Nation Revisited # 220, June 2025

Taking Sides 

I had my first political opinion in 1956 when I was 11 years-old. Two momentous events happened that year, the Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary. 

I automatically sided with Britain over Suez. I thought that we were defending the Empire against Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (pictured) who was reputed to be a dangerous communist. 

And I was incensed that the brave Hungarian rebels had been put down by the Red Army.

Some years later I realised that the Suez invasion was a British, French and Israeli collaboration to redraw the map of the Middle East and bring about regime change in Egypt. 

Nasser was encouraging the Algerians in their colonial struggle with France, and he was supporting the Arab rebellion in Aden which was a British possession. Far from being a communist Colonel Nasser was an  Arab Nationalist who had every right to nationalize the Suez Canal which ran entirely through Egyptian territory.

The Hungarian uprising was easier to understand. The Soviets feared that if one satellite state successfully broke away from Moscow, the whole post-war settlement would come tumbling down. This happened over 30 years later when the Poles gained their independence followed by all the captive states of the Soviet Union including Ukraine, Belarus and Russia itself.

What strikes me now is the double standards that I shared with most of my countrymen. We thought it right for Britain, France and Israel to invade Egypt in defence of their foreign policies but we condemned the Soviet Union for doing the same thing. 

Those who obsess about 'sovereignty' should remember that the Suez invasion was the last time that Britain went against American foreign policy. It seems incredible today but in the 1950s the USA was opposed to Israeli expansion and British and French involvement in the Middle East. 

US President Dwight Eisenhower ordered an end to the invasion, which resulted in our humiliating withdrawal.

Today, the expansive imperial power is the USA.  Russia's intervention in Ukraine was provoked by NATO's recruitment of Finland and Sweden and the stationing of missiles on Russia's borders. Despite Western propaganda there is no evidence that President Putin wants to reconstruct the Soviet Union. 

The USA, on the other hand, is threatening to annex Greenland, Panama and Canada, and they have started a tariff war with the rest of the world.

According to our charmless prime minister Keir Starmer, taking sides with Russia is an act of treason. This is the same jingoistic nonsense that gripped the nation at the time of the Suez fiasco. But there's nothing patriotic about waging a war that can only end in humiliation, be it in Egypt or Ukraine,

Frank P Walsh

At a New Year's meeting of old comrades we remembered Frank Walsh, and in a recent conversation with Colin Todd his name cropped up again. His memory lives on.

I first met Frank Walsh at a meeting in London of Troy Southgate's New Right. He was handing out leaflets promoting his blog 'Our Voice' and his Patriotic People's Power Party. Despite his advanced age and severe mobility problems he fought against plutocracy to the bitter end.

Frank was born in Lancashire in 1925 and he died in London in 2020. His father was badly wounded in WW1 and as a result he was brought up in a children's home. He joined the Merchant Navy at the age of 14 and volunteered for the Army in 1943.

After WW2 he campaigned as an independent nationalist and was known as the 'King of Speakers Corner', the London venue long dominated by the Reds.

In his last years he was persecuted by Wandsworth Council for distributing leaflets in Putney Library. Eventually he was banned from the library but he continued his fight in Putney high street.

I used to visit Frank in his Roehampton flat where he produced his unique blog on an ancient IBM laptop. Surrounded by piles of books and magazines we drank coffee and talked politics.

Frank was 95 when he died. His body was worn out but his mind was still active and his sparkling blue eyes were crowned with bushy eyebrows.

Frank had one daughter who lived in Sweden. She is an embittered left-winger and when her father passed away she spitefully refused to release his collection of political books and papers. 

There were only four of us at his funeral; Stead Steadman brought a wreath on behalf of the London Forum, Frank's devoted carer Lynne Capocciama read a poem she wrote for the occasion, his Polish next-door neighbour Stephan stood in silent tribute, and so did I..

On a cold, wet and windy November morning we said farewell to a remarkable man .

He left us his book 'The Justiceans' Millenia', in which he expounded his thoughts in cartoons, poems and writings. His constant theme was the division of the world between producers and parasites; a situation that we know so well.

A Sense of Balance

Liberalism is rightly blamed for the ridiculously lenient sentences handed down to violent criminals. Our judges are graduates of liberal universities that teach nonsense, such as critical race theory and transexualism to students already corrupted by years of irresponsible parenting and undisciplined schooling.

Liberalism can also be blamed for the collapse of morality. The Christian churches have mostly abandoned their traditional values in favour of forgiveness. Jesus told us to: "forgive those who trespass against us," but he also  said: "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil."

