A Nation Of Fortifications: North East Mini-Tour
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The fence is a symptom of hyper-feminism; rails, cotton wool, bubble wrap.
@@thomasmooney5653 Absolutely.
@@MorgothsReview1 the fence is there in case the Bishop tries to toss you off....
@@pablolowenstein1371 That sounds rude, too many in the priesthood like to toss others off, methinks.
As English diaspora in Canada, anytime I visit the UK I'm overwhelmed by the history and Englishness of it all. From the cathedrals to the local pubs to the historic sites, I would hope that the English themselves aren't so immersed in it that they're blind to it. It's sparse and empty on the frontier; the homeland is worth fighting for.
@@nikovidya7994 The abolition of the English people and their culture is already one of the great tragedies of history and it will only get worse. The criminals committing this torture-murder are doing it real time and blaming the victims for their ingratitude. Look beyond the symptoms and ask who is behind the plan of national suicide?
@@sonofacheron Capitalism?
Hi, Morgoth. Nice to see you again. 6 year viewer here. Regards, from Southport.
Lovely, this is a proper old school format of mine too.
Stay safe down in Southport and God bless
Lovely. I'm so glad that I live in a Victorian town. Yhe architecture is beautiful and sophisticated. Additionally, there's plenty of countryside here that's untouched. You're welcome any time. 😊
@roddymurray it's normally one of the safest places in England. It's awful that anything has touched this beautiful place.
Love Southport was there 2 years ago playing hillside and Birkdale been many times before as well
I'd watch hours of Morgoth just walking around Britain poetically commentating on the absurdity of his surroundings.
@@phoenix-613 Morgoth the Far Right ASMR Thug
Me too! I'd love to see more of those kind of videos.
"This week on Coast, Neil Oliver explores a new community of winklers, Tom Rowsell investigates a neolithic crime scene, and Morgoth pontificates about the fortifications of the North East".
@@Silphwave «thug» isn’t a word that would occur to me. Defo agree with your first comment though.
@lutherburgsvik6849 I'd pay my license fee for that Sunday night line up.
I've often gone to St Cuthbert's shrine at the cathedral to pray for wisdom when I'm unsure on something. He's never failed me yet
I love the name Cuthbert! I had an orange cat some years ago I named Cuthbert. He was a true gentle men kitty.
You don't need any smoke blown up your arse by any means, but you are above and beyond the most consistent, informative and frankly correct commentator around this 'space'.
As much as I enjoy others, there will always be a divide between the majority of those who are from middle class backgrounds and the true working class relatability from yourself, as I know you too know what it's like to get up in the dark on a cold winter's morning and having to graft until night returns just so you can pay the rent and have something to eat at night.
I have been a long time Substack suscriber and will never cancel as the idea of you having to return to a factory, as you would say, really boils my piss.
Your work has become legend. You have become myth.
Live long and I hope my grandkids tell tales of the man from the North East.
Wow thanks friend.
If youre working class from the north east it doesnt get better than morgoth
I have a few acquaintances who obsess over traveling. They are quintessential tourists, always booking cruises to be among foreigners and other tourists, always sending pictures of their activities and meals. To me it feels so hollow. For me to truly enjoy and appreciate a place I can't just stroll through it. I don't know what caused this disease of tourism obsession in our people but it's disgusting to me. I think what is missing is the concept of being "of" a place and therefore you in a way owning and being responsible for it and it owning and being responsible for you. These people look at places where hundreds or thousands of generations have lived and died like they are fungible assets and not miracles of our reality.
Reminds me of people who go to all inclusive resorts, use the pool, eat in the hotel and say they've experienced Turkey! I travelled all of Europe in the 90s by car, bus, and backpacking. Went down all the side streets, dive -bars, working class areas as well as the main beauty spots. Met real people so I can say I do know the real Europe.
