Quelle surprise! As we noted in September, France was an easy target for terror. So, ten days on from the Paris attacks, how’s the reaction unfolding?Canadian blogger Vlad Tepes sums up the polarisation:“The most important thing you can do when people you don’t know are murdered by Muslims in an act designed to promote theContinueContinue reading “Unenlightening Europe”
Category Archives: Europe
Wrapped in Golden Chains
“There’s been a lot of pressure to highlight human rights abuses but the Chinese haven’t mentioned the DWP once.” Tory Comedians on Facebook Questioned in London this week on his country’s human rights record, Xi Jinping responded with the kind of explanation that would have appealed to Deng Xiaoping back in the 80s. Something alongContinueContinue reading “Wrapped in Golden Chains”
Valuing Europe
As tens of thousands flock in renewed hope to join the Labour Party, much of the last Shadow Cabinet has walked off in disgust at the thought of actually having to believe in something. Yes, British politics is about to get much more interesting. Jeremy Corbyn though is no friend of Wessex. So long asContinueContinue reading “Valuing Europe”
That Sinking Feeling
In the late 1940s, large numbers of people were forced out of the lands where they and their ancestors had lived for generations, since at least the time of the Crusades. Their ancestral homes were handed over to immigrants from other parts of the world, who brought their own history with them. The displaced livedContinueContinue reading “That Sinking Feeling”
Bex in Belgium
Guest contribution by Colin Bex, WR PresidentOn Tuesday (16th June) I attended ‘The European Citizens’ Initiative and the Promise (sic) of Democracy’, a conference in Brussels sponsored jointly by the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) campaign, the Latvian Presidency, and the Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.This was a significantly high-level affair of contemporaryContinueContinue reading “Bex in Belgium”
Our Three Europes
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”The quote is attributed to Buckminster Fuller. Another variation on the theme is that new ideas don’t triumph by changing opinions; they triumph because those holding the old ideas die out and those holdingContinueContinue reading “Our Three Europes”
Cider House Rules II
We don’t often get to discuss the politics of cider. Politicians are usually smart enough to leave cider alone. But it did make the headlines this week, with news of changes in EU rules that could have a devastating effect on small producers. This, of course, is the opposite of what should be happening, evenContinueContinue reading “Cider House Rules II”
The Great Burh
“Paris… A city that must have been magnificent in the Twentieth century, Dimitri thought. He had few memories of it. He was only ten in 2016, when his family had fled the city plagued by anarchy and hunger to return to Russia. Most of the monuments had been burnt and destroyed, and its museums andContinueContinue reading “The Great Burh”
Jeux Sans Frontières
Events in Paris this week have exposed Europe’s anxieties to the full. Let’s consider some of the possible reactions. On the far Right, and among the not-for-prophet movement generally, this is I-told-you-so time. Even those who disagree with the politics must find recent analysis strikingly prescient. And at least it’s an opportunity to highlight someContinueContinue reading “Jeux Sans Frontières”
The War on Identity
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget evenContinueContinue reading “The War on Identity”
Wessex Regionalists 