But there is another side to this coin. Judges used to sentence  starving people to long prison sentences or transportation to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread. 

Debtors were thrown into prison, wives were considered to be the property of their husbands, male homosexuals were persecuted, and children were brutally exploited in dangerous factories.

Nobody wants to return to 'the good old days' before liberalism, but we have gone too far in the other direction. We need a sense of balance between authoritarianism and liberalism.

With the rise of Donald Trump in the USA, and the far-right throughout Europe, we can expect a change towards harsher sentences and stricter codes of morality, but God save us from the inhuman cruelty described by Charles Dickens.

A Service Economy                                            

Years ago I enjoyed the friendship of many old comrades who have since passed away. They did a variety of jobs, but not one of us made anything, we all worked in service trades, and that is typical of the entire British workforce.

Britain used to be a manufacturing country that exported goods all over the world. We churned out Morris Minors and Norton motorcycles for the White Dominions, we were a leading shipbuilding nation, and we mined British coal and iron ore to make steel for railways, bridges, munitions, and construction.

Manufacturing and mining employed millions of workers whose children now work as burger flippers or call centre operators. They may be gainfully employed but it's hard to be proud of such jobs.

Fortunately, we are good at high-tech industries such as precision engineering, pharmacy, communications, and financial services.

Many people dream of returning to manufacturing, but globalism is here to stay and there's no way that we can compete with China.

Now that the USA started a tariff war we will inevitably move closer to the European Union. Donald Trump can abandon world trade because the USA is practically self-sufficient, but Britain needs to import half of its food and energy, and we needs access to the European Union, the world's biggest trading bloc. 

Global corporations base their headquarters in the UK because the City of London is still an important centre of international banking and insurance.

We speak the same language as the Americans and we share much of their history and culture. We are grateful for the help they gave us in WW2 when we were literally bankrupt, but we cannot tolerate their aggressive imperialism.

We should quit NATO and tell the Americans to withdraw their armed forces from our territory. We should then cooperate with Europe on defence, and end our pointless hostility to Russia.

We may not have thousands of miners and steelworkers but we have legions of bankers and brokers. Our armed forces are much smaller than in the past, but the fire power of  the RAF and the Royal Navy would deter any enemy.

We need frigates and submarines to defend the British Isles, armed with nuclear capable cruise missiles, but we don't need two giant aircraft carriers with misaligned prop shafts, and we don't need the insanely expensive Trident missile system that requires American permission to be used.

We can survive and prosper as a service economy if we stop pretending to be a world power and learn to mind our own business.

The Police

We have known about the anti-white agenda of the Police for decades. It was never reported in the mass media but it was obvious that black and brown officers were being promoted, often beyond their capabilities, for political reasons. Now, at long last, the newspapers have started reporting the unfair and undemocratic practice of 'positive discrimination'.

Discriminating against people because of their race or religion is wrong whether they are black or white. 

Ten percent of our population is non-European so it's only right that they are represented in the Police. If they deserve promotion they should get it, but only on genuine merit, not because of a political quota system.

The fact that promotion according to 'positive discrimination' is now out in the open is a step in the right direction.

I asked our correspondent Vic Sarson for his opinion. He replied:

The upper echelons of the Met and all other UK police forces are corrupted with so-called liberalism that can never be changed because of their political stance or their corruptibility, which is why modern society is now out of control. Political appointees often lack the will to serve the public. They regard themselves as part of the elite with beliefs and attitudes that permeate their ranks.

What we need is a new police force.

I agree with Vic's assessment but how could we go about it. I guess we should start at the top, with senior cops resplendent in their Saville Row uniforms complete with gold braid. The ones who appear on television after a particularly vicious murder or terrorist attack to say: "lessons have been learned." It is they, rather than the ordinary copper on the beat, who has spread the vile doctrine of anti-white racism.

James Porrazzo RIP

We have lost another comrade. James Porrazzo was born in New York in 1972 and died in Novi Sad, Serbia on April 28th 2025. James was active in the Archeofuturist movement promoting a synthesis of left and right wing policies. May he rest in peace.

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Nation Revisited # 219, May 2025

Conservatives With Knobs On

 Nigel Farage leader of Reform UK and MP for Clacton                    

Arnold Leese. the leader of the pre-war Imperial Fascist League, described the original British Fascists as "Conservatives with knobs on." The same might be said of Reform UK the populist-nationalist party led by Nigel Farage.

PN parties have come to power, or are on their way to power, throughout the world. They are usually described as 'far right' or 'hard right' or even 'fascist' but they are really just "Conservatives with knobs on." 

