it to explore, research, and discover. This period was crucial for the conflict between religion and knowledge, a subject thoroughly explored in Doctor Faustus. The Italian Renaissance especially brought forward many crucial questions about
- [The Marvelisation of Ukraine](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-marvelisation-of-ukraine-tom-jones/) - The discussion has never been stupider. The relative infrequency in which western audiences are exposed to war means that every time a conflict breaks out, enormous advances occur not just in technology or strategy, but in culture too. Whilst the First World War showed the power of industrialisation, the Second showed the potential of modern
- [Dark Humor for the Red King: The Drunk Porter in Macbeth](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/dark-humor-for-the-red-king-the-drunk-porter-in-macbeth-dustin-lovell/) - “Knock, knock—who’s there?” Whenever one of my tutorial students is assigned (or, let’s be honest, barely mentions) Macbeth, I go into a certain and by now well-rehearsed tangent on how Shakespeare’s arguably darkest play contains one of the most peculiar scenes in his canon—and the origin of what is now considered a passe pretext to
- [Fact and Fortune: A Note on The Particular](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/fact-and-fortune-a-note-on-the-particular-samuel-martin/) - Writing this article makes me feel guilty. Like a manic scientist hunched over a microscope, I am hunched over a keyboard, conducting research into pinpointing the unpinpointable. For decades, conservatives have disapprovingly commented on the widespread adoption of once-alternative socially liberal concepts and arrangements, lamenting the desacralization and deprivileging of more “traditional” outlooks. This is
- [Against Common Sense Conservativism](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/against-common-sense-conservativism-adam-limb/) - What a sad and wretched world we live in. The decline of Free Speech, British Values, and Common Sense has let the loony left and Radical Woke Nonsense destroy our Institutions. Remix these words enough and you too can qualify to be a conservative commentator in the contemporary British political landscape. Looking across the commentariate
- [Rip Up the Roads](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/rip-up-the-roads-adam-limb/) - Driving may well be the biggest psy-op in modern history. The car has often been depicted as the symbol of freedom, the ability to go wherever one pleases – to emancipate oneself from the circumstances they find themselves in, and to strike up a new existence elsewhere. There’s a reason they talk of the ‘open
- [On the Invention of British “Values” ](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/on-the-invention-of-british-values-brian-budd/) - Contender for the Conservative Party leadership and Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has declared that he would widen the scope of our PREVENT programme to include those with “anti-British” attitudes. He didn’t bother to define those attitudes but no doubt they include equality, diversity and inclusion to the extent that I will be sent to the
- [Men and Women, Mods and Rockers](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/men-and-women-mods-and-rockers-adam-limb/) - In previous articles, I’ve been too harsh on the people who want to define a woman as ‘an adult human female’, and probably too harsh on people who genuinely want right-wing ideas to flourish. This time, I want to focus on the beliefs of the modern left and rather than attack them outright, provide an
- [Tavistock: Not the Victory the Right Thinks It Is](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/tavistock-not-the-victory-the-right-thinks-it-is-nina-skinner/) - Shutting down Tavistock gender clinic is not the victory the Right thinks it is. When it was announced on Thursday that the NHS will be shutting down a children’s gender identity development service (not a noun I ever thought I would use), the Sophie Corcorans of the world jumped onto Twitter claiming this as a
- [The ‘Lines in the Sand’ Myth](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-lines-in-the-sand-myth-andrew-trovalusci/) - The idea that European colonialism is the original cause of modern day political strife in the Middle East is a popular one both in academia and amongst large sections of the general public. It originated in political science literature in the 20th century but has been ham-fistedly revived in the 21st, particularly in the context
- [Deconstructing Samurai Jack](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/deconstructing-samurai-jack-andrew-trovalusci/) - Samurai Jack was an American animated TV series that premiered on Cartoon Network in 2001 and ran for, eventually, five seasons. The story follows the adventure of an unnamed samurai travelling through a dystopian future governed by a demonic wizard named Aku. What makes Samurai Jack unique is the moral paradigm that can be read
- [The Conservative Party, once my ally, now my enemy](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-conservative-party-once-my-ally-now-my-enemy-jayden-harris/) - I considered the Conservative Party once as my ally. During the 2019 General Election, I found Boris Johnson’s policies admirable. Who wouldn’t want to see the country ‘level up’? Almost all policies I agreed with – except Net Zero by 2050. However, this appeared a relatively insignificant commitment; I assumed they wouldn’t keep it. Alas,
- [Conservatives can learn from modern art](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/conservatives-can-learn-from-modern-art-daniel-evans/) - You’re probably already baulking at the idea that there could be anything to learn from modern art. You’re not wrong that art and architecture today are often hideous, lazy, cheap, unconsidered, and, well, artless. It won’t help that I myself am still not completely concluded on what there is to learn. Alinskyite tactics of making
