Mark W.
@DurhamWASP
Hidebound and Reactionary
"We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for & died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born." Roger Scruton
I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes! John Ruskin
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” John Keats
Today's Tory reshuffle is the final curtain on the Conservative Party as a centre-right force in British politics.
Great appointments by Kemi I hate my Nigerian tribal rivals Badenoch. Cleverley the last great defender of the Boris-Carrie wave, proud defender of giving soldiers' houses to Afghans, one of the architects (with Boris) of the disgraceful giveaway of Chagos, opponent of house…
My last interaction with James was: He and some of his friends were discussing how awful it is for people to want to build new houses. I said "no, we need them. People my age can't afford houses". He and his friends then turned to me, looked me in my eyes, and burst out…
I used to find this picture - and the whole concept - of a flooded valley quite haunting. Actually, I still do Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making, 1966)
The art of Penguin book covers Retro Deco for Evelyn Waugh – cover design and illustration by Peter Bentley of Bentley/Farrell/Burnett penguinseriesdesign.com/2023/06/19/ret…
“[Europe] came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance.” Evelyn Waugh
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🗣️ 'People are brazenly breaking into our country because they know that they can get away with it' @SuellaBraverman speaks to @CamillaTominey and @timothy_stanley about the frustration she experienced at being “powerless” whilst running the home office amid a “lack of political…
Legal immigration is a bigger problem than illegal immigration.
“We ignore at our peril the situation which might develop if the housing situation continues to get worse & if we give immigrant families— no matter how difficult their problems— preference over indigenous families who have waited patiently on the housing list…“ Sir John Stokes
“Diversity, equality, and secularism were never anything but mountain passes, corridors, more or less flat expanses between deep valleys, the sites of an inversion between two rival and necessarily successive dominations: between two races, between two classes, between two…
“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Sir Roger Scruton
“You have an ancient, powerful, richly-endowed Church and perfect religious liberty. You have unbroken order and complete freedom. You have landed estates as large as the Romans, combined with commercial enterprise such as Carthage and Venice united never equalled. And you must…
Without the British Empire, more than half the world would still be living in squalor, without much hope for improvement. They'd be ruled arbitrarily & have no understanding of why that's bad. They'd still be enslaved, for God's sake. I'll die on this hill every day of the week.
“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Albert Ayler, Don Ayler, Richard Davis and Milford Graves John Coltrane’s funeral, St Peter's Lutheran Church, New York, 21st July 1967
And this is his legacy
Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party 31 years ago today
I personally couldn’t care less where they go.. I think we’ve all had enough of spending £billions of 🇬🇧 taxpayer’s money .. on 11000 foreign prisoners taking up valuable spaces !! Deport the lot of them !
What better day than today to share this? Ian Botham, Headingley, 21st July 1981
What is the most iconic sports photograph ever taken?
Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Pateley Bridge CC in Yorkshire