Nigel Farage proudly boasts that he destroyed the British National Party as the leader of UKIP. This is despite the fact that his policies on Europe and immigration were virtually the same as the BNP. The only differenced was that he was considered to be  'respectable' but Nick Griffin and his party were tainted with fascism.

In his 1999 political memoir "Many Shades of Black" John Bean described the post war nationalist movements in the UK. His account is informative and entertaining but subject to a degree of artistic license, for instance, there never was a banner carried by homosexuals proclaiming "Fairies for Fascism," .

Reform UK wants a ban on European workers but they are happy to accept Third World immigrants so long as they speak English and are prepared to be assimilated. Apart from a general dislike of foreigners they have no real policies. Their economics are entirely Thatcherite and their foreign policy is to blindly follow America.

Small numbers of immigrants can be assimilated over time but millions of aliens arriving all at once tend to form ghettos, and instead of adopting our culture they cling to their own, including 'honour killings' and female genital mutilation.

Nigel Farage insists that he is not part of the Old Gang that brought the United Kingdom to its present state of moral and economic bankruptcy. He may protest his innocence but his political record and his close connection with the City of London shows that he is undoubtedly a Tory with knobs on.

A War of Cultural Survival - Mike Wardle

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We are witnessing the implementation of an organised plan by the State to  re-edit history. Portraits of Winston Churchill removed from Downing Street and government offices, portraits of Nelson taken from Naval training establishments. Victoria Crosses removed from public display at the Imperial War Museum. History re-written, edited and re-told. A new wave of Brit and Hollywood movies and TV series tell the narrative of the African rich and famous in Tudor times, portraying a British past  in which Africans lived  widely in the UK during the Roman invasion and occupation. BBC wartime dramas focus on homosexual relationships in the trenches during WW1 and gays and lesbians winning WW2 by outfighting and outwitting the heterosexual Nazis.

In addition to these TV dramas showing people of colour everywhere in all aspects and in all classes of British life from ancient times to the Regency period, modern day events are being shaped by the woke agenda. Crime dramas portray young white kids as being the majority of drug dealers and street gang members. Good guy black detectives chase down and arrest evil whites. There is never a mention of black drug dealers, gunmen, rapists. All the terrorists in BBC dramas are neo-Nazis, with Jihadists erased from the narrative.

The 'message' is clear, everyone who made a progressive  impact on the past and the present was either black or gay.

The truth will never stop being the truth even though it's unfashionable and illegal. Fortunately, these woke movies and TV are fiscal flops. Movies with female super heroes barely break even, politically correct TV shows get cancelled after one season as viewers switch off. Lost millions at the box office are turning into lost billions . If you go woke - you go broke. There is a cultural sea change coming. Trump is cutting off all state funding and support to the LGBT+ and woke projects in the US. The tide is turning. Reform UK has taken the lead in the polls and they are winning in council elections and by elections. To counter this the State is making voting inaccessible. This is a war of cultural survival.

Predicting the Future

Nicklaus Otto the inventor of the internal combustion engine.

When I was a lad just after WW2 our schoolteacher told us what lucky children we were. We would never have to join the army because we had won the war and the United Nations Organisation would settle disputes between nations. We had harnessed the power of the atom and electricity would be free. The Welfare Stated would look after us from the cradle to the grave, and the government would nationalise industry to make everything cheaper and abolish unemployment. He said nothing about being swamped by immigration and becoming an economic and military dependency of the USA.

Modern predictors of the future are just as optimistic .The experts are telling us that Artificial Intelligence will do most of the work and we will all live to be a hundred. Smart toilets will monitor our health by examining our bodily products and automatically adding medicines to our drinking water. There will be no food shortages because we will be eating ecologically-grown vegetables, and we will be able to fly to Australia in a few hours..

Call me a cynic if you like but I doubt that the future will be so rosy. Predictions are based on available data but they take no account of the unexpected. In 1894 'The Times' predicted that in 50 years time London would be buried under 3 metres of manure because of ever increasing horse traffic. But a brilliant German engineer called Nicklaus Otto invented the internal combustion engine and all their calculations came to nothing

It's mankind's destiny to work by hand or brain. Our ancestors were hunter gatherers, and then farmers and craftsmen. Technology has changed almost everything but the human element is still vital. My guess is that in 50 year time we will still be going to work, the army will still rely on infantry, and, if we don't get our act together, parasitical politicians will still rule over us. 

