By Charlie Peters May 26, 2020
A British government adviser’s refusal to resign points to a new resistance against left-wing media activism
London — In 793, a raid on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne marked the start of the Viking age and a terror that would pervade England for centuries. Successful attacks from Denmark washed ashore year after year, villages were ransacked, towns brutalized; few who stood in their path survived.
Hopeless against these unrelenting assaults, King Æthelred in 991 paid the Danes in silver so they would leave his kingdom in peace. Delighted by the offer of payment, the Vikings returned every year to claim the “Danegeld” from the English coffers, a practice that did not end until Scandinavian prince Cnut won the crown in 1016.
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Dane-geld” rightly points out that “if once you
have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.” A millennium later, the British Right is finally learning the lessons of its medieval forebears.
Dominic Cummings is Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, a
role he has held since Johnson took office in July 2019. Cummings is
credited with being the mastermind behind the Vote Leave campaign and
the Conservatives’ strategy that led to their winning December’s general
election with a stonking majority.......
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