We finally arrive at one of the most requested films of all time, John Boorman’s majesterial Excalibur. We look at the film’s background and the Arthurian lore that inspired it, then explore deeper themes, such as the Pagan ‘Old Ways’ being replaced by Christianity and the abyss of despair between the two eras.

Why is Perceval so crucial to the story? What is the true nature of Mordred and Morgana? Does the search for the Holy Grail indicate the arrival of Faustian Man?

And much, much more…

The original stream, featuring many shots from the film, is here.

Further reading.

One real-world commitment after another has kept me offline quite a lot recently, the last of those commitments involved meeting Millennial Woes after 12 years of association online. Unfortunately, the tight schedule meant we only managed to record a relatively brief chat.

It’s a curious experience these days to be ‘logged off’ for a time. I return to discover that the Government is prepping us for war and conscription; Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests it’s our duty to die for home and hearth, while the next day, insisting that we are but mere mongrels. Meanwhile, there’s an apparent energy shortage hurtling toward us just in time for winter.

I think I will have more to say on Rees-Mogg’s ridiculous assertion that, because we’ve been invaded and conquered before, we must acquiesce in it again. If we accept this frame, then are the rape gangs simply our version of the ‘Harrying of the North’ or Viking raids?

The sheer stupidity of using wars, subjugation and conquests as rationalisations for multiculturalism leaves one questioning the value of such a prestigious education that Rees-Mogg enjoyed.

All in all, it was great to finally meet Woes in the flesh. It attests to the increasing blurring between the online and the real world. The digital abstraction and eyeball-to-eyeball.

It is those in-person realities that also, contrary to what Rees-Mogg prattles, tend to prove that being invaded and subjugated isn’t historical whimsy, but a rather miserable experience.

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A discussion and exploration of the warrens in the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams. The novel is a grim but beautiful exploration of English meadows and landscape, but what does it say about nihilism and authoritarianism?

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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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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.