The II Earl

Good morning all & on this day in 1649, King Charles I was murdered and martyred in London after a heinous show trial instigated by a thoroughly illegitimate Parliamentary regime. "I shall go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown". The King's final word: "Remember".

The Reform Club is a private members' club on the south side of Pall Mall in central London, England. As with all of London's original gentlemen's clubs, it comprised an all-male membership for decades, but it was the first to change its rules to include the admission of women on equal terms in 1981. Since its founding in 1836, the Reform Club has been the traditional home for those committed to progressive political ideas, with its membership initially consisting of Radicals and Whigs. However, it is no longer associated with any particular political party, and it now serves a purely social function. The building is said to have been based on Palazzo Farnese in Rome. At least in terms of the facade, that is an understatement. Without a visual reference you’d be hard pressed to say if you are looking at the Reform or the Palazzo Farnese from a little further away (the latter is slightly larger). In the 1830s, the success of the Reform Act had led to a h...

Phi Beta Kappa began as a secret society for the educated elite, but the society soon decided to emerge above ground, which greatly angered the Yale valedictorian, which is why he created the Order of Skull & Bones in 1832 after spending a summer in Germany. Bones was based off a fraternity William H. Russell had joined while in Germany. Russell’s family ran the North American opium cartel. The rituals of Bones bear a close resemblance to the rituals of Adam Weishaupt’s original Bavarian Illuminati, which took elements from an earlier Spanish secret society. The Bush family is the most important family inside Bones today, and during WWII Prescott Bush would supervise Union Bank’s extensive trading with the Nazis during the war. The Boners are seeking to perfect themselves through the application of Hegelian rationalism. The original name for the Illuminati was “the perfectibilists.” Of course, perfection is a vain and insurmountable objective, and it’s only the bait that draw...

Cricket at Frenchay in Gloucestershire in the club's centenary year, 1946. Now close to the encroaching Bristol and with a motorway in the rumbling proximity, but back then an oasis of tranquillity where WG Grace, who grew up in the next village, once captained

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.