Richard Knight

London, United Kingdom

Director of Audio @BBCStudios / Ex Head of Podcasts @WonderyMedia UK / Ex commissioning editor @BBCRadio4 / Author 'If I Ran the Country'

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Mary II’s love letters to William III - The National Archives blog

1 month ago | blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk | Richard Knight |Ralph Thompson

Our early modern volunteering team have been busy cataloguing a series of documents, SP 8, known as ‘King William’s Chest’. It is a collection of State Papers personally curated by William himself for his own reference. Among the official papers in it relating to governance and the wider European War, we were delighted to find expressions of the most tender personal sentiments.
Cheer words and Boo Words

Dec 17, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive Cheer Words and Boo Words◄►◄►▲▼ • B It is useful when considering politics, including racial politics and sexual politics, to be aware of cheer words and boo words. As an example of a cheer word, the philosopher Jamie Whyte gives “justice”, where “what it means is not perfectly clear but, whatever someone takes it to mean, he will think it’s a good thing”.[1] Boo words are the opposite of cheer words, an example being “racism”.
Women, etc.

Oct 20, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive Women, Etc. ◄►◄►▲▼ • B First we got women priests, then women bishops, and now many clergy would accept a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury.[1] No doubt some people, such as the women priests and bishops, are actively lobbying for it.
Jews and the Shaping of Our Thought

Sep 25, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive Jews and the Shaping of Our Thought◄►◄►▲▼ • B Nobody reading this needs to be told that Jews have had a great influence on the West in the last few decades. What might not be widely understood is the effect they have had specifically on the way we think. Through the ages the Western mind has shown itself to be straightforward, positivist and empirical rather than mystical, intuitive or magical.
Black people and morality

Sep 18, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive Black People and Morality◄►◄►▲▼ • B Images of Black people are pressed on us so insistently these days, usually as models of some kind, that it is natural to ask just how admirable Black people are. For example, are they especially moral? Are they especially industrious, especially respectful of other people’s property, especially reliable, especially good to children, especially merciful, especially honest?
Thoughts on love and hate

Sep 5, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive Thoughts on Love and Hate◄►◄►▲▼ • B The last time I saw the word “love” it was in the phrase “Love is love”, which, being meaningless, gave me no idea what it was supposed to be promoting. I thought it must be homosexuality because I’d heard Stephen Fry say the words, which was depressing enough. How could an intelligent man do something so inane as to repeat a meaningless slogan? But if homosexuality was the subject, what was the message?
Black people and begging

Aug 30, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive Black People and Begging◄►◄►▲▼ • B In 1843 an explorer named Sir William Harris wrote that all classes of Africans were most pertinacious beggars.[1] How true was this and how true is it of Black people today? Sir William Harris’s statement was well corroborated in the 19th century.
The British police’s anti-racism today

Aug 24, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive The British Police’s Anti-racism Today◄►◄►▲▼ • B Are young Black men victimised by society or is society victimised by young Black men? Specifically, do the police have it in for young Black men or do young Black men have it in for the police? For more than twenty years it has been the settled opinion of the British police that it is society and especially they, the police, who are at fault.
Review of Black Britain

Aug 13, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

Richard Knight Archive ◄►◄►▲▼ • B Black BritainChris MullardLondon: George Allen and Unwin, 1973Black Britain, published in 1973, is the memoir of a Black man born in Britain in 1944, when Black people were a rarity here. It contains much evidence that as a boy Chris Mullard was encouraged by all around him, but he could not accept that they did not despise him. Out of his racial self-hatred, projected onto others, he forged an identity and career as an anti-racist. He has a violent disposition.
Anti-racism’s victory over the British police

Aug 6, 2023 | unz.com | Richard Knight

◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library • B Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments Anti-racists have never approved of racial impartiality. Only discrimination in favour of non-Whites, especially Blacks, is acceptable to them. They especially object to any lack of pro-Black discrimination in the police. For fifty years it has been their goal to get the police to ignore Black crime. They have largely achieved it.