At a recent meeting of nationalists held in a West London pub the future of the UK was discussed. We had a professor of mathematics, a lawyer, a retired metals broker, a retired civil servant, and a former leader of the National Front. These people are not Daily Mail readers, or hooligans, they are educated men who know their history. Their conclusion was that we face a grim future unless we stop mass migration and start a serious program of remigration. This may seem impossible at the moment but if President Trump succeeds we can follow his example.

White Hair and Walking Sticks

I belong to two informal nationalist groups comprised of former members of Union Movement and the National Front. Both movements opposed vulture capitalism and mass immigration but they were divided over Europe. UM supporters saw the European Union as a step toward Mosley's vision of "Europe a Nation," but the National Front supporters  still dreamed of reviving the British Empire.

Fifty year later thigs are infinitely worse. Our economy is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy as we plunge deeper and deeper into debt. Our population has been inflated by ten million immigrants. Our police have more or less given up fighting crime, they now concentrate on so-called 'hate crimes' that they make up as they go along. And the four parties competing for office are all committed to Zionism.

But little groups of old men, and women, still meet to despair at the state of our country, and to discuss our latest medical conditions. As one would expect, people in their seventies and eighties are prone to age-related ailments, including memory loss and mobility problems. We are still divided over Europe but we are united by white hair and walking sticks.

The far-right is today represented by Nigel Farage's Reform UK. This is a bogus nationalist party led by a bogus nationalist who worships President Donald Trump.

Many failing old hearts have been boosted by the accession of Donald Trump who, despite his mad ambitions to annex Canada and Greenland, is preferable to the Democrats.s But those of us who have lived through the rise and fall of nationalist parties and nationalist governments are not so excited. When the USA treats Israel as just another country we might get excited, but until such time we will reserve our judgement.

Some Memories of the League of Empire Loyalists

This article was originally published in the March/April issue of Candour the nationalist magazine founded by AK Chesterton.

1965. Top left Bill Baillie, Top right Roy Robinson, Bottom left Fred Weldon, Bottom right Paul Barnes.

I know of only four surviving members of the League of Empire Loyalists, Martin Webster, Denis Whiting, an old friend in the USA  who wants to remain anonymous, and my self.  There may be a few more out there but I only know these three. 

AK Chesterton founded the League as a pressure group directed at the Tory Party. Its older members were certainly traditional Tories  but the younger recruits were a mixture o ex-Mosleyites, like John Bean and Peter Greenslade, and followers of Arnold Leese, like Colin Jordan and John Tyndall. Unintentionally the League became a training school for leaders of the far right.

The League's main objective was to foster unity between Britain and the White Dominions, which in those days included Rhodesia and South Africa. It was also fiercely anti-communist and opposed to coloured immigration - as we used to call it before the English language was highjacked by the Liberal Consensus.

AKC was opposed to global capitalism, with a particular dislike of Bernard Baruch, the George Soros of the time. And he was bitterly opposed to the Common Market which eventually morphed into the European Union. He wanted a political and economic union with the White Dominions, which might have been possible in those days before they embraced multiracialism and became American dependencies.

I joined the League at the age of 16 fight against coloured immigration. I never really believed that we could revive the British Empire, and my round the world working holiday from 1985 to 1970 confirmed this view. I got on alright with the Afrikaners in South Africa but some of them were still fighting the Boer War in their hearts. Amd I was surprised at the influx of Italians and Greeks in Australia, and Dutch, Creations and Pacific Islanders in New Zealand. These counties started out as British colonies but they have developed their own identities and no longer think of themselves as British.

By the time I dame home to the UK the League had merged with John Bean's British National Party to pported the  the National Front. I supported the NF's stand against Third World immigration, but I disagreed with their petty nationalism. It seemed to me that our future was in Europe. I therefore joined Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, just before it became Action Society to concentrate on publishing.

My memories of the League are entirely positive. Our activists were brave men and women with unconquerable spirits and unquenchable thirsts. When we were not heckling other people's meetings or fighting the Reds we were to be found in the Red Lion, Whitehall, downing pints and discussing world affairs.

I salute them all.

Was it Deliberate?

While discussing the sad state of our nation with an old friend, it emerged that the only difference between us was that he thought that the destruction of our manufacturing industry, and mass immigration, was part of a deliberate plan by International Finance. I respect his opinion, but I believe that our misfortune has been driven by short term greed.

At a Friends of Mosley social gathering about twenty years ago, a pre-war Blackshirt, Bob Wilkinson, gave an impressive speech in which he said that if the capitalists can't export the jobs they will import the labour. Either way the British worker suffers.

