tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post7345244769931739950..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : The Queen is dead. Long live the King.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-61246548115434935362022-09-11T14:21:34.623+03:002022-09-11T14:21:34.623+03:00This reminds a joke heard quite a few times, appr...This reminds a joke heard quite a few times, approx. 'the state secret is nothing' [i.e. the act of classification is its only object]. I'd light the mysteries of publicly private life. A Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04712069874917480932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-16133160889644761262022-09-11T14:14:59.038+03:002022-09-11T14:14:59.038+03:00No reason not to keep doing this little on the day...No reason not to keep doing this little on the day for some years. A Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04712069874917480932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-53690565606490510912022-09-10T12:34:42.035+03:002022-09-10T12:34:42.035+03:00Nobody is doing social engineering…
There is some...Nobody is doing social engineering… <br />There is some upward mobility in US, less in UK, but not as much as you may think, old money still very much in power.<br />Bolsevics- I agree with you there, the killed 300 thousand Romanians, the social elite. Look at who’s now ruling in politics, these pathetic excuses for human beings<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-185570666346005982022-09-10T11:53:23.288+03:002022-09-10T11:53:23.288+03:00I think the opposite is true. Elites are incredibl...I think the opposite is true. Elites are incredibly<br />important – destroying elites was one of the worst things the Bolsheviks did if not the worst. Now elites is being deliberately replaced by social engineering. I rather grieve to see the WASPs being replaced in the USA.<br />Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-21572605569405179482022-09-10T11:49:28.224+03:002022-09-10T11:49:28.224+03:00Charles Moore reminded me in his lovely piece that...Charles Moore reminded me in his lovely piece that if you visit Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam you see the picture of Princess Elizabeth, three years Anne’s senior, that she pinned to the wall of her bedroom. Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-1476408996123555712022-09-09T22:21:07.197+03:002022-09-09T22:21:07.197+03:00There's a place here in the city where I live ...There's a place here in the city where I live in France, west of Nice, where a British submarine landed some servicemen who met with members of the French Resistence during WWII. A stone and two flag poles, flying the French flag and the Union Jack, mark the place. Both flags were at half mast today. The tower of the medieval fortress nearby flies the French flag and it was at half mast too. I was surprised to see the Union Jack on the City Hall. Cannons fired on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice in her honour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-27901684145168145462022-09-09T21:23:40.568+03:002022-09-09T21:23:40.568+03:00The nineteenth-century English essayist Walter Bag...The nineteenth-century English essayist Walter Bagehot, pondering the complexities of the British monarchy, advised against active participation by the monarch in political affairs. “We must not,” he said, “let daylight in upon magic.” What Bagehot called the “impressive” side of monarchy must be maintained by discretion, ritual, and taste.<br /><br />Elizabeth exuded those virtues spectacularly throughout her seven decades on the throne.<br /><br />I intend to say a prayer for the Queen.<br /><br />An American remembrance of the Queen<br />Roger Kimball<br />https://spectatorworld.com/topic/an-american-remembrance-of-the-queen/<br /><br />I expect nothing of Charles III. He is old and stupid and possibly malevolent. Nor do I expect anything of William V, assuming he is ever allowed to succeed. George V was unfortunate in his progeny, and its quality has been dropping ever since. If all else had been sound, monarchs of low intellectual quality might not have been a problem – though I suspect it would always have had damaging effects given that our constitution is monarchical and in need of some ability at the top. But they were stupid at a time when intelligent monarchs were an essential safeguard against a political class that, since about 1940, has never risen above the worthless.<br /><br />And now she is gone, and we must go through the traditional motions of mourning her loss. The worse things grow for the rest of my life, the more she will be missed. Probably, she will be missed a lot.<br /><br />On the Passing of Her Majesty the Queen<br />Sean Gabb sean@seangabb.co.uk via gmail.mcsv.net Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-63384949636539026742022-09-09T19:47:30.217+03:002022-09-09T19:47:30.217+03:00side note: I regard the unintelligible Commonwealt...side note: I regard the unintelligible Commonwealth.as an unattainable high benchmark for all other supranational organizations<br /><br />not a good day todayA Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04712069874917480932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-24900904608273641992022-09-09T19:44:03.376+03:002022-09-09T19:44:03.376+03:00Not keen on this dayNot keen on this dayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-55808776843467092392022-09-09T17:17:09.334+03:002022-09-09T17:17:09.334+03:00There's the opposite argument that a true mona...There's the opposite argument that a true monarch with hereditary heirs will take care of their society far better (or with far better intentions) than a transient politician, whose main incentive is to loot the public treasury while the opportunity still presents itself before the following election. This is much how a homeowner will treat the property with far more care than a renter. TheVidrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09344788573052372170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-48500399607871408482022-09-09T14:46:15.907+03:002022-09-09T14:46:15.907+03:00I used to be a monarchist until I realised it has ...I used to be a monarchist until I realised it has a lot of pitfalls I don’t like, hereditary ruling class being the pill I was not willing to swallow. That being said, Elizabeth II was a monarch I admired, doing her duty with dignity for a very long time, without fault. It takes character to do that. But that inequality will be the end of this system. London land is owned by 6 families in total, everything is a landlease. When you really dig who controls that country politically, it is a handful of people. Of course, it is a Constitutional monarchy and executive branch is elected, but it always looks a bit rigged those elections (you are really choosing between the existing elite anyway), just like in US.<br />The elitist view has worked well for centuries, but I wonder if it will last in the following decades, a massive discontent is brewing underneath.<br />Cristian<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-62491193707317800082022-09-09T14:42:49.200+03:002022-09-09T14:42:49.200+03:00Good blog. Thanks especially for the Churchill cli...Good blog. Thanks especially for the Churchill clip, the first part of which seems equally appropriate today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com