Went to a seaside town in Wales. The hotel on the seafront where we stayed had walls covered in framed photos of the sea front from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Standing room only on the beach for as far as the eye could see. Looking at the photos you could see and feel the joy of the families. Present day, as far as the eye can see, boulders, grey boulders, large boulders covering all the beach, into the sea. No human or dog could navigate them. Locals were allotted a small sandy cove as recompense. Just one word, Evil.
Pendine?
Borth?
Llandudno
@@DiaDeLosMuertos666 correct.
The natives deserve to have peace, safety, and indeed a happy, healthy and united future with communities and all that follows, in the only place on the world that is our home, our 'safe space' if you will. We will have justice eventually.
What makes you so sure? I want to believe you, but look what happened to our indigenous celtic culture
@@greasybumpkin1661 In 1991 Kazakhs composed only 39% of their nation's population. Now they compose 71%.
Never give up.
@@THRACIA776ISTHEGREATEST duly noted.
The only thing you’re getting is replaced
We too once had our ‘safe space,’ but your “people” destroyed the only place we called home. Now, all we ask is to share yours. *This is our home too ;-)* We’re happy and comfortable here, and we’re not going anywhere anytime soon. Best wishes!
Durham has had its heart ripped out. All there is in town is student eateries.
Exactly. Same with Newcastle, almost entirely a student enclave.
Durham is dull if you’re familiar with it. Nice to walk around, a few decent boozers but it’s limited and because it’s so compact you’ll quickly have the usual corporate presence looming into view.
Newcastle a relatively small city but with big(ger) city aspirations from the city ‘leaders’. They’ve just allowed it to become a student dorm with increasingly tacky and/or pseudo swank nightlife - pseudo as in as far removed from swank as imaginable!
Loads of decent old boozers gone/on their @rse.
Almost nothing is untouched by the disappointing wet dreams of those so-called city leaders…
same with Huddersfield of all places!
I’m a student at Durham, and have fallen in love with the city. The tourism and the studentification dampens it, but is beautiful nonetheless.
Durham is a jewl. As much as the North East gets shat on. Its still always gives me a warm feeling. The people are unlike anywhere else in England. And its mainly demographically intact. With the exception of boro.
Demographically intact? You'd get a shock if you visited Durham now then, its full of them.
I come from Durham miner stock, my Gran loved visits with her dad to Bamburgh Castle as a child, through the stories you sort of demand in your heart to live where they lived, not in the past but in a land that still resembles their time with their sense of belonging and liberty
Morgoth - standing alone in his field.
Literally and figuratively.
Thank you once again 💪😊
Whats the sign of a good farmer?
A man out-standing in his field!
@@whiggles9203 😂😂 which is the phrase I was searching in vain for all along! 🤪
1:10 The peace symbol is the upside down version of the ancient rune symbolizing friendship (upside down runes have the opposite meaning of the normal rune). So metaphysically, the peace symbol really symbolizes discord, and pours that into the world whenever it is looked upon, even if the beholder doesn’t understand the true meaning. This is unfortunetaly how sigils and sorcery (which God forbids) work, Saint Paisios the Athonite fortold in prophecy that the Zi@&ists would employ sorcery (which again is a blasphemy against God) to establish world hegemony and the rule of their false messiah the antichrist. I don’t know if his prophecy is true but it is certainly interesting.
Thanks for this I had no idea.
I never noticed that before. Thanks.
Peace Symbolism
In the 20th century, the upside-down cross gained a new significance as a symbol of peace. The designer of the modern peace sign, Fredric Warren Holtom, considered the Cross of Nero as a representation of despair and brokenness. This interpretation was later adopted by some as a symbol of anti-war and anti-violence movements.
@@mart8564 Interesting!
Touch grass my guy
Always good to see you, Morgoth 🏴
Great, Morgoth has posted. 18 minutes of sanity and saying what we're all thinking.
