Sunday, March 1, 2009

Being a Gentleman
in an Ungentlemanly World

. Sunday, March 1, 2009

Recently, I was walking in a park near my home, enjoying the brisk air of a Canadian winter, and the exquisite beauty of a snow-covered landscape. It was evening and the setting sun stained the white snow with shades of crimson and gold. There wasn't a sound to be had, all was quiet and beautiful, truly serene. But then I did hear something, sounds like shouting and struggling. Naturally concerned, I followed the sounds to behind a small grove of trees, where I saw another young man attempting to force himself upon a young woman, who was against a fence. She naturally took objection to this, and was struggling to push him away, but with his greater strength and size he was easily winning the struggle. I consider myself to be a gentleman, and a gentleman could not stand by and allow this to happen. Moving quickly, I set a hand on the man's shoulder and pulled him away.

"Sir, I don't believe the lady wants your company this evening," I said. The young man shouted a curse word, then drew back and struck me across the jaw, whereupon I struck him back and sent him sprawling onto the cold snowy ground. He looked up at me with anger, pain, and perhaps more than a bit of drunkenness in his eyes, decided that it was not worth the effort, and scrambled off. I then turned to the young woman to see if she was alright.

"Are you okay, miss?" I asked. She did not answer me. Instead she drew a can of pepperspray from her purse and sprayed me with it, shouting "CREEP!" loudly. She then quickly and sharply raised her knee into my reproductive organs, and ran off, leaving me doubled over from the pain which was, i'm sure you know, quite excrutiating.

I sit at my desk today, pondering what that young lady, scared and possibly traumatized as she may have been, was thinking when she inflicted such pain on her rescuer. Perhaps in the confusion she mistook me for the other young man, we were roughly the same height and build, both light brown hair, blue eyes. Perhaps she was a 'liberated powerful modern woman' and a hardline feminist, for whom being rescued was just as bad as being sexually assaulted. Perhaps she was just crazy. But the fact remains that this was not an unusual occurance, I am often punished or scolded or reproached for trying to be a gentleman in this ungentlemanly world.

For example, at my ex workplace I arrived by bus, at the same time as a lady who also worked there. I usually hold the door for her, it's just good manners. This had gone on for about five weeks, and though she never thanked me, being a gentleman was reward enough for me. I was then approached by my boss and told to stop holding the door for her, because she was perceiving me as a sexist who was mocking her, as holding the door for her did not imply my good manners, but that she was too weak to open the door for herself.

Another time, I was out for a walk in the evening, when I saw a group of three young ladies dressed rather... provocatively, being harassed by five or six young men who seemed rather intoxicated. Naturally, I rushed to the young ladies aid and, with a few blows exchanged, saw the young men off and on their way home. But I obviously overstepped my boundaries when I commented that if the young ladies wouldn't dress like the harlots those young men usually associated with, then those young men would no longer bother them. They then launched a tirade about, if they had 'it' they were going to flaunt 'it' and that was their right, no matter what trouble it would get them into.

It's sometimes hard to be a gentleman in today's world. I am snickered at when people learn I listen to Bach, Handel and Tchaikovsky. In a recent writing course I took, I was openly discouraged from sharing a passage of Kipling for a required reading we were supposed to conduct, due to Kipling supposedly being 'racist, imperialist and chauvinistic'. I am mocked for wearing a properly-fitted suit rather than the "style" of the modern young man, which is either excessively baggy or disturbingly skin-tight based on your social group. My military aspirations, my desire to serve Her Majesty as an officer of the Royal Canadian Army (and it will always be the RCA to me), my personal dream of defending God, Queen and Country, that is made ridicule most of all by my peers.

But still I stay the course. We must all stay the course, or else all those distasteful elements of society that we so oppose will have won at last. We are outnumbered, outmanuevered, outgunned perhaps, but I know that I at least will hold the faith. I hope you all hold that faith as well. As long as I live, I shall remain a gentleman and well dressed.

25 comments:

Mild Colonial Boy, Esq. said...