It may be that a secret group of financiers, usually identified as Jews, is behind it all, but that doesn't explain why China is the world's second biggest economy. There are very few Jews in China, but the Chinese invest massively throughout the world.

The Jewish tradition of money lending dates back to the days when Christianity and Islam ruled the world. Both religions banned interest payments on loans, so the Jews acted as bankers.

Today all nations live on credit. The United States is the world's biggest economy yet they owe $36 trillion. President Trump intends to pay off this debt, but it will take some doing.

The global debt spiral evolved out of the chaos of wars and economic recessions. Nobody planned it, it just happened. Nations, like individuals, go bankrupt when they run out of money or credit.

As for the importation of black and brown workers, it was simply a matter of supply and demand.  The collective West has a declining birth rate but the Third World is booming. This may suit George Soros  (pictured) who advocates race mixing. but it doesn't suit the thousands of Israelis who demonstrate against African migration into Israel.

All of this was predictable and avoidable, but greedy capitalists and short sighted politicians allowed it to happen.

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Nation Revisted # 218, April 2025

Fascism 100 Years On

Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922 when he led thousands of black shirted ex-servicemen from WW1 in the March on Rome. He was appointed by King Victor Emmanuel 111 who feared a communist revolution.

Mussolini, Il Duce as he was known, was adored by most Italians, even when he ordered the invasion of Ethiopia in 1937, and Albania in 1939, but his close ties to Adolf Hitler cost him his dictatorship. 

Italian Fascism was not racist until Hitler persuaded Mussolini to introduce discriminatory legislation in 1938. This was aimed at the Jews. There were hardly any Blacks in the country but Italian soldiers were forbidden to have sex with local women when they invaded Ethiopia.

The Italian colonisation of Ethiopia seems outrageous today, but at the time Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, and Spain all had colonial empires in Africa, and Italy already possessed Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia.

Benito Mussolini is remembered for making the trains run on time, but he did so much more; he drained the Pontine Marshes to reclaim the land and wipe out water-born diseases, he started the Autostrada motorway network, he modernised industry and agriculture, and he instilled in the Italian people a sense of pride and unity.

He was murdered by Communist Partisans in 1945 together with his girlfriend Claretta Petacci, but his movement re-emerged after the Second World War and went through various incarnations until his spiritual heiress Georgia Meloni (pictured) came to power as the leader of Fratelli D'Italia in 2022; one hundred years after the birth of Fascism.

The Future of the Internet

Colin Todd, far right (where else?) with fellow nationalists at the Cenotaph.

I asked Colin Todd, the editor of 'Candour' why he persisted with a hard-copy publication when it would be so much easier to go online, like 'The Independent' newspaper.

Patriotic magazines face the double jeopardy of rising postal and print charges, and a total lack of advertising. The existing magazines advertise each other on a reciprocal basis but there is no paid advertising.

His reply surprised me. He said that our increasingly authoritarian government could shut us out of the Internet at any time. They have already started to interfere by making the service providers attach warning notices to our blogs. The next step could be a total ban.

It would be easier for the government to control the Internet than bringing prosecutions against individual publications, none of which actually promotes violence or racial hatred.

In order to educate the masses we must maintain our hard-copy magazines by taking out subscriptions and making donations. We cannot hope to compete with the mass media, but we can influence our readers. 

In the old days we used to sell our papers on street corners. In 1962 I was arrested in Croydon town centre for selling 'Candour' whilst wearing a Union Jack armband. An eager young copper marched me to the police station to be charged, presumably under the Public Order Act, but a wise old station sergeant ordered him to let me go.

In those days 'Candour' was a highly intellectual journal that was difficult to sell without being obstructed by the police. Today's version is easier to read but no less forthright. 

Street vending can be difficult and sometimes dangerous. Political meetings are a much better venue. When the London Forum held meetings there were always stalls selling books and publications.

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Alan Whereat

I don't have pictures of Alan Whereat or Keith Goodall but here is a picture of Roy Robinson the deputy leader of the National Union of Fascists.

In a past issue I misnamed Alan Whereat as Denis Whereat, for which I apologise. I am indebted to the Vote UK Forum for the following information.

He was first mentioned in the Portsmouth Evening News in 1939 when he was bound over for twelve months for using obscene language when asked to move on by a policeman. He had been collecting signatures for a petition demanding better old age pensions. He was then 21 years-old.

During the Second World War local elections were suspended and candidates for office were chosen by the existing council. In 1944 he put his name forward for the vacant post of Alderman in Portsmouth but he was an unsuccessful. He was described as an Air Ministry storeman. 

