For the best chance of being able to fall asleep soundly and with a quiet conscience all 365 nights this year, we would do well to live our lives in discrete days, even if we do have grand projects in mind. This approach to life was recently well enunciated by investor Melissa Ciummei, a Northern Irish equivalent of Catherine Austin Fitts and an excellent new commentator on the scene.
Mrs Ciummei said that each day, she did some physical work or exercise, some mental work, some financial work (one could broaden this, for those of other callings, to “paid work” and/or “getting personal administration done”) and some spiritual feeding. Those with significant parental or caring responsibilities will, of course, have a different division of their day. With that caveat in place, I think all of us can conceive of our days in these quarters (not necessarily of four equal durations), and ideally in that sequence each day, in the normal course of events.
Mrs Ciummei said that each day, she did some physical work or exercise, some mental work, some financial work (one could broaden this, for those of other callings, to “paid work” and/or “getting personal administration done”) and some spiritual feeding. Those with significant parental or caring responsibilities will, of course, have a different division of their day. With that caveat in place, I think all of us can conceive of our days in these quarters (not necessarily of four equal durations), and ideally in that sequence each day, in the normal course of events.
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My constitutional education project on this channel this year is to read one of the 286 principles of good government a day, six days a week, as a brief voice clip. The principles are taken from the mature work of W. Cleon Skousen: his monumental The Making of America. (Skousen earlier published The Naked Capitalist, the best dissection of the real meaning of Carroll Quigley’s deliberately turgid tome Tragedy and Hope, thereby laying bare the Anglo-American deep-state playbook in which Quigley tutored Bill Clinton at Georgetown.)
Why bother at all? Frankly, because we’re on our own from now on. Our government isn’t ours, no branch of it, and anarchy is even worse than tyranny, so serious dissidents are faced with no option but to reformulate government locally, otherwise known as reasserting the ancient principles of liberty under law.
Why am I promoting an American author’s study of the prerequisites that make earthly happiness and prosperity possible, and why one written by a Mormon, at that? Why not a British or a Continental author?
1. American dissidents actually do the hard work of researching such things as an exhaustive study of underlying principles. British (pseudo-)dissidents all too often content themselves with some wry observations in lecture format, or the written equivalent thereof.
2. European legal thinkers, almost to a man, rubbish the Biblical heritage and the Anglo-Saxon heritage which demonstrably gave Ancient Israel and the British Isles far more freedom and stability over many centuries than man’s law codes gave the Continentals. Skousen, almost uniquely, honours both, and acknowledges expressly that the US Constitution’s greatness proceeds from the Founding Fathers’ great learning of both streams, coupled with their thorough awareness of the shortcomings of the Greco-Roman constitutionalists and the Continental absolutists. Skousen is neither a Jew-basher nor an England-basher.
3. Britain never applied at home the lessons of the American Revolution, and (as a forthcoming major UK Column article will set out in great detail) we and our monarchs permitted the executive branch of government to take over our courts and our parliament. As expressed by Thomas Thacher of Massachusetts when the Founding Fathers were wondering (like us today) whether it really fell to poor old them to make all this unprecedented effort of reasserting liberty rather than trying to fix the government currently on offer, nominally approved by us via the Crown:
“In Britain, the government is said to consist of three forms—monarchy, aristocracy and democracy [N.B.: Thacher is referring to the Crown as executive, the Lords as judiciary and us in Parliament as legislature]; but, in fact, is but a few steps removed from absolute despotism. In the Crown is vested the power of adding at pleasure to the second branch [stuffing the Lords and judiciary with unsackable cronies]; of nominating to all the places of honour and emolument [making Blair a Knight of the Garter or printing unlimited money for wicked causes]; of purchasing, by its immense revenues [our taxes], the suffrages of the House of Commons [buying votes by party whipping, propaganda and electoral regulation]. The voice of the people [in Britain] is but an echo of the king; and their boasted privileges lie entirely at his mercy.”