- [A Response to Polly Toynbee](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/a-response-to-polly-toynbee-joseph-niblett/) - “Know thyself” is a most fundamental axiom of Greek philosophy that has been repeated into cliche in philosophy and religious studies classrooms around the world. And yet it is a concept that many seem to forget. To ignore our fundamental presuppositions and the grounding of our beliefs is foolish and to unwittingly seek to undercut
- [Government Versus The Family](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/government-versus-the-family-jess-gill/) - Over the past few decades, it has become the norm that when a person is in trouble they rely on the state and not their family. When a man is in financial trouble he is infantilised by the state as he turns to universal credit. When a man has personal troubles, he feels more confident
- [Win Big, Win Small; Win Everywhere](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/win-big-win-small-win-everywhere-otis-griffin/) - “We’re going to win so much; we’re going to win at every level…You may even get tired of winning.” Donald Trump is not an orator in the traditional sense of an eloquent speaker, but his ability to generate soundbytes that inspired confidence in the conservative movement is great. The above quote highlights a particularly American
- [A sermon for Christmas day](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/a-sermon-for-christmas-day-otis-griffin/) - “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us full of grace and truth” - and so history began; the beginning of the perfect expression of the unchanging doctrine of the Church of God. Turkey, gifts and - at least in my case - cigars are only incidental to the Birth of our Lord,
- [Against the Rationalists](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/against-the-rationalists-wyck/) - I had forgotten why I wrote 'Against the Traditionalists', and what it meant, so the following is an attempted self-interpretation; for that purpose, they are intended to be read together. The Preface of Inquiry: God hath broke a motley spear upon the lines of Rome, When brothers Hermes masked afront Apollo’s golden throne. The Aesthetics
- [Considerations on Revolution](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/considerations-on-revolution-jake-muscat/) - The 28th of December of this year will mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union was a product of the so-called `Russian October Revolution` which sought to “liberate” workers and establish a communist utopia but in truth resulted in the murdering of the Romanov royal
- [Humber Bridge 2](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/humber-bridge-2-chris-winter/) - When the Humber Bridge was completed in 1981, it was the longest single span suspension bridge in the world. 41 years later, it has been reduced to a mere 11th place. The current longest single span suspension bridge in the world, the Akashi Kaikyo bridge in Japan, stands a mere 500 metres longer. This is
- [So What?](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/so-what-samuel-martin/) - At the end of last month, the first results of the 2021 UK Census were published. As many will recall, the results were simultaneously, although not quite paradoxically, shocking and expected. The information published showed that 1 in 6 UK citizens are born in another country - ten million of the UK’s 69 million; a
- [<strong>The Tragedy of the Praying Indians</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-tragedy-of-the-praying-indians/) - A generation after the first Thanksgiving, colonial Massachusetts experienced the single deadliest per capita war in North American recorded history. Though the famed declaration of friendship between White settlers and Native tribes was within living memory for many of the fighters in this war, it did not in any way soften the animosity nor stay
- [What the reaction to the Ukraine conflict reveals about national identity](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/what-the-reaction-to-the-ukraine-conflict-reveals-about-national-identity-lee-marshall/) - A country is first and foremost its people. Despite my best efforts I cannot remember where I came across that phrase, nor will I be so brazen to claim it as my own. Nonetheless, it has always struck me as being axiomatic, and current events in Eastern Europe have given me reason to reflect on
- [Net Zero Versus Cost of Living](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/net-zero-versus-cost-of-living-james-gillham/) - Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide levels are rising - that is a fact. Before the industrial revolution, atmospheric CO2 levels steadily remained at around 280ppm (parts per million). This number had remained constant for thousands of years, with very minor increases over the years due to natural processes. In March this year, CO2 concentrations were sitting at
- [Nature vs Nurture: The Failing of Black Caribbean Pupils in Education](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/nature-vs-nurture-the-failing-of-black-caribbean-pupils-in-education-liam-rodney/) - According to the race report published last year, 63% of Black caribbean households are single parent households, as opposed to the black african community who is at 43%, the UK’s rate is 14.7%. The culture for the black community in the UK is quite similar to the US which also has problems with black on
- [From Weimar to the Third Reich: the birth of a dictatorship](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/__trashed-2/) - History has seen its fair share of wicked and corrupt leaders and regimes, from Ivan the Terrible, to Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, to Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein. These men, and others like them, desired to tightly grip the reins of power and not let go, entrenching themselves and their position within the political
- [Against the Traditionalists](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/against-the-traditionalists-wyck/) - A Premise: Deep, and yet deeper down, below the marsh slime and the swamp rot, even underneath poppy roots and the granite rows, Old England's Foundations lie. While thinned and turned soils are cold and damp, the fiery Mantle warms and pulses, twisting round and circling on itself; the Core sees into itself and ponders