In 1951 he had a letter published in the Bucks Herald claiming that the Labour Party were making false claims about unemployment.

In 1962 he was charged under the Public Order Act with wearing a black shirt, outside Brixton Town Hall. He was distributing election leaflets for Keith Goodall's National Union of Fascists, a short-lived breakaway from Oswald Mosley's Union Movement. He was described as a Lift Operator. When the case was dismissed for lack of evidence he gave a fascist salute to the judge..

In 1978 he stood as an independent candidate in the Lambeth Central by election under the incongruous slogan: "Homes, Employment, Anti-Racial Discrimination." He received 55 votes. He was then 60 years-old.

I remember Alan Whereat from the sixties when he used to parade around Brixton Market in his black shirt to the amusement of the stallholders. But  he was more than a figure of fun, he was a social reformer who wasn't afraid to speak his mind, a brave man of humble means who loved his country. If more of us followed his example we would have a truly representative government instead of the liars and cheats that currently rule over us.

Inflation: The threat to the pound in your pocket

(With inflation above the Bank of England's target this article from my duplicated newsletter 'Nation' # 8, July 1974 deserves a reprint).  

Monetary inflation has been with us for so long that most of us take it for granted. Prices rise and wages increase, which means that prices must go up to meet the higher wage bill, resulting in new wage demands to keep pace with prices, and so on and on.

What, one might ask, is wrong with that? If wages are constantly adjusted to keep abreast of prices stability must be maintained. The fact is that 'stability' is a myth. Inflation is a wildcat, not a controllable creature at all, but a menace that will destroy the economy and sink us into real poverty.

In Italy the fields are full of crops, the vines are heavy with grapes, and their industrial order books are healthy. Italian unit production costs are low and their exports are high. Machine tools, cars, trucks, aircraft, and domestic appliances pour out of Italian factories to feed the markets of the world; but despite all this productivity the Italian people face disaster as their economy begins to implode with hyperinflation.

What is hyperinflation? We quote from an article by Leith McGrindle in the Sunday Telegraph of June 9th 1974.

"There is no clear definition of what a hyperinflation is. There was a time when prices in the West during the 1950s were rising at a steady and not terribly damaging 2% or so a year - when a hyperinflation would have been considered a rising cost of living in excess of 10%. Anything in double figures.

Now that hyperinflation is with us in Britain at over 15% and in double figures in most industrialised and developed countries, we have tended to raise this limit to 20% or over.

In fact, however, a real hyperinflation is when inflation breeds faster and faster on itself. Prices multiply many, many times over a short number of years. The end, when it comes, produces the multi-million note (like the Mark in 1922-23 during the Weimar hyperinflation) and then a complete changing of the currency . The creation of a new Mark etc.

An inflation rate of 15% a year means that prices double in five years and would multiply by nearly 18,000 times over the three score years and ten of a child born today. A house built this year and sold for £15,000 would sell for over £250 million after 70 years.

Property has traditionally been a superb inflation hedge. Because people know this house prices tend to rise more sharply than anything else when an inflation gets going. Witness the last few years.

Moreover, when the hyperinflation finally goes 'pop' the house is still there but notes under the bed or in the wheelbarrow  are worthless.

All this is providing that in the course of ending the hyperinflation our house isn't razed go the ground by insurrectionists or confiscated by a revolutionary government."

This kind of language is something new from a democratic newspaper. We were warned by Douglas, Mosley, and Chesterton years ago that our economy is unscientific and bound to end in slump. Now 'respectable' economists are singing the same song. 

Britain and the rest of Europe urgently needs strong government with the power to act. Our present system of party mismanagement cannot and will not act to stop inflation. As soon as one party gets its programme going it gets thrown out by a discontented electorate, only to be replaced by another party with another theory that's also at the mercy of the mob. 

Sooner or later Britain will be governed by a strong regime. It's the task and responsibility of all of us who know the truth to see to it that the ascendants are patriots and not thinly disguised alien imperialists.

Protectionism

A Mosley's Union Movement flyer from the 1950s protesting against cheap Japanese imports.

When the economy slows down people start calling for protection against foreign imports. The USA is imposing protectionist tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China and threatening the EU and the UK. But those nations effected are bound to retaliate with tariffs of their own.

The USA thrived under a protectionist policy in the 19th and early 20th century, but the pattern of world trade has completely changed since then. The Asian nations have developed beyond expectations and shipping has been revolutionised by the invention of the sea container.

President Donald Trump may find that it's not so easy to disrupt world trade. The immediate effect of his populist nationalist policy will be to increase the cost of living for American consumers. That will not be so popular.

