Entries by Horus

Heirs of the Displaced The effects of immigration on the East End before the Great War

In this essay I examine the effects of Jewish immigration on the native English in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing mainly on the East End of London and drawing entirely on the work of Jewish historians. Areas of concentration While wealthier Jews typically lived in the West End or in country houses, […]

Ties Abroad: The context and causes of Jewish immigration from 1881

In a previous essay I discussed the causes of the Jewish immigration wave that began in 1881 and the role of the existing Jewish population and their supporters in Britain. Here I expand on the situation of Jews in Britain before 1881, their influence on British foreign and domestic policy, the reasons for the mass immigration from […]

The Free Press versus Darryl Cooper

Darryl Cooper’s interview with Tucker Carlson being seen by tens of millions of people may prove to have been a fatal blow to the school of Churchill admiration. Their reaction was feeble by comparison, suggesting to me that the hero myth is losing, or has lost, its power and now relies entirely on lethargy and […]

Ties Abroad: The context and causes of Jewish immigration from 1881

[Alderman]: For British Jewry this represented a very considerable victory; it was little wonder that when Disraeli returned in triumph from Berlin, Moses Montefiore (despite his ninety-four years) was the first to greet him at Charing Cross railway station.17 [Horus]: “A very considerable victory” it was, over anyone more sympathetic to Christians than to Jews, […]

A More Beautiful Future The world according to Niall Ferguson

When I first wrote about the historians’ reaction to Darryl Cooper’s condemnation of Winston Churchill, I was unaware of Niall Ferguson’s interview with Konstantin Kisin. Ferguson, I knew, particularly objected to Cooper and Carlson’s comments on the present state of Britain, which now contains more than eighteen million occupants of foreign ancestry. In his interview with Kisin, however, […]

Horus quotes Millennial Woes on racial attitudes in the West from the 1930s

Horus quotes Millennial Woes: “Eventually the ability of the Right to refute the allegations was out-paced by the Left’s ability to produce them and, in the cultural sphere, make them seem credible. This watershed occurred in the late 1990s, probably because around that time the Left’s stranglehold on culture became so overwhelming that it could […]