Our earth in 1969 Is not the planet I call mine The world, I mean, that gives me strength To hold off chaos at arm's length My Eden landscapes & their climes Are constructs from Edwardian times When bathrooms took up lots of space And, before eating, one said Grace… W.H. Auden

It is utterly baffling that foreign students qualify for soft loans from the British taxpayer. On what conceivable grounds?

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 1 in D-minor BWV 1052 Glenn Gould [1957]

“Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it may spoil one's whole day...” P.G. Wodehouse, Mike

Buster Keaton, born 4th October 1895

I was honoured to be asked to run a bookstall at the @RestoreBritain Southern conference yesterday. It was packed, the speeches were fantastic, and it was lovely meeting so many wonderful people, both new faces and familiar ones. I sold lots of books. The “right-wingers don’t read” line is nonsense. They do. They just don’t buy what the captured publishing industry is pushing.

Lucy Connolly got 31 months for a tweet

“He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this…” George Orwell, 1984

The mass slaughter of migrating birds across the Mediterranean each spring and autumn, for no reason other than kicks, is ecocide on a massive scale. The men who do this are perverts. Shame, shame on Egypt (Lebanon, Malta, etc.)

We must be mad, literally mad. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

“I went out to the local branch library to change my books and was overwhelmed by the soft beauty of the afternoon… outside my own miserable cramped absurd life, the world is still its old beautiful self.” Philip Larkin

#OTD 1976. In Blackpool, Jim Callaghan says Britain has "lived far too long on borrowed time, borrowed money and even borrowed ideas". "For too long this country has trodden the primrose path and borrowed money from abroad to maintain our standards of life".

My letter in this week’s @Spectator, especially for fanboys of my late brother.

My 9 favourite Woody Allen films

If you doubted that Tucker Carlson was a Nazi sympathiser (and historically illiterate), here's the evidence

“They are on the move from east to west, from south to north. Liberal tradition requires that borders must always be open to those in search of safety or even the pursuit of happiness…” Gore Vidal, born 3rd October 1925

🚨The UK just secretly flew 24,000 Afghans into the country and made it illegal for the press to even cover the story. Now, it turns out all of them get free housing and welfare for "the rest of their lives" without ever having to work. Doomed country. FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

“I believe that if and when the menace of Communism is gone, other vital battles, at present subordinated, will emerge to the foreground. And the winner must have help from the classroom.” William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale [1951]

More than rapists and paedophiles Britain is Broken

Next stop: the Green Party conference

They're not in Europe to do the jobs Europeans won't do. They're in Europe to collect welfare and raise horrible psychotic children who will laugh and film a firefighter literally burning as he tries to stop them from destroying his city. Civilisational suicide.