If the USA imposes tariffs on British goods it would damage our our exports of cars and Scotch Whisky. And if we retaliate it will increase the price of Levi jeans, Coca Cola, and Harley Davidson motorcycles. It would be in nobody's interest.

The World Trade Organisation was set up in 1995 to avoid tariff wars. It has 166 member states. The Doha Round of 2001 is currently in force, but President Trump doesn't believe in international treaties and prefers to go it alone. He thinks that foreign countries are taking advantage of the USA. Time will tell if his paranoid policies are successful.

The Western World is going through a phase of nationalism similar to the 1930s. That ended in the Second World War but modern economies are so interwoven that it would be almost impossible to unravel them. The war between Russia and Ukraine is not confined to Eastern Europe, it has repercussions effecting many countries. Egypt used to rely on imported Ukrainian wheat, Germany is crippled by lack of Russian Gas, and India has become a major exporter of gas and oil from Russia.

But nothing lasts forever. Donald Trump is on his second term as President and his successor is unlikely to be so rigidly protectionist. The USA may be the world's major economy but China is catching up fast and the EU is a formidable trading bloc that cannot be bullied. Eventually the WTO will be consulted and we can wear our Levi jeans, drink Coca Cola and ride our Harley Davidson motorcycles, and the Americans can drive Land Rovers and enjoy their Scotch Whisky.

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Nation Revisited # 217, March 2025

The Special Relationship

President Donald Trump is back in the Whitehouse with a populist and protectionist agenda. We can't take seriously his ambition to annex Greenland and Canada, and we must be concerned with his love of tariffs. The United States is our second biggest market after the European Union. We are estranged from Europe because of Brexit so we need our $73,538 billion exports to the USA.

President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 25% tariff on some imports to protect American producers. This would damage sales of British made cars such as: Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rolls Royce, and it would also damage sales of Scotch whisky. After all, the US has General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Jack Daniels and Jim Beam, so why should they import cars and whisky?

The USA is a huge country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It's self-sufficient in food, energy, technology, and military might. If the rest of the world retaliated against tariffs by levelling tit-for-tat tariffs of their own, it wouldn't make much difference to the American economy.

Britain, on the other hand, imports half of its food and energy. We need international trade to feed our immigrant-swollen population, and to keep the lights on. The USA has the resources to manage on their own, but we do not.

Keir Starmer has to placate the 'Little Englanders' who distrust Europe but love America, because they speak English, and the pro-Europeans who love Europe because we are Europeans, but distrust America because they seek to dominate the world.

British politicians imagine that we have a 'Special Relationship' with America. It's true that our two nations have links of language, culture and history, but they count for nothing when it comes to trade. President Donald Trump's mother was Scottish but he is unlikely to think of her when he slaps 25% on Scotch whisky.

The only country with a special relationship with the USA is Israel. Britain and the rest of Europe are just convenient bases for America's armed forces.

NATO was established after WW2 to defend Europe against the Red Army. In response the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, but NATO was increased, thus proving that NATO's real objective is to protect American interests; not liberty and democracy as we were told, but McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The Russian Federation, which replaced the Soviet Union, is a Parliamentary Democracy with an independent judiciary, a written constitution and an elected president. The Western media accuses Russia of being a dictatorship under Vladimir Putin, but this is not true. At present Russia is engaged in a war with Ukraine over possession of Crimea and the Donbas region, butt apart from these Russian-speaking regions President Putin has no further territorial ambitions in Europe, as claimed by NATO.

Already the German economy has been devastated by the war in Ukraine. The gas pipeline from Russia to Germany was sabotaged almost certainly by NATO. If the Russians wanted to cut-off supplies to Germany they would simply turn off the tap.

The destruction of the European and Russian economies is an American objective designed to boost their exports. Russian gas and oil, BMW cars, and Airbus planes are serious obstacles to American imperialism.

It's unfortunate that the noble principles of the Roman Republic, on which the United States was founded, have degenerated into the worst aspects of the Roman Empire.

Denis Pirie

Wikipedia describes Denis Pirie, who passed away in January this year,  as: " a veteran of the British far right." It's true that he served a prison sentence for belonging to Colin Jordan's paramilitary Spearhead formation, and he was the opening speaker at the 1962 NSM meeting in Trafalgar Square. but by 1968 his youthful exuberance gave way to maturity and he wrote an article in 'Combat' entitled 'Britain's Fraudulent Democracy'; a calm and sensible critique of our corrupt parliamentary system:

"Two classes of people would object to this basic progressive reform of our unwritten constitution. Firstly the old party politicians who would naturally resent any form of curtailment of their personal power. With the existence of a public referendum mechanism they could hardly continue their old games of promising  the electorate one thing and then breaking their promises with impunity.

