Sean Gabb: The Break

How might our country have turned out but for that catastrophic declaration of war in defence of Poland? Read on and wonder….

The Churchill Memorandum is a thriller, a black comedy and a satire. It is the first novel in Sean Gabb’s “England Trilogy.”

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Hampden Press, London, 2014

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ISBN: 9781310247996

In this second part of his “England Trilogy,” Sean Gabb leaves alternative history for dystopian fantasy.

No one knows what caused The Break eleven months ago, but there’s no sign of its end.

England is settling into its new future as a reindustrialising concentration camp. The rest of the world is watching… waiting… curious…

It’s Wednesday the 7th March 2018 – in the mainland UK. Everywhere else, it’s some time in June 1065.

Jennifer thinks her family survived The Hunger because of their smuggling business – tampons and paracetamol to France, silver back to England. Little does she know what game her father was really playing, as she recrosses the Channel from an impromptu mission of her own. Little can she know how her life has already been torn apart.

Who has taken Jennifer’s parents? Where are they? What is the Home Secretary up to with the Americans? Why is she so desperate to lay hands on Michael? Will Jesus Christ return to Earth above Oxford Circus? When will the “Doomsday Project” go live?

Can the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church take on the British State, and win?

All will be answered – if Jennifer can stay alive in a post-apocalyptic London terrorised by hunger, by thugs in uniform, and by motorbike gangs of Islamic suicide bombers.

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Hampden Press, London, 2014

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Edward Parker is getting old. He’s overweight. His knees are going. So are his teeth. His career as a barrister has been mediocre at best. Family aside, his main outside interest lies in libertarian politics. All this has given him is a ringside seat for watching England’s descent into a grotty police state, riddled with political correctness and police brutality.

Oh, but there’s also his dream life. This is vivid and spectacular in all the ways that real life isn’t. In particular, the dreams he’s been having since childhood of a primaeval city, inhabited by reptilian bipeds, are almost a second life.

Then he opens his eyes into his most vivid and spectacular dream of all. He’s an undergraduate again at the University of York. It’s Monday, the 16 thFebruary 1981. In great things and in little, everything seems at first exactly as it had been.

Only it isn’t.

As the dream unfolds, and shows no appearance of ending, deviation after deviation from the remembered past accumulate, and settle into the appearance of a coherent narrative. But where is this taking young Edward parker? What is his old “friend” Cruttling up to? Where have all his real friends gone? What secret lurks in the vast Temple of Isis being uncovered behind the main library? Why is Professor Fairburn so desperate to lay hands on that secret? Will Margaret Thatcher get what she wants?

Above all, what do other dreams keep bleeding into this one?

Or is this a dream? If it isn’t what does it mean for and England not yet in the gutter, but only hovering on the kerb?

In this concluding part of his “England Trilogy,” Sean Gabb leaves both alternative history and dystopian fantasy. The York Deviation is a novel about second chances—second chances for its narrator, and perhaps for England too.

Hampden Press, London, 2007, 120pp

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ISBN: 9780954103224

An Anglican Bishop nearly arrested for stating Church doctrine. Villagers actually arrested for making fun of gypsies. Museums stripped of “imperialist” symbols. This is life in the Britain of today.

“Political correctness gone mad” some will say. Not so, says Sean Gabb. In this short book, he explains how England in particular, and the English-speaking world in general, have been conquered from within.

We face a new ruling class made up of the student radicals of the 1960s and 70s. Now in power, they are creating in their own behaviour all the corruption and bigotry and hypocrisy that they falsely alleged against the liberal democratic rulers they have replaced.

This being so, the leading writers of the “New Left”—Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Michel Foucault—become highly relevant for conservatives and libertarians. They are relevant not because their analysis of liberal democracy was correct, but because it explains what their disciples are trying to do.

Before we can change the world, we need to understand it. This book helps towards that understanding. It explains the nature of the enemy and how it has so far carried all before it. And it outlines a set of strategies for the comprehensive defeat of that enemy.

Every battle fought so far for liberal democracy has been lost. Even so, the war remains uncertain.

“As you gather, this is stirring stuff. It is very well written and puts its case cogently. You should make it your holiday reading, and come back with renewed determination to change things.”

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Hampden Press, London, 2011, 204pp

ISBN: 9781447757726

The “War against Tobacco” is one of the central facts of modern life. In this book, Sean Gabb analyses the nature and progress of the “war”. The stated reasons for the war have varied according to time and place.

According to Dr Gabb, however, all reasons have one thing in common—they rest on a base of lies and half truths. But this is not simply a book about the history of tobacco and the scientific debate on its dangers. It also examines why, given the status of the evidence against it, there is a war against tobacco. Dr Gabb shows that this war is part of a much larger project of lifestyle regulation by the ruling class, and that its function is to provide a set of plausible excuses for the extraction of resources from the people and for the exercise of power over them.

This book provides a kind of “unified field” theory to bring within a single explanatory structure some of the most important attacks on free choice and government limitation that we face today.

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Hampden Press, London, 2011, 183pp

ISBN: 9781447817284

Why bother learning Latin? How did the Romans pronounce Greek? Should the Elgin Marbles be handed over to the Modern Greeks? Did the ancients have market economies? Should Epicurus be venerated above Plato and Aristotle? Why is Carol Ann Duffy not even a bad poet? What makes Macaulay a great historian and L. Neil Smith a great science fiction novelist? Why is The Daily Mail —easily the best newspaper in England—not fit for wrapping fish and chips?

Sean Gabb deals with these and other issues in this collection of essays. Lively and provocative, they are written for every lover of ancient or modern literature.