John Morton

The Empire That Never Was

In 732 AD, Charles “The Hammer” Martel, military and political leader of the Franks during the Merovingian dynasty, attacked and routed an invading Moorish army at Tours, bringing to an abrupt end decades of incursion by Islamic invaders.

High Noon At The Financial Casino Coral

Numerous sources, both mainstream and alternative, are reporting of a convergence of events in March that point to a massive break point in the ongoing financial collapse.

A Dark Age Lights the Way

In the first decade of the 5th century AD, in the years before Alaric marched his Visigoth horde into Rome and sacked the city, Britannia was, albeit temporarily, at peace. In the four hundred years since the first Roman invasion, tyrannical military ...

Towards a City of God

For many observant Christians, 2012 is a year of deep trepidation, a time in which the realisation of biblical prophecies of the “end times” is widely feared to begin in earnest. And yet, in the confusion and educational paucity of our times, much of ...

BBC: Is Internet “Addiction” A Mental Illness?

On my way into the office this morning I was treated to yet another slice of the habitual, and cleverly packaged “but, we are only trying to help” medicine from our good friends at the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation.

Tesco: The wages of Sin

We are often told not to kick a man when he is down ...

GOP Gets Ready To Asset Strip America

The Republican Party Presidential campaign could well be described as the best street theater since Punch and Judy.

Bizarre: The Anti-EU Blogger Who Despises National Banking

In her recent Daily Mail blog article on the topic of Declan Ganley’s call for a United States of Europe, based on the precise formulation set out on the US Federal Constitution, and explicitly based on Hamiltonian national banking, ME Synon betrays a violently anti-federalist outlook which, while ...

Boccacio's Ghost Haunts The Corridors Of Power

 Past Is Not Prologue  Readers of my articles in the UK Column over recent years may have puzzled at the long silence. Without boring you with the details, let it be said that a tactical retreat is not to be confused with capitulation, but part ...

Of Scoundrels

  An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, mud from a muddy spring, Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling ...

The Legacy Of Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke

 These are the great springs of national misfortunes. There have been monsters in other ages, and other countries, as well as ours ; but they have never continued their devastations long, when there were heroes to oppose them... They, who go about ...

Of Patriots

 A people may choose, or hereditary succession may raise, a bad prince to the throne; but a good king alone can derive his right to govern from God. The reason is plain: good government alone can be in the divine intention. God has made us to ...

The End Of Globalisation - Towards A Community Of Principle

 Two systems are before the world…. One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks toward universal war; the other to ...

From Dubai To Copenhagen: Dawn Of A New Dark Age

As James Palumbo put it in his recent article in the Daily Mail, "The news is so bad that the politicians don't want the general public to know what's going on". I could not have put it better myself.

Never Forget, Never Surrender, Ever

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! - Wilfred Owen

Recedentia: Legatum Sounds The Retreat

 Smarting from a summer of virulently anti-capitalist, anti-globalist, anti-well-just-about-everything sentiment, the Gods of the free market pantheon gathered at a recent half day seminar on the causes of the financial crisis to discuss and debate ...

60 Days To Doom

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Towards An English Renaissance

  When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.   - John F ...

Breakfast With Sir Jock

 When a good friend and confidant of mine in The City told me that MTO alumnus and highly respected military personage, Sir Jock Stirrup, was due to speak at a breakfast engagement at the Merchant Taylors' Guildhall on Threadneedle St, naturally I ...

The Apostle Of Apostasy

  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self ...

Happy Deathday England, Love ZanuLabour

 Today England awoke to a thumping headache, a nation teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and economic collapse, after abudget that could only really be described as having been farted directly from the bowels of Satan himself. Well, if only he ...