Andy

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

"Have you ever wondered why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are denounced as 'controversial', 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues?" Enoch Powell

The time for the peddling of comfortable nostrums by the liberal elite has long since passed. For Jeremy Hunt to limit his observations about immigration to platitudes about taking in the “best and brightest” from around the world, ignoring the enormous issues of safety, integration of migrants and community relations, is completely inadequate. Immigration remains in the hundreds of thousands every year. Meanwhile the concerns about multiculturalism remain completely unaddressed. When will we finally drop this stuff and tackle the issues raised by immigration head on?

@MahyarTousi @emilyhewertson @ZiaYusufUK Wrong again I'm afraid.

@emilyhewertson @ZiaYusufUK It’s important to note that @ZiaYusufUK is not capable of being pleasant unless you are part of his political tribe.

Well this green room’s going to be awkward.

“Being a fogey in those days was, in fact, a form of rebellion against the boring conformity of pop culture — against the unthinking left-wingery of the university common rooms & the bigwigs in the art world, who were obsessed only with being modern & ‘progressive’” A.N. Wilson

Details of the Elizabeth Tower, London, 1843–1859

Scenes from the lovely Santa Barbara Mission today

What this by-election has shown is that the Greens are a Trojan Horse For sectarianism For antisemitism For woke extremism For legalising all drugs For sexualising our children For deflecting from Islamist terror For open borders Everybody can see it Vote Reform

The gentle, unhurried charm of the New Forest in the early 1950s. Like stepping into the Shire.

Betjeman’s poetry is the poetry of a man who loved his country, but was constantly troubled by the sense that the England he loved was slipping away from him. I know how he felt

The Government governs in the name of The King. This so-called simplification does nothing more than diminish and dislocate the monarchy from national life, whilst muddying long-established constitutional principles. We call on His Majesty’s Government to reverse this change.

Soldiers of the Coldstream Guards, (left to right) Joseph Numa, John Potter and James Deal, veterans of the Crimean War (c.1856)

"Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself."

Whenever I see pictures of Churchill’s funeral - the anniversary of which falls today - it feels like the last gasp of a kind of unabashed Britishness. Unequivocally proud of its heroes, unapologetic about martial patriotism and not yet undermined by cultural self-loathing.

"A city which may not be as old as Rome, as high as New York, as beautiful as Paris or as symbolic as Athens but which is bigger and better than most of them at most things, most of the time." The naysayers are wrong – London remains a truly great city telegraph.co.uk/travel/destina…

NEW: President Trump responds to British troops uproar: “A bond too strong to ever be broken”

The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk– I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind... Rudyard Kipling

Keir Starmer and his team have travelled to China with burner phones to avoid being spied on. But he’s happy to approve a huge Chinese mega embassy right in the heart of London so they can spy on all of us.

The good days will return.

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” Robert Frost, 26th March 1874 – 29th January 1963