The Post-Partisan Emporium

  From Bestiality to Beatification: How Depravity Is Sanitised Virtue-Signalling the Vile Thoughts from the Shire One of my first ever Substack articles was titled  Kink covereth a multitude of sin,  it was three years ago, and had four recipients. It was written in response to a moment of televised absurdity, when a man stripped naked on prime-time television and played the piano with his genitals, only to be lauded as “stunning and brave” rather than treated as any other man exposing himself in public would be. Kink Covereth a multitude of sins Thoughts from the Shire · December 1, 2022 Read full story The point then was simple: what would be unacceptable, indecent, and arrestable for an ordinary (non queer/kink) bloke suddenly became art, once it was wrapped in the language of kink and transsexual identity. That was 3 years ago, however this week I saw another story, even more depraved and disturbing. In January 2023, a well-known drag queen in Cardiff was found dead i...

  MGM’s New Robin Hood: Blatant Anti-Christian, Anti-History Propaganda Thoughts from the Shire The Frustration Begins I sat down the other night to watch the new Robin Hood series from MGM. I thought it would be an easy family evening. A bit of medieval drama, some bows and arrows, a sheriff to boo at, something simple, and of course to see how Sean Bean dies in it. Within a minute I found myself pointing out historical nonsense like a man possessed. My daughter, who has been away from home for some time, burst out laughing. She had forgotten what it is like to watch anything vaguely historical with me. The frustration was not about costumes or swords or accents. If it was just a 19th century dog or a Victorian Cockney accent wandering around the 12th century, I could let it slide. Countless shows get things wrong. What drove me mad was something very different. This new Robin Hood is not just sloppy. It is not just stupid. It is ideological. It rewrites the entire religious and c...