"We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for & died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born." Roger Scruton

“Ours is an age when the engines of bad taste possess great force. With rare exceptions, the cinema, the newspaper & the wireless tend powerfully to promote vulgarity. By day & night in our cities the eye the ear are continually assaulted by objects of bad taste...” Enoch Powell

“Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.” Dave Brubeck, born 6th December 1920

“If we believe that good art, good music and good books will elevate taste and improve the sensibilities of the young - which they most certainly do - then we must also believe that bad music and bad books will degrade...” William J. Bennett, The De-Valuing of America

This actually happened to me when I was a child. I dropped 100 pound notes at a busy crossing. Money was flying everywhere, cars pulled up, people jumped out of their cars grabbing the pound notes. I just froze. Every pound note was returned.

John Bull, June 1958

I love it when people buy properties and restore it to their former glory. Time almost stole this gem. Watch this quick restoration video. It's beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️

If a man arrives illegally, he should be deported. If his wives or children come legally because of his presence? They should be deported too. Before anyone starts the screeching, I’m not suggesting splitting up any families. They can all leave together.

Dire warning from Christopher Hitchens: They will abolish everything that we care about, and take away everything that you love. They will dictate what you can think and eat, and make you afraid! This is no exaggeration, and no joke!

Sir Roger Scruton cutting through the shit

Artist's Shit [1961] by Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams of feces, labeled Artist's Shit Contents 30 gr net Freshly preserved Produced and tinned in May 1961

Sir John Betjeman

Now houses are 'units', and people are digits And Bath has been planned into quarters for midgets. Official designs are aggressively neuter, The Puritan work of an eyeless computer. Goodbye to old Bath. We who loved you are sorry They've carted you off by developer's lorry.

“Being a fogey in those days was, in fact, a form of rebellion against the boring conformity of pop culture — against the unthinking left-wingery of the university common rooms & the bigwigs in the art world, who were obsessed only with being modern & ‘progressive’” A.N. Wilson

My choice for Home Secretary.

“We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.” Russell Kirk

"There are no conservatives anymore because there is nothing left to conserve. Religion, family, aristocracy, all the old incarnations of the principle of authority, are nothing but ruins and dust." — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

“Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.” Sir Roger Scruton

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” Rainer Maria Rilke, born 4th December 1875

Poland, 800 rapes a year, UK 72,000.

The Sword in the Stone (1963)