History

  • King recollects special coronation

    The King has said his coronation in 2023 was the “proudest” point in his life but also a “frightening” experience. His remarks are judged by how important the moment is for a monarch and by the experience of it happening in front of a seated audience as well as televised to the UK population.

    *A change was made to correct a year.

  • Ukraine and Russia need to explain their differences

    A confusion over a perceived absence of reasons for Russia invading Ukraine is the same as a lack of position for Ukraine as a relatively new democracy, juxtaposed against the closeness of some in Ukraine who feel a strong kinship for Moscow’s leadership in return.

    This is the leverage Putin has, to start with, as well as a look of dominance in a region of Europe that runs its loyalties along many different, and sometimes conflicting, lines. The lack of a political orientation is also hampering a strong opinion from emerging, for or against, by powers similar to Ukraine.

    The mixed messaging plays in Moscows favour, and has done so ever since communications became a strength of the Presidential power structure. Russia doesn’t struggle to keep a narrative for the citizenry to follow, and translates historical timelines into notions of national pride. It’s an abut to argumentation produced by Ukraine.

  • Israel has a right to exist – and to choose

    Israel is an oasis in a totally different context. While its democratic structure is self-built and connects it to Western traditions, the nation and its culture is set within a region that has little to compare it to. The contrast is found in its constitution and the freedoms people have.

    A graphic showing the place of Israel in the world and aspects of its national character (Credit: OpenAI ChatGPT).

    Israeli’s also now enjoy a proud heritage of resilience and progress in a backward time. The millions that hate its existence ignore a legal framework that has proved legitimacy in an age of error, and backed the reason for its existence.

    Israel has a story that’s undeniable. The Jewish suffering that has been the fault of so many people is at a stop for the communities that have relocated there. Successive government’s have made it a safe place for an old people. This shows humanity at its essential core.

  • Revealed: Post-war Intelligence is a disaster story

    The effects of Intelligence work done during the Second World War had convinced many that such work had to continue beyond the cessation of hostilities. It was meant to track the radical elements that may have remained, and further entities that may try to start up.

    The lack of a galvanising war cry, however, had left such an effort in a disorganised state. The attempts made to join together capability were not easy to maintain. In particular, over time the “Five Eyes” group was subject to repeated infiltration efforts by Soviet spies.

    The remaining history is a story of domestic Intelligence bodies stealthily maintaining their work whilst also covering for the extra duties left over by such groups who were plundered, manipulated, and turned to other uses. By its own records, it was a rush to safeguard modernity itself.

  • What Balfour meant matters now more than ever

    In the text of his letter, Arthur Balfour, a former Prime Minister and then Foreign Secretary, managed to epitomise a position on homeland and identity that stands to this day. In recognition that at least a social coexistence was possible, starting with a Jewish nation and the preservation of non-Jewish rights in practice, he sent a clear message to its recipient that he and his country could see a way ahead for justice and historical restitution.


    “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

    – Arthur James Balfour/Balfour Declaration/1917.


    It’s now believed that this letter setup a real effort to make a genuine place for Jews. They didn’t have one before it, and such an indication from a powerful State meant that a powerless people had a voice again. It also ensured a path to self-determination, giving a unique people group a way do it that didn’t involve the response of the sponsor nation. The rest is history, showing it’s possible for once.

    The ethic involved is lost on those that don’t see planning as an important part of foreign policy. Britain as it was wouldn’t stand in the way. It also had no desire to see anyone else block it either. But a lack of moral backbone is now in international realms, as Israel finds no response among many nations to its claim Hamas is a terror group at war with it constantly. This threatens its state of affairs.

  • Memories define us more than hobbies

    The way of talking about the world is not changing, but it’s becoming more complex. The single focus of previous generations has remarkably given way to a mixed perspective because of new life – and events.

    The former times crystallise into formative lessons about character, ethic, and motive. The current times produce more to remember.

    A shot of a street sign
    A shot of a street sign in Reading, Berkshire where local debate and current controversy live strong.

    Its collective approach is also challenging the dynamism of debate. It changes the focus of conversation. It enables wider, broader participation by most of us. It’s only at the start of cutting through, and of shaping things to come.

