1,960 words In January of 2025, Nigel Farage made a pledge to the people of Britain, and he did it on the Left-leaning radio station LBC (London Broadcasting Company). It isn’t unusual for politicians to make pledges any more than it is for them to go on to break them, but he promised to fund […]
3,068 words This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all. –The Zodiac Killer There many stock characters embedded in the psyche of the movie-going public. Vampires, aliens, cowboys, […]
3,467 words When I first chanced across Counter-Currents almost a decade ago, two things kept me coming back. Firstly, it was the first site I had seen which featured philosophy from a Right-wing perspective. Philosophy is my academic environment, and my BA, MA, and PhD are all in the subject, but online philosophy magazines are […]
Théodore Chassériau – Le Spectre de Banquo. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 3,137 words Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, Sir Keir Starmer grows isolated. The British Prime Minister (PM) is loathed by the public, certainly, but that is of no importance to Starmer’s handlers, or “policy advisers” as they are euphemistically called. When these humorless young men […]
2,998 words British television in the 1970s punched way above its weight in an arena dominated by America. While the US ruled the mass entertainment market, Britain held the prestige drama niche in the palm of her hand. Britain sold more finished programs than formats, whereas the reverse is now the case, and received industry […]
20/01/2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his weekly Cabinet meeting. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street 2,968 words Something is Rotten in the Fourth Estate What can I know? The question was famously posed by the 16th-century French essayist, Michel de Montaigne. But his was a metaphysical question, whereas if we bring […]
3,111 words An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. — Charles Baudelaire, epigraph to 2666 The British Prime Minister was asked during an interview to name his favorite novel, and the answer he gave was revealing. Sir Keir Starmer said he didn’t have a favorite novel. He didn’t have a favorite poem, either. […]
You can buy Steven Tucker’s Nazi UFOs here. 3,380 words In Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, White Noise, the central character is a professor at the Department of Hitler Studies in an American university. DeLillo has a minor obsession with Der Führer. His 1997 novel, Underworld, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth […]
Cellphone footage of the recent Clapham mob. 3,019 words What is terrorism? There have been many attempts to provide a universally accepted definition. So many, in fact, that in the 1980s a Dutch academic named Alex P. Schmid reviewed over 100 such definitions and collated them into one: Terrorism is the use (or threat) of […]
4,809 words Whatever happened to morality? This is not a lament over declining moral standards, or dismay at a rise in immoral behavior. These things are certainly happening, but they are the registration and confirmation of an individual moral standard, usually of a nation, a gauge which changes between cultures, civilizations, and epochs. Nor is […]
3,676 words Duncan Smith The Surprising Liberation Sydney: Alfadex Books, 2025 Who ultimately runs the world? That depends on who you ask. But one thing is clear; someone does. Even if we can’t look into the inner chambers of power and see who is working the levers, we can at least agree that there is […]
3,016 words The British political landscape has shifted more in the past five years than it did over the preceding century. By the mid-19th century, the Whig Party had disbanded (as the American Whigs also did at around the same time) or transformed into the Liberal Party. The turn of the 20th century saw the […]