Stunning location up there Morgoth! My town isnt a patch on it down here in SW Wales unfortunately. Local councils have let it rot, & I'm only seeing more & more "Barber shops" & "Nail Bars" popping up which some hiw seem to "thrive" despite very little customers. Noticing an increase in the change of "locals" aswell. With all the rapidly increasing constrictions that I'm seeing in every day life, I'm starting to wish that I could find a nice log cabin in the middle of nowhere & disappear away from all this insanity & have some peace. All the best ❤
This barber shops and nail bars are probably laundering money.
Happening all accross the South.I've watched the wonderful place I loved & grew up in on the banks of the Hamble river systermaticaslly destroyed by the shear number of people moving in....There you have the problem we have bred like rats & are destroying everything.It's all about qauntity not qaulity.
England is a family in a home, a small back yard, a patch of nature, that is shaped to the family's will. Very little maintenance or interference in this way of life is required. Society is stable, and yes, boring, predictable, relaxed. With little in the way of pressure.
Now there's government involved in everything, people who aren't familiar, families atomised, gardens concreted, roads full, crime rampant, drug use rife, new unaffordable houses built in their thousands over green fields.
Our freedom to breathe a little gone. And for what? A few men at the top of society to make enormous sums of money whilst robbing the rest of us of our small piece of England.
The fence is probably there to stop people from throwing themselves over having had enough of it all lol.
Nah it’s to stop ethnic kids from climbing all over the ancient wall. That’s the sort of things lol they do
Thanks Morgoth! Helps us all keep leaning into the winds!
This is great, and what you do best. Your writing is fantastic, but these videos are what set you apart. Some wonderful photography too, great composition and choice of shot.
Found that fantastic pal, thanks. Beautiful music, wonderful scenery, intelligent analysis. I'm a Scottish Independence supporter, always have been, though I've gone from staunch to semi-ambivalent as the movement was infected by the very same people that have caused so much destruction across the West. At this moment, it seems less about borders within the UK and something much more primal. Keep spreading the message, and all the best.
Great to see a return of such content from the poet of the North.
Being from the Western end of Hadrian's wall but now living in Rome I appreciate exploring the Northern English & Scottish countryside more every time I am back, tearing out the tendrills of modernity for a while & uncovering old secrets from the ancient landscape.
As ever Morgoth illuminates the absurdity and futility in the attempts to disconnect the spirit of a peoples from their homeland.
"There's been trouble before on this Islands, and there will be trouble again" Yep
Based and Whaling Pilled.
To me there is nothing more lovely and cozy than the english countyside . As a child i had the the wind in the willows and nursery rhymes read to me by my mom. I'm ethnically german but i am a canadian citizen. I have lived in canada for 5 years and contrary to germany i have feelings associated with Canada. I guess you could call me anglophilic .the anglossphere is something im not really a part of physically at the moment , but it is alive in my mind and psyche everyday.
I enjoyed the shrines at Durham cathedral. Cathedrals make me feel at home. When you see a black family wandering around a majestic English cathedral it really puts things into focus, these people are not capable of building things like this, but they've leapfrogged 50,000 years of evolution by taking a plane to our country, now they have the privilege of experiencing something that we created, something they couldn't even imagine.
I thought they waz kangz?
Henry VIII was black.
The arrogance and ignorance of thinking a Sub Saharan could suddenly "become European" or "become English" through proximity is astounding.
what’s funny is how little they give a toss about any of it. when I was at oxford it was crazy how many of these people walked around medieval halls as if they were the same drywall municipal newbuild warrens that exist everywhere else. zero interest in any of it
@@winstonwolf5706 Get in the sea
Been sailing around England this week. Thinking a lot about how much I love my country.
"Nothing is over!" -- Rambo
2:59 one of the most English things I’ve ever seen, that looks fantastic.
John Constable could’ve painted the scene
@@whiggles9203 Definitely.
Every upload appreciated. Thank you glad you’re well
Yes Britain was always heavily fortified, right back to the Iron Age hill forts, Roman's, Anglo-Saxons, Norse, Norman's, all had to fight and fight hard. Loved the Whaler song.
