Buttinghill
What is this all about?
When I started out on Twitter (now X) way back in its infancy, I quickly adopted two accounts, one in my real name @KeithHJordan and one anonymous @Sensatus. I built quite a following, particularly around the time of the Libyan uprising. Fast-forward to the gender wars and these accounts did not last long, both succumbing to the blue-haired moderators at Twitter HQ who seemed to have a pathological dislike of the truth. My third account, then, was required and fishing around for a name I landed upon @Buttinghill. This account commenced in June 2018 at the time when I was in the midst of establishing parent peer support for families with child thinking of themselves as transgender. The disruption, then, was not insignificant. Annoyingly, this new account only lasted until April 1st 2019 when some fool saw fit to ban it.
Buttinghill is the old name for the part of the country where I live. Technically, it is a hundred which is a subdivision of a rape. The meaning of the word rape in this context is akin to a county, each had a sheriff in what was once the Kingdom of Sussex.
There are a few ideas around for how Buttinghill got its name, but I prefer the simplest explanation: If you follow the line of the South Downs, there is a hill that butts out from the main escarpment, now called Wolstonbury Hill, and it forms the Southern limit of Buttinghill. At the end of the First World War, the Armistice documents were prepared at a house called Danny, an Elizabethan pile less than a mile North of Wolstonbury Hill. British Prime Minister Lloyd George lived in Danny, in a menage a trois with his wife and mistress, and would frequently walk to the summit of Wolstonbury Hill where he would survey Buttinghill.
Once Elon Musk took over Twitter and rebranded it X, it made sense to see if I could get my Buttinghill account reinstated. After a few months of trying, I succeeded. But then I had an anonymous account that I had no immediate use for.
Mr Musk sees Substack as direct competition, so links to it are downgraded. However, those Substack sites which have their own name, so look a lot like independent websites, don’t seem to get treated so badly. This prompted me to think about what website name I could get to take advantage of this, buttinghill.com was the obvious choice. So here we are.
But what is it for?
Well, for a start, I could make it look more like a magazine, if I have guest authors they’ll not be posting under my name, and it is more likely to push me to make something of it.
Buttinghill is currently divided into three sections, and you can subscribe (or unsubscribe) to them separately. The three sections are:
Manifest, Oh!
Where common sense and blue-sky thinking collide in the world of policy formation. Ideas that could end up in the manifesto of a truly wonderful political party.
Articles concerning the prevention and cure of transgender ideation. Typically, interesting pieces that would not work on the Our Duty website but that need some outlet.
The original style of article, mainly contributions to the fight for truth, goodness, beauty, liberty and justice. The aim is to provide food for thought.
Other sections will be added in due course, maybe even recipes!
Anyway, I hope you like these developments. When posts become more frequent it shall be easier to discern what sort of article you’re getting.
If you are a paid subscriber, let me know what you think in the comments.