We dive into the all-time classic of vigilantism featuring Charles Bronson as the world’s least likely liberal architect. We also discuss the 1970s gloom era and New York’s grimy aesthetics of post-industrial decay and urban rot, and much more…

In this edition of my monthly review podcast, I read through and comment on the articles of the month, as well as speculating on the politics of gardeners on YouTube.

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In my latest video monologue, I speculate on the recent trend of quintessentially British spaces being overwhelmed by people of immigrant stock during the summer months. The pockets of ‘real’ or ‘true’ Britain that we regarded as ‘ours’ are perhaps reflective of a lingering mythology, or spiritual connection that the spread of managerialism and multiculturalism simply doesn’t recognise, or does, and seeks to strip from these places, intentionally leaving as reptiles slithering a de-territorialised wasteland open to all.

This, in my view, touches the heart of the crisis beyond economic or mere demographic raw data, namely, can we lay claim to anything as ‘ours?’

We dive into the intelligent and underrated 2000 film Thirteen Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis. How can rational actors following rational strategies create fundamentally irrational outcomes? What are the similarities or differences between Trump’s Iran stand-off and the Cuban Missile Crisis?

And is Pete Hegseth simply basing his persona on Hollywood incarnations of men such as Robert McNamara?

And much more!

On the British online right’s emerging respect for the hollow Prime Minister, immune to all pressures and criticism…

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Mark Collett

British Nationalist. Writer. Father.

Endeavour and I jump into the 2016 depiction of the origins of fast food giant McDonald’s. We discuss how McDonald’s rebranded patriotism, placing itself at the centre and creating a theology of capitalism.

Is hollowing out traditions and identity intrinsic to the nature of mass and scale capitalism? How can the political right claim to be conservative while also embracing dog-eat-dog economic models?

And much more…

I joined Millennial Woes, Nick Dixon, and Mark Houghton for a lengthy discussion on the emergence of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain Party. We discuss the prospects of it being derailed or subverted, the mainstream response, why it exists, and the challenges ahead.

Don’t worry, you won’t hear his incessant prattle.

In my first video monologue in a while, I discuss the deteriorating state of Britain and explore some of the themes and symmetries in Cormac McCarthy’s works, No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. Is our future to be a dog-eat-dog state of nature? And did McCarthy embed allusions to the mythic barbarism of Meridian within No Country?

Moreover, what does this reveal about the trajectory in the UK, and who or what is responsible for it?

Endeavour and I dive into the magnificent 1948 account of Robert Falcon Scott’s heroic but ultimately doomed attempt to be the first man to reach the South Pole. We discuss how Scott’s raw Faustian Spirit had little regard for financial or scientific incentives, the brilliant soundtrack by Vaughn Williams, and the benefits of patriotism.

I also spend some time addressing the recent unpleasantness in the superchat section.

In light of Keir Starmer’s controversial (and surprising) ‘‘Island of Strangers’’ speech against mass immigration, I speculate on how the Boriswave might have up-ended the leftist view of mass immigration.

The right-wing mythology of mass immigration, post-Blair, often invokes the plot revealed by Andrew Neather to ‘‘rub the right’s nose in diversity’’. But what does that say about the Conservative Party? who were more than happy to rub their own and everyone else’s faces in diversity.

I joined Academic Agent’s panel reviewing the work of documentary maker Adam Curtis. In this episode, we delve into the history of Britain’s post-war social housing boom, which led to the development of substandard high-rise and Brutalist architecture in the country.

Alas, the corruption, friends-politics, and crazy ideology all wrapped up with undying contempt for the working class make this a depressingly familiar story.