“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Grunt-work

Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...

How the swamp works

Until His Most August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra*, came along and completely overturned the apple-cart of the political establishment, we never really had a good term to describe the way...

Bye bye, Johnny

The swamp-draining carries on: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has terminated National Security Advisor John Bolton from his position, citing strong disagreement on “many of his suggestions” regarding foreign policy. “I informed John Bolton last night...

The middle age of the Middle Kingdom

It has become very clear over the past few years that Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilisations” hypothesis was eerily prescient, and that China will indeed become one of the primary belligerents in a roughly five-way global conflict. The Chinese,...

Bully for Boris

The new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of PommieBastardLand, one big fat fluffy teddy-bear named Boris Johnson, is showing that this bear has serious claws: Boris Johnson will suspend parliament in a bid to stop MPs thwarting Brexit as the Prime Minister...

Yeah, sure he did

The paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell yesterday, as you all know by now. Evidently he committed suicide, probably because he couldn’t bear the weight of his crimes. And if you believe one single word of that last sentence, I...

A hard lesson from the Dirt World

Do y’all remember what I wrote recently about how India has a serious illegal immigration problem from Bangladesh? Here is a rather good take on the subject that goes beyond simple anecdotal evidence, from Daniel Greenfield: India’s 2,582 mile border with...

“The Member of Parliament for the 18th Century”

The new Prime Minster of PommieBastardLand, Boris Johnson, may well be a bit of a clown – at least on the surface – but there is absolutely no doubt that he has some serious intellectual firepower underneath that floppy mop of silly hair and that big...

Immigrants are a global problem

Anyone who has not been living under a rock for the past five years knows perfectly well at this point that the one and only real political issue of concern to the entire Western world right now is immigration. Everything else is basically a secondary problem at this...

Convulsions of a dying empire

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it. — Walter Bagehot...