About the Editor

[updated 3rd of October, 2008]

The Editor of The Boy’s Own Paper is the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.

He is a Reactionary Queenslander, a Fervent Monarchist, an Anglophile, a Pessimist, a Sectarian Protestant (Lutheran), an Anti-Egalitarian Elitist, a Traditional Conservative,  a Male Chauvinist, a Modern-day Luddite,  an Intolerant Prig, a Terrible Snob and, on occasion, a Pompous Oaf with the unfortunate habit of speaking about himself in the third person.

His interests include: Fearing God and Honouring the King, Being Intolerant and Judgemental, Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip, Playing the Game (and with a Straight Bat), Setting High Standards, Having Fine Discriminating Tastes, Knowing One’s Place, Giving Foreign Johnnies Some Stick, Looking Down One’s Nose at the Hoi polloi (οἱ πολλοί), Deferring to One’s Betters, Noblesse Oblige, Declaiming “O Tempora! O Mores!”, Bemoaning the Decline of The West, Defending the British Empire, Defending The Permanent Things, Opposing Popery and other Heresies, Repealing Female Suffrage, Repealing Universal Male Suffrage, Condescending to the Fair Sex, Fighting the Red Menace, Applauding Privilige & Elitism & Inequality, and Restoring the Gallows & the Gibbet & the Lash.

His prefered reading matter for spiritual sustenance are The King James Bible and The Book of Concord. For entertainment, his preferred authors are: P.G. Wodehouse, John Buchan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sapper, Saki, Ernest Bramah, Richard Marsh, Guy Boothby, Edgar Wallace, H.G. Wells, P.C. Wren, Sax Rohmer, H. Rider Haggard, Captain W.E. Johns, Sir Walter Scott, Rafael Sabatini, Jules Verne, Robert W. Chambers, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Dan Simmons, David Gemmell, Cordwainer Smith, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore and Clark Ashton Smith. For political reading, the Mild Colonial Boy prefers the works of Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke and Paul Gottfried.

He is presently rusticating in genteel poverty on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Hinterland, far from the decadent fleshpots of Brisbane and the Coastal Cities.