Something like my age (though with Chinese women It’s hard to tell), her black hair still silky And tied in a bun from which every luxury Had been wrung. But her hands, small and rubbed raw, Told me that her age were better measured Not in years lived but in decades of labour. She wore … Continue reading Mass Transit Railway
Author: Simon Elmer
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy?
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? — December 2024 by Simon Elmer Paperback: £15.00 Look Inside Description The narrative of ‘Stop the Boats’ has successfully divided debate over UK immigration into ‘racists’ (who want to control immigration) and woke ‘anti-racists’ (who welcome all and any number of refugees). But while 110,000 … Continue reading The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy?
Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History
Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History — November 2024 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £17.50 Look Inside Description Written between 2016 and 2019, before the watershed of lockdown and the Great Reset of the West into stakeholder capitalism it initiated, the articles collected in this book were originally published on the … Continue reading Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History
The Street of Poetry and Letters
On the street of poetry and letters Young men pursue the spell of poetry Writing lines that will end in poverty On the street of poetry and letters Thoughts like towers rise upward to the stars Each door and stairwell blocked with iron bars On the street of poetry and letters Old men like dragons … Continue reading The Street of Poetry and Letters
On Seeing a Chinese Student
Perform the Peacock Dance of the Dai People at an International Cultural Festival in the United States of America When pleasure is greatest, sorrow follows.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX— Tu Fu On seeing her perform I thought:So this is why god made women!Why men who don’t know how to be menWant to but can never be them;Why we, unsexed, … Continue reading On Seeing a Chinese Student
The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part Four: Solutions)
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? 152 pages, 48 illustrations. Available now in paperback. Click on the link for the contents page and purchase options. PART FOUR: SOLUTIONS 16. The Duties of Citizenship Over the previous three articles I have tried to show, hopefully conclusively, that replacement immigration is real: both an economic … Continue reading The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part Four: Solutions)
The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part Three: The Response)
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? 152 pages, 48 illustrations. Available now in paperback. Click on the link for the contents page and purchase options. PART THREE: THE RESPONSE 11. An Extremist, Minority Government In Part Two of The Road to Wigan Pier, published in 1937, George Orwell wrote at length about the … Continue reading The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part Three: The Response)
The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part Two: The Impact)
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? 152 pages, 48 illustrations. Available now in paperback. Click on the link for the contents page and purchase options. PART TWO: THE IMPACT 6. Diversity Is Our Weakness As one of the half-a-million British nationals who have emigrated from the UK over the past decade, I’ve been … Continue reading The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part Two: The Impact)
The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part One: The Plan)
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? 152 pages, 48 illustrations. Available now in paperback. Click on the link for the contents page and purchase options. Legal Disclaimer In October 2023 the Online Safety Act came into effect in the UK. Under this legislation, the providers of online platforms operating in the UK — … Continue reading The Great Replacement: Immigration in the UK (Part One: The Plan)
The Ghost of Authenticity
For here, where hope is in the future, The present doesn’t haunt the day With the authenticity of a past In which every bullet-pocked wall Is preserved under bullet-proof glass In Berlin’s New Museum And the copper piping left exposed In London’s warehouse conversions And the wooden floor uncarpeted In New York’s loft apartments. For … Continue reading The Ghost of Authenticity