Sir,

It must be that there are so few real Gentlemen (and Ladies) today that the coarse, drunken and illiterate guttersnipes; that the modern "education" system and Society have produced; instinctively feel inferior in your Presence with your obvious Old World charm. It is no wonder that they react with such hostility.

As Edmund Burke once wrote:
But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Anonymous said...

"No good deed goes unpunished" - true as it ever was. But of course, no one in their right mind would ever consider offering assistance to their fellow human being, based on the response they expect to receive.

As an aside, the Canadian Army as with all Commonwealth realms, was never titled "RCA". It was and continues to consist of various corps and regiments, many of which have the honour of a "Royal" prefix, such as the Royal Regiment of Candaian Horse Artillery.
"RCA" is the abbreviation for the Royal Canadian Artillery.

Mac

Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt

Lord Best said...

I have similar experiences.
If the situation allows I will open doors for people, only good manners. Most people, to be fair, have the common courtesy to say 'thank you'. But I have been glared at and subjected to feminist tirades as well.
I gave up my seat on a tram to an elderly woman who swore and spat at me. This has happened twice.
I have been mocked for having in my possession the complete works of J.S Bach.
Upon mentioning that, health permitting, I would like to join the Australian Army, I was confronted with "Why would an intelligent person want to do be a tool of the state? Leave it to stupid people".
The list goes on. One tries to be civil, at least to the 'ladies'.
Ironically enough the most ladylike ladies on campus are the Muslim girls.

Sir Edward Heath said...

What a marvellous, original and insightful speech, Gladstone - as always. I have had so many experiences, especially over these last twenty years, that they would be too numerous to account and document in full here. Mind you, saying that, it wouldn't normally stop me. Hee! Hee! Hee!

What I find amusing is that it is usually pensioners and the "elders and betters" who are the first to complain about "those manners of the youth" and "this most terrible young generation" - complete with rolling eyes and raised eyebrows. Yet, from my own experience, it seems to me, it is often the pensioners and the elders who are the rudest and thereby set the most terrible example. Me, me, me, me. Mind you their generation did vote for "that woman". That explains everything.

Indeed, many years ago, out of politeness and a sense of fairness to the much weaker but fairer sex, I decided to take "a leap of faith" and brought a certain woman into my Cabinet. Hmmm. Look what happened to me.

Like Lord Best I have also found that the "most ladylike ladies" are the Muslim ladies. Without wishing to sound patronising which, I admit, is a tragic human trait of mine, I do find these Muslim ladies kind, gentle and completely unassuming. In a way, sort of grateful and almost "taken aback" that you've actually bothered to speak to them and taken time to listen to their views.

Perhaps these pensioners, many of whom are actually responsible for changing our society into the secular and overly materialistic nuthouse that it has become, have some lessons to learn from the Muslims. Heaven forbid the thought! For I believe there are always wider lessons for us to learn from the devout and God fearing amongst us - whether they be a Muslim or whatever.

I know I be completely mocked for my own simple faith. As I once be mocked in my youth for having my head in the books, playing the piano and refusing to wear "the passing fashions and fancies of the day". Yet if a man is to develop a character of any value, he should surely lead by example rather than follow the "common" rabble looking and longing for their constant approval. As if that had any actual value, merit or worth in itself.

Mind you, saying all this, a lot of these pensioners would find it very difficult to listen and learn from Muslims. For many of them would be far too busy dreaming up some witty "racist" joke - in order to "bravely challenge the modern consensus on political correctness". Says all I need to know. In many ways, as unkind as it sounds, some of these old folk deserve the society that they have got. It merely reflects them.

Kipling said...

Gladstone,

My sympathies. I have a fairly large collection of JS Bach and Handel oratorios - are there any Handel fans who aren't monarchists? How many of us are left?

However much we wish the world retained its ancient civilities and culture of appropriate deference, the rot is pretty deep now. It is the return of the primitive.

I don't believe people should get more than they deserve, so helping out ungrateful ruffians and sluts is probably a waste of time.

