Morgoth’s Review – And the Band Played On – Jun 29, 2022 – Transcript

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[Morgoth recounts how by chance he came across a sermon being given in a village in Northumberland in remembrance of some coal pit disaster. A brass band provided the music for the event, leading Morgoth to feel a deep sense of nostalgia for what has been lost.

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Morgoth’s Review

And the Band Played On

Jun 29, 2022

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[00:00]

[Intro music and imagery by Theberton.]

[00:42]

Hello again there, folks.

A few months ago I was walking past a village in Northumberland with my dog and I heard some sort of address, or sermon, being given. Most of the towns and villages in the North East have memorials and statues and plaques dedicated to their own pit disaster and this one was no different.

Mining disasters were so common in the north that the men and boys who worked down them used painted tin bait boxes for their lunch. If the shaft collapsed and they faced slow and gradual suffocation they could at least scratch their names and last goodbyes into the paint of the small metal tubs containing their sandwiches.

In this village was there a gathering of about 30-40 people standing solemnly in a light drizzle. A vicar was giving the address and a brass band provided the music.

I’d actually tried to do one of my off the cuff outdoors videos, but the weather wasn’t really helping me. So I decided to make a few notes and come back to the subject in the future. And well, here I am.

Because the fact is the little scene left a deep impact on me and I felt it was one of the most touching and sombre scenes I’d seen in a long, long time. The vicar was saying short prayers, and then the band would play, then the vicar would continue to address the villagers on their own history, and the long story of their little place in the world.

By the beginning of the 20th century mining disasters in the north of England, and in Wales, as well, were becoming too common and the loss of life too great to be ignored or downplayed any longer. The vicar recounted the various legal battles and formation and organization of Unions, which would eventually see something of an overhaul. In theory, anyway.

He then went on to speak of both World War 1 and World War to, and the affect it had on the village. Not in a bombastic way. Nor in the crass, postmodern, memery of the internet today.

The wars, especially the first, were an ordeal and a tragedy on the personal level of families, before they were grand civilization changing events, or geopolitical earthquakes.

And so what this little gathering in the drizzle really represented, without irony, or putting on a show, or being over the top, in a real and genuine way, was blood, soil, and spirit. Even I felt like an outsider, and I’m only from a few miles down the road.

The people in the village had a collective story, history, and shared identity. But here, through the local vicar, it was being retold and reinforced. All of this is the opposite of what is today’s norm, which is atomizing, alienating, disconnected, and rootless!

But also this sombre scene hadn’t been deconstructed, or retooled, or politicized and weaponized by cynical mind-benders in academia and the media.

And what struck me most of all, was the brass band. The brass band, which is usually associated with Yorkshire, became synonymous with working class movements around labour and unions.

When I was a boy we still had jazz bands marching down the streets in full uniform. I never used to like the music because so much of it sounded miserable and slow. It didn’t have the artistry or romanticism of proper classical music, as I saw it anyway.

Brass bands were an activity of working men, not maestros. And it was encouraged by captains of industry as a way to keep them occupied in something which is a little bit more safe than politics.

Nimrod, Abide by Me, and Danny Boy, may not have the technical wizardry, or grandiose statements of a Beethoven or Wagner, but they do have something, something very special, and very British.

The elephant in the room I think I should point to here is, of course, nostalgia. Nostalgia seems to be built into the brass band style and even seemed so in the past. In fact, even the more militaristic tunes have a tint of nostalgia to them.

On my monthly classic movies streams with Endeavour, we often discuss old movies which centre on the wars of the British Empire. Whether Zulu, Man Who Would Be King, or Lawrence of Arabia, the brass band gets aired heavily, but also mixed in with the local music.

Stories of British men at the far side of the world engaging in acts of daring do, or hubris, and greatness, set to brass band music, makes us feel just how far away from home they actually are. The brass band music in that context symbolizes home. It’s wet streets, cricket, and smokey pubs, the familiar and known juxtaposed to jungles and deserts, and people whose ways and customs are alien to us.

More cynically Pink Floyd used brass bands in The Wall, and The Final Cut, to represent the post-war era and Britain’s withdrawal from Empire. Into a more exhausted and broken nation reduced once again to being just an island off Europe. Yet, despite it all, the brass band still meant home, even if it was more gloomy now than before.

It seems on a deep level the emotions and feelings which come through in the music resonates with something deep in the native British psyche. I’ve often been accused of reveling in nostalgia and yearning for a time which is long gone, that I need to be less reactionary and more forward thinking. And there’s some truth to that. But the point is, authentic British patriotism has always been nostalgic.

But I suppose this begs us to question, what actually is nostalgia? The word derives from the Greek “Nostos”, which means “homecoming”, and “algos”, which means ache, or pain. Nostalgia then, literally means a yearning for home which is so intense it feels painful or in some way stressful. Nostalgia is usually triggered by a smell, or a song, which unlocks distant memories of emotional states. We have the sense of loss at a time which was, but is now past.

Over the years I’ve been highly critical of certain aspects of British identity and patriotism, especially relating to the self defeating narratives to emerge after World War to.

Nobody is really nostalgic for Spitfires, bulldogs, and Winston Churchill. They may have been once, but all are now nothing more than postmodern symbols, which have been colonized by political ideology and utility. They’re images or memes to be worn to signal a certain set of view points, it’s patriotism as a badge, not a genuine identity to be felt in the marrow of your bones!

British patriotism became a whirlwind of imagery, images of the Queen, images of Kate Middleton, images of redcoats laughing, or Bomber Harris, or Norf FC, or Greggs, or Thatcher. And it’s all hollow, postmodern trash in service to the meta-narrative that the good guys beat the bad guys in World War to! And liberalism, and multiculturalism, and universalism, won out in the end.

It’s pure astroturf, and doesn’t actually encapsulate anything authentic, or meaningful, at all!

And while the mind-benders and propagandists got to work creating this self image of ourselves for us, forgotten about and neglected because it is the wrong form of expression, “the band played on”!

This is what I felt when I watched that little memorial in the village, that this is real, authentic!

The demolition job that’s been done on British identity in modern times has been so severe, and so thorough, the gentle, sombre music of a brass band seems like that shrine in Japan that survived the atom bomb at Nagasaki!

The local vicar has been replaced by the mass media and Big Tech who tell us lies, hate us! And then tell us how to think about the lies. It’s identity and narrative scaled up to monstrous proportions, and then weaponized against its subjects! A truth creation industry, which engulfs and overwhelms authenticity and meaning, or genuine human feeling and sentiment.

And this brings me back, once again, to the question of nostalgia. If nostalgia is a painful yearning for a home which is now gone, it then creates a secondary question. If we’re not home, then where exactly are we?

We’re in the crisis of postmodernity, a wasteland of broken identity and collapsed forms of meaning. Our ethnic and cultural, and even sexual, touchstones have become severed and disconnected from ourselves, like an anchor which breaks loose from the seabed. We’re drifting around on the tide, un-moored, and without direction.