I've had exactly the same thoughts. When they portray the time of Wessex and the Danelaw as a 'multicultural society', I don't know if it is just ignorance or they actually intend for modern Britain to be enclaves of people living under different laws. A 'two tier' system if you will.
Things are happening though, the regime has annoyed a lot of people. Today I see the respectable middle class parents of the Nottingham victims sounding pretty angry at the institutions on GBN or Sky News. Feels significant, a different ball game to the proles rioting.
There's rampant fencing off just about everywhere now. No apparent reason but this is to get us used to being herded.
Coming up with ideas for what buildings have to be put on the land is easy. Building them with your blood and sweat is what is the hard part of it. Without the descendants of the men who have build them still living in the neighborhood, the buildings still standing have no worth. It is a very important reason why I have never been to Paris. It are cities with empty meaning.
Actual peoples vs the abstract globoh*m* idea of "the people"
I appreciate your content, also X. It keeps me sane .
an old spirit stirs awake, it alone wont be enough, but it may lead to something that can survive
Great to see you back on you tube 😃🍀
In an alternate universe there exists Morgoth, travel vlogger. He got his start after being banned one too many times from lonelyplanet.
NO! history is not over, our present degenerate overlords think it’s going to be easy, well it’s isn’t. I can trace my family back to Flodens bloody field , my great great Grandfather stood in the 27th Square at Waterloo with Wellington , my Grandfather went over the top at the Somme with A coy 11th Royal Irish Rifles , my Da landed with the Ulster rifles on D Day and crossed the Rhine , I served 22 year with Colours RIR and three Wars . Oh no he assured it wont easy.
Hopefully you were able to pay respects to your great native son, Bede, at Durham Cathedral.
Of course, it’s Cuthbert’s resting place too. So it was nice to see shots of Inner Farne at the beginning of the video, the place of his solitude away from the world.
The legend goes that Cuthbert was discovered incorrupt long after his death. Difficult to imagine that any of our current leaders would be found to be uncorrupted, whether long after their deaths, or before them.
Very thought provoking and well put together, Morgoth.
Make me miss living in maine sometimes. The smell of the sea and lack of people is quite refreshing. Cheers morgoth.
Looks Beautiful Mortgoth, its depressing me so much lately seeing the destruction being inflicted upon our countries ( im in Ireland) i fear all that wonderful history and culture will be erased.
Great video Morgoth. Thanks, as always.
Never would have thought of Durham as a place to visit.. but it looks really lovely!
Durham is the prettiest city in the north of England and has an amazing cathedral, while the city centre section is this narrow peninsula where the river runs around it and the buildings are crammed in.
@@skatemetrix sounds absolutely lovely! Think it'll be on my bucket list
@@IrishRose Great stuff! The most scenic stuff in England is nearly always in the northeast and northwest: mountains, countryside, industry, canals, castles, etc.
I went to Durham for a few nights, last year. Also visited Bishop Auckland and Barnard Castle whilst I was there. Lovely places.
Thank you Morgoth, that realy touched my heart.
Government safety cage 😂 I’m surprised they let you go up the stairs.
I’ve been looking forward to morgoths take 🙂
Nice to see the Northumbria landscape at the end. Mind you Ashington and Blyth in Northumbria have seen massive demographic changes recently as have the County Durham ex-pit villages (as is widely known).
Great vid was in durham a few months ago and bamburgh lindisfarne etc on holiday from wales love it ,love the north full stop ! Its about having a connection for this land of ours which i have it runs deep in me ,even as a young lad its like some ancestor reaching out through the centuries and grabbing me ,a strange sensation you may say maybe im imaging it
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No I don't think so.I grew up on the banks of the Hamble river & it was a much different place back then.Far less people & a charm that comes with the natural surroundings. The rat race & the shear number of people are destroying everything.
@nicholasmorrill4711 that's sad but I see it as well far too many people over here who shouldn't be colonisers
@@Treeman196 Who are you talking about,immigrants or just people from other parts of the UK?
