A fascinating interview with BERTRAND RUSSELL from 1952 that has him talking about his Grandfather meeting Napoleon, and about life in Europe in the 1800’s. pic.twitter.com/eoUNTnYsLs
— Michael Warburton (@TheMonologist) April 28, 2025
h/t Mauser
Our World
As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the ‘middle powers’ face a grave new challenge
I had been asked to give a keynote speech at a conference at Columbia University’s Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it in the faces of New Yorkers you spoke to.
In my speech I made a few opening remarks about what the United States had meant to me. “I was born 15 years after the Second World War,” I said, “in a world America made. The peace and security and increasing prosperity of the Western Europe that I was born into was in large part an American achievement.”
American military might had won the war in the West, I continued. It had stopped the further westward expansion of Soviet power.
The elite bubble
Gaslight much? “Majority of Europeans Reject Sending Troops and Arms to Ukraine” https://t.co/PAXcDVhNjp
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) January 26, 2026
So…
Alive but not kicking so much…
Got a script for penicillin, a weeks ration.
Am currently a twitchy thing that aches all over.
Very difficult to eat so I bought ice cream. Ice cream always helps.
Xavier is kind of leaving me alone though it was a tense few days. He is not medically certified in any jurisdiction I am aware of.
They will run some tests to see if I should consider the small, medium or large bag of cat food.
I will be blogging. Just to defy Satan. Thank you all.
What binds the celebrities featured in the Epstein files
The new naughty list just dropped, as the kids say these days. The pre-Christmas release of the Epstein files, or at least some of them – elves heavily redacted – has brought much-needed good cheer to all of us. Not every red face on Christmas afternoon will be down to port and brandy this year. And the cast of characters – Mick Jagger, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Richard Branson and all the rest – sounds like the guest list for the worst Graham Norton Christmas Special ever.
The release of the files as they stand, though, seems to me to add fuel to all sorts of conspiracy theories. In the first place, they really do seem to confirm what many of us normies have long suspected. The rich and famous really do pal around with each other in a way that transcends ideological divides.
The Internet Archive must not be our only resource to access the past
These days, we’re heading for an infotainment implosion. Even though we have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips, many fail to grasp its meaning and importance, much less read past the headline and, at best, the first paragraph. Meanwhile, we’re letting machines do our thinking for us.
Nick Fuentes vs The World – No Country for Old Rules
Why the kids have stopped listening
I watched the Piers Morgan v Nick Fuentes interview last night, convinced that Piers had done a fairly solid job. After scanning Twitter (meh, X), I had to go and watch it again.
Aaron Bastani had posted a short review that Morgan had crucified Fuentes, I added a comment generally agreeing with him, then a few hours later there were all these replies making fun of me.
Huh, what happened?
Looking at other posts there was a parallel reality and the dividing line was age.
An excellent essay but Fuentes is not the Big Bad Bogeyman he is made out to be. Not even close.
The elites left & right have purposely built him up beyond all reason because they wrongly believe his twisted little mind’s incontinence gives them the wedge issues needed to reassert narrative control.
The kids Fuentes allegedly represents are not Little Hitlers.
A lost generation confronts us and they are angry at their fate.
Angry at being gaslit by the very grifters who aborted their futures.
The political and business classes robbed them of their birthright – a shot at a decent life free as possible from ignorance and want.
I am old but I will no longer tolerate the anti-white propaganda, the two tiered justice and unending lies spewed by the grifter class.
And so I have gone tribal and will support the Cinnabon girl and her like regardless of whether they are right or wrong based solely on the fact they are one of my kind.
I will do what I can to end the mass immigration from incompatible cultures that is destroying our society, our Canada.
The luxury values of the grifter class are nothing more than a cover for elite theft.
They best mind the children of the lost generation they created and grab a seat on one of the remigration flights.
“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
CHARLEBOIS: The slow, stunning retreat of Canadian alcohol
Canada is sobering up, quietly but progressively. Ontario’s latest LCBO annual report offers a remarkably honest portrait of a province — and indeed a country — entering a new era of alcohol consumption. The topline conclusion is unmistakable: Canadians are drinking less. Not sporadically, not because of a temporary shock, but as part of a sustained behavioural shift driven by economics, demographics, social norms, and increasingly, the availability of legal cannabis as a substitute.
Smokey bars are a fond memory of the long ago past for me. They became a lot less inviting when smoking was banned.
Costs are steep nowadays I understand, I recall when 40 bucks meant a pretty good evening on the town.
Of course I also remember when a six pack cost two bucks.
I sometimes find myself nostalgic for those many nights I can’t remember.