The little memorial made me realise that our identity hasn’t actually evaporated, and it isn’t something which only exists in nostalgia and memory, vague and abstract. It was right there in flesh, and blood, and spirit! In fact, it was more real than what the shoddy, synthetic replacement we’ve been handed, is.

And it’s ours as well! It’s not universal, it’s exclusive to us. Which probably explains, why it’s been neglected. But it is there, still, like a fly caught in amber.

Like British soldiers of a bygone age, trekking through distant deserts and jungles, it reminds us of home.

[10:26]

[Outro music and imagery by Theberton.]

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grief
5 hours ago
The grey and bleak looking industrial footage of the mines and the gloomy concrete interiors of those tower blocks was somehow absolutely heart warming.
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1 hour ago
We have it the same in Eastern Europe. Not as far gone as you are in the West and a different history but the memories of grey, gloomy, really modest but mostly straight poor environment of the socialist and post-transformation Poland has inherent warmth and deeply rooted, organic feeling to it. It is a constant reminder that the souls found a way to thrive despite the circumstances and a whitepill that they will again.
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The Prudentialist
5 hours ago
I shed some tears, I won’t lie. This feels so timely as I try and grapple here at home in the states what my country means to me, and what I am to feel as we get closer to our independence day. Thank you.
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5 hours ago
Wow cheers Prude.
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Alternative Avenues
3 hours ago
Nothing quite like a small town 4th parade with some vets marching to a brass band…
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Marhobane
3 hours ago
Yes. It is hard.
I remember a few years ago when I went on a road trip with my father to see Delville Wood, where the South African contingent died in the French forests for the Empire, as their relatives launched a failed rebellion back home.
The previous year the government had intervened to mutilate the memorial to address the racial grievances still felt, for a war in which they had no part. My parents had attended, and saw the veterans, whose acts in service of the country against Soviet invasion continue to go unrecognised, relegated to the back, behind the overpaid ANC bureaucrats and cabinet ministers.
When I went, it was deathly quiet – the government had decided, after changing the memorial, not to sponsor its upkeep any more. It was still in fine condition apart from the modifications, but I felt a very peculiar sense of bitterness as the drizzle fell there.
Not much to say about it, just pain – every article of memory defaced before being left to crumble, not just here, but even overseas. Not one trace of heritage which may be publicly acknowledged or celebrated, our entire identity, all our history in this land, whether Boer or Brit, entirely criminalised, vandalised, relegated to the shadows.
Holding onto the pain. It is all that provides any kind of grip.
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David Eriol Hickman
5 hours ago
I feel the melancholy nostalgia of a homeland doubly lost, having emigrated as a young boy. Old enough to have formed memories of a time and culture lost to both time, distance, and cultural change itself. I feel the double sadness of a home left and lost never to return. A literal hobbit with no Shire to return to even should the Ring be unmade. I am still a Yorksher lad in my soul, whether or not the Shire remains….
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Vingul
1 hour ago
You did a reverse Tolkien?
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Angel Messenger
5 hours ago (edited)
This made me cry. The memories, the suffering of those who gave their lives for us, for nothing it seems now.
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ricky dymond
4 hours ago
Less than nothing if they could have seen wat has happened to their grandchildren they may have changed sides x
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baked beans
5 hours ago
I know several elderly ex miners, something they spoke of with great pride was their collierys marching band which usually consisted of generations of local miners and their families
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V M
5 hours ago (edited)
Bandsman here. My band regularly warm up with the hymes in the intro and outro. Brass and concert band traditional hymes really are something that resonates heavily with the ethnic British People, regardless of strife. There has been a very long push to poz the band scene, especially with the post war good guys properganda. But it’s also a vessel for the dissent right can win over, simply because of the people who started it in the first place…ie the working class right thinking British and in extension Western Europeans. Put a band on any side of the street and the right people, regardless of their taught understanding of identity, will naturally, and instinctively embrace it.
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The Thin Red Line
2 hours ago
thank you for keeping the tradition alive
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FallingOutsideTheNormalMoralConstraints
5 hours ago
I drove through a local parade last Friday. The small town Americana vibes were something I spent my youth eager to escape and now that I have kids of my own it’s something I cherish and wish to protect.
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son of Philip,
4 hours ago
I moved to a small town in CA a year ago and we have some amazing parades with all the local marching bands and men on horses and people cheer for the firemen. It was really something and I did cry a little to experience it for the first time. The worst thing they had was suffragettes. I hope it stays that way. They used to do a boys only soap box race in the 60s. That would be so cool to try to bring back. Just last weekend we had a Lumber Jubilee with arm wrestling and tug of war. On the 4th of July there’s a grease pole competition for the kids. It’s the best.
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Didymus Sumydid
4 hours ago
Americana is broken and it wasn’t much to start with, good people notwithstanding. We have to create a new future with a new identity
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The End Of Everything
5 hours ago
Years ago, when travelling for work in the Cotswolds, I came across a Remembrance celebration in a tiny market town. I stayed for the whole thing, standing on the sidelines, moved to tears. Were they ghosts or was I?
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123 G
18 minutes ago
Neither. Get a grip
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Alan B’Stard M P
5 hours ago (edited)
very well said. If the troops at Normandy could have seen the future, they would not have left the landing craft
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666gwp
3 hours ago
Yes and the lads would never have gone to the trenches in WW1 if they knew the idiots they were allowing to rule over their precious Britain they valued so much to die for.
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Philip Julius
45 minutes ago
So sad, and probably true
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Jonnie Gonads
5 hours ago
I’d go back tomorrow. The footage at the beginning took me back instantly. I can see my dad coming in around the back door in his oily blue overalls at lunchtime. His engineering factory was just down the street. He used to take me in there sometimes on his Saturday morning overtime when the atmosphere was easy going. He’d be spitting blood at where we are now.
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J Pickard
5 hours ago
Within the mines, they used to use wooden props and when they started to replace them with metal ones the miners voiced their concerns because the wood props used to speak to them and creak and give a warning when there was going to be a collapse. Metal ones didn’t. The fact that the right can hear Britain creaking under the weight of the daftness is an advantage that the left will not have when the collapse comes and falls upon their rainbow flag and multicultural dreams.
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dammbleth2
3 hours ago
A good point well made.
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– MR GLADIUS –
1 hour ago (edited)
As desgusting and servile as they are do not underestimate them. They will try to drag us with them to hell. Be sure that the ticket is only for them.
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J VB
13 minutes ago
that is a quality metaphor mate
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the woodlander
4 hours ago
Sometimes it actually hurts to think of how this small island of incredible people, has been degraded and destroyed by men of low character.
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The Hound
4 hours ago
I could literally weep when I step back and look at what the bastards have done to these islands!
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Three Thrushes
5 hours ago
One of the most beautiful and touching videos I’ve seen – the footage from the 60s and 70s is magical, and of course the score.
