SHORTPOD (24): THE WORLD CUP AND THE DENATIONALISATION OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL

Affirmative Right Chief Editor Colin Liddell looks at the ongoing World Cup, and reflects on how Western European elites are changing football from a collective and tribalistic expression of White working-class identity to something more consumerist, atomised, rootless, multiracial, and meaningless.

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DELENDA EST LONDINIUM

by Colin Liddell
@cbliddell

London was not always evil.

There was a time in British history when the financial resources of The City, the industry of the North, the military prowess of the Celtic fringes, and the markets and raw materials of the colonies created a positive win-win synergy that transformed the World. But, throughout the 20th century, the mismatch between London and the rest of the UK has become progressively greater, with the former becoming a parasite on the latter.

THE TROUBLE WITH GEORGE

by Colin Liddell

Today is St. George's Day! So break out the old red-and-white banner (the police are on their way, you racist!), thump the "three lions" badge on your chest, and burst into the rousing chorus of Jerusalem, the stirring hymn that is tipped to become the official English national anthem when the UK breaks up in a few years time.

Notice anything odd about all these icons of English identity? They are all from the Middle East or Africa.

SCOTLAND’S REFERENDUM ON ANGLO-GLOBALISM

Scotland punching above its weight.

by Colin Liddell

In history timing is everything. When Scotland was forced by mosquitoes to throw in its lot with England, the timing couldn’t have been better. At the time, the power of the previously great Spanish Empire was depleted; and French power, although a threat for another hundred years or so, had been held in check by the alliance of Europe’s then beta powers (England, Austria, and Holland).

Although Scotland was small in population terms, adding the country and its hardy, adventurous, and canny people to the stolid, dependable English mass created an entity that was big enough and talented enough to get its nose in front. Among other possible alpha nations, Russia, of course, at that time, was too backward, and Germany still had a long road to go to achieve unification.