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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Garvan Walshe: We can ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Llifeless thought we should "let rip".

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Frayne: The 0.7 ... · 0 replies · +1 points

If they want to give reparations for the worst parts of the British Empire then they should organise a private fund. Invest in non-European businesses. Invest with an eye to making industries here more competitive by raising wages over there.

If it's not about wokism, but just some general desire to give aid to globalist warm-fuzzy feeling-ness, then they should....organise a private fund and invest in non-European businesses with an eye to making industries here more competitive by raising wages over there.

...or maybe this isn't abut aid, but a desire to LOOK like we're giving aid. Showy narcissism. That would explain the obsession with the state doing it with tax payer's money.

They're rich enough, so they should be able to do it privately.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The relaxation of lock... · 0 replies · +1 points

+1

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Julian Gallant: Politi... · 1 reply · +1 points

True, but the internet is full of things that the snowflakes would hate. Alexander Clarke is a naval historian that does all sorts of interesting Royal Navy history- no one has cancelled him yet. It is possible... just difficult.

An independent online distributor might be able to resist cancellation. If adult movie websites can get away with the stuff they show, a comparatively inoffensive film site showing U.S efforts to tame the Barabary states should be ok.

I could be totally wrong of course, but Toby Young, Lawrence Fox, and GB News shows that such a fightback might be possible.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Julian Gallant: Politi... · 6 replies · +1 points

"The arts are the product of a natural urge to create in the abstract and a hunger for more than we see lying around us. It is hard to imagine a world without art yet, as Oscar Wilde said in his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, “All art is quite useless”."

That merely shows the decline of our civilisation. Art can inform as well as entertain. "Contagion" apparently informed Matt Hancock. To dismiss a keystone of creation as ephemeral- however much you may admire that ephemera- is to throw away the potential for good art.

How about Conservatives start funding online films about important parts of British history? If Star Wars fans can make fan films using CGI, why can't more mature, richer, and more intelligent conservatives create "fan films" about the battle of Quiberon Bay, or British cruiser squadrons in the Mediterranean in WW2? How about films about British industrialists or 19th century scientists? The internet promises a glorious age of independent cinema if conservatives would just take that opportunity.

For an example of expert film making, go to youtube and look for "Howard Day Star Wars Animation". Yes, it's star wars stuff he makes, but the quality on offer should be something that more mature historical films could also replicate. I'd love to see HMS Warspite in that sort of fidelity engaging the Italians in 1940, or another HMS Warspite hunting Russian subs under the ice in the '70s. You want patriotism? It's there for the taking.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Murrison: I vot... · 0 replies · +1 points

Close the borders to all except lorry drivers, and open up internally. This is not hard. If you want freedom we can have that whilst making sure that we don't let in a mutant-resistant variant in.

I voted for Brexit because the government promised to take control of our borders and regulate who gets in and who doesn't. This is simply a more extreme situation than normal.

Some of us want the borders controlled and hospital quarantines precisely because we want freedom- both from the virus [within reason] and government coercion. Those agitating for open borders are making that day of freedom harder to attain.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - 100,000 dead · 0 replies · +1 points

Indeed. The Hindsight argument is much overused.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Special Relationsh... · 0 replies · +1 points

Given that we won in the end, relations can't have been particularly difficult.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Travel and the virus. ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Close the borders so that we have less variants to deal with. Then we can open up internally, and will be able to spend more time vaccinating the world's population instead of doing ours from scratch every time an external mutation appears. If we vaccinate enough of our own, we might be able to starve out this virus. Speed and time will tell.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Special Relationsh... · 1 reply · +1 points

Anyone that doubts the existence of the Special Relationship should read "Behind the Enigma" by John Ferris. UKUSA is an exceptionally close intelligence sharing partnership- so "insignificant" that powers like Japan are desperate to strengthen ties with it.