I recall a scene from the movie Patton. A German general is asking questions about the personality of the American commander. An assistant explains the story of Patton rescuing a woman from two men pushing her into the back of a truck. The men were her husband and brother. The German general shrugs and says that this is the 20th century. Yes, replies the assistant, but Patton is a 16th century man.

I think it is fair to say we're all Edwardians here, whatever our political and religious beliefs. The words of Voltaire keep returning to me, they are not
what one wishes to say but what perhaps needs to be said: cultivate your own garden.

It's isolationist, I know, but we are reaching a stage where anything else might be suicidal. Gladstone you could have been easily killed doing those noble tasks. There are too few of us left.

I'd suggest moving away to some island where these values still held sway. That island would be off the coast of France ideally, but England is dead, Canada is going and America, for all its virtues, is rather too democratic for my tastes.

I've heard good things about Bermuda?

Regards,

Moshea bat Abraham said...

Dear Sir,

Thank you for continuing to uphold the banner of gentlemanly behavior through such adversity. We are all indebted to you.

C.Scott said...

Sir:

Please continue to be a gentleman. We live in a world so lacking in gentility that whenever a true exhibition of it is seen, it shocks, sometimes positively and sometimes negatively.

Still, I give honour to your actions and state firmly that I refuse to let the coarse and base society which surrounds me dictate my behaviour. Every human being bears the image of the Divine; and in that image is dignity, even if, and especially if in spite of, that particular human being lacks the ability to see their worth.

Sincerely,
CSM

Anonymous said...

Gladstone, et al- My, my. I do wonder about many of you here. There is still a role in this world for a Good Man; but beware this idea of 'Gentleman' you affect. Pretence to being a true man through choice in fashion or music is as ugly as the gutter trash who choose a fashion and music you dislike.

I like what you have said, Kipling, but I rather think the situation is not quite as dire as you think. A correction is coming.

I will also disagree with you who praise the Musselmen, or women. They are the fountain which spews the vile, murderous trash that would tear down what little we have left.

Anonymous said...

Well said "Anonymous" (before me) -- love the first paragraph especially. Maybe you should take a look at yourself Mr. Gladstone, if there appears to be a frequent misinterpretation of your "gentlemanly" intentions, instead of blaming society and coming across as sanctimonious. Just a thought from a psychologist.

Lord Best said...

And we see the common response of the moronic elements of society to true gentlemanly behaviour: to allege that it is an affectation rather than simply treating others with respect and dignity. Rather ironically coupled with bigotry in this case.
"They are the fountain which spews the vile, murderous trash that would tear down what little we have left."
No, no, that is people like you. People who would have ua waste our time and resources fighting the wrong battles in the wrong places against the wrong enemies.

Sir Edward Heath said...

Well said dear Lord Best. Next Mr and Mrs Anonymous will be suggesting that gangster rap music and walking the city streets like a mugger is a perfectly acceptable way to behave. Indeed, the psychologists amongst us will no doubt try to argue that it is "a social and cultural norm" and proves beyond doubt "that we are all equal now". Indeed, the psychologists will also try to argue that it is "the height of social refinement, taste and class to listen to rap music and to hang around outside Spar shops". He will then go on to add that all those aged under thirty who listen, and dare I say enjoy, Bach or Handel, should have their heads read instead. Trouble is, if all these psychologists and psycobabblers had their own heads read it would be found to be a closed book - and not a very good one at that. Hee! Hee! Hee!

Mr and Mrs Anonymous have clearly missed the point about Bach and Handel. We do not mind that other people do not listen to them, however beneficial that would be for their poor, blighted and deprived souls. We merely ask that they respect the fact that other people do like to listen and have rather different "tastes", dare I say "more refined tastes" - rather than launching an empty headed tirade of personal abuse based on prejudice rather than the facts. For example, saying it is all an affectation, rather than making the effort themselves and simply treating others with basic respect, dignity and, dare I say, courtesy. Indeed, the trouble with courtesy today is that it is no longer common - unlike the more "common" aspects of our increasingly degenerate, lost and vulgar society.

