SHORTPOD (31): THE MEANINGLESS SAINTS AND MEDIEVAL METAPOLITICS

Affirmative Right chief editor Colin Liddell wishes listeners a happy "St. Andrews Day" and explains why the Scots picked a Jew, who never came to Scotland or even knew Scotland existed, to be their patron saint.

Also, discussed  and compared is Saint George, the Greek who somehow became the patron saint of England.

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SCOTCHING THE "BLACK HISTORY MONTH" MYTH

Published last year at the start of Black History Month, and republished this year for exactly the same reasons.

by Duns Scotus

This year I decided to celebrate Black History Month by writing a long list of Black achievements and contributions to civilization. I bought a new pad of paper (Chinese invention) and got all my pencils ready (English invention). But, alas, there simply wasn’t enough material to fill the first page, let alone a whole pad.

After whizzing through jazz, necklacing, peanut butter, and daggering (a Jamaican dance craze), and one or two other dubious and minor achievements, I simply ran out of steam (Scottish invention—at least in its efficient industrial application).

ALT-RIGHT PODCAST 6: REBEL SWELL!

Andy and Colin welcome Michael Cushman (aka the "Palmetto Patriot"), a modern-day activist and advocate for Southern cultural and political secession from the evil American multicultural empire. 

Originally published on the 3rd of February, 2014, and then hosted on our SoundCloud page until August, 2017, when SoundCloud shut the page down without any communication with us. Boycott SoundCloud.

CATHEDRAL PRINCESS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF SCOTTISH HISTORY

Princess limbering up with a few 'Slav squats' for her appearance on the #1 TRS podcast.

by Colin Liddell

There seems to be a lot of confusion and retardedness among Alt-Righters about the nature of Scotland and why it voted REMAIN in the recent Brexit referendum. I have encountered quite a few examples in the last few days. A prime example of such stupidity was given by that anonymous individual known only as "Cathedral Princess," a stuttering Slav with a patina of Anglo-English, who recently appeared on the Fash the Nation podcast and made such crapulous comments as:

"They just really, really hate the English"
"They love the immigrant."
"I think Scotland is just a big black hole of gibsmedat."

...which drew some sad beta orbiter comments, such as "It’s like a child suing for emancipation from their parents," from the show’s usually balanced and sensible co-hosts.

THE RECENT UK SUB-NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS

Sign of the times: London's new mayor.

by Colin Liddell

Earlier this week a number of elections below the UK state parliamentary level were held in Britain. This included elections for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, some local councils, and the mayor of London.

Usually midterm elections favour the chief opposition party, which in this case is the Labour Party, with its recently-elected leader, the extreme Leftist, Jeremy Corbyn. This time they didn’t. Instead of winning hundreds of council seats as is usual, Labour actually lost a handful, as well as control of one council Dudley in the West Midlands (population 312,900 – 93% White).

PODCAST 16: POST-SUMMER CATCH UP

If at first you don't secede...

After a long and eventful Summer, Andy and Colin return with the Alternative Right Podcast. Under discussion are the Scottish Referendum, the mass sexual grooming of children in Rotherham, Putin's very real but low-key war in the Ukraine, and Obama's no-boots-on-the-ground Potemkin war in the Middle East against villains from central casting.

HOW TO DEFEAT NATIONALISM WITHOUT DEFEATING NATIONALISM

by Colin Liddell

You’ll have heard by now that the referendum on Scottish independence has resulted in a defeat for the YES campaign, with NO getting 55% of the vote to YES's 45%. You might also have picked up the message – piped in with the soothing background music – that everything is now back to normal.

But, two things: the campaign for Scottish independence has not been defeated and all is definitely not back to normal. Yes, the battle fought at the ballot boxes on the 18th of September resulted in an apparent decision in favour of NO and the status quo, but this was a Pyrrhic victory. The NO campaign may be straddling the winner’s podium, like a victorious redcoat after the battle of Culloden, but its guts are hanging round its ankles in the manner of an Anglo-Norman knight after the battle of Bannockburn.

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.

AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SCOTTISH NATIONALISM

by Kevin Scott

The remarkable rise of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which is now a liberal-left party led largely by 1968 leftists, masks the ethno-nationalist roots of the party and the broader ethno-nationalist undercurrent of the Scottish Nationalist movement as a whole. In this article, we intend to explore some of the personalties that made up this early movement, their activities and detail some of their ideas that influenced the early SNP and which would make the likes of Alex Salmond, the current leader of the SNP, cringe in embarrassment, even though they make up a substantial section of the SNP's early history and political direction.

GO SCOTLAND!

by Nick Land

Tribal politics excites the autobiographical impulse, which I’ll pander to for just a moment (without pretending to any particular excitement). My immediate ancestry is a quarter Scottish, and — here’s the thing — those grandparents were Wallaces. Seriously, they were these guys.

…but it’s my remaining three-quarters of mongrelized Brit that is leading this post to its destination. In particular, the 37.5% of English blood coursing through my veins is the part murmuring most enthusiastically for Scotland to vote ‘Yes!’ to departure this week.

RACISM - THE BIG PICTURE

"Look Ma, I'm on Alternative Right."

by Colin Liddell

There are many theories about Racism-as-intended-stigma. Many on the nationalist side view it as part of an evil conspiracy by a shady bunch of hook-nosed gentlemen to weaken a competing ethnic identity. Others see it as part of a selfish conspiracy by business leaders to boost globalism and immigration with a view to depressing the wages of the White working class.

Both of these explanations, as well as others, have elements of plausibility and may even be true at a certain level, but attributing the motive force of Racism to these is rather like believing a car's power comes from its wheels rather than its engine.

To understand Racism you have to step outside it – pretty hard to do because in the modern West it now envelops us – and look at it in its entirety and historical context.

To understand Racism you also have to also step inside it: open up the word and delve inside – also pretty hard to do because in the modern West the word seems to have an obviousness that makes deeper explanations seem willfully pedantic.

MUTUAL INDEPENDENCY

by Kevin Scott

Last month, closely following the impressive march for Catalan independence through the streets of Barcelona in Spain, Scottish nationalists also staged a large march through the streets of Edinburgh in an attempt to rally the Scottish people to the cause of Scottish independence to be decided in a referendum planned for 2014.

Under the firm leadership of Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party (SNP) now rules in Scotland, but he is demanding greater powers to deal with Scotland's troubling social and economic problems in the middle of an economic downturn caused by a credit crunch in the international financial markets and a debt crisis at the heart of Europe.