British evacuee children with their gas masks and satchels make their way to the train in hope of safety in the countryside. The evacuation of children began on 1st September 1939.

This 600-year-old painting is one of the most mysterious in history. That mirror at the back is just 3 inches wide — yet it reflects the entire room in immense detail. Look closer at it and you'll realize nothing is as it seems… (thread) 🧵

This record is perfection

“I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.” Alec Waugh [8th July 1898 – 3rd September 1981]

✍️ 'We’ve been too complacent about patriotism. We ought to have our own national day to celebrate our country' | Writes Philip Johnston Read the full column below 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/0…

Tony Blair mocks the post-Brexit migration boom. “We’ve swapped out single people coming from Europe … for families from Asia and Africa. How has this helped us?”

“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.” Bertrand Russell

“My view is that conservatism has nothing intrinsically to do with big business but with moral and political values. And if business is antipathetic to those values, you have to fight it, with all the methods that are available.” Sir Roger Scruton

“Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lonelines.” Russell Kirk

This case is extraordinary. An Afghan illegal migrant smuggled himself into Britain on a lorry in 2019, and went on to murder an aspiring Royal Marine (21-year-old Tom Roberts - do not forget his name) three years later. A coroner has spared the Home Office from an inquest,

Francis Cunningham Batson [1858–1931] Playing Out Time in a Difficult Light [1902]

Defence Against Communism The Royal Signals Apprentices School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, May 1954

Hereditary Peers have a stake in our country going back generations. They do not owe their positions to patronage and are better placed than any appointed peer to scrutinise legislation with the long term interests of our country at heart. This is constitutional vandalism.

“The sense of national identity that existed in Britain until at least twenty years ago, with its mixture of common memories, images and expectations, may in places have been eroded; intelligence and skill will be needed if it is to be restored...” Maurice Cowling [1978]

Phyllis Dodd [1899–1995] In the Pentlands near Liberton Tower [1928]

“Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already.”

“There was nothing left for the younger generation to rebel against except the widest conceptions of mere decency. Accordingly, it was against these that they turned.” Evelyn Waugh