Indeed, I have not spent the past twenty years fighting a counter revolution and being treated like an idiot and a social pariah, just to change course now and for you - "the enemy within". As "that woman" once said to me.

Lord Best said...

Excellent post, Sir Edward. Just wait, the next thing will be them deflecting just criticism of them by accusing us of defending Islam or some such rot.

I was laughed at for wearing a cravat the other day, by someone wearing a black hoodie on a 40 degree centigrade day. With the hood up.

Sir Edward Heath said...

Get away.

Happens to me all the time.

Hee! Hee! Hee!

Anonymous said...

People who would have ua waste our time and resources fighting the wrong battles in the wrong places against the wrong enemies.

Indeed that is not I- that would instead be the Yanks and their Labour lapdogs. I would say to you that it is indeed the wrong battle, and the wrong place. The battle would better be in the UK and Europe. Shall likely be, in any case. And what do you care, down under? Too close to Indonesia to lift your head?

Sadly it seems that this 'blog' is frequented by pretentious children. Shouldn't you tykes be studying for your GCSEs?

mandy said...

This is a sad world we live in, but when I find myself despairing over the barbarism so often seen today, I visit this blog and am reminded that all is not lost. Thank you.

Lord Best said...

"The battle would better be in the UK and Europe"
The locations are right, the targets are still wrong. The problem is not Muslims, or even fundamentalist Muslims, but their relatively cohesive cultures abrading with our fragmented and disjointed one. It is our weakness, nor them, we need to be fighting.
Part of that would, I admit, be curbing non-Western migration.

Anonymous said...

Best, thank you for your even response. Your solution does cut out some of the risk, but I disagree that the target is wrong, and in your answer I rather think you admit the appropriateness of the target.

I appreciate the insight to our own situation. I do not think our own society (or societies, as I consider Canada, UK, Australia, NZ the question) is beyond correction. I do not see a need for a 'fix', just a course correction.

Their society is only cohesive across their nations due to their religion, and hatred of those not of their religion.

Heath- you still can't read for content, your poor boy.

Anonymous said...

You left out in your initial fable of the accosted damsel that you slapped the dastardly villain with your glove and then ran him through with your saber; you pretentious pranny.

I believe the truth is that you were actually the one accosting the lady, and this is why you got sprayed. I am sure in your delusions as an aristocrat you also believe you can rape the peasant women as you please with no recourse.

You are an ass sir.

Sir Edward Heath said...

Anonymous (12:17). No, no, I think Best and I have got the full measure of you. Someone who does talk of the need for correction but doesn't yet realise that he is part of the problem that, as you suggest yourself, needs "correcting". As for being able to read and putting forward a coherent argument, I do have pre-Labour GCSEs. Hee! Hee! Hee!

Anonymous said...

How many times can others misinterpret your modest, altruistic acts before you take a leap and peer inward? You sound like the parent who, upon noticing his son out-of-step with the marching band, remarks, "Look. My Johnny is the only one keeping the beat." Maybe, just maybe, it's not the ungentlemanly world, Darling. Maybe, just maybe, your ego makes YOU and a true GENTLEMAN mutually exclusive concepts.

Gladstone said...

Anonymous (12:26): Had it been within the law, then yes I would've ran the cad through. Such behavior is utterly unacceptable. But, alas, such an act would be outside the law, and I will only act within the law of my country.

And no, I was not accosting the lady. If I wish for the company of a lady, I ask if her if she would like to accompany me somewhere, say to a film or a dinner. I treat a lady with the respect she's due. That is the conduct of a gentleman. It is not based on any aristocratic pretensions, it is simply how one should act.

Perhaps you think I am an ass. But you, sir, are a cad.

Gladstone said...

Also, one correction, if it had been within the law and I had a sabre on me, then yes I would've ran him through.

Anonymous said...