Why bother at all? Frankly, because we’re on our own from now on. Our government isn’t ours, no branch of it, and anarchy is even worse than tyranny, so serious dissidents are faced with no option but to reformulate government locally, otherwise known as reasserting the ancient principles of liberty under law.
Why am I promoting an American author’s study of the prerequisites that make earthly happiness and prosperity possible, and why one written by a Mormon, at that? Why not a British or a Continental author?
1. American dissidents actually do the hard work of researching such things as an exhaustive study of underlying principles. British (pseudo-)dissidents all too often content themselves with some wry observations in lecture format, or the written equivalent thereof.
2. European legal thinkers, almost to a man, rubbish the Biblical heritage and the Anglo-Saxon heritage which demonstrably gave Ancient Israel and the British Isles far more freedom and stability over many centuries than man’s law codes gave the Continentals. Skousen, almost uniquely, honours both, and acknowledges expressly that the US Constitution’s greatness proceeds from the Founding Fathers’ great learning of both streams, coupled with their thorough awareness of the shortcomings of the Greco-Roman constitutionalists and the Continental absolutists. Skousen is neither a Jew-basher nor an England-basher.
3. Britain never applied at home the lessons of the American Revolution, and (as a forthcoming major UK Column article will set out in great detail) we and our monarchs permitted the executive branch of government to take over our courts and our parliament. As expressed by Thomas Thacher of Massachusetts when the Founding Fathers were wondering (like us today) whether it really fell to poor old them to make all this unprecedented effort of reasserting liberty rather than trying to fix the government currently on offer, nominally approved by us via the Crown:
“In Britain, the government is said to consist of three forms—monarchy, aristocracy and democracy [N.B.: Thacher is referring to the Crown as executive, the Lords as judiciary and us in Parliament as legislature]; but, in fact, is but a few steps removed from absolute despotism. In the Crown is vested the power of adding at pleasure to the second branch [stuffing the Lords and judiciary with unsackable cronies]; of nominating to all the places of honour and emolument [making Blair a Knight of the Garter or printing unlimited money for wicked causes]; of purchasing, by its immense revenues [our taxes], the suffrages of the House of Commons [buying votes by party whipping, propaganda and electoral regulation]. The voice of the people [in Britain] is but an echo of the king; and their boasted privileges lie entirely at his mercy.”
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson pinned «My constitutional education project on this channel this year is to read one of the 286 principles of good government a day, six days a week, as a brief voice clip. The principles are taken from the mature work of W. Cleon Skousen: his monumental The Making…»
Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Principle 1 of 286: The constitution is ordained and established by “We the People”.
Not actually a specifically American concept:
The English scholastic philosopher John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English so that it could be understood by the common man and woman. In the introduction, he said:
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
This was half a millennium before a blood-soaked American politician stole those words [in the Gettysburg Address] to justify an unnecessary war that had killed three quarters of a million Americans.
Wycliffe saw that when we write the law of God in our hearts, then He governs us. When this happens, then we have no need of earthly rulers, nor their phoney regulations, nor their theft, nor their fear. He also saw that God’s law, as it requires us to love our neighbour as ourselves, prohibits all forms of slavery, including that imposed by a dictatorial state, for the dictator is bound to love the humblest of his people as himself and so cannot impose any tyranny.
— https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/fear-not
Not actually a specifically American concept:
The English scholastic philosopher John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English so that it could be understood by the common man and woman. In the introduction, he said:
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
This was half a millennium before a blood-soaked American politician stole those words [in the Gettysburg Address] to justify an unnecessary war that had killed three quarters of a million Americans.
Wycliffe saw that when we write the law of God in our hearts, then He governs us. When this happens, then we have no need of earthly rulers, nor their phoney regulations, nor their theft, nor their fear. He also saw that God’s law, as it requires us to love our neighbour as ourselves, prohibits all forms of slavery, including that imposed by a dictatorial state, for the dictator is bound to love the humblest of his people as himself and so cannot impose any tyranny.