When we love something so much, we sometimes have to leave as the pain of what once was, is not, nor ever will be.
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Thank you very much
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J W
5 hours ago
There is something about the rituals around music that just cuts right through. Thanks Morgoth.
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Rebel With A Cause
5 hours ago
Even in the states, people who have been around blue collar laborers understand what you’re talking about. Real disgusting how even most in the dissident right don’t see why these blue collar “good ole boys” are our people.
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NOWHERE PEOPLE
5 hours ago
Who have you heard say that? I haven’t seen anyone express that view in the DR.
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Phil Regular
5 hours ago
@NOWHERE PEOPLE fuentes, spencer
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Sensational_Cellar
5 hours ago
@NOWHERE PEOPLE Much talk of ‘plebs’ and ‘sacks of potatoes’.
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Easttowest
5 hours ago (edited)
@NOWHERE PEOPLE this movement is full to the brim of young men (even Zoomer children) who fancy themselves as either luminous intellectuals or rugged adventurers, often both, when in fact they embody the negatives of both archetypes with few of the positives. They have the soft hands of the intellectual and love too much the solitude of the adventurer. And all the while they look down on blue-collar people of the soil with an unearned sense of superiority, just seeing them as another part of the “normie” herd.
Essentially, they’re a bunch of callow keyboard warriors who need to touch grass.
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NOWHERE PEOPLE
5 hours ago
@Easttowest Very well put. I have seen a bit of that in gen z to be fair.
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Rebel With A Cause
5 hours ago
@Sensational_Cellar not necessarily plebs and sacks of potatoes, but not understanding that even though these people are limited, they’re still our people and if we are ever to become elites in society we need ourselves to do right by them.
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Alakhazom
4 hours ago
@Easttowest Exactly what made me realized Fuentes is nothing but a big mouth. I used to listen to some of the rants about society,i found them on point,and sometimes funny.
But when he began making fun of working class…and on top of that,claim himself Stalin 2.0 i realized he’s got no moral fibre.
Too much intellectualism,with airs of aristocracy…Now,there’s nothing necessarily wrong with aristocracy,or higher echelons,but manlets like Fuentes,are not,at the end of the day,of the caliber of O. Mosley,not in the least.
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Enduro
4 hours ago
I know what you mean by this but these people have the least vested interest of anyone in actually taking action or doing anything outside their grift. Those within the dissident right that do take action are “the good ol’ boys” with working-class backgrounds most of the time.
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NOWHERE PEOPLE
3 hours ago
@Alakhazom Nailed it. Never liked him. Now I know why.
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Alakhazom
1 hour ago
@NOWHERE PEOPLE Thanks,And imagine,i didn’t even knew of the Af circle shenanigans…just him talking.
The only ones from ‘merica that i like,are a channel called “Modern Politics”.(find them on Odysee)
They are a couple,she was a controversial red-pilled girl,he comes from a family of true “rightists”,the kinds that hung around Wi**am Pie*ce.
(names have been omited,to pass the rigurous eye of Sauron).
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Courtilz
4 hours ago
Maybe one of our most important characteristics is being debtors to our ancestors. Nearly all of mine turned out to be miners in County Durham and Yorkshire.That was a powerful video, thanks Morgoth.
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Lateral Twitler
4 hours ago
Here’s to all the good people of Europe, the young and old, those well known and those less so, as well as those long forgotten, and those we never knew. I love them all, those good people. May we all do your sacrifices and deeds justice, so the future generations get to be proud of their ancestry too.
Here’s to them all.
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Yizz The Eunuch
5 hours ago
Touching video. Thanks for this Morgoth.
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The World’s End
4 hours ago
The establishment will never be forgiven or forgotten for what they’ve done to this once great country.
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Steve be
5 hours ago
Very moving video for me to watch, not only because of what has become of England ,but also the hymns; The Lords my Shepherd and Abide by me, were the two hymns played at my dad’s funeral 30 years ago when he died at 52.
He, as well as both my Grandfathers were also miners.
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ligerpride
3 hours ago
Thanks for sharing. RIP.
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Gill PS
58 minutes ago
My stomach turns at the hymns denied our children. Our Monarch swore to defend the Faith. Like ..
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Neil Daly
5 hours ago
Truly breathtaking. Can’t go back but need to build a future that respects this past, not godless modernism.
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Live
4 hours ago (edited)
“The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.”
Can’t comprehend why those who came before felt like what’s come about now was worth journeying towards… weren’t they content? Was a pleasant and plain society not good enough? Apparently not, because they felt everyone on earth needed to have a piece of it, and now there’s no pleasant society left for the kids to inherit.
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Michael Schilde
3 hours ago
Well, they had no choice but to journey this way. It’s the illusion that we have much of a choice, which continuously befuddles us, I guess.
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macrobius
5 hours ago
Another great video. 10:24 After the wonderful nostalgic footage, putting the extremely apt words to the hymn on screen brings a tear to the eye.
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David Eriol Hickman
5 hours ago
My dad was fond of Brass Band Music, much to the chagrin of me mum, and the melancholy nostalgia evoked was exactly why that old Hovis Ad was an instant classic
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Unloved otto
5 hours ago (edited)
The intro and outtro makes me feel like crying .
Great video Morgoth.
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Stew Pot
4 hours ago (edited)
I would love to see your take on the film “brassed off” Morgoth. Personally, having grown up in a Yorkshire mining town, I cannot stand that movie. It is a middle-class fantasy, one last thrust of the bayonet as the remnants of British heavy industry was mothballed. When the woman joins the band this was an early nineties feminist insert, utterly false and would never have happened . Brass bands where, as you point out, a man only affair (and rightly so). Today we men are not allowed to have our own space even though my wife and daughters know to leave me alone when I am in my workshop ‘tinkering’. There are no real brass bands anymore because men back then where proud of the job they did, digging coal or working steel was real man’s work! Not many jobs left these days that have the same respectability or purpose. Abide with me makes my eyes well up…
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Stew Pot
3 hours ago
@Isabel Rankin indeed! It will be a sight to behold, white working class men, marching or riding bicycles on a cold, frosty, Yorkshire morning, all wearing black and orange donkey jackets with “NCB” on the back. Those where the days!
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Enduro
4 hours ago
It’s actually even surprising that towns in Britain even at least still have these bands and sense of community left in the first place. My town used to have boat festivals on the nearby river every where people would build their boats and sail them on the river on that day but that was decades ago. It’s now a town-sized motel where white-collar commuters go to sleep at the end of the day after working in the big city nearby.
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Irish Paine
3 hours ago
It’s a sign of the times when Irish Nationalists support British Nationalists.God bless.
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benbow7
2 hours ago
Irish, British, French, German … we’re all brothers and sisters now.
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Aled
2 hours ago
Absolutely sublime again Morgoth. I’m on the same page as you entirely, even as a Welsh Independence supporter. Our peoples on these isles have been cast to the margins entirely by this post-modern ‘reality’ we have been forced to endure. Which as you so brilliantly Intuit, is so patently false and spiritually leaden.And how could it be otherwise really bearing in mind it’s all been devised by the modern ‘truth benders ‘ who wield such power and influence today.
