Posts related to Britain and British culture.
In Douglas Murray’s book, The War on the West, he argues that Western civilisation is under attack from both inside and outside. He says that a group of revisionist academics, activists, and hostile governments use biased stories about the West’s past.
In Douglas Murray’s book, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, he takes a deep dive into how identity politics has gone completely off the rails. He argues that it’s become a crazy, dogmatic frenzy that’s tearing society apart with all these divisive and contradictory ideas.
In Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, the twelfth book in the James Bond series, Bond is a broken man, dealing with personal tragedy and a failing career.
In Ian Fleming’s final James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, the legendary 007 emerges from a presumed death, brainwashed by the Soviets and tasked with assassinating his own boss, M.
In Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, the twelfth book in the James Bond series, Bond is a broken man, dealing with personal tragedy and a failing career.
In Ian Fleming’s eleventh James Bond novel, 007 goes on a mission that’s both personal and dangerous. He’s got to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the mastermind behind SPECTRE, in his Alpine hideout.
In Ian Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth book in the James Bond series, the story takes an interesting turn. It’s told from the perspective of Vivienne Michel, a young woman in a dangerous situation at a remote motel in the Adirondacks.
In Ian Fleming’s thrilling adventure, James Bond, the legendary spy, finds himself in a heart-pounding mission to stop SPECTRE, a notorious criminal organisation led by the ruthless Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
In Ian Fleming’s eighth James Bond book, For Your Eyes Only, 007 embarks on a thrilling adventure through five short stories that showcase his incredible spy skills.
In Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, the seventh James Bond book, Bond faces off against the super-cunning and flashy Auric Goldfinger. Goldfinger is a tycoon obsessed with gold and has a crazy plan to rob Fort Knox.
In Ian Fleming’s Dr. No, the sixth book in the James Bond series, 007 is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a British agent and his secretary.
In ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam,’ British journalist and commentator Douglas Murray takes a bold and controversial look at what he sees as Europe’s existential crisis.
Step into the world of Farleigh Field, a captivating novel by Rhys Bowen. Published in 2017, this standalone story transports you back to England in 1941, amidst the chaos of World War II.
In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, the fifth book, From Russia with Love, takes Bond on a thrilling espionage mission. The Soviet organisation SMERSH sets a deadly game in motion, and Bond’s mission is to get a secret device called the Lektor.
In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, Diamonds Are Forever, Bond gets into the wild world of diamond smuggling. The story takes Bond on a mission to infiltrate a criminal network that goes from Africa to the United States, run by the ruthless Spang brothers.
In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, the third book is Moonraker. Instead of a global chase, Bond investigates Sir Hugo Drax, a rich industrialist and national hero behind Britain’s secret Moonraker missile program.
In this thrilling adventure, Bond travels to Harlem, Florida, and the Caribbean to take down Mr. Big, a ruthless crime lord with connections to the Soviet Union and a voodoo-inspired empire.
Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, introduces us to the suave, ruthless, and brilliant British secret agent, 007.
George Orwell’s 1984 is a super intense dystopian novel that is still super relevant today.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland follows young Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole into a strange world full of odd creatures and events.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a classic that’s been around for ages. It’s a perfect mix of romance, humour, and social commentary.
In Too Deep, co-authored with Andrew Child, finds Reacher waking up amnesiac and handcuffed in Chicago, escaping to probe a mob’s artefact smuggling ring.
Paddington in Peru (2024), directed by Dougal Wilson, follows Paddington and the Brown family as they travel to Peru to visit Aunt Lucy at the Home for Retired Bears. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, who returns to the country of his birth and discovers a mystery in the jungle.
The Grand Tour is a British motoring programme. It aired on Amazon Prime Video from 18 November 2016 to 13 September 2024. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May present it. The show picked up where their time on Top Gear left off.
The Secret, co-authored with Andrew Child, places Reacher on a 1992 task force hunting killers of scientists linked to a bioweapon project from the 1960s.