The second type of objector is the self-styled "progressive" liberal. He objects for a different reason. He is perfectly satisfied with the status quo because he knows that in the establishment parties, his liberal friends in government are firmly entrenched in key positions. He knows full well that many of the measures his friends in government introduce  would never be accepted by the general public if their views had weight."

Denis Pirie's call for representative government is even more urgent today. Successive governments, both Tory and Labour, have eroded democracy and practically banned free speech. It's not members of the so-called far right that threaten our freedom but the professional liars and hypocrites of Westminster.

Sam Dickson

I engage in little debates in a chat forum called Quora.

Someone posted a question asking why Keir Starmer hates the UK and old people and gave his opinion that Starmer's attitudes emerged from some incident that took place early ion his career.

I concurred that Starmer hates his own people but suggested a different diagnosis.

Here is my comment.

Mr Lang: you are right  in your diagnosis that Starmer hates his country and his people but I humbly submit that the reason is not this incident but a much more deep seated psychological  defect.

Keir Starmer is an example of a psychological type we find all over Europe and in the European Diaspora in the US, Canada and Australia.

Starmer is an ethnomasochist. He hates his people and he derives a sick pleasure in seeing his people degraded and dispossessed.

This abnormal psychology of ethnomasochism is usually linked to a profound lack of loyalty to one's own people, language, ethnic group, race, religion and even family.

Such people are loners, self-promoters. They never connect. They  don't connect with the other boys on the Little League team. They don't connect with their classmates and colleagues in school  and college. They don't connect with the other workers in their firms. 

They certainly don't connect with their country.

In Starmer's case he has blithely cooperated with a foreign country in seizing control of the Labour Party and expelling Jeremy Corbyn.

He has done in fact the very thing that Trump was falsely accused of doing.

He has been a willing participant in foreign interference in his country's elections.

While as an ethnomasochist he hates his own country and revels in colonizing the UK with 3rd World settlers, he happily supports an ethnostate in the Middle East and its genocide in Gaza.

The government of Israel through one of its NGOs worked with Starmer to remove Jeremy Corbyn.

If you observe public life in your country, you will spot many such people. Ethnomasochist traitors to their people and their country, who usually display extreme self-righteousness and love to virtue-signal , letting everyone know how good they are, how much better they are than normal people who love their country, their ethnic group, their race etc.

Such people need to be identified, recognized for what they are and isolated by use of the good old Anglo-Saxon cold shoulder.  

Influencing People

Forty years ago I worked with a Russian man called Val Kowalski. He served in the Red Army during WW2 where he was captured by the Germans and eventually liberated by the British. He was allowed to come to Britain to deal with unexploded bombs and shells. He did this dangerous work for some years after the War.

He had two girlfriends; Olga, an intellectual Russian woman for conversation, and Francis, an attractive West Indian girl for sex.

Val was an avid reader and something of a philosopher. He believed that every human contact we make leaves an impression. It might be because we have written a book, published an article, because of a conversation, or even a chance encounter.

I was impressed by Val's wise words and have always remembered them. We may never know how we influence people but our thoughts and observations leave their mark, just like fingerprints or DNA traces.

It's not necessary to bore everyone with incessant propaganda, indeed that's likely to turn them off, but gentle and consistent persuasion can often change minds.

The mass media is the strongest influence on public opinion but we can still get our message across without owning newspapers and television channels. A conversation with a fellow passenger on a bus, or with a fellow drinker in the local pub, can be just as rewarding as a column in the Daily Mail.

It's therefore important to express your opinions. Don't hide your light under a bushel. Don't be afraid to love your country. Patriotism has been practically banned under the Liberal Consensus, but with the rise of Donald Trump and Georgia Meloni (pictured) it's back in fashion.

Georgia leads Fratelli D'Italia, a nationalist movement sprung from Fascism. The Italians have been subjected to over eighty years of anti-Fascist propaganda, from the usual suspects, but undaunted, she has won the hearts of her people by clearly stating her position: "I am Georgia, I am Italian, I am European, and I am Christian."

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Nation Revisited

All articles are by Bill Baillie unless otherwise stated. The opinions of guest writers are entirely their own. The editor reserves the right to shorten or otherwise amend articles submitted for publication. We seek reform by lawful means according to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19:

"We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people."