@nicholasmorrill4711 that's a good question I'm looking at a morgorth vid so take a quest
Quess
You've inspired me to get a st. George's cross flag and put it up in my garden
Will we get a Morgoth Review of the current troubles?
Yeah here.
morgoth.substack.com/p/britain-is-a-madhouse
and here.
morgoth.substack.com/p/musk-vs-the-wife-beater-state
@@MorgothsReview1 👍
OMG I was just thinking I wonder when Morgoth is doing another video. I have a look a you uploaded a new one 5 mins ago. Psychic or what!
I swear Morgoth would eventually be more popular than Bald and Bankrupt if he began making travel vlog videos where he goes on his uncanny critique of places 😂
Really enjoyed this one, Morgoth. What are the chances of the BBC ever remaking the series, 'Civilisation' and giving you the gig?
That would be the day. Bien pensant Progs are embarrassed by the unabashed love Clark showers on the glories of western civilization. Side note - this was my “textbook” for my Grade 12 course, Western Civilization. The next year the course was changed to Civilization. How pregnant with meaning it was when Jesse Jackson led the mob at Standard chanting “Hey ho/ western civ has got to go.” The long march through the institutions is almost complete.
as a child i remember riding my bike down a path to a railroad in a suburban area. i used to be able to put pennies on the track, and then collect them after the train passed. now that same path is barred by gates so that there is no access to the track, so your narrative from the rooftop hits home.
I agree with everything you've said.
I love Northumberland.
I was there a little while ago, town seemed full of well-heeled international students and posh birds on hen nights. Sat just up from that river smoking a joint and observing. Theyve got rowing clubs, like at Oxford, and Indians on holiday like to row boats there and point at the giant houses they intend to buy later. I was there a weekend and didnt meet a soul. Decided not to buy a flat there.
When an Australian is telling you your country is overgoverned, you can tell your ruling class fucked up somewhere, what the hell is with that fence? It's like we've reversed roles or something, where as crummy and woke as Australia is, at least it isn't being governed like that yet, but we're getting closer ourselves. If we had a based and nationalist Government ourselves they'd encourage the relocation of British dissidents and what you could accurately call refugees at this point to relocate here. Sadly, we don't, and we're not much better.
Australia is a hell of a lot better than the England in my experience. I went to Melbourne in Febuary for a few weeks and was really impressed how nice it was. The streets were clean, everyone was super friendly, no real sense of being overran by criminality, poverty and the third world like over here in England. the standard of living over there is so much better than over here. But yeh the Aussies are too nanny state in many respects. But where isn't these days!
@@johncarry5989 True. Australia has the vast empty spaces that Britain lacks. Places begging, and yearning for White homesteading. That's why if I am to have any future staying in Australia, it has to be out of the major cities.
@@johncarry5989Melbourne is a multicultural shithole. Home invasions and machete crime happens. And you didn’t notice. Can’t be too bad then?
@@Peak_Aussieman Australia & America have that saving grace which Europe doesn't: vast tracts of land where you can retire to get away from the diversity when it becomes too suffocating.
Great work as always Morgoth, cheers!
We could all do with a little more fortifying round these parts.
Thank you Morgoth, the ending gave me hope for the future.
Funny how the ones who are flying the English flag with no fuks given are the folks from the Danelaw
No they aren't. The Danes left almost no significant genetic impact on England. The people of Northumberland are the same blood as the rest of us.
@@Jack-lb1hnThere are hundreds of places in the north with Scandinavian ancestry and history.
Anywhere ending by was a Viking settlement. Think Whitby, Grimsby etc etc
@@searchingfortruth4783 That is LINGUISTIC, not Genetic
@@Jack-lb1hn I know that the genetic claim made in this comment section is incorrect.
My entire family and many in my local area have Viking origins (DNA testing confirmed), and this is true of many areas in the north of England.
Please do the research on these areas before informing me of the difference between linguistics and ethnicity. Who do you think lived in these linguistically Scandinavian villages/settlements and towns.
