Tomorrow is St George’s Day. In the twilight of nations, it’s good to think on what we’ve done and could do.

David Davis

I would like “England” to be an idea. Really. It is so good and so right, so inevitable if you take to its logical conclusion the philosophy of Natural Rights together with ordinary conservatism, which is to say “liberalism” (our definition, not the Democrats’) which is what humans do when left alone to get on with stuff that needs to get done. 

We ought to be so deeply proud of what we (really) are and what we have done, and can still do, that the entire world of all human beings ought to be given the chance to be part of it.

We nearly did it, so very nearly. This was the closest that Man got to “take-off”, ever. (Read Paul Johnson’s “Enemies of Society“.) The British Empires (the Second one, ended 1776, and the Third one, possibly still alive?), the latter originally meant to be run by a man and a couple of boys just out of Oxbridge, did more good, to more people, for less loss of life per billion people per unit time, than any other human institution - and it wasn’t even planned.

The great truth that England - the UK, whatever’s your bacon here - is an idea, is behind the last 60 years’ institutionalised destruction, by Marxo-Gramscians including tragically many, many native ones, of whatever can be dubbed an ”English” (or even British?) icon, custom, saying, object, word, or place (such as Southern Rhodesia) or even a joke.

Never, never underestimate your enemy. If he is this thing, then he has probably realised that you are so right that he has to Invoke the Devil in order to destroy you. All the evidence points to the fact that this civilisation to which we belong, and to which we gave birth, engenders hate in pre-barbarian-blood-ridden competitors that is out of all proportion to our size, population, and age.

Long Live St George, whoever he might have been.

 

Scurrilous ditty about that forbidden thing, Englishness and England, the home and birthlace of libertarianism

David Davis

From: tess nash

To: 

Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:19 AM

Subject: THE BRILLIANT EFFECT OF POETRY IN POLITICAL COMMENT

PLEASE CIRCULATE
Thanks
TESS NASH
ST IVES
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Apr 19^th 08
The Last Laugh
David Prowse – The Cornwall Poet
pub WESTERN MORNING NEWS - 19 April 08
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More needless legislation, that’s the answer to our ills!
As the credit crisis deepens and we wrestle with our bills,
But never mind the real world, the new approach to care
Is to sidestep other problems for the one that isn’t there.
 
So by courtesy of Europe, via Harriet’s brigade,
We shall seek out innuendo in establishments of trade.
And we’ll pounce upon employers, whose poor beleaguered staff
Detect offensive mischief in a giggle or a laugh.
 
Thus ogling at the barmaid, though she wears a see-through dress
Could constitute behaviour causing anguish and distress!
Her boss could be in trouble for the sparkle in your eye,
So don’t ask to see her etchings or they’ll ship him to Shanghai.
 
A phrase like “Here you are my love” when paying at the bar
Is the sort of sexist chatter that takes friendliness too far!
Forgo your foolish banter and remove that silly grin!
Or mine host will be reported, and the fuzz will run him in.
 
It seems our lords and masters find suspicion in a smile.
They’d rather we were fashioned in their own robotic style,
To pull our carts submissively like oxen in a yoke;
To pay our tithes and taxes, but never share a joke.
 
To smile away our troubles was a British thing to do!
It was humour that sustained us and would bring its people through.
We laughed at one another, we would give and we would take,
Yet we all linked arms together when the storms began to break.
 
You somehow get the feeling with each order and decree,
They don’t want us to be British in the way we used to be.
They don’t want us to be different or, in any way, alone,
For they denigrate all reference to a culture of our own.
 
We have laws already with us for the idiots within,
Whose ridicule is based upon the colour of your skin.
We have laws that deal with sexists and the bigots of our time!
Do we need another statute making levity a crime?
 
Offence is all around us if offence is what we seek -
We can conjure it from innocence wherever people speak.
Well, I, too, am offended, by pomposity’s pretence,
As another lawyer’s charter takes the place of common sense.

Happy Earth Day”! Mark Steyn (whom you all love) celebrates it. I didn’t know there was one, so hopeless I am. The Socialists will be wanting an “Armed Forces Day” next…

David Davis (not that one)

Mark Steyn is a daily read for all of us sad middle-aged white male bourgeois nerds.

Here’s the thingy for “Earth Day” - I have to admit I was not even aware of its existence - the collectivist-smugfest that is, not the Earth itself.

Here’s Mark:

 

April 22nd is Earth Day but, alas, with all the “climate change”, we only have a few Earth Days to go before the entire planet goes belly up. So here, as a reminder of the perilous state of our earth, is my tribute to the bottom of the food chain, as written for The Daily Telegraph in 2004:

Professor Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey is worried about – stop me if you’ve heard this one before – global warming. For this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lecture, he’ll be warning that the merest smidgeonette of an increase in temperature in the south polar seabed will lead to the loss of a zillion species. As the oceans warm, the ice shelves that extend from the polar depths into the sub-Antarctic light will shrink, and the thick mats of algae on their underside will vanish, and the billions of tiny krill that feed on them will perish, and pretty soon, up at the scenic end of the food chain, all those cute seals and penguins and whales will be gone.

And all this will happen if the temperature goes up two degrees, from butt-numbingly freezing to marginally less butt-numbingly freezing. “It is going to be really unpleasant,” Prof Peck tells The Guardian. “We are going to lose things – we just don’t know how much.”

 

Read more here…..

David Davis

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More about “Fairtrade is a fraud” - nice pamphlet by the Institute of Economic Affairs

David Davis

Last month one of our experienced writers said that “Fairtrade is a Fraud”.  While this IEA pamphlet here today does not deny the inherent and (very) inconvenient truth of this statement, it enlarges on some of the relationships involved in the whole “Fairtrade” scam, and explains why the entire “Fairtrade” flim-flam-branding exercise has the welfare of the “growers” as the least of its concerns.

http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-book408pdf?.pdf

Or you can see it here.