— https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/fear-not
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Fear Not
David Scott's speech at Holyrood, Edinburgh, on 7th November. A spiritual and Christian response to the tragedy of the ongoing suppression of our freedoms under the Covid lockdown.
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A champion Dutch sea bass tells you to eat your dinners with thankfulness this year.
As we left the New Year’s Day service this morning, my wife wished happy new year to one of the families in our congregation and complimented the four-year-old on his bike. “You must be so proud of that Christmas present,” she said. “Yes,” he beamed, “but I’m wearing a white shirt, ma’am.”
His father grinned. “Do you know what he’s on about?”, he asked my wife. “His ambition is to preach the Gospel, and he reckons he’s halfway there with his crisp white shirt.”
What makes this all the more remarkable is that our congregation isn’t one of rugged hicks, nor of pseudo-intellectuals, though there’s no shortage of either kind of church in the Dutch Bible Belt. This is a lad whose father is a talented carpenter—one who reads serious books after work. The lad’s grandfather left school at twelve to be a bargeman’s hand, and has been an elder for 25 years, during which time he’s seen a generation rise that stays in education twice as long as he did and that can read half as well as him. But families like these carry on with quiet self-sufficiency, ready to survive and thrive in the post-national wasteland of tomorrow. Right in the heart of our workaday city between Rotterdam and Brussels, and in so many other places.
Read more about how this heritage arose here: https://www.ukcolumn.org/literacy-part-1-why-we-taught-ourselves-to-read
His father grinned. “Do you know what he’s on about?”, he asked my wife. “His ambition is to preach the Gospel, and he reckons he’s halfway there with his crisp white shirt.”
What makes this all the more remarkable is that our congregation isn’t one of rugged hicks, nor of pseudo-intellectuals, though there’s no shortage of either kind of church in the Dutch Bible Belt. This is a lad whose father is a talented carpenter—one who reads serious books after work. The lad’s grandfather left school at twelve to be a bargeman’s hand, and has been an elder for 25 years, during which time he’s seen a generation rise that stays in education twice as long as he did and that can read half as well as him. But families like these carry on with quiet self-sufficiency, ready to survive and thrive in the post-national wasteland of tomorrow. Right in the heart of our workaday city between Rotterdam and Brussels, and in so many other places.
Read more about how this heritage arose here: https://www.ukcolumn.org/literacy-part-1-why-we-taught-ourselves-to-read
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Literacy—Part 1: Why we taught ourselves to read
In the first part of Alex Thomson's discussion with his father, we learn of the West's Christian heritage of literacy.
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This year’s Lord’s Day readings will be a full audiobook (in instalments) of Thomas Brooks’ Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices, a book widely acknowledged by Christians as being unequalled for its insights on how to “resist the devil and he will flee from you” (as the Epistle of James puts it).
Brooks—one of a whole crop of Puritans trained at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the lead-up to the English Civil War—was kicked out of the Church of England after the restoration of the monarchy, along with several thousand others of the best vicars, in the Great Ejection. He stayed in his parish after his banishment from the pulpit, and carried on spiritual warfare in writing.
Thomas Brooks was a particularly favourite author of the most successful Christian preacher of all time, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (a Baptist in Victorian London).
Brooks—one of a whole crop of Puritans trained at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the lead-up to the English Civil War—was kicked out of the Church of England after the restoration of the monarchy, along with several thousand others of the best vicars, in the Great Ejection. He stayed in his parish after his banishment from the pulpit, and carried on spiritual warfare in writing.
Thomas Brooks was a particularly favourite author of the most successful Christian preacher of all time, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (a Baptist in Victorian London).
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Satan’s device No. 1: to present the bait and hide the hook. (Thomas Brooks)
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Footage has been widely shared of an eloquent lady attending a recent London pro-freedom rally wearing a woollen hat, whose comments begin with “I’m Sarah, a vicar’s wife, and I feel so strongly about it that I’ve come all the way up from Dorset.” (I’ve even seen that interview subtitled on a YouTube channel for learners of British English.)