@@searchingfortruth4783 you are wrong
Glad to see you got your rod wet💪✅️
Cheers from dc
Ironically, Durham Cathedral is a symbol of Norman victory and oppression over the Anglo Saxons. I was visiting the cathedral in May and one of the Deacons inadvertently pointed out this fact to me as I was leaving. He seemed very proud of it and managed to present the Anglo Saxons as filthy hovel dwellers. My face must have shown I wasn’t too impressed as he quickly shut up.
It is an example of beautiful Norman church architecture but I do feel it’s sad that so much of our heritage is lost to us because of Norman dominance.
@fedmcglowie7240that’s funny😂
@fedmcglowie7240🤣🤣🤣 deep cut my lad
Those bloody normans
There's a lumpen, progressively admixtured idea of people.
All brachiating about Aldis/Lidl.
Morgoth, hate to go all toff but those weren’t canoes that was single and double scull. Great video.
What a belta! ❤
Would be cool to hear from your fellow Geordies, DinoBane, and the Jolly Reaver and the Iconoclast
Iconoclast was on with Dangerfield a couple of days ago
And Hugh.
Beautiful scenery with a strong message. Thanks Morgoth really enjoyed that little trip. It brought back memories of the same road trip 20 years ago now. Absolutely it was won through hardship struggle and sacrifice. Delving into the beginnings of England every so often it was a battle hard won. I was also struck by the other components needed to forge a people together which went on at the same time; discussions around coinage, laws, settlements for crime, becoming a widow without children and widows with children; negotiations with other family clans regarding a collective name ie King Alfred writing to Rome expressing a wish that when all are united they will be known as the English Saxons. They had a vision you see. They worked at it in between the battles. They kept going and they did it. Who are we to throw it all back at them. We have to pass it on to our own like they did.
I did have a chuckle when you mentioned human nature at Hadrians wall, meant to keep out the Picts. Having recently had one of those ancestry tests done I have to tell you someone was slacking at that wall. Seems some pesky Pict breached it to have a liaison with one of my Cumbrian ancestors Lol. We need stronger walls !!!.
Hope you enjoyed your time in my birth city.
Very much.
Genuinely enjoyed your trip to London video, it was entertaining and at times funny. Also, sometimes when I'm feeling a bit shite I watch Danny Baker's run and everything is good again :)
Same hehe
@@roddymurray That one is a classic.
No one drops poetic truths like our lad Morgoth.
Durham was my stomping ground. Sat on that bridge waiting to be walk up into the cathedral in my gowns to matriculate into the university. And you're right it's acceptable, no edge, no claws. Rattie and Mr Toad could show up. Lovely. Quite a contrast to where i grew up in Middlesbrough.
As an aside there's a Faustian beauty to the Seal Sands chemical works. Mind you thats also a sad shadow of itself.
I wonder when the real carnage will happen and what the new settled occupiers will be like. To survive in these northern lands without mod cons requires the people to have certain innate qualities.
I'm so tired of people saying that traveling the world opens your mind. It's the ones that don't travel or move house within one's own country that gives the locales their spirit.
I'm not in my own country, and will die where I am, but excursions such as what you're doing is all I want for my holidays.
Good point. Travel is overrated
@princephilip-v5t I just no longer want people to assume that travel abroad should be the default. There's so much to explore in our own surroundings and gradually expanding radii. Maybe I'm just old. I didn't think this as a young man.
I don’t think you have it right -even as travel makes you appreciate other places peoples and cultures it ultimately reminds you that there a no place as good your home and your kinfolk
@@sonofacheron That's another perspective, not that one is right or wrong. I'm only talking about what I mentioned. The intention isn't a long thread of everyone's personal experiences or perceptions on travel. Thanks though.
@@Run.Ran.Run1 To clarify: People who have not traveled widely often don’t realize how good they have it - They naively accept massive numbers of outsiders out of compassion or misplaced duty. Because they’ve been told their country will be “enriched” by diversity. Going to places in Asia and Africa and seeing the deplorable living conditions and dysfunction opens your eyes to the fact that we are not all the same and that western civilization worth fighting for.