”A truth creation industry which engulfs and overwhelms authenticity and meaning or genuine human feeling or sentiment’ . Wow. Just Wow. Such power and depth and truth in those words.
You truly are a wordsmith for our times, who makes me believe there’s still hope for the ordinary people of Wales, England, Scotland, and Ireland despite all the dark forces ranged against us who want to wipe us off the map in essence.
Keep the faith and God Bless.
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Bing Bong
4 hours ago
Wow. That was an emotional experience.
Masterfully done Morgoth.
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4 hours ago
Thank you.
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M G
5 hours ago
This is how I feel listening to patriotic country as an American southerner. They play on but the America they sing about is dying.
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Phil Collins
5 hours ago
I was born in 1959 when England was 98% white and we were desperate to experience diversity. Fortunately our beloved queen Elizabeth didn’t put a stop to it!
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Black Lesbian Poet
5 hours ago
@Phil Collins Your beloved what? You are as meaningful to them as Ulster protestants marching around banging their drums and waving their flags.
You have a turnip farmer mentality…
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Cornelius Capitalinus
5 hours ago
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Reckon he’s being a bit sarcastic, aye.
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Black Lesbian Poet
4 hours ago
@Cornelius Capitalinus I’m not. Guess who is first in line in every war?
And they’ll say they are proud of that too!
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Black Lesbian Poet
4 hours ago
@Cornelius Capitalinus Whatever makes you feel warm inside. Who am I to plug the juice?
Let’s go Vikings!
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@Black Lesbian Poet are you English?
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Phil Collins
4 hours ago
@Cornelius Capitalinus seems that the simpletons are poet laureate now…
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King Elvis
5 hours ago
The brass band in UK is a little like ‘real’ Country Music to us hicks of small town, rural America. You don’t love it because it’s von das meister volk or because it’s straight from Yaweh’s lips or Christ’s bleeding side or because there’s an endless fountain of free gold. You love it because it’s recognizably yours.
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Occident⚡Advocate.
1 hour ago
Seeing the footage of Whitley bay, and that hymm playing brought tears to my eyes. These streets, parks and beeches of Tyneside, iv trod since a boy in the 1960s. I walk these streets now as a 62 year old. The view has not changed in much off my beloved Tyneside. Yet now when i walk my region, i feel a sence of unease, a sence of loss? Because the demographic is rapidly changing? These foreign faces i see in ever increasing numbers, are not my people? Its hard to explain, i feel under threat, not secure? But most of all i dread what will happen in the near future, after me? How will my 16 grandchildren fare in the land of their ancestors, as our number rapidly shink, and that of the uninvited and unwanted rapidly grow. God help my people!
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Joe Denby
3 hours ago
Must say Morgoth I’m a bit disappointed I thought this would be a deep dive through the back catalogue of Saxon!
Just joking obviously, A fantastic essay as always. I really hope I get to shake your hand and have a beer one day.
All the best mate. 👍
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irememberfreedom
2 hours ago
The footage and music remind me so much of my childhood, growing up in the small pit village of Eldon. The jazz band marched through the streets every Sunday, after the local football match. Every body knew everybody else, warts and all. We had grown up together and our parents and grandparents had done the same before us; there were no strangers. The fellas compared the prize veg and flowers they had grown, trading secrets on fertiliser recipes and sharing seeds. The kids were out all day, climbing trees or scrambling on dirt bikes and there was always a basic home cooked meal on the table, to eat together when we got home. I am feeling that ache something terrible right now, but I’m also greatful to have had those times. If the collapse does come, as seems likely, life will be harder, but simpler and we will need to know and rely on each other again. Maybe those who remember can help those that don’t bring some of that good stuff back.
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Jack Broughton
5 hours ago (edited)
As an Ameri-mutt who spent most of his life on the west coast, I’m nostalgic for this, despite never having lived/experienced Northern England pre-2001. I’m thoroughly atomized and deracinated, here in the belly of consumerist Babylon. I was made for 1922 not 2022.
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Thomas Mooney
4 hours ago
If you see the good in the culture, bind yourself to it and give it life.
There is no other way to keep it alive.
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Black Lesbian Poet
4 hours ago
@Thomas Mooney What are you talking about Mooney? Their ideas can only survive on the net. “Feels good, man!”
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Black Lesbian Poet
4 hours ago
@Thomas Mooney Right where they are supposed to be…
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rollo vaughan
4 hours ago
@Black Lesbian Poet keep your poetic poison to yourself.
You are just trying to be abrasive.
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Black Lesbian Poet
4 hours ago
@rollo vaughan cting the Viking will get you nowhere. If we all did what I do and identified as BLP,…we could wreck the place and get a noble peace for our efforts, maybe even a bronze statue!
You don’t understand the modern battlefield like I do.
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rollo vaughan
4 hours ago
@Black Lesbian Poet if you’re referring to my name it was given to me by my parents, otherwise I have little idea what riddles you’re scribbling.
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Kairos_fluent
3 hours ago
May I ask, what are the demographics in your area like, what are the main immigrant groups ?
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Sean O’Neil
2 hours ago
West coast USA really is a 20th Century creation. “California” the icon/image, it’s really greater Los Angeles, which is a post-WW2 creation. Seattle WA is a post-WW1 creation with its big first growth thanks to aircraft building for military and commercial purposes; a 2d growth after Billy Goetz’s daddy arranged that sweet sweet venture capital. Both regions have no real history, no connection to how or why the USA was created. They are both outposts of the original 13 colonies’ various commercial and engineering-based activities, and the Wall Street based financial gamesmanship’s constant internal one-upmanship on how best to squeak “value” out of thin air.
Folks who grew up along the west coast prior to, say, the Vietnam War? They experienced a bit more history than what followed, as the greater LA and greater Seattle areas became sprawling (for their respective geographies) monstrosities serving “the service industry” where nothing durable or physically tangible ever is created (celebrity, entertainment, software and software-as-service).
But it’s still nothing like growing up in the mid-Atlantic. Or in one of the big industrial towns of the midwest, where there is some legitimate history of making things. Not selling ideas, but making things.
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Chris White
4 hours ago
God bless you mate , this brings back so many memories I had a tear in my eye.
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The English Loyalist
5 hours ago
Amazing vid man, glad you share your experiences. When I see these vid just gives me hope for the future, a fight worth fighting for.
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Orson Cart
2 hours ago (edited)
Morgoth, I love listening to you and the memories and emotions you evoke. You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.
But better even than all that, you are a true Englishman! 😁👍👍👍
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MiauZi
5 hours ago
The worst thing of all the decay, is the loss of memory where our ancestors are rooted. It is like a millionfold extermination. But I have insofar a problem with the “nostalgia” as long as it’s not laying the foundation for a new organic growth of our culture. It’s correct that there is something still there, ready to be retaken. However, as history proofed, it was not capable to withhold our current madness. So we have to incorporate it, but find new ways. New ways which are experimental. New ways which are multifaceted. Thus, we should be open to them.
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Sunny Side Up
3 hours ago