    The way of most is to influence us and to decide things for us. Many Europeans present us with their conclusions that we must accept. They do this out of spite, but also an academic type of generosity. It’s often not wanted at all.

    The meaning of our lives is now shared. As we grow we get older in the ways we see things. This is not so with others but it’s to our benefit if we find a way still to do it no matter their argument. The peaceful course is to stick to it.

  • GCHQ has a long history of service provision 

    It’s believed that GCHQ has come together over time out of many different efforts to defend the country in different political climates and across social dividing lines.

    It cannot state all of it publicly because it’s a secret, but the type of work that has emerged from such unidentified individuals has been used to great effect by many of our public representatives.

    In a bigger sense, GCHQ has emerged out of some serious service during the two world wars. It’s documented by many of those that have had the privilege to watch its progress and to approve investment so that it could build to its current form.

    It’s now a key part of the UK’s capability. It’s proving to have a variety of ‘helps’ that serve all of us in different ways but from an elevated position. These are high-tech, intelligent, and locally relevant measures.

    Many of its key skills and some of its important leaders were honed and promoted during the tumultuous time in Europe that’s now called the Second World War.

    It took in much information through some of its bases, one being Bletchley Park, and used such ‘news’ to work on fixes to the British approach to fighting Hitler to victory in Europe.

    The tasks in hand, however, were far more complex than knowing what was going on. The mysteries of coding and breaking these in hostile environments were studied and exposed relentlessly by those that worked loyally for us here.

  • The Queen & her people: The archivist

    The late Queen wasn’t known as an activist and so she was more keenly aware of the times than others. While many were trying to get law changes, she was quietly working away at the things she loved to do to take care of the country she lived in. These past-times were also professional contributions to the State itself, and enrich our cultural archives in more ways than we presently realise.

    Her attention to the detail of people’s lives is well-known in charity circles, but it’s her meticulous and masterful documentation of our culture and times that supports the recognition of her acute abilities. She waited on issues with a studious mind, and made sure that all of her conclusions were of the highest benefit to others. This is the true work of a Queen.

    It took its form in photography, diary writing, and recording facts on the basis of her own commissioned research. This was all private, as it should be for a royal figure. It illustrated her times in a far better and far more superior way than others were attempting, and her endeavouring to do it made her a much more superior intellect than others that just wrote about it all.

    Her goal, however, had been to improve the archives of the nation and so it was that a large amount of material was amassed to be bequeathed to a more sensitive type of storage for our future. This is not on the same level of her worth as a public figure, but it improves our prospects as a Union in the sense of proving and improving our times.

  • MI5: Far back beginnings

    The start of MI5 as an activity is not as widely understood as some of its successes. This is due to its clandestine nature to begin with and how it needed to develop to an activity that has over 10,000 paid staff at present.

    In fact, both MI5 and MI6 activities share a common heritage. It’s believed that either had its influence to start off with from military experts that had all situated themselves in Dover, a port town along our South coast.

    It’s a common thing in military terms for it to happen in our previous and modern history. It’s due to the prominence of some locations and the significance of others.

    MI5 is engaged in all sorts of clandestine work and it has much more to do with the UK than many people believe. (Credit: OpenAI ChatGPT).

    This has meant teams of advisers have often used particular spots to think things through. This has carried forward for many decades and many towns and not a few cities have a preeminence in these circles that others don’t.

    The startup mentality has overshadowed the early beginnings of hundreds of government initiatives, some of which have become departments.

    Over time, these such meeting formats have become a target for infiltration by nefarious powers. Yet, it’s held strong because as much as the negative always happens, the positive is much far ahead of it, and outstrips it.

    The influence of Dover as a place on its early formation is not widely understood, either, but the town itself plays a huge role in being the focus of maritime activity.

    This constant flow of goods and use of services acts now as an inlet for understanding about how the world works. This is the sort of information that is necessary to any age of Intelligence, even if it’s in a primitive state such as at the start of the 20th century.

  • America has a people-crisis long in the making

    If America is a great nation, it’s mostly by its own spending. It goes large on initiatives and bulks up on all the services that act as supports.

    However, the nation is in crisis. This is clear on its surface, but it’s also indicated underneath.

    The signs of its troubles are set back into its post-war “heyday”.