Morgoth is 6'8 confirmed
Morgoth. Bravo.
Outstanding marra.
Was thinking about Tolkein today, The Shire and England. The Battle of Green Fields in the lore of The Shire was in reference to The Battle of Sedgemoor in England which occurred in 1685. It's considered the last pitched battle fought on English soil. It's hard to imagine so long a domestic peace, so much seemingly settled. The Shire has almost no government to speak of, the only force in the land being Sheriffs and Bounders, a border force to keep unwanted beasts out and to round up stray cattle. In my mind I can imagine another England than what we've ended up with, a walled garden of peace and freedom for ourselves. Maybe the fault is in ourselves though. I don't know how to feel anymore, how things have transpired. I often shed a tear for England.
Positive Morgoth is positively excellent!
3:09 Really felt I was listening to the English 🏴 John Waters 🇮🇪 in this bit. Even the vocal rhythm. Great sentiments
Love it Morgoth. My lovely home. Recently walked Hadrian's Wall for the first time in a decade. Great. Durham, also, beautiful for a 100 metre radius then it goes to shit.
I visited Durham Cathedral on the 13th of August. It is a beautiful place really.
Top video chap , growing up in a town with strong English civil war history - some of the historical things you talked about here are very similar. Both parts of our history do seem very precedent with the currently situation in these isles.
prescient
Always wanted a nice house on a little island.
Its weird seeing you in my university town walking along the river bridge I'd travel along every day to get to my lessons.
If you came during the academic year you'd notice its an entirely different place once the population becomes 90 percent students. The palace green between the cathedral and castle college (right in front of where you are stood at 12:14) in the summer term featured an encampment of Palestine protesters, and Durham Union featured a debate in the building to your left during that term along the lines of whether Israel was justified or not in the conflict. Shame it was the only debate I didn't turn up to because the protesters started blocking people in and chanting and even turned on some of their fellow Jewish protesters with the intention of blocking anyone from attending the debate and thus preventing it from happening. The aftermath of it was visible on the Durham Union twitter account in the replies after they made a statement on it, and its kind of poetic that this all occurred between the now dying forms of Western church and state in the halls of learning of Durham University.
Being here is an interesting insight into what the future elites are going to be like as well. Durham styles itself as a kind of second choice for Oxford rejects and it certainly carries a lot of private school culture with it. But seeing their immigration debate this year kind of revealed how incompetent or misdirected the "conservatives" that have a shot at getting into mainstream politics actually are, resulting in a largely pro immigration consensus among the students. Absolutely dire.
I could listen to you commenting trees for hours. Very treesome.
Brilliant video my man
Now all we need is Morgoth joined by Colin on a mini-tour and it will be peak cosy.
For a moment there I thought we were going to get a face reveal. One day maybe.
Great video Morgoth.
Lovely to see Durham Cathedral again. It's a really interesting piece of architecture, as well as being rich in English history.
Shame about the fences!
"The people" are anyone temporarily inhabiting a geographical economic zone resided over by GloboHomo®™ Inc in what used to be known as specific Western countries, of course. I'm no bigot, so that's what I fully believe, so no need to arrest me.
Hope you have a good time and experience plenty of beautiful scenery and historical remnants, Morgd. All my best.
Whatever happens, I'm all in. Ours may be a landscape scarred by war, but it is also a landscape marked by sacrality (something much more ancient than religion), which I think they were always fighting for. Sacred England.
religion is just recognition of sacred things. note the modern mantra “nothing is sacred”
@bun197 Religion is the confusion and denial of sacred things. The modern mantra "Nothing is sacred" continues Religion, as Marxism.
I lived in Cottingham and Hull years ago. I loved the country so much. It breaks my heart what has happened to that great nation….
Beautiful veiws. Thanks for sharing.
I see the angry goose meme in my head "which people"!
Missed you..Good to hear from you