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Rule, Britannia! Britannia Take the Knee

by Toby Young
15 May 2021 2:49 PM

We’re publishing an original essay today about the decline of Britain into an authoritarian, one-party state by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey. I say “essay”, but it’s more of a splenetic howl of rage – and all the better for that. Here is Dr Alexander’s opening salvo:

Britons are slaves and if they are not yet fully enslaved then there is certainly every sign that they wish to be slaves, and this is what all the taking the knee and taking the jab is about. If we do not want to be slaves, then we need beliefs which will enable us to confound the politics of others. And we also need to maintain a politics of justified opposition – something which collapsed during the pandemic.

The BBC was right, by its own standards, to try to erase the words from the performance of Rule, Britannia at the Last Night of the Proms last year: because these words are no longer part of the official ideology of the United Kingdom. Let us consider its most famous lines, and some of the best lines from ‘God Save the Queen’:

Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!

Britons never, never, never will be slaves!

Confound their politics,

Frustrate their knavish tricks…

In recent times we might as well be signing these lines instead:

Ruled, Britannia! Britannia take the knee!

Britons never, never, never shall be free!

Adopt their politics,

Applaud their knavish tricks…

Worth reading in full. Bracing stuff.

Tags: Boris JohnsonRule BritanniaServitude

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago

I will make of it what I always do. This fear porn was mentioned on the radio this morning.
Hajj deaths: Hundreds of pilgrims die as Mecca, Saudi Arabia temperatures soar | CNN

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

It’s become a joke.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
11 months ago

The BBC and the fake news/science complex is a joke.
Now in Sussex it is 22c. Next week it might reach 26c. After a miserable 19 days of June weather, the BBC will declare this June the hottest June evah, in 14 trillion, billion, Darwinian, Brazilian years. Whatever.
State funded vomit.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago

The easiest way to understand why there are these extreme shifts in temperature is to look at the following illustration of what happens during the Low Solar Activity preceding an Ice Age. The normally steady Jet Stream flow turns “loopy”, bringing cold air down from the Arctic to southerly regions, soon followed by another loop bringing hot air up from the tropics to northerly regions. This article was published before the Electroverse website went behind a paywall.

Explained: Low Solar Activity And A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream Flow – Electroverse

This was also explained by the late Robert Felix in his 1999 book:

Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs…and Why It Could Soon Kill Us: Amazon.co.uk: Felix, Robert W.: 9780964874688: Books

(He was a healthy man until his wife insisted that he get the Covid jabs. He suddenly died soon afterward, in 2021)

Last edited 11 months ago by Heretic
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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
11 months ago

Who is old enough to remember the time when the weather was normal for the time of year in every part of the world?

Indoctrinated young people may believe there was such a time.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Exactly, it has always been a bit loopy tunes. There are some patterns though which can be weird. We were on holiday in Greece one year and got talking to a bar owner. He said “It will rain on Thursday, this time of year, it always rains on Thursday”. Sure enough it did. Was that man made to keep his customers in the bar?

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Iain McCausland
Iain McCausland
11 months ago

The DS may now be awakening to the nature of the real climate crisis coming and how so much more dangerous it will be than any amount of ‘warming’ –https://open.substack.com/pub/electroverse/p/montanas-record-lows-and-snows-global?r=jx6c3&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Iain McCausland

Thanks for helping DS readers to have access to that otherwise paywalled Electroverse article.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago

Anyone with an agenda, a point of view, or an argument will highlight that which aligns with their world view while ignoring all that doesn’t. It was ever thus. —–It is exactly the same with activist News Channels pushing the Political Agenda of Climate Change. No one should be fooled by this claim that what they are reporting on is “science”. In science you question everything. When Mainstream News question NOTHING it means they are not indulging in science at all. —–The whole Sustainable Development political agenda depends on there being dangerous changes to climate caused by our use of fossil fuels, and if there isn’t then that whole political agenda collapses. So, the Climate Industrial Complex have to keep the idea of a climate emergency foremost in our minds so we all will accept the changes this political agenda wants to impose on us, and at astronomical expense and with severe consequences for prosperity and freedom. —–So we will always be shown extreme weather events from all corners of the globe to give us the impression that everything is getting worse, but as it happens real world data that the public seldom see or attempt to look at reveals there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event anywhere in the world. ——The whole political agenda of climate change is therefore a pack of lies, and at best a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no empirical evidence exists.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago

About 5 years ago I read a report from NASA which said that the Moon is on a wobble cycle. It went on to explain that this will cause extremes in weather for around 10 years and is a normal occurrence.
Look at a weather map and you can see where the weather fronts are. El Nino was particularly long and blocked cold air from moving South and hot air moving North. Perfectly normal.
We now have a weather front doing the same thing. I was talking to come colleagues in India and it is around 36 degrees. This time of year they always expect a Monsoon, it will come but it is late this year. The BBC would report the Monsoon, when it comes, as being due to “Man Made Climate Change”, yet, it has always happened at roughly the same time since time immemorial.
I find it interesting when you ask someone where the non-modelled, real world data is that proves this nutcase theory. There isn’t one despite all the billions.

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mrbu
mrbu
11 months ago

The MSM latch onto any high temperature events they can find (especially if forest fires are involved) because that makes it easier for them to convince non-thinking members of the public that global warming will destroy us all, and that we should all willingly embrace a Dark Ages lifestyle to save our world. However, I’m a little surprised the BBC didn’t feature the Montana snowfall as “evidence” that global warming can make the weather more erratic. They missed a trick there.

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
11 months ago

The youtube channel ‘Oppenheimer Ranch Project’ has daily weather and other reports. The US winter was record breaking, colder than hell.

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