That's kind of funny, Gladstone, not sure if it was meant as such, but it certainly provided a little levity!!! Maybe there is hope that a gentleman can also have a sense of humor.

Lord Best said...

I know a chap who can make a superb sabre, should ever the law change...
Deep down people know they should be treaty others in a polite and courteous manner, and that they are too lazy and self centred to do so. This in turn results in a sense of deep discomfiture of seeing others making the effort. In order to combat this gnawing feel of inadequacy they try and assign dubious motives to such behaviour, thus the vitriol towards true ladies and gentlemen.

Etienne Rouge Gregoire Marchand said...

Absolutely splendid post. It was indeed very uplifting. Never compromise your gentlemanly behaviour, and never become discouraged! By the way, I listen to Handel religiously and find him very fine indeed. Zadok the Priest!


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Remembrance Day Hymns: O Valiant Hearts; Abide With Me
For Liberty and Livelihood! Duke of Norfolk leads hunt protest ban
Keating Remembers: "I have never been to Gallipoli, and I never will"
John Cleese a Republican? An anti-monarchist rant worthy of Monty Python
Balfour Declaration: The precursor to the Statute of Westminster
Beaverbrook's Grandson: SAS Major Sebastian Morley resigns in disgust
"His Mightiness": Yanks and the royals; the Eagle and the Crown
England Expects: The Hero of Trafalgar at 250
Harper and Howard: An embarrassing example of Anglosphere Unity
Crowning Insult: Labour's legacy will be its destruction of the monarchy
Her Excellency: An Interview with Governor-General Quentin Bryce
Age of Oversensitivity: Churchill wouldn't stand a chance in Canadian election
William of Wales: Prince chooses RAF career over that of a 'working Royal'
Australia's Loyal Opposition: Republican Turnbull now on Queen's side
Loyal Subject: The Age of Elizabeth II, by A.N. Wilson
Tory Icon? Daniel Hannan says British Tories should follow Stephen Harper
Chasing Churchill: Around the world with Winston
Her Majesty The Queen - A Life in Film
The Crown in Oz: Australia swears in first female governor-general
Lèse majesté? The Royal Australian Institute of Architects drops the 'royal'
Rest In Peace: David Lumsden of Cushnie (1933-2008), President of the 1745 Assn.
Monarchies Rule: Prominent Australian republican says monarchies are the best
Sir Don Bradman: Oz remembers The Don, the greatest cricketer batsman of all time
Padre Benton: The Living Tradition in Piddingworth
"Stodgy anachronism" More moist, vapid effusions from the Diana cult
Drool Britannia: London Summer Olympics 2012
Taki the Aristocrat: Unrepentedly wealthy and well mannered
Wanted: Uncorker Message in a bottle faster than Royal Mail
The Other St. George: Will Georgia restore its monarchy?
Gentlemen's Clubs: The Great Club Revolution of New York
The Laughing Cavalier: What an utterly absurd article
Health unto His Future Majesty: "Royalty dares to challenge the New Order"
"Grace, Your Grouse!" Better to kill a fellow gun than wing a beater
Boys will be adventurous: To Ulaanbaatar by London cab
A King's Breakfast: A trenchant defence of the full English breakfast
Republican beer: Forget Coopers, support Fosters
Trafalgar Square: Sanity prevails on the fourth plinth
The Empire Builder: How James Hill built a railroad without subsidies
"Harvard was not amused": Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918–2008
Greatest Briton: Wellington is "greater than Churchill"
Death of the Necktie? A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life
Not Amused: The next Chief Justice of Australia to be a republican
Royal New Zealand Air Force: God Save N.Z. from the Cannibals
Why English Pubs are Dying: The totalitarian smoking ban.
Swooning over Princess Obama: A Coronation or the Second Coming?
Dreams of an Academic: Gough Whitlam to have the last laugh?
Joshua Slocum meet President Kruger: Yet another reason to love the Boers
Changing of the Guard: Annual Inspection at Rideau Hall
H.M.S. Iron Duke: A Foe for William and Sea Room
Fountain of Honour: Australian pop star gets Order of the British Empire
DOMINION DAY: Read David Warren's Lament for a Nation
Kiwi Tribalism: Sealords, Treelords, what are New Zealanders coming to?
Of Queen and Country: John Elder disects the current state of monarchy in Oz
Not Amused: The Olympic Games trump Buckingham Palace
CMR Returns: The Royal Military College of St. John
Hereditary peers overwhelmingly rejected the Lisbon Treaty
Archbishop Cranmer: Royal Assent given to the Treaty of Lisbon
Crown Commonwealth: Referendum confirms Her Majesty as Queen of Tuvalu
Duke of York: Prince Andrew Visits Troops in Afghanistan
Treaty of Lisbon: A Litmus Test for the British Monarchy
The Queen and I: The man who caused royal kerfuffle gives view of the monarchy
