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Friday
Oct092009

Brian Monteith and The Bully State

DateFriday, October 9, 2009

Tonight, in Edinburgh, we are launching The Bully State: The End of Tolerance, a new book by Brian Monteith that is being published by The Free Society. Brian joined us at the Conservative conference in Manchester (he spoke at The Free Society meeting reported HERE by the BBC) and the subject of the book has already caught the attention of the Scotsman and the Times Educational Supplement which commissioned him to write the following articles:

100 years is too long to put up with the bully state (Scotsman)
From nanny to the bully state (Times Educational Supplement)

Note: the Scotsman article is only available to subscribers. To read it in full without charge click HERE.

Tonight's event also marks Forest's 30th anniversary. I know we've already had a party to "celebrate" this milestone but that was in London and we were keen to do something in Scotland as well.

I am driving to Edinburgh this morning with a car full of books and Forest paraphernalia and I expect to arrive shortly after lunch. The event starts at 5.30 and features the traditional Forest jazz band plus speeches by both Brian and myself.

We expect between 50 and 60 guests at The New Club which has a smoker-friendly balcony overlooking Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street Gardens. I'm looking forward to it.

I'll post some photographs over the weekend.

Note: to mark the publication of The Bully State we are also organising a small drinks party in London on Wednesday 14th October. We have booked the upstairs bar at the Westminster Arms, 9 Storey's Gate, London SW1. Numbers are limited but readers of this blog are among those invited. RSVP events@thefreesociety.org.

AuthorSimon Clark | Comment6 Comments |
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Reader Comments (6)

REALLY looking forward to reading this one.

This - and similar works anatomising the current Sate of Society - might just help to make the concept of what used to be known as 'Freedom' fashionable again among certain members of, er, Fashionable Society.

This would be a Good Thing:

Given that FASHION is clearly a FAR more potent force than PRINCIPLE these days.

But perhaps it always was..............

October 9, 2009 at 6:36 | Unregistered CommenterMartin V

What a brilliant acticle by Brian Monteith he says it all for the silent majority.
I hope he and other journalists keeps up the momentum with articles such as this, to infiltrate the brainwashed minds of instructions and directions of the bully state.
We badly need articles such as this to start appearing in the media especially coming up to the elections and give polititions a taste of their own medicine and by letting them know that the electorate consider it a race to the bottom if they carry on promoting the bully state.
Cant wait to read Brian's book.

October 9, 2009 at 10:15 | Unregistered Commenterann

"When Britain dies, which seems likely to happen quite soon, it will be difficult for the chief mourners to decide exactly what to say at the funeral, or what to describe on the national tombstone. Not many are now alive who will remember what the deceased was like when he still had his health and strength. Those who knew him in his declining years, his memory failing, his estates sold off, chasing after get-rich-quick schemes and silly fashions, found it hard to imagine why he had been both so much beloved and so hated in his prime."

(Peter Hitchens - 'The Broken Compass')

"UKIP is sort of a bunch of ... fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly,"

(David Cameron - LBC Radio in 2006)

October 9, 2009 at 23:09 | Unregistered CommenterMartin V

I hope Britain's last gasp will be to accomplish the possibility of having a referendum of its own and delivering a resounding NO to Lisbon.
Irish citizens were duped again by lies, deception and scaremongering led by a corrupt government and the muppets in opposition to pull off a fear vote.
Ireland will now have to rip up its constitution and give away its sovereignty and wonder what the war of independence and the right to rule its own country was all about.
Our hope now lies with Britain and hopefully president Klaus too.

October 11, 2009 at 12:25 | Unregistered Commenterann

"Our hope now lies with Britain............"

And Cameron has a spectacular choice of roles from which to select:

Saviour, or

Judas.

Tricky.......................

October 11, 2009 at 12:43 | Unregistered CommenterMartin V

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