Tag Archives: religion

Islam is simply incompatible with Western society

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Seventeen people have  been murdered in the two terrorist attacks in Paris (between  7-9th January 2015). Ten were journalists, including some of France’s leading cartoonists,   working for the  French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. To them can be added … Continue reading →

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What is treason today?

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Robert Henderson

A vital part of the liberal internationalist plot to destroy Britain as an independent nation is the destruction of the concept of treason. They do this the attempt through a tidal wave of propaganda about the joys of diversity, the … Continue reading →

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Remember, remember the fifth of November – it speaks to us today

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Anyone taking their cue from the mainstream British media would imagine that Guy Fawkes Night is merely an archaic piece of religious bigotry. The papers and airwaves are alive with mediafolk and politicos tut-tutting over  the “anti-Catholic festival”,   … Continue reading →

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The Levellers: the first English radicals

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Robert Henderson

Radical has a special meaning in English political history. It describes those whose instincts were democratic although they did not espouse the idea of a full male adult  suffrage let alone a suffrage which included women until very late in … Continue reading →

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England and the rejection of violence

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Robert Henderson

Why was England so different from other countries in its political, social and economic  development?  How was it that only in England did parliamentary government evolve and the one and only bootstrapped industrial revolution arise?  Perhaps much of the  answer  lies  in the … Continue reading →

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The roots of English democracy

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Robert Henderson

The beginnings of English democratic thought  Contents INTRODUCTION THE FRANCHISE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR THE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE PHILOSOPHICAL AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS SERVANTS AND ALMSTAKERS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION The Civil War changed English politics utterly. It brought the end of claims … Continue reading →

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English education: the roots of its politicisation

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Robert Henderson

When I left school in the mid-sixties the Empire was effectively finished – the final nail in the coffin of imperial feeling was banged in by our entry into the EU in 1972,  which alienated the  white dominions – and … Continue reading →

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English education in saner times

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Robert Henderson

I was born in 1947. Never, perhaps, has England (and Britain) been more of a coherent community.  The dramatic recent experience of the Second World War  filled the minds of everyone  and that  shared experience  bound together even more tightly  … Continue reading →

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Quantifying English intellectual accomplishment

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Robert Henderson

In  his  book  “Human  Accomplishment”   the  American  Charles  Murray calculates  the  contribution  to  civilisation  made  by   individuals throughout  history  up until 1950.  To give his calculations  as  much objectivity  as possible he measures  the amount of attention given  to an  … Continue reading →

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England – the saviour of the Reformation

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Robert Henderson

The Reformation is one of those very rare events which may legitimately be described as seminal. Whether it was, as has often been claimed, the engine which drove the commercial and industrial revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is … Continue reading →

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