HMS Ontario sunk in 1780, found intact! at bottom of Lake Ontario
Hold the Lime, Bartender: Only lemon properly complements a gin and tonic
Elizabethans Down Under: Are most Australian monarchists merely "Elizabethans"?
Edwardian Gentleman: What To Do When You Find a Hohenzollern in Your Study
Hooray for Kid's Day!! Melbourne newspaper won't come of Age
Unhappy Kingdom: Why Liberal Democracy is Failing Us
Knightless Realm: The world yawns as John Howard is made an AC
Scots Tory: Bring Back the Stiff Upper Lip, says Gerald Warner
HMY Britannia: Let's lay the keel for a new royal yacht
For Queen, Country and Low Pay: PM pledges to do better
Maple Leaf republic? Roger Kimball's sleight of hand (since corrected!)
Queen's Birthday: New Zealand unveils new Vice-Regal Standard
Prince Charming: Quebec author calls Canadian G-G a "negro queen"
The Senior Service: Sub-Lieutenant Wales to take on Pirates of the Caribbean
Crown of Disenchantment: What does it require to withhold royal assent?
Colonial Mentality: Key republican thinks Victoria Cross is a colonial relic
The Red Baron: Billy Bishop, not Mannock, was the British Empire's top ace
Which Scots conservatism: Unionist or Nationalist?
Loyal Subject: After all she has done, we owe the Queen our oath
Victoria Day – Fête de la Reine: Official B'day of the Queen of Canada
Renaming the Victoria Day Weekend: Let's get rid of Heritage Day Bob
Pro Valore: Canada mints its own Victoria Cross in time for Victoria Day
State Visit to Turkey: Mustafa Akyol says God Save the Queen, Indeed
Norn Iron Unites: What issue is uniting all parties of Northern Ireland?
Extreme Loyalist: Michael Stone attempted to slit the throats of Adams and McGuinness because he just "can't handle" republicans being in government.
Canada's Vice-Regal dubbed an elegant mix between Lady Di and Nelson Mandela
Queen of Australia: Support for Australian republic hits new low
A Heroes Welcome: The Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo, 8-10 May 2008
Fat, Vile and Impudent: Alan Fotheringham is back on the bottle
The Devine Right of Bling: Our Royals have become hereditary celebrities
Battle of the Atlantic: Canadians remember the longest battle of WW2
Old Etonian Toff: Boris Johnson installed as Tory Mayor of London
Britain needs a Patron Saint: Cry God for Harry, Britain and St. Aiden?
Anglos in Mont-Royal: Rooting for the Montreal Canadiens
Daniel Hannan: Borders of the Anglosphere and the British Empire was a mistake
Australia 2020: One Big Fat Republican Con Job
Bye bye Tommy: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy go away"
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Carpetbaggers Down Under: Kevin 'Mugabe' Rudd wins 98.5% support for republic
Kipling: The Jeremiah of Empire and the Poet Laureate of Civilisation
Duke of Edinburgh: Behind the gaffes is a man of real sincerity
Lord Rutherford: The Father of the Atom lives on in great great grandson
Queen of Australia: Royalty Protects us from Tyranny, David Barnett
Long Live the Broadsheet! Norumbega, more traditionalist than the Pope.
A Tale of Two Countries: Soldiers of Britain and Canada serve the same Queen but...
Loyal Subject: Polishing the Royal Crown, Matt Bondy & Brendon Bedford
Devoted to the End: Obituary of Sir Phillip Bridges
The Monarchist does not recognize the Republic of Kosova
Loyal Subject: MPs Ruse Defeated; God Save the Queen!
St. Paddy's Day: Edmund Burke, the greatest Irishman who ever lived
Not Amused: The Bunkum of Timothy Garton Ash
Hero Harry: Rave Reviews across the Commonwealth
Patriot Prince: Prince Harry fought for us all, Charles Moore
William F. Buckley, RIP: He had a Tory gratitude for the pleasures of life
Their Lordships' Duty: The House of Lords can influence the Lisbon Treaty debate
Knights of Oz: Revive Sirs or I'll have your guts for garters
Peter Hitchens: People love the Queen...and the BBC hates us for it
Our Greatest Monarch: Paul Johnson says Henry V was our greatest monarch
Princess Diana Inquest: A Dirty Raincoat Show for the World
Malcom Turnbull: 'Queen's death will spark republican vote'
Duke of York: The Royals are not "stuffed dummies". They should have their say
Peers of the Realm: The decline and fall of the House of Lords - Charles A. Coulombe
Peter Hitchens: Get rid of the monarchy and you will get rid of a guardian of liberty
THE FALL OF CHURCHILL
Honouring Sir Edmund Hillary
The Queen versus an E.U. President
Going Solo: Prince William earns his Wings
James C. Bennett: The Third Anglosphere Century
Knights of Oz: Revive Sirs or I'll have your guts for garters
Princess Diana Inquest: A Dirty Raincoat Show for the World
Malcom Turnbull: 'Queen's death will spark republican vote'
Future Peer: The life and times of Lady Victoria Beckham
Peers of the Realm: The decline and fall of the House of Lords - Charles A. Coulombe
Peter Hitchens: Get rid of the monarchy and you will get rid of a guardian of liberty