I moved to England from South Africa when I was 8, December 97. My mum met me and little sister at Heathrow and then we drove for hours and hours to a little pit village in the north east that was to be our home (my mum is English). It was dark by the time we got there. It was grey, soggy and so cold. But the all the Christmas lights were out and lit up your breath and in a little square, in front of the memorial, a brass band was playing. That brought a little tear to my eye that did Morgoth.
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Sean O’Neil
2 hours ago (edited)
That was a nice one, Morgoth. Thank you.
The offshoring of industry, and the mechanization of mining & timber extraction, they were not just a reduction in human-done jobs. They were a removal of a man’s source of identity and pride: what he can build with his own two hands. Men who understand this, they cannot just go “learn to code” and imagine that playing with sequences of characters & symbols ever could provide a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of accomplishment. Towns that once had lively evenings at the pub then become towns with somber men drowning sorrows at the same pub.
I went to college in the Ohio River Valley in the USA, a place where for most of the 20th Century the majority of working men were affiliated with coal mining or steel making. Through WW2 these towns were full of vigor and pride in their productivity, etc. But as things offshored in the post-Vietnam era, the towns grew somber. By the time I was in college (80s), most of those formerly busy towns were now grey and somewhat sad.
The current left, and their obedient “I’m not political” leftish-voting acolytes, llike to talk about “vibrant” cities and towns. But the “vibrancy” they imagine is fictitious and fantastic. It’s nothing like how a working town is vibrant when the work is steady and the families know where they will get the needed funds to pay bills, buy necessities, pay plumbers and electricians and doctors and veterinarians, etc.
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son of Philip,
4 hours ago
I’ve often been gripped by the true feeling and meaning of nostalgia. It took me a very long time to unpack the feeling. It would grip me and I would feel a bit embarrassed because I couldn’t contextualize it. I would be at a classical music concert maybe and would all the sudden be overcome with a strange mixture of joy and sadness that would make me cry real tears right on the spot. I could tell it wasn’t connected directly to the music as a piece of art: there was something deeper going on. I realized little by little that it was nostalgia. Seeing the collective orderly efforts of a symphony orchestra reminded me of a culture that was unified in purpose and identity towards something higher. Something I never really experienced but, being an older millennial with greatest generation grandparents, I was only once removed from. Hearing what beauty had arisen out of western civilization filled me with a longer for return. I realized just how much of a desert we live in today that this feeling was rising up in me and I was completely unaware of its origins at first. Strange how emotions can manifest in the form of a mystery. We are the Israelites wandering in search of a home except each of us is just over the next dune from each other, just out of sight. As an American, its stranger still because its even more abstract. I’m not nostalgic for any one European identity. I’m nostalgic for the whole tradition of the west. I think living with that pain and surrounding ourselves with the mature and beautiful fruits of our ancestors is the healthiest thing we can do. Read the classics, gain a true unironic and authentic knowledge and love of classical music. To read only what is good to read. To look at only what is good to see. We still have the freedom to do that for the most part.
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Frank Lloyd
5 hours ago (edited)
These local parades, county fairs, and sports competitions would have been a form of local entertainment. Produced locally and consumed locally. One problem we have today is with television and radio they can beam in high production value entertainment that takes the place of the various community programs. Its hard to compete with productions costing hundreds of millions of dollars. But they still occur in small town America.
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Arkantos
4 hours ago
It’s pretty depressing how even within my life all the green spaces I enjoyed as a kid in my town are rapidly being replaced by soulless newbuilds and flats. Even some of the older Victorian buildings get knocked down on occasion to be replaced by an Aldi or some shite; or even worse, a Pakistani hive buys them and cuts down all the old English oaks that once surrounded it so that they can pave over the garden for taxi parking. The people too are being replaced with those of a darker complexion.
Still it is nice when you’re hiking through the moors and, when passing through a small village or farm, you share a bit of banter with some English lads or men at work. You give the border collie a stroke and then laugh at the Asians who get bussed into the middle of the moors from York just to take a selfie and then go home. Warms the heart it does.
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Kairos_fluent
3 hours ago
In real life, are you able to talk to many English people openly about what is happening to their nation ?
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John Wright
4 hours ago
As a Yorkshireman hearing Grimethorpe Colliery Band play Danny boy never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
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Tempered Glass
6 hours ago
And the gender neutral non binary band played on.
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Allan Rogers
2 hours ago
Oh yes, the collection of morals, beliefs and centuries in the making cultural ideas are still there, and we all know it. Otherwise we’d not be listening to you Morgoth, would we.
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Soozie Snake
4 hours ago
Brilliant work Morgoth.
I had family who were miners and steelworkers.
I’m heartbroken with how things are now.
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F R
5 hours ago
Another great video. England is not totally lost as long as it has people like Morgoth.
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Gandalf The Grey
4 hours ago
As long as native Brits keep Britain in their heart, it will never be gone.
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Arkantos
4 hours ago
There’ll always be an England by Vera Lynn comes to mind.
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Keith’s Wood
2 hours ago
This is the intangible element of nationalism that no immigration document can provide a substitute for. Those of us whose ancestors sweat blood and tears into the English soil for generations can only know the feeling.
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Alan Layfield
3 hours ago
Very moving…coming from a small mining village..near durham..earliest memories are watching the brass bands from different collieries marching through the city on miners gala..the big meeting..as it was called…yeah moved to tears
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MacJelk
4 hours ago
Can’t help but feel like this was a final goodbye, not just to old England, but the entire west. A eulogy. Very sad, but beautiful Morgoth.
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Michael Johnson
5 hours ago
Tradition and nostalgia are different things. You can’t feel nostalgic about something that you’ve not experienced, but the traditions and stories that come from those events are important.
Yes, they do get modernised and sometimes politicised, but it’s better than forgetting the past altogether.
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DEEJAY In The UK
3 hours ago
Great thoughts again Morgoth. Iv recently moved back to my home village as I was longing for something I remembered as home(we had brass bands every sunday waking us up 😉), while it’s nice to be back unfortunately the colour of the village is slowly changing and the locals have no idea what’s approaching.. in the 2years before I moved back I was watching and listening to things from my past when I was a lefty, things that I liked and influenced me at the time, now I wonder was it them things I once liked that has got me and all of us in to the position were we are now and was there strings being pulled from afar to get us here..it’s a bitter pill to swallow.
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DEEJAY In The UK
3 hours ago (edited)
And yea.. watching, reminiscing and thinking about times gone by was painful, I don’t know when but I think something new and great will be coming, these bastards wont get it all there own way !
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An Fómhar
3 hours ago
The two hymns bookend your prose perfectly Morgoth. Both the beautiful hymn at the start which brought back memories of my Catholic childhood going to Mass every Sunday. Whilst ‘Abide with me’ transported me to a more peaceful place, a better world.
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Dave Beech
5 hours ago
When i think what we have lost, I could weep.
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arklowrockz
4 hours ago
The rainbow flag is our emblem of identity now Morgoth, to the accompaniment of some muzak drizzle from Ed Sheeran…..
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Ché Ragnarson
