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21/09/2026

SIR WALTER SCOTT, DIES
On this day, 21 September 1832, the literary giant and novelist Sir Walter Scott passed away, aged 61.

He is notable for inventing the Historical Novel, wherein his characters met real people from history.

From a unionist perspective his novels introduced an often romanticised version of Scotland to a wider British readership.

He is also notable for being the "public relations" mastermind behind the visit to Edinburgh of King George IV in August 1822 when the King stepped ashore at Leith. The popularisation of the kilt as "Scotland's national dress" can be traced from this moment in Scottish social history.

Waverley Station in Edinburgh is named after his novel.

Indeed, "the Waverley Novels" is the title given to the series of Scott's novels released from 1814 to 1832. The series is so-called because each one was only credited to be written "by the author of Waverley", until Scott acknowledged authorship in 1827.

He was born on 15 August 1771 in Edinburgh, and is buried in Dryburgh Abbey along with his wife, Lady Scott.

The gothic Scott Monument sits on Edinburgh's Princes Street in his memory, and the highest column in the centre of Glasgow's George Square has Sir Walter atop.

There's even a bronze replica of the marble statue which sits under the Scott Monument, in New York's Central Park. Edinburgh sculptor, John Steell, created both.

Pic: AFFG 15-4-26.
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21/09/2026

'THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD', PUBLISHED
On this day, 21 September 1914, Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen" was published in The Times newspaper and became an immediate sensation - and a classic poem of remembrance ever since. The poem has seven stanzas and the fourth is the most famous. Binyon said it came to him first.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

It was composed earlier that month, a few weeks after the outbreak of WW1, while he sat on the cliff-top looking out to sea from Pentire Point, north of Polzeath, in Cornwall (pictured).

During these earlier weeks the British Expeditionary Force had suffered casualties at the Battle of Mons on 23 August, its rearguard action during the retreat from Mons in late August and the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August; and at the First Battle of the Marne between 5 and 9 September 1914.

Binyon was born to a Quaker family on 10 August 1869 in Lancaster. He was too old to enlist in the military, but in 1916 he went to work for the Red Cross as a medical orderly.

He had a career at the British Museum, in the Department of Printed Books, and upon retirement, he went to Harvard University as a Professor of Poetry.

He died on 10 March 1943 and is buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, in Aldworth, Berkshire.
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20/09/2026

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We're on a mission to stand up for Britain and its unity; to tell the Unionist story daily; and to defeat separatism. You can help us!

20/09/2026

ASYLUM is an OPEN ROUTE into our COUNTRY, FOREVERMORE - unless we do the following!

AFFG Director, Alistair McConnachie writes: Under our membership of the UN Refugee Convention, anyone can enter the UK in any manner whatsoever, providing they are doing it to "claim asylum".

Dinghy, lorry, it doesn't matter.

Perversely, this is considered a form of "legal" entry.

In practice, this means that the asylum route is a perpetually open immigration route into the country forevermore.

It is the go-to option for someone with absolutely no skills to offer via any of the other legal routes which require visas and full engagement with the authorities.

This option to enter the country completely undermines and compromises all these other normal immigration routes.

This concept of "asylum", as currently constructed - which is based on post-WW2 theories about having a right to enter any country if you claim to be persecuted in another - has to end.

WHAT TO DO
1. The first thing we must do is LEAVE the UN Refugee Convention.

2. That will mean we can then go back to ensuring that anyone who crosses the Channel in a dinghy or the back of a lorry is simply BREAKING THE LAW.

3. They will then be prosecuted and fast-tracked to prison.

We'll need to build Nightingale Detention Centres, but we won't have to imprison very many or for very long until everyone gets the message, and the traffic stops very quickly.

They should be able to buy their way out of prison if they agree to get on a flight home, never to return.

The first thing we must do is get this conversation going...

