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Bookshops offer what digital platforms cannot; a tactile, curated, and communal experience. The scent of paper, the serendipity of a spine catching your eye, the quiet hum of like-minded readers: these are the intangibles that keep bookshops alive.

I was right. @EssexPoliceUK DID take masked, left-wing thugs right to the protestors at the Bell Hotel, Epping (Telegraph). We might conclude that the authorities were trying to provoke trouble in order to discredit peaceful locals protesting as ‘far right’. If so, this is a…

Migration from barbaric cultures means rape on an horrific scale. There is no benefit to mass immigration, only devastating cost, and nobody voted for it. To lobby for open borders is to advocate for sexual abuse, and anybody who still does so should be prosecuted. It’s that…

The police are working to undermine the safety and wellbeing of concerned citizens. There was a time, not long ago, when we had something called social cohesion. We could rely on law enforcement. Now we have state-approved guerrilla warfare. Devastating. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…

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Restore trust by abolishing mass postal voting.

Legal immigration is a bigger problem than illegal immigration.

🚨NEW: Essex police admit they escorted left-wing activists to an asylum hotel after initially denying it [@Telegraph]

Are you tired of being for or against multiculturalism? Believe in diversity but not at the expense of a prevailing value system and identity? Want to confront the harsh realities of society without wanting to reinforce dangerous narratives? Believe in liberal-democracy but think…

This is a brilliant piece by @ColinBrazierTV

Why are you allowing this @YvetteCooperMP @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour ? British citizens should not be living like this - young, old or any age!

Operation Scatter is in effect. No more safe ground to be on.

Shocked after visiting an older lady in a nearby village who volunteers at the library. Immigrants have been placed there, without any warning and making life difficult. The immigrants bang on the library daily, demanding help with forms, & clear out the food bank weekly. Some…

All the people who supported shutting down the economy for months on end today be all like: “OMG I can’t believe how much debt there is, how could this possibly have happened”

To be published 22 January 2026, six months from today... A Shellshocked Nation: Britain between the Wars.

Sometimes a bookshop is more than a bookshop. @Bousquet_FR's Nouvelle Librairie was just this. From our Summer @EuroConMag.

American novelist, short-story writer and journalist, Ernest Miller Hemingway was born #onthisday 1899. "You must be prepared to work always without applause"

What better day than today to share this? Ian Botham, Headingley, 21st July 1981

Is there any task the British state can't take on? An inquiry into one day 40 years ago, to satisfy leftist campaigners & a trade union with 196 members. How lucky we are as a country to have so few problems we can afford to spend your taxes on this. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'The word Islamophobia comes from the Muslim Brotherhood. We shouldn't be dealing with those terms at all' Philip Kiszely says Brits will turn against Labour if it brings in a 'blasphemy law' that amounts to an 'attack on democracy'.

A Day for Thorpey 🤎 We'll be celebrating the life of Graham Thorpe on Day 2 of the 5th Test Match at the Kia Oval. Working with Graham's wife Amanda, and her daughters, we're supporting Mind to raise funds and awareness of those struggling with their mental wellbeing. Read…