The True Meaning of English Liberty

This Sunday, as the “Tommy Robinson” event champions free speech and British values, remember: freedom isn’t merely a surface-level state. The true battle lies within, against unseen tyrants and spiritual chains. Value English liberty, but don’t let it blind you to deeper enslavements. Seek freedom of the soul above the illusion of mere freedom.

Our Election Manifesto | feat. “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch

Today’s special general election episode of the podcast considers the astonishing book by Paul Lynch, “Prophet Song”, winner of the Booker Prize, (2023). You can watch the YouTube version of this podcast here.

This is our manifesto. It has been for years. We’ve talked about it as such. It’s the song of the Bible that most of us don’t want to sing. 

But Paul Lynch’s “Prophet Song” is a book that carries with it an unregenerate prophetic quality that offers more than entertainment and lyrical prowess. Molly, especially, is a beautiful character that, were I still an English Literature student, I’d write all of my main essays about.

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats (1919)

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

The Political Right and the Kingdom of God

Where We’ve Been Living Here in the UK, we’ve been living  of late in a barely-believable world of political and humanitarian drama. This has included the refugee crisis that’s come close to our shores via the Calais Jungle and multiplied thousands who have drowned at sea in attempts to make it to Europe via theContinue reading “The Political Right and the Kingdom of God”