5 hours ago
It’s more then painful it’s agony which gets more intense with every passing year, The cure would be to cut out the cancer that’s taken root in Westminster, but even if that was done to reverse the damage thats been done to the nations health is something we wouldn’t see,
But like the first builders of a grand cathedral I’d be happy dying knowing that I’d laid the foundation stones for the benefit of my own to come,
We all must know what has to be done if we’re to salvage anything from what our ancestors worked so hard to build
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ligerpride
3 hours ago
This was a beautiful and very moving video. The Lord is My Shepherd was particularly touching.
Thank you.
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Smog Land
2 hours ago
Lately I have been wondering, how much continuity remains between the past and ourselves? This was quite a timely video, and a truly beautiful one. Thank you.
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njuham
5 hours ago (edited)
Not long ago there were, and perhaps still are, those reveller parades in Co Durham.
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5 hours ago
The Durham Miners Gala is in 2 weeks. Popular as ever except the politicians are largely ignored.
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David White
3 hours ago
Being nostalgic all my life for my time on the family farm as a child, were neighbors all knew and helped eachother, some think I’m mad when I help others in today’s world, for that feeling that closeness and social contact, operant conditioning and propaganda has killed it, everyone is out for themselves, we all need eachother. With everyone knowing their place as part of god’s great plan.
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SentinelMace
47 minutes ago
I’m croatian and grew up in Germany which I always loved since our cultures are very similar, different but still very european… I also used to work at their Schuetzenfests and hearing the bands made me cry even 10+ years ago, I always loved it and I miss the old Germany I grew up in with its traditions (especially in rural areas), it’s all gone now, but unlike Germans and you Anglos I could still go to Croatia and experience something that literally felt like time travel, when I moved back to Croatia for good and took the bus from the airport to the nearest city I was crying like a baby because all I saw was White people for the entire 45min ride, my own kin! ZERO diversity! No degenerates! Youngsters were kind and polite to the elderly, there was no noise, no weird looks, no violence, nothing, groups of kids on the street in the middle of a town or city will greet you with respect… it was just like Germany used to be 20+ years ago… I am crying again…
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Michael Pagan
5 hours ago
This weighs heavy on my heart.
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Chris Addiss
33 minutes ago
Thank you Morgoth for yet another brilliant video , my Mrs plays for the countries last railway band , they play on a platform at Paddington station every Friday evening during the summer months . For how much longer though ? she is the youngest player there and she is in her mid Forties , the rest are Boomers or even older and despite their talent ( a few of them have played for the London and Berlin Philharmonic ) and determination to keep playing to keep England’s last railway band alive I can’t believe they can survive much longer . Another piece of England’s glorious past gone and lost forever I fear .
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Symmachus
3 hours ago
I’ve fond memories of the Boy’s Brigade marching down our street when I was around 6 years old. I recall being enamoured with the uniforms & brilliant white gloves. Not long after this memory the BB marching ceased. Didn’t realise at the time I was witnessing one of the many cultural transitions of the late 70s early 80s era. I suppose the Boy’s Brigade were an all-too-obvious cultural relic of the 19th-cent & perhaps marching whiffed a little too much of imperialism, dunno.
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Phill Schifley
5 hours ago
Its certainly possbile to have patroitic feeling about world war two but to have them without delusion it needs to be understood as a war the British empire essentially lost.
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sandwich bar
5 hours ago
Breaks my heart watching old clips of England
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5 hours ago
and the great replacement that has ensued
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Jason Phillips
3 hours ago (edited)
I find that bluegrass or Americana music gives me the same feeling about America, especially when the artists are from Appalachia or the like
Charles Wesley Godwin’s song Coal Country is probably the purest example I can think of
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PirateBBS
2 hours ago
Go easy Morgoth, this is brutal. I have none of this in me, I spawned in a city. No matter how hard I look I have none of this in me. I’ve been looking everywhere for it since forever in all the stupidest of places and some of the smarter ones but it’s all fake and not mine.
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Making Smoke
5 hours ago
Return to the power of Christendom and you will be surprised just how quickly it will all be yours again.
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Herr Onuseit
4 hours ago
Having moved from Germany to England more than 10 years ago and thus having an outsiders view, it saddens me to see what has become of it even during that short period. But, and fortunately, outside the big cities a beautiful England still prevails, and cities like York or Durham have gained in charm over the years. The big cities like Birmingham are lost though. What to do? England is obviously not my country, but anyone who does care for it and has deeps roots in it must make sure the band indeed marches on.
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4 hours ago
I’m afraid it’s too late to help the big cities and the same fate awaits the towns as well.😫😥
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Gandalf The Grey
4 hours ago
We’re all European Brothers and Sisters. The cities are mainly lost, but they can be rebuilt. We need to form communities and parrallel societies in the countryside.
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El Cid Leon
3 hours ago
This video was more melancholic than I thought, the intro was already touching…
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Steve Roberts
3 hours ago
we also use to have brass band ensembles playing on certain Sundays in the bandstand in the local park. Sadly a thing of the past , just like Maypole dancing and the crowning of a May queen.
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actual physical kelp
4 hours ago
I’m in the US, but I was just thinking about these topics today. I love America and its people. I’m reminded of this most when I visit my local, family-owned coffee shop in my small town. In the morning, the same group of guys meet along with myself. We have great convos with each other as well as with the staff, and it reminds me that their is still something to small town America. A community of people can easily come together and just enjoy each other and the little town in which we live. It’s the first time I’ve felt connected to anything real in a long time. I get to have this feeling almost every morning. I hope you, Morgoth, get to feel it more often!
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Kairos_fluent
3 hours ago
May I ask what the demographics are like in your area, what are the main immigrant groups ?
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Lucy Robin
5 hours ago
The Miners Hymn always makes me cry.
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Northern Soul
4 hours ago
You have got a hell of a way with words Morgoth👏👏👏
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Spirit of The pampas
3 hours ago
Loved it.One of Morgoths best.
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High Marshal Helbrecht
4 hours ago
being from the north this hit me right in the feels, nearly cried.
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Zaku Cat
1 hour ago
There’s an earthly, welcoming tone to the brass band. It’s humble, understated, yet proud. There’s good reason it speaks to the British spirit
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Don’t Suffer Fools
4 hours ago
Gave me goosebumps in parts. Great work Sir 👏🏻
This made me remember It’s the Durham Miners Gala 9 July, an event that has now been hijacked. Very little of the day is about the miners.
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Jake
2 hours ago
I used to love hearing the sound of the local salvation army band practicing a street or two away on a Saturday morning, now most of those old boys are gone and the hall is rented out to immigrants
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Graeme Nattrass
5 hours ago
My ancestors were Durham miners, this choked me up
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John Komnenos
5 hours ago
Thanks for the video, Morgoth. Great content, as always. God bless! 🙏🏼
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Ian Richardson
1 hour ago
