“These are Worrying Times for My Generation”
Pride Day has just passed in my hometown of Hull. Pride flags were publicly displayed, replacing Union flags; countless posters were plastered on shop windows and adverts invaded social media feeds. One could not miss that the event was approaching. Fortunately, away in Stockport watching football, I escaped the parade of men in dresses; their giveaway cock and balls openly dangling between their legs. This came weeks into Pride Month, a fleeting four weeks dedicated to the LGBTQwerty community. Pride awareness, however, does not stop there. There are more upcoming events in a local town around Hull: the Pride of Beverley, which is also hosting a Dog Walk of Pride – hold me back. It is evident this community is always in the limelight. What for though? Scaring children, exploiting women and playing fancy dress?
In other news, people took to the streets in Birmingham on August 14th to celebrate Pakistan Independence Day. The council put on big parades, turned their library into a giant Pakistani flag and lit up the building in green and white. Around the city streets, they were taking Union and St George’s flags down, which locals had attached to lampposts in preparation for VJ Day (Victory over Japan) the following day.
While the virtue-signalling is rammed down our throats, scant attention is actually paid to celebrations which recognise Britain’s success as a country. With a lack of prior advertising, I only found out about the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on the day of the event while reading the Telegraph. Street parades were not organised, Union flags were sparse and there were no public displays. Shops, cafés, restaurants and pubs did not have an armed forces’ theme. It was just like a normal day.
VJ Day is the annual commemoration of Imperial Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. After the US (accidentally) dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 9th 1945, it caused a devastating effect on the country, killing many and destroying thousands of homes and buildings. During the Potsdam Conference, the Allies offered Emperor Hirohito an opportunity to sign a peace deal or they would continue their attacks. He signed the deal on August 15th, effectively bringing the war to an end. However, VJ Day does not just signify peace: it honours the legacy of the soldiers who put their lives on the line to fight for the UK – a nation they would now be ashamed to fight for.
It is vexing to witness British heritage and history erode away, becoming overshadowed and neglected by its own people. To quote Tennyson: we should honour the armed forces, “Honour the charge they made!” They sacrificed everything, enabling us to still have a country to work, eat, sleep and survive in. Instead of honouring the memory of our ancestors, woke policies sidetrack Britain with DEI box-ticking exercises. I do not oppose Pride or non-British events in my country, but surely it is right for national events to get the same, if not more, traction – especially when they are as important as VJ Day?
Why do we have a problem with patriotism? I have just spent a week in Istanbul, and there were many Turkish flags proudly looking over the streets and rivers. No other flag was flown. Their countless mosques stood tall, all broadcasting the call to prayer five times a day. Families gathered in public spaces, radiating joy and pride. This is seldom seen in British culture. Secularisation is rising, the most common name is Muhammad and Union flags are ripped down. When it is time to feel proud of our culture, we are damned and punished.
As I grow up, everything my ancestors worked for will be meaningless. My education will be pointless, and my country will no longer be mine. These are worrying times for my generation. One wonders what happens to a nation’s identity, if its defining historical moments are forgotten and condemned? I really don’t want to know.
Jack Watson is a 16 year-old schoolboy in Year 11. You can read his Substack about following Hull City FC here. Follow him on X here. This article originally appeared in the New Conservative.
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its a tinder box.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Well said young man. Have hope son. Faith, strength and hope.
You mentioned the muscularity of Muhammad’s cult. No shortage of confidence in their moon cult and 1400 years of Jihad, rape, war, and plunder. Islam produced nothing except savagery and death, yet witness their superiority complex.
Our culture and Christianity – supposedly evil, immoral, slave addicted, worthless, malginant, a tumour on history. Heterodoxy in any form dismissed and slandered. In reality West-Civ thanks to Christianity produced the modern world and ended slavery. We fought against militarism. I don’t recall the Muslims aiding us.
However, when you can’t tell the difference between a law and a crime; or between a penis and a vagina; or between reality and relativity; you are doomed.
“After the US (accidentally) dropped two atomic bombs”
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Nothing accidental about the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima (August 6) or Nagasaki – it was quite deliberate, and why not!
That Union flag is all wrong. It must be generated by AI.