2007 ARTICLES


New York Times: Ever Backwards into the Royal Future
Peter Hitchens: People love the Queen...and the BBC hates us for it
Christopher Hitchens: An Anglosphere Future
Andrew Cusack: Republicanism is a traitor's game
DIAMOND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Courageous Patrician: Rt Hon Ian Douglas Smith (1919-2007)
The Last Rhodesian: What began with Rhodes and ended with Ian?
Gentleman Journalist: The Lord Baron W.F. Deedes, 1913-2007
Not Amused: Blair's sinister campaign to undermine the Queen
Loyal Subject: Queen Elizabeth: A stranger in her own country
Reverence Deference: Bowing and Scraping Back in Tradition
Rex Murphy: Kennedy, Churchill, Lincoln - The rousing bon mot is no more
Gerald Warner: Don't shed a tear for Diana cult in its death throes
The End of Grandeur: Rich, chincy Canada puts Strathmore on the blocks
Confessions of a Republican Leftie: "The Queen charmed the pants off me"
The King's Own Calgary Regiment: Cpl. Nathan Hornburg is laid to rest
The Royal Gurkha Rifles: Prince William grieves the death of Major Roberts
Queensland Mounted Rifles: Trooper David Pearce, 41, killed in Afghanistan
The Order of Canada: 100 investitures later, Canada's highest honour turns 40
Prince Edward on Prince Edward Island: Troop's link to monarchy important
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN: Unveils the UK Armed Forces Memorial
Great Britain: "A rotten borough with a banana monarchy" - by Europhile
FADE BRITANNIA: THE UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND IS OVER - Simon Heffer
Peers of the Realm: The decline and fall of the House of Lords - Charles A. Coulombe
Remembering 'Smithy': An obituary tour de force by Andrew Cusack here, here and here.
NOT AMUSED: Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Quebec not invited to Quebec's tercentenary