More on how to do this, and how to set up an alternative asylum programme in "Protect our Country: Policies to Stop Mass Immigration"> http://amazon.co.uk/Protect-our-Country-Policies-Immigration/dp/B0FJ2GWMD4
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Pic Alistair and the Team launched "Protect our Country" in Dover on 19 July 2025.

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20/09/2026

ENGLISH SCULPTOR OF ICONIC SCOTS STATUE, DIES
On this day, 20 September 1973, the English Sculptor of several of Scotland's War Memorials, and one of Scotland's most famous landmarks - the statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn - Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson passed away.

He was born in Cornwall in 11 October 1887.

He arrived in Scotland in 1905 to attend what was called "The Edinburgh Institution" but which is now Stewart's Melville College, and the newly established Edinburgh College of Art in 1907, studying design and sculpture.

In WW1 he served in the Ayrshire Field Artillery in both Egypt and Palestine.

After WW1 he received numerous commissions to design War Memorials and these extend throughout Scotland.

For example, he also created the powerful and lifelike statue, erected in 1960, to commemorate the men of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who gave their lives in WW2 which stands in front of the County Buildings in Ayr. The Inscription reads THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT REMAIN FREE.

He was appointed as "Supervising Sculptor" for the Scottish National War Memorial; planned and built within Edinburgh Castle between 1919 and 1927.

In WW2, at the age of 52, he again joined the Army, serving in Scotland as a Gun Operations Room Officer for coastal defence guns.

He created the statue of Robert the Bruce in 1964 at the age of 76 - another example of British cultural inter-action throughout our Islands.

He is buried in Lasswade Cemetery in the north end.

Pic from dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/robert-the-bruce-statue-being-restored-1458022
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19/09/2026

WESTMINSTER'S 3 UNITY MANDATES
aforceforgood.uk/single-post/3mandates
In our new article, we explain what British politicians should do when pressed on the matter of a second referendum.

Excerpt: "our pro-UK politicians should draw attention to the British Parliament's constitutional, democratic and popular mandates to hold the UK together, as described above. They must emphasise that it is their right, responsibility and duty, on behalf of everyone, to hold the United Kingdom together, and to do what needs to be done to avoid endangering the future of the UK with another referendum. But above all, by working together within a united Britain, the aim is to make Scotland such a success that the thought of separation doesn't even cross anyone's mind!"

Continue reading at 👉 aforceforgood.uk/single-post/3mandates

19/09/2026

PINK LADIES ORGANISER TO JOHN SWINNEY - "YOU FAILED AND YOU KEEP FAILING"
Check out our video interview from last Saturday over on our YouTube channel here> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXJlppjM01o

19/09/2026

QUEEN ELIZABETH, STATE FUNERAL 👑
On this day, 19 September 2022, the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth.

The late Queen had died on 8 September at Balmoral, at the age of 96.

Elizabeth lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral from 12 to 13 September where 33,000 filed past the catafalque, and then in Westminster Hall from 14 to 19 September, where around a quarter of a million people filed past.

The Service began at 11am after the Queen's coffin had been escorted to Westminster Abbey, and it ended when the Queen's personal piper, Pipe Major Paul Burns – who played the pipes each morning outside the Queen's window – played the Gaelic lament "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep".

This was followed by a procession to Wellington Arch (pictured) where the coffin was placed in the State Hearse. This was transported to Windsor, where a procession took place through Windsor Great Park, to the Castle, and to the final commitment to the Royal Vault, in a private service at 7.30pm.

God Save the King!

The Programme of the Abbey Service can be downloaded as a PDF here>https://www.royal.uk/sites/default/files/media/state_funeral_of_her_majesty_queen_elizabeth.pdf

Pic from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/state-funeral-queen-elizabeth-ii-ushers-end-era-rcna48046

18/09/2026

PROUD TO BE NO
On 18 Sept 2014,
2,001,926
Stood Up and
were Counted
and Saved
Scotland
from the
DISASTER OF
SEPARATION
I was one of them

Were you?

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18/09/2026

SCOTLAND SAID NO!
12 years ago, today!
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