My goodness, so it is. I didn’t spot that as I scanned past it to the text, but when you actually look at the picture the flag immediately looks wrong
One of the funniest mistakes that I’ve seen was in the Alps. We were staying in a place that was clearly run by a private individual and there was a sign in multiple languages each with a flag next to it indicating the language. For English, they had the flag which we haven’t used much since 1801:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Great_Britain
It looks dirty and disheveled, probably a subtle depiction of the flag representing the UK in its present sorry state. Very clever.
Bill, I agree. It doesn’t even know if it’s heading to the left or the right!
A victory for ‘people power’ in Epping, proving that demonstrations are far from ineffective, as the Bell Hotel is now closed to migrants and they’re getting evicted.
Obviously these men will now get shoved somewhere else and become someone else’s problem, but I think this is going to spur communities on and make more people come together to protest any migrant dumps in their neighbourhoods. I’d find this very encouraging and it gives people hope, making them feel less powerless. Here’s Adam Brooks;
https://x.com/EssexPR/status/1957823694618644726
Excellent, honest article by Jack Watson. I would take issue with one thing, however, and that is his description of Muslims “radiating joy”. There is no “joy” in Islam. “Joy” is an alien concept.
Unless it’s joy, and celebrating in the streets when 1,200 Israeli’s are brutally murdered.
While I understand the sentiment behind this, Britain fought/ engineered two world wars to stop the Germans from having an (independent) country of their own and not to save that of the British people which was never in any danger. If it had acted more wisely in 1916, 1917 or even 1918, a second world war would never have happened. Even the first world war could have been avoided entirely or much shortened had England been willing to remain neutral under any circumstances: In order to achieve that, Germany offered both to respect the Belgian neutrality and to guarantee the status quo ante bellum of France, including all of its colonies, regardless of the outcome of the war. The reply was that the British government wasn’t willing to commit to any particular policy with regards to the upcoming war been Germany/ Austria-Hungary and France/ Russia. As final attempt, HM government was directly asked if there were any conditions it would be willing to accept in exchange for its neutrality. This drew the exact same reply. [Source: Karl Helfferich, „Der Weltkrieg“ vol 1, p. 211 onwards] That’s something woke historians are obviously not willing to admit in public as they consider… Read more »
I thought it was all Gavrilo’s fault.
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Like many generations before you, sadly you will have to deal with it or become a second class “citizen”.
As I grow up, everything my ancestors worked for will be meaningless.
Well, no, Jack. Check out some Anglo-Saxon poetry, the sort of thing that inspired Tolkien. The Saxons were aware that everything they had was on loan. Living among the visible remnants of Imperial Rome they could see that even the greatest achievements can be worn away by the winters of the world.
Then there’s William Blake. He grappled with changing times that were the beginning of ours. A recent book on Blake, Awake! by Mark Vernon may be useful to strengthen of resolve.
Secularisation is rising…
Remember Job: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
Don’t give up Jack. Read “The Secret People” by GK Chesterton.
“But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.”
We’re speaking now; and the Establishment is terrified of the coming backlash.
https://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/secret-people.html
A very strange, presumably AI generated, union flag at the top of this article. Seeing the union flag upside down is sadly not unusual but to see it screwed up in this fashion is disappointing in the extreme..
It is misassembled: The flag has been rendered with a vertical reflection error, so the diagonal elements on the lower half are inverted compared to the correct Union Flag arrangement. The top shows the correct broad white stripe against the hoist, but the bottom shows the narrow white stripe against the hoist, breaking the flag’s required symmetry.
Not so. It’s not correct from side to side either. I always think of is this way: with the flagpost to the left, the broad white stripe in the top left-hand corner should be to the right of the red diagonal stripe. As you progress clockwise around the flag, you should always get to the red diagonal before the broad white.
In these situations I often think ‘what would the French do?’. Are there parades to mark Agincourt, Crecy and the overlooked Poitiers? I must admit to being surprised by the museum at Agincourt although they do spell it Azincourt to try to hide it but then the French are often quick to realise money can be made. They hid the Maginot Line forts for decades and kept Atlantic Wall fortifications and V weapons sites abandoned due to World War 2 embarrassment. But now many are open to visit…for a fee.
The flag is like me: distressed and discombobulated.
THE BIBLE MUST NOT BE A CLOSED BOOK TO YOU, JACK
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life…
Get yourself a Bible (AV), wherein you will find the answers to all your questions:
the cause of the worlds problems – the effect – the cure.
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6