À propos of this vicar’s wife (soon to be the wife of an ex-vicar?), read the below just in from a viewer local to her. The mendacious conduct of the parishioner described here puts me in mind of the Eight Woes uttered by Christ:
“Ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer [allow] ye them that are entering to go in.” (Matt. 23:13)
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A group of 20-30 of us went to All Saints’ Church in Branksome (Poole) today as a show of support for the vicar Charlie Boyle and his wife Sarah, who have been forced to take a six-week sabbatical as the CofE decides what to do with him.
I arrived and was greeted outside by an elderly lady, wearing a mask, with a warm “Good morning!”. This was followed by “Our church has been taken over by bloody antivaxxers”. In retrospect, I was probably offered an opportunity there, but I was a couple minutes late so I rushed in.
Many of the congregation were gathered outside, also wearing masks, and refused to attend the service. Our group obviously refuses to wear masks and this further irritates the established congregation.
They left when it started and I’m told that one parishioner tried to inform a young family from our group, who were parking their car, that no service was taking place. The family attended anyway and found a service was taking place. This man had lied so that a young family would not attend his church, something which should delight any elderly Christian.
Like many churches, this church seemed like a social club for half Christians.
We plan to persist in the coming weeks and will not be letting it go.
À propos of this vicar’s wife (soon to be the wife of an ex-vicar?), read the below just in from a viewer local to her. The mendacious conduct of the parishioner described here puts me in mind of the Eight Woes uttered by Christ:
“Ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer [allow] ye them that are entering to go in.” (Matt. 23:13)
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A group of 20-30 of us went to All Saints’ Church in Branksome (Poole) today as a show of support for the vicar Charlie Boyle and his wife Sarah, who have been forced to take a six-week sabbatical as the CofE decides what to do with him.
I arrived and was greeted outside by an elderly lady, wearing a mask, with a warm “Good morning!”. This was followed by “Our church has been taken over by bloody antivaxxers”. In retrospect, I was probably offered an opportunity there, but I was a couple minutes late so I rushed in.
Many of the congregation were gathered outside, also wearing masks, and refused to attend the service. Our group obviously refuses to wear masks and this further irritates the established congregation.
They left when it started and I’m told that one parishioner tried to inform a young family from our group, who were parking their car, that no service was taking place. The family attended anyway and found a service was taking place. This man had lied so that a young family would not attend his church, something which should delight any elderly Christian.
Like many churches, this church seemed like a social club for half Christians.
We plan to persist in the coming weeks and will not be letting it go.
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
Footage has been widely shared of an eloquent lady attending a recent London pro-freedom rally wearing a woollen hat, whose comments begin with “I’m Sarah, a vicar’s wife, and I feel so strongly about it that I’ve come all the way up from Dorset.” (I’ve even…
Codicil: Christ’s Eight Woes against the scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 23)—see how closely applicable they are to today’s virtue signallers.
1. Being uninterested in real religion and getting angry when others are interested.
2. Extreme effort and eagerness to get even one person to come around to their mindset, and when he does, filling his mind with evil notions.
3. Being very keen on endowments and being remembered in old biddies’ wills, and making a show of godliness to achieve those results.
4. Insisting that church wealth is a holier asset than the church itself.
5. Demanding that everyone under their religious authority make small, visible sacrifices “to God”, while being perfectly unbothered about behaving unlawfully, unjustly, mercilessly and faithlessly.
6. Enjoying empty rituals not commanded by God, while gorging on meals “full of extortion and excess” (Christ’s own phrase in v. 25).
7. Going about in beautiful religious finery but being inwardly “full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness” (Christ’s own phrase in v. 27); being utterly hypocritical.
8. Acknowledging that the persecutors of the righteous in former generations were their fathers, and thus indicating that they are a brood of vipers.
