Rebecca and the brilliance of cinema
‘Hitchcock played on very real fears held by humanity to make this film come alive and create a form of entertainment by making the viewer’s hairs stand on end from the suspense.’
Peter Hitchens’s ‘The Abolition of Britain’: a review
Britain is my country, may my fate not be as dire as hers.
Cultural revolution continues as Churchill defaced again
The anti-western alliance seeks to bring western civilization to its very knees, causing it to collapse under the pressure, to then rebuild the world in its own woke image.
Peter Hitchens’s ‘The Abolition of Liberty’: A review
The wicked, the selfish, the loud and the oafish are all freer to behave as they wish than at any time in the last 150 years.
Quarantine with Frank and Dean: the great American songbook
Every tune, whether ebullient or mournful, was immaculate in its construction and ultimately life-affirming.
Our wilful neglect of language
Intellectuals are the worst for taking a long time to say nothing at all, such as by stringing together Latin and Greek derived words or jargon in place of actual communication.
Christianity: How should we convert?
The mainline denominations have a habit of assuming that people would magically become Christians just because their parents were; and I think a good amount of the secularisation of the country has come about because of mainline complacency.
The coronavirus, the church, and the continuing mass
One of the most devastating privations since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic has been the closure of churches and the suspension of public liturgies right across Britain.