Mark W.
@DurhamWASP
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"We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for & died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born." Roger Scruton
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RT @DannyDrinksWine: Remembering Jack Lemmon on his 100th birthday! The Apartment (1960) Director: Billy Wilder
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RT @GrayConnolly: If you speak English as a first language, or even as a second or bridge language, you inhabit or you enter a world built…
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West House, Chelsea, designed by Philip Webb [1831-1915], you may recognise it as Uncle Monty’s house in ‘Withnail and I’, shot in 1987
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“The question is not so much ‘Are there foreigners in my country?’ but ‘Are there cosmopolitans in my country, cosmopolitans who act in complete indifference to my country, and all other countries?’” G.K. Chesterton
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RT @JohnOSullivanNR: As this review of Roger Scruton's largely ignored novel on grooming. gangs and the England that spawned them shows, a…
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RT @nero_returns: 🚨 Thread: Exposing the Fabian Society - Labour's Secret Socialist Agenda 1/ Have you been kept in the dark about the Fab…
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RT @PictureSporting: The Princess of Wales playing cricket during a visit to Pakistan in October 2019
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Lone flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they But hardier far, once more I see thee bend Thy forehead, as if fearful to offend, Like an unbidden guest… William Wordsworth, To a Snowdrop
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RT @LBFlyawayhome: Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Village shop (1964) Artist: Harry Wingfield
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RT @Sargon_of_Akkad: David Lammy identifies as Carribean. For some reason, he was made foreign secretary. Now he is arranging to send as mu…
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“Too often today people are ready to tell us: ‘This is not possible, that is not possible.’ I say: whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible.” Enoch Powell [16th June 1912 – 8th February 1998]
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RT @BrugesGroup: Yes they should. They should not, however, be taught to hate their own country and feel guilty for the imagined wrongdoing…
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RT @PWestoff: England is part of Western Civilisation, which was built by one race, one culture and one faith. African culture and Islamic…
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“Wherefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for...” John Ruskin, born 8th February 1819
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Sir Alfred Munnings [1878–1959] A Shoot in a Swede Field [1901] Munnings regarded his work as a 'crude effort' but one with a 'truth about it and each man recognised his own portrait and that of his dog.'
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“Suppose that a revolutionary junta of corrupt oligarchy were blatantly to use the machinery of democracy to try to compass democracy's destruction. Would the Crown be wholly impotent? I do not think so.” T.E. Utley Charles?
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“The UK is a multi-faith, multi-ethnic, multicultural success story, and we believe that many of our greatest strengths derive from the diversity of our population.”
UK Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch: “The UK is a multi-faith, multi-ethnic, multicultural success story, and we believe that many of our greatest strengths derive from the diversity of our population.” Thoughts?
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“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
“As Caribbean people we are not going to forget our history, we don’t just want to hear an apology - we want reparations”. This is what happens when you have politicians with dual/split loyalties. British politicians should only care about what’s best for the British people.
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RT @HistoryGirlBW: A charming film of a quintessential 1940s English picnic. Tweed suits, ties, and obligatory cups and saucers. https://t.…
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