Thanks so much for that ending, Morgoth. I’m ashamed to say I only ever knew Abide With Me by name; couldn’t have hummed it for the life of me. I’m a millennial/zoom-zoom on a bus home from work in a once-english seaside town and hearing it has “consoled” me, as Sir Roger would’ve said.
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RisingJake
5 hours ago
We can have it again, lads.
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Gandalf The Grey
4 hours ago
What a beautiful thought.
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Lee Worsham
5 hours ago
The Goidelic-Brythonic and Anglo-Saxon people are the greatest people to ever tread this earth.
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TerrestrialCircle
5 hours ago
I dunno, if we are so good why did the best of us abandon all bonds of duty and Christian Paternalism?
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TerrestrialCircle
5 hours ago
@Black Lesbian Poet
Give us a few lines then thou bard of the comment section
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Pleasures Of the Damned
4 hours ago
@Black Lesbian Poet why are you patrolling these pages?
It’s a question you might want to ask yourself.
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TerrestrialCircle
4 hours ago
@Arkantos
True. But, The hubris at the height of the imperial Empire has much to answer for.
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Pleasures Of the Damned
3 hours ago
@TerrestrialCircle I think the two great wars were largely to blame.
The scale of death and trauma really damaged us.
So many… some say the best of us were slaughtered on the killing fields leaving weaker and more corrupted men to gain power.
I think we are still collectively suffering from this great tragedy
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Bill Atheling
5 hours ago
sublime work mate…
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5 hours ago
Cheers mate.
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Fancythat56
5 hours ago
Lots of bands still in Cornwall, Abide with me reminds me of my nana ❤️
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Julieanne
4 hours ago
This is beautiful…Thankyou
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False Satsuma
4 hours ago
Whitley Bay. The white dome! It was the Taj Mahal to us! Thanks Morgoth now I’m fucking crying.
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Martin Thomas
1 hour ago
Really touching, put a lump in the throat, thank U
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Phil Regular
5 hours ago
I only hope i live to see the day, when those who took it from us pay!
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Judith Thomas
1 hour ago (edited)
Born Welsh but now in exile from all I held dear. I thank you for such a wonderful commentary on our beautiful past with such a common sense view of this “tawdry” present.
Thank you 😢
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Freddie Fredericks
4 hours ago (edited)
Nostalgia is part of being English. England was always “Olde,” even in Shakespeare’s time/Elizabethan era, and even before that, Bede, Chaucer. You can do too much of this you know – it’s called – “demoralization.” Why not attempt to focus on positive things to protect our land and culture instead?
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J D
1 hour ago
Very touching video, thank you.
Nostalgia, is a very intense feeling that seemingly only modernist radical-liberals are avoided.
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benbow7
2 hours ago
For something absolutely beautiful listen to Gresford, the miner’s hymn.
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Tewdrig
5 hours ago
Today is the anniversary of the Six Bells mining disaster in Wales, only happened in 1960. 45 men lost their lives.
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Winston Wolf
3 hours ago
It’s strange to feel nostalgic for something I never experienced. The connection was severed at some point, even having come from miners that kind community, however moving to reflect upon it is, is like an alien concept for today’s youth.
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Flight Project
2 hours ago
All we have now is our family, community, and church. I’m American, and we have a plaque at the county fire station honoring past members of the old volunteer department. It’s all that’s left of it, another name was added this year from a man who passed. Someone who lived and served his community before I was born.
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Allen O’Malley
5 hours ago
I’m from London not the remainer posh bits but loved this I want my country back. 🇬🇧
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Abstractacus
3 hours ago
Away from home so long, far away, it’s the smells I remember and long for, the smell of home, of food, of the fields, the streets, the river and on and on. I never thought that’s what would make me nostalgic. Taste also is a powerful memory, it colludes with the imagination and like smell we conjure it up but desire the real thing with a certain intensity.. Every country has its own smell(s) but nothing smells like home. The architecture changes, fads come and go, celebrations alter and context shifts often with the landscape; but so many smells and tastes preserve themselves as though they emanate from the very land itself.
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tRad Dad
1 hour ago
Millinials & Zoomers-
it’s your turn to carry the torch for your community,
Wherever you are on Earth don’t let the blood, soil & spirit be lost to the influence ofmodernity.
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Colt Python
4 hours ago
Great video, Morgoth. 👍🏻
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LeeMO
4 hours ago
A remarkable, non maudlin reflection. Thank you.
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Clownetto
5 hours ago
I hate watching those clips of the old Britain. I just want to go home
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Gandalf The Grey
4 hours ago
I feel there has been a shift lately, a lot of nostalgia and a collective awakening in our people? People are wanting to return to traditions. I hope atleast…
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Chris Gibson
5 hours ago
Is it me, or did a chink of light just pierce the gloom.
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Brucey Boy
4 hours ago
👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thanks Brother 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pure class
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Joe Biggs
4 hours ago
This is amazing
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jhõn frąncísz
6 hours ago
nėvėr thort ıd luk bak at thėrėsa mayhėm wıth fond nosztalgıa
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Aethelwulf Warlord
15 minutes ago
Everytime I hear the “we need endless migrants to do the jobs Brits won’t do” I think to my grandparents, proud and hardworking, who worked as farm labourers. Jobs now viewed as slave chattel by the cafe latte elite
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Groom Lake All-Stars
5 hours ago (edited)
Moving pal. You’re right of course. Our cultural, sexual, political, and ideological touchstones are no more. What next?
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Morgoth’s Review
5 hours ago
See my video ”What is to be done”
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Tony Michaels
15 minutes ago
I miss the men of my childhood. Quiet, hard working, loyal and modest. Gone now.
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BudgieInfo
2 hours ago (edited)
Your video made me feel very sad. I feel as though our people have been attending over the years an everlasting funeral.
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Unloved otto
5 hours ago
It’s almost as if we lost WW2 .
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GeraltofRivia
5 hours ago
As Patton said “we fought the wrong side”
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El Cid Leon
3 hours ago
The world perished after that so called “victory”…
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benbow7
1 hour ago
@GeraltofRivia he said that just before his “accident”.
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123 G
15 minutes ago
Nostalgia was once considered a mental ailment.
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J
2 hours ago
Anemoia: Nostalgia for a time one has never known. I experience this frequently.
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Rum Do
4 hours ago
Beautiful 😢
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Robert Ross
4 hours ago
Thinking what a slow process it is: 60s French psychogeographers and old Uncle Jean from Nanterre gave us words to separate the Frankfurt dross and see concurrently there’s always an eternal brass band quietly sat ready to play
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Christopher Webster
5 hours ago
superb stuff..
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dean hawk
3 hours ago