- [<strong>Putin’s War: A Tale of Soviet Romanticism and Western Ignorance | Daniel Hawker</strong><strong> </strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/putins-war-a-tale-of-soviet-romanticism-and-western-ignorance-daniel-hawker/) - With Russian troops having begun a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, President Joe Biden was recently asked by a journalist “Do you think you may have underestimated Putin?” In response to the question, the supposed ‘most powerful man in the world’ offered merely a smirk and proceeded to sit in silence whilst his team rushed
- [<strong>It’s time to consign plaques to history | Robert Poll</strong> ](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/its-time-to-consign-plaques-to-history-robert-poll/) - When the government launched its ‘Retain and Explain’ policy in January 2021, those of us who value our heritage and see through the attacks on it greeted it with cautious optimism. Sadly, the unveiling of a new plaque in Shrewsbury about Clive of India has proved that caution well placed. For the policy helped close
- [<strong>Against Republicanism | Aidan Scott </strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/against-republicanism-aidan-scott/) - Many Conservatives have noticed a worrying trend in polling recently. YouGov suggests that support for the Monarchy is falling, especially among younger people. For the first time in British history 19-24 year olds apparently support having an elected head of state instead of a hereditary one. When combined with His Highness the Prince of Wales’s
- [On the Defamatory Lynching of Eric Zemmour in the British Media | Oliver d’Astreville](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/on-the-defmatory-lynching-of-eric-zemmour-in-the-british-media-oliver-dastreville/) - When faced with the utter treachery of progressive intellectuals, there are times when one is tempted to go back to the old ways. Show up to their threshold, give them a slap with your glove and then hopefully grant them eternal peace from their nightmarish debility in a duel at the next daybreak. Peace would
- [The First Year of Joe Biden | Sarah Stook](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-first-year-of-joe-biden-sarah-stook/) - At just past 12PM on Wednesday, the 20th January 2021, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US President. It’s been a year since Biden became President. A lot has happened to put it lightly. The COVID pandemic saw no signs of slowing down. Afghanistan fell back in the hands of the Taliban. Prices shot
- [<strong>A Reply to Lea Ypi | Vilma Djala</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/a-reply-to-lea-ypi-vilma-djala/) - A few months ago, I came across a book titled “Free” in a book section of a renowned magazine. As a pathologic bibliophile, I was curious but I was also filled with pride to see the Author of “Free” has an Albanian sounding name, Lea Ypi. Indeed, Ypi is an Albanian that fled Albania during
- [Reading Kant’s Significance in the History of Political Ideas](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/reading-kants-significance-in-the-history-of-political-ideas/) - The purpose of this short enquiry is into the significance that Immanuel Kant’s essay, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (1784) played in the development of political thought. It is widely known and remarked upon that the Answer is a major intervention in the apotheosis of the Enlightenment, and its remarkable brevity has
- [<strong>Oswald Spengler: Prophet of Doom? | Boško Vuković</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/oswald-spengler-prophet-of-doom-bosko-vukovic/) - The legendary German historian, Oswald Spengler, was born in the German Empire on the 29th of May, 1880 AD. He is best known for his two-volume book The Decline of the West, published after the First World War, and his “pessimistic” and “deterministic” views on History – or so the liberal academia claims. In truth,
- [<strong>One simple way to fix the government | Daniel Evans</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/one-simple-way-to-fix-the-government-daniel-evans/) - Sorry, not this government. The idea of proportional representation seems to be fluttering about, but you don’t even need to go that far. There’s a much simpler solution which doesn’t rely on changing the electoral system. Even better, all you have to do is lean into existing political expectations. And, well, it’s not so much
- [<strong>The Dishonorable Victoria Nuland | Ilija Dokmanovic</strong>](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-dishonorable-victoria-nuland-ilija-dokmanovic/) - As the Russia-Ukraine Crisis crawls into the second month of conflict, humanitarian disaster, and media sensationalism, many passive observers of the situation have been wondering who is to blame for the biggest military conflict in Europe since 1990’s Yugoslavia. Mainstream media, OSNIT Twitter experts, and heads of state all make substantial claims about the culprits,
- [Book Review: Ten Year Anniversary, The Demon in Democracy, by Ryszard Legutko | Ryan Anderson](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/book-review-ten-year-anniversary-the-demon-in-democracy-by-ryszard-legutko-ryan-anderson/) - A rarely remarked upon effect of Covid-19 has been the neglect of works that would have ordinarily garnered broader acclaim. Thus, as we’ve been distracted by the medical events, an assortment of commendable offerings have largely escaped public attention. One such work is ‘The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies’ by Polish academic
- [The Whitewash – A Review of ‘War on the West’ by Douglas Murray](https://mallarduk.com/2023/01/the-whitewash-a-review-of-war-on-the-west-by-douglas-murray/) - To begin, it’s worth saying I owe something of a debt to Douglas Murray. He brought me to many of the positions I hold today, and while my overall impression of ‘War on the West’ was disinterest, it is only upon looking back at my own political journey I’m beginning to understand why I felt

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