Tag: celtic
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GS PODCAST: Celtic Journeys In Memory
Pip: There’s a genre of travel writing where the destination is a place you can’t quite find on a map – and Good Strategy Rebellion has gone deep into exactly that territory this week, courtesy of Martyn Jones.
Mara: The episode is built around one book: Bandoxa: A Celtic Journey by Martyn de Tours. Three reviews, three different critical angles, all converging on the same question – what kind of book is this, really, and why does it resist easy categorisation?
Pip: Let’s find out what Bandoxa actually is, and why it seems to be several things at once.
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A Celtic Renaissance: Martyn de Tours’ Defiant Vision Against the Shadows of Extremism – Book Review
Celtic, European and Worldly
Lila de Alba, FT Weekend, New Jersey, Saturday, 7th March 2026
In an age when the airwaves hum with the discordant symphony of populist rage and algorithmic resentment, Martyn de Tours’ Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers emerges not merely as a novel, but as a clarion call for the reclamation of decency in a fractured world. Published amid the lingering echoes of the MAGA era’s toxic legacy, this 428-page hybrid of thriller, manifesto, and philosophical pilgrimage invites readers into a labyrinth where Celtic heritage becomes a bulwark against the encroaching tides of authoritarianism and intellectual decay. De Tours, the pseudonym of the contrarian strategist Martyn Jones, a figure whose prolific output has long danced on the edges of strategy and speculation, crafts a narrative that is as lush as it is urgent, weaving personal introspection with a bold blueprint for collective renewal. It is a book that demands we confront the “dirty war” waged by the far right on the Enlightenment’s fragile gains, while proposing a democratic alternative rooted in plurality, equity, and environmental stewardship. In doing so, it stands as a testament to the enduring power of ideas in an era of manufactured ignorance.
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Celtic Domination: A Bold Literary Attack on Extremism – Book Review
Celtic, European and Worldly
Petula Clarkson, The New Yorker, New Jersey, Saturday, 7th March 2026
In a literary landscape increasingly cluttered with the disposable and the derivative, Martyn de Tours’ Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into a country club. It is a work of breathtaking intellectual audacity, a “Digital Celtic Covenant” that refuses to politely deconstruct the status quo, choosing instead to incinerate it. Part high-octane spy thriller, part “passive Marxist” manifesto, it is the definitive literary antidote to the toxic sludge of the MAGA era and the burgeoning “fetid imperialist conceit” of the extreme right.
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Exploring Celtic Domination: A Novel of Ideas – Book Review
Celtic, European and Worldly
Pamela Paddington, Times Literary Supplement, Oxford, Saturday, 7th March 2026
There are novels that announce themselves with a trumpet blast, and others that arrive like weather. Celtic Domination by Martyn de Tours belongs firmly to the latter category: a book that drifts in on a sea-fog of memory, mysticism, political anxiety, and intellectual ambition, and then, rather unexpectedly, begins rearranging the furniture of the reader’s mind.
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Celtic Domination: A Literary Journey of Identity and Vision – Book Review
Celtic, European and Worldly
Heidi Katushka, Times Literary Supplement, Oxford, Saturday, 7th March 2026
In Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers, Martyn de Tours (a pseudonym of the prolific, contrarian strategist Martyn Jones) has produced a work that is at once a novel, a manifesto, a pilgrimage memoir, and a speculative blueprint for pan-Celtic resurgence. Published in 2025 and running to some 428 pages in its paperback edition, the book arrives like a fever dream dispatched from the Camino de Santiago, where the author has evidently spent considerable time walking, talking, and ruminating. The result is a text that defies easy categorization, part sibling reunion laced with intrigue, part philosophical treatise on identity and power, part utopian pamphlet for a “Celtic Union”, and yet it coheres, after a fashion, through sheer audacity and the insistent pulse of its Celtic romanticism.
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CONSIDER THIS: Celtic Mysticism Meets Valentine’s Day
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
A Coruña, Saturday 14th February 2026
Oh, marvellous. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, the fourteenth of February, twenty twenty-six. The nation is already knee-deep in the annual ritual of manufactured affection. There’s pink packaging everywhere and the faint whiff of desperation lingers. And now, because apparently one layer of cynicism isn’t enough, we’re adding this so-called Celtic mysticism. It’s as if it’s the missing ingredient that turns a cynical cash-grab into something profound and ancient. How delightfully Welsh of us. We can’t resist a bit of mythic bollocks to make the whole thing feel less embarrassing.
Celtic mysticism on Valentine’s Day.
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The Magical Celtic Welshness of the Number Ten – 2026/01/10
Ten out of Ten!
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, Saturday 10th January 2026
What do Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins have to tell us about the magical Celtic number ten?
To capture the essence of these two titans, we must look at the number ten through two different lenses. One lens is the thunderous, poetic gravity of Richard Burton. The other is the quiet, rhythmic precision of Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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The Living Legacy of the Celts Revealed
Step into the world of the Celts. Their identity stretches far beyond maps and borders. It weaves together a tapestry of shared traditions, vibrant cultures, and timeless stories. This chapter invites readers on a journey through the essence of Celtic identity. It is not just a matter of geography. It is a living, breathing cultural legacy. This legacy has evolved over thousands of years. A common thread unites these places. You are in the misty hills of Ireland. It is the rugged coasts of Scotland. It is even the green valleys of Wales. The windswept shores of Brittany and Cornwall also share this unity. It is a deep-rooted sense of belonging to something ancient, magical, and enduring.
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