— With the above in mind, it’s clear that the virtue signaller and the Christian are polar opposites and mortal enemies. So if you find a church adherent lying to keep people away from God, ask them, “Are you a Christian or a virtue signaller? Your conduct tells me you’re a virtue signaller, so I wonder whether you’re a Christian.”
1. Being uninterested in real religion and getting angry when others are interested.
2. Extreme effort and eagerness to get even one person to come around to their mindset, and when he does, filling his mind with evil notions.
3. Being very keen on endowments and being remembered in old biddies’ wills, and making a show of godliness to achieve those results.
4. Insisting that church wealth is a holier asset than the church itself.
5. Demanding that everyone under their religious authority make small, visible sacrifices “to God”, while being perfectly unbothered about behaving unlawfully, unjustly, mercilessly and faithlessly.
6. Enjoying empty rituals not commanded by God, while gorging on meals “full of extortion and excess” (Christ’s own phrase in v. 25).
7. Going about in beautiful religious finery but being inwardly “full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness” (Christ’s own phrase in v. 27); being utterly hypocritical.
8. Acknowledging that the persecutors of the righteous in former generations were their fathers, and thus indicating that they are a brood of vipers.
— With the above in mind, it’s clear that the virtue signaller and the Christian are polar opposites and mortal enemies. So if you find a church adherent lying to keep people away from God, ask them, “Are you a Christian or a virtue signaller? Your conduct tells me you’re a virtue signaller, so I wonder whether you’re a Christian.”
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
Footage has been widely shared of an eloquent lady attending a recent London pro-freedom rally wearing a woollen hat, whose comments begin with “I’m Sarah, a vicar’s wife, and I feel so strongly about it that I’ve come all the way up from Dorset.” (I’ve even…
Some of those attending the service were told at the door, “You can’t come in; you’re smelly,” and, “You’re a rentamob”.
Count Julia Hartley-Brewer’s constitutional errors:
1. Blair was elected by the constituents of Sedgefield, Co. Durham. His name was not on the ballot paper in the other 650 constituencies.
2. No-one is elected to be “our nation’s prime minister”. “Prime minister” means “chief servant”. The master of that servant is the Sovereign. If our nation has a chief servant, it is Her Majesty. Did we elect her? Yes, by popular acclaim at her coronation, which is a qualification for office as requisite as lawful succession is.
3. Companionship of the Order of the Garter makes a man one of the Queen’s 23 most exclusive confidantes in a bizarre secret society with mediaeval questing aims. It is not “a knighthood”, which is a constitutional, regular and ancient estate of the realm.
And this is before we get on to the fiddling of the last general election (2005) of Blair’s premiership, about which the late great Ian R. Crane had a lot to say.
1. Blair was elected by the constituents of Sedgefield, Co. Durham. His name was not on the ballot paper in the other 650 constituencies.
2. No-one is elected to be “our nation’s prime minister”. “Prime minister” means “chief servant”. The master of that servant is the Sovereign. If our nation has a chief servant, it is Her Majesty. Did we elect her? Yes, by popular acclaim at her coronation, which is a qualification for office as requisite as lawful succession is.
3. Companionship of the Order of the Garter makes a man one of the Queen’s 23 most exclusive confidantes in a bizarre secret society with mediaeval questing aims. It is not “a knighthood”, which is a constitutional, regular and ancient estate of the realm.
And this is before we get on to the fiddling of the last general election (2005) of Blair’s premiership, about which the late great Ian R. Crane had a lot to say.
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And right on cue here comes Mother Goose to inject confusion and defeat into the popular consensus while posing as the voice of the people.
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Case in point.
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Finland’s girl-band Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, has told state broadcaster YLE that she is actively considering acceding to NATO. It’s at times like this that I wonder whether Dr Edward Dutton (The Jolly Heretic) is right to have suggested that she is damaged by foetal alcohol syndrome.
Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Principle 2 of 286: The first goal of sound government is to provide a "more perfect union". It's all well and good for small cells of liberty to secede, but will they then be picked off one by one?