I’m nearly 50 years old, I grew up in the North-East of England (Newcastle) I’ve worked and travelled in many different locations around the world. I have got no interest in ever going abroad ever again, I don’t even have a passport now, and don’t want one. I miss the olden days so much, I miss the people, the community, I miss living in a terrace street with an outside toilet. I miss the old cobblestone back lanes with the goal man, the pop man, the dustbin man, especially the way they had the knack of carrying them old tin bins over their shoulders, the rag and bone man with his horse and cart, shouting out some noise which no one could understand. I miss the way the postman, window cleaner, milkman always whistled when doing their rounds.
But most of all, I miss my people and their old values. I don’t feel part of this society I feel like an alien in my own land. We have fallen so much! We need to turn back to God almighty as a nation. (2 Chronicles 7:14) “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” King James Version
God Bless England!
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The Thin Red Line
2 hours ago
Thank you for sharing, God bless England
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John Leyden
4 hours ago
I curse the politicians who’ve done this to us
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benbow7
2 hours ago
And their paymasters.
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Vaun Malone
5 hours ago
It’s like a prayer! It’s really too painful, we’ll never see it again.😔
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Johana Evano
5 hours ago
Bendiciones hermosa Celina que Dios te cuides donde quiera que Gondess.Uno encantan tus videos.
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TerrestrialCircle
5 hours ago (edited)
Tales from the stanger in the fatherland.
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Matt j
2 hours ago (edited)
We are more and more just the grey global men and women with less and less to make us unique.
My gran is a 95yr old Essex girl living here in South Africa for 50yrs.
I no longer have the heart to tell her about modern Britain.
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Politikking
2 minutes ago
Morgoth, I’m from a small mining village in the NE, am involved in local politics and other community organising. Would be v.intersting to have a chat with you.
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Frater Deus Est Veritas
15 minutes ago
Change and decay in all around we see. The poignancy is off the scale with that lyric. Focusing on that which simply is, and will never come to be, is indeed the solution to our woes.
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Anim8or Screentests
4 hours ago
Hey Morgy can you do a review of either the 1984 TV movie Kim or or the 1950 one? Thanks 8)
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Kinayda
4 hours ago
“it wasn’t supposed to be like this” my Grandad.
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MysticKnight
4 hours ago
Rule, Stormzy! Stormzy rules the (air)waves.
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Goog Láccount
4 hours ago
It all can be undone
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Morgoth’s Review
4 hours ago
Yes!
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PatchCornAdams723
40 minutes ago
To see old England – the way it was just 20-30 years before I was born – makes me feel like I could shed a tear. It’s a gloomy melancholy feeling because it had started to disappear completely by the time I was able to talk. We’ve been robbed.
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Igor Radonjic
4 hours ago (edited)
The secret to identity is who you want to be in the future, as life is a process of continual creation or re-creation and redefinition. Rather than arguing about what defines the British based on interpretations of the past, it’s much more practical to ask ordinary people who do we want to be in the future, what kind of nation and people do you want to be moving forward. As for the past, it’s reactions to or views
about events that matter more than the so called events themselves. The only reason to do anything in the end is because it’s an announcement of who you are.
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arnster 1
1 hour ago
Abide with me what wonderful sound 😎
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Crypto FeTT
5 hours ago
So F*cking Based It Will Inevitably Be Banned…Salute and Cheers
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Overlord
2 hours ago
Like you, I miss the world of my youth. In an odd way, I miss the cold war and the USSR.
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The Belting Balaclava
4 hours ago
Thank you for this.
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Pete Lovatt
2 minutes ago
Industrial Britain itself had one foot in the grave. Industry and enterprise has been an absolute disaster.
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Dafydd Mozza
4 hours ago
Nostalgia’s not what it used to be
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CHINA DIRECT
1 hour ago
The “good guys” lost WWII.
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Northern Soul
4 hours ago
Could nearly spot my sisters house just of Esplanade
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Paul Smith
3 hours ago
Excellent as always mate. The
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caleb
4 hours ago
Thankyou for this.
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Dakessian H. Madat
1 hour ago
Nostalgia: the black shadow of a rosey past.
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kurt lennon
4 hours ago
At 9:59 it looks like the young lad is holding the hand of a ghost…
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Daithi Finn
5 hours ago
03:15 remember what they took from people
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William Hunt
47 minutes ago
9:13 the home is not gone but we are not there yet
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Hostile Primate
5 hours ago
What happened to Theberton?
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Kay Harker
4 hours ago
I felt so sad watching this …..
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Jay Turner
6 hours ago
Anyone remember Empire Day ?
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Berry
5 hours ago
No one is that old 🙂
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Jay Turner
5 hours ago
@Berry pmfsl…luv it 😆 🤣 😂 😹
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Padraig Conaty
48 minutes ago
Very good elegy
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Fanta Di Rienzo
4 hours ago
1:32 Keith Woods exposed as a time traveler?
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steve robinson
4 hours ago
Nostalgia? Ask Bill Gates about that
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MrTrenttness
4 hours ago
🔥♥️🔥
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peter smith
3 hours ago
👍🏻✝️⚔️
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Jasper Cooper
4 hours ago
Our home is in the 4th dimension
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ken
4 hours ago
By eck lad appreciate the vid.
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Proper Khunt
4 hours ago
Ah fuck, the Woodlander drops a vid at the same time. What to do eh?
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Jenny Mees
4 hours ago
a very lovely video
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Westoe
36 minutes ago
I want to go home.
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Tangle
1 hour ago
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Marshall Zhukov
49 minutes ago
God save Britain
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Michael from Eriu
1 hour ago
Martin Rojas RIP
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123 G
19 minutes ago
Romanticising workin 12 hours a day in a mine lol this is what the British alt right are. Remember when the average man was basically a serf to a company,great times… My god.
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14 minutes ago
I’m not romanticizing it, it is what it is. They didn’t work 12 hours a day but 6 and more disposable income than people do now.
You may as well just mash your keyboard with your fist, you’d make more sense appear to know more about what you’re talking about.
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TerrestrialCircle
5 hours ago
Are you intending to comment on Mick Lynch versus the machine?
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Morgoth’s Review
5 hours ago
No idea what that is mate
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TerrestrialCircle
5 hours ago
@Morgoth’s Review
Sorry of I made that cryptic man.
The RMT Union bloke, the big bald salt of the Earth lad left school at 16 heid of the railworkers Union. He was quite out of kilter in the question time audience it was close to an atmosphere “Oh gawd a pleb is being allowed to talk”
I would say he is what the left used to be at its less socially subversive height, it is comical how angry establishment media get when a genuine working class power position appears for all the Tory talk of free speech they utterly despise any point of view outwith their framing of the world, democracy lol.
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Chris Kavanagh
4 hours ago
Ouch.
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Thomas Mooney
4 hours ago
more children
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AtheJbaka
6 hours ago
Third
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Jun 29, 2022

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