    It’s a term used by insiders to describe the spread of protected activity like protest in times of acute national activity like the war in Vietnam, a highly documented but also badly understood act.

    Although the theories put out are not actual facts, they have depth.

    The leading factor in its present chaos is said to be the activity of its protestors in its national security infrastructure.

    This is alleged to be the reason its Southern border became so compromised.

    The evidence suggests protestors tore down much of the protections the American state had set up. It led initially to inflows of Mexicans into American cities.

    This isn’t a problem, but it wasn’t obvious at the start that it was due to illegal movement.

    It created a data flaw and led to further problems upstream. It’s suggested this has created some of the trouble that divides politics right at the upper levels of it.

  • Russian philosophers play the day

    The tradition of philosophising in Russia is a long one, but it produces similar results. The eventual ebb and flow of nationalist thought is generally the same throughout its struggle for a unique identity.

    Today, Russian citizens act as professors for their own destiny. They remake the words of Putin into shadows of truth. They can’t attain to true awareness because they have only themselves to blame.

    Alexander Dugin is one such example of this fatal struggle. He strikes out in support of his State’s nonsense, finding meaning out of words and not reality. In his X posts he succinctly praises the apparent real purpose of a modern Russia. The other view is his ideas have flaws.

    A post on X by Dugin, widely regarded to be an influential academic in Russia.

    He allows a cynicism of human nature to pervade his thinking. It’s the line that divides a Russian from a Ukrainian that makes the world what it is. His impression of the development of humanity is alleged to be along these such lines.

    He’s not a supremacist, but neither is he an empiricist. He doesn’t see the value in a natural concord between people because Russians have a unique nature. They have distinctive ways that must be kept pure. It’s a belief that defining values by yourself is what makes it lasting.

  • World exclusive: Hitler’s lost son

    In a world exclusive for Conservative News Site, an alleged lost son of Hitler, believed widely to have been his last to Eva Braun, has been spotted in Reading, Berkshire.

    A suspect alleged of fascist activity seen here in Reading Station, in Reading, Berkshire.

    It’s believed his links to Hitler, the last great dictator of Europe, have been hidden here by a secretive group of Nazi fanatics.

    *A change was made to correct an incorrect name given.

  • Churchill is our lasting inspiration against tyranny

    Sir Winston Churchill left a legacy of outright defiance against the most evil form of tyranny. His leadership of the free world against Hitler secured the victory for everyone. He was unwavering in his defeat not just of armies but of ideas also.

    If his generation is seen as racist, it’s by those without a fight to give. Churchill and his peers defeated a force heavy in modern understanding and a tirelessness in its pursuit of vainglory.

    Churchill is said to have possessed an obsessive attention to detail. He made sure all the terms used during the Second World War were free of error and that any ideas from Hitler’s ideology were rejected out of hand. He didn’t allow them to stay on record, in other words.

  • Functionality only goes so far

    London prides itself on having a good way of organising its affairs. The unique Tube structure. The roadways that are kept open long after their historic inception. The many residential neighbourhoods that stay safe and reasonable to live in. These are all indicators that our capital is a national treasure in itself.

    Two ticket machines at St. James’s Park station in the City of Westminster, in London.

    However, the debates about its infrastructure stretch far into the lives of those that use it, and they have valid points to make. The plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street is another chapter in its storied history of response to public concern. It’s the type of local democracy people want. A politics that reflects all of our needs, all of the time.

  • Revealed: The spiritual inspiration of “Fascist Estate”

    In spite of any reports to the contrary, the now-defunct paramilitary group “Fascist Estate” had its father figure that gave its first leader and founder his inspiration to do it. This person was Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. He’s noted as an architect and the mastermind behind large pieces of the UK landscape.

    The story of his rise to infamy in this regard was a closely guarded secret by members of the group. However, deep, undercover investigations have brought to light a possible scenario. This includes the suggestion that Scott met the founder of “Fascist Estate” after a church service in St Martin-in-the-Fields, in London. This was shortly before his death.

    The encounter had long been planned, but it only became a reality as Scott realised the gentleman he was going to meet was able to do it. The suggestion made was more of a hint or a nod in the right direction. It meant such a group would prosper if not thrive in certain parts of the English countryside. This is when it began to come to life.