North Stoke Life

Give them a way out  Creating a pathway for them to defect from the uni-state is a far more viable strategy for saving the nation. Its fairly clear to most people in the US and UK there are 2 large collectives competing for overall power: those who love their nation and those who do not. Many loyal nationalists are saying the dishonourable should be severely punished. This is a terrible mistake strategically. Creating a pathway for the dishonourable collective to defect from the uni-state is a far more viable strategy for saving the nation. I know that's not the satisfying answer. When people have betrayed their own country, the instinct is to promise them the worst: public humiliation, harsh punishment, a reckoning they'll never forget. It feels like justice, and it may even be deserved. But it's bad strategy. Why threats backfire Think about it from their side of the line. If you promise humiliation and punishment in advance, you've told the...

In Leviticus 25 it says "you must not sell the land forever".  Meaning the land does not belong to humanity, it cannot be sold without future redemption and by implication its value in rent cannot therefore not be privatised without breaking the covenant.  Because it does not belong to humanity, but God. The land, if sold under duress, must eventually be returned to God, even if that means an economic shock or systemic default. There is an exemption clause to this rule for those who lived behind the city walls. This was because during invasions, those who lived outside the walls were promised their protection. And this was a duty and obligation owed by city people. The law is moot if it cannot protect you.  The owners of land behind the city walls were allowed to sell their land forever(keep the economic rents). In exchange for a covenant obligation to give protection to those from the fields when under invasion. Eventually, this obligation was obviated when there were no...

How would you define the political spectrum today compared to Restore Britain? This essay proposes that although there is a left leaning modern day Popular Front with its opponent seen as a 'conservative alliance' of the right, is not the whole picture at all. And that Restore Britain is seen by both as a threat. On the left as existential to them and on the right as chaotically unnecessary. The left and the right are curiously both acting as conservatives trying to protect the existing establishment of just 2 sides. It's difficult to say Restore are not Right wing. But I'm going to say it and call it out as something different altogether. Not beyond the right as in far-right or further still. I'm going to call Restore Britain the only radical party in the nation. Neither left nor right per se. And going to the root of the nations problems when all other party's are avoiding that so conservatively.  Article:  The Popular Front Are Not 'They' Your articl...

Part 2 I am writing this in the counting house that was closed for three seasons. The shutters are open. Outside, the cedar wind is moving again across the upper terraces, and for the first time in years I hear children calling in the old tongue as they cross the square.   You came when the silver had almost stopped. The central halls had grown quiet in a different way - not the silence of people who preferred not to speak, but the silence of people who no longer expected anyone to answer. Most of us had already decided the lower terraces belonged to whoever filled them. We took what was still issued, kept the doors barred, and told ourselves the ships would eventually slow. They did not.   You did not arrive with banners. You walked the outer roads first, the ones the remaining clans had stopped maintaining. You spoke to the dock workers and the terrace keepers in the languages they already used, and then you spoke to us in the one we had almost stopped teaching our...

Part 1 On the high plateaus of Vael’thara the wind still carries the scent of the old cedar forests, though fewer of us walk among them now. I write this from a settlement that was once a market town and is now a place people pass through quickly, if they can. The elders who remain call it by its proper name; the newer arrivals have begun calling it something else, shorter and harder in the mouth. We were not conquered. No fleet darkened the sky. No army broke the outer gates. The ships simply kept coming, year after year, and the people who stepped from them were not interested in the old songs or the old laws. Many of them said, plainly enough among themselves, that the plateau folk were soft, that their temples were empty, that their young had stopped having children and preferred the comfort of the silver stipends the central halls still issued every month. They were not wrong about the last part. For two generations the native clans had grown fewer. The numbers were kept in the ol...