Welcome to the Chronicles of the Life & Times of The Bernician
A Brief Biography of Michael O'Bernicia
The Bernician has performed more than 300 gigs on the stand-up comedy circuit; written and staged two critically acclaimed London plays; taught stand-up to a giggle of fledgling comics who went on to professional careers; co-produced and co-directed a critically acclaimed 35mm short film; and played supporting roles in mainstream and independent film and television productions; in addition to co-producing and marketing a #1 hit Danish action comedy and directing his debut feature film, Nefarious, which is slated for its long-awaited release in 2021.
The Bernician went on to draft the first legal argument by a lay advocate to be established as a point of UK law; as well as creating and publishing free online content that has had more than 4,000,000 downloads; whilst co-producing, editing and directing his second feature film, The Great British Mortgage Swindle, which was released in the UK on 10/11/2018. The Bernician is also a recalcitrant philosopher, a revisionist historian; the founding sovereign of Universal Community Trust; the draftsman of the UCT Treaty and Magna Carta 2020.
Born within sight of the River Tyne in the spring of 1969, on a day when a fire-breathing comet struck Britain and turned the skies red, The Bernician spent his first nineteen years North of the Wall, before heading south in search of creative plunder, belly laughs and true love.
Following a ten-night, sold-out run of his one-man show, Dad Wouldn't Mend My Tractor, at the Euro-Theatre Festival in France, where one French critic described it as "the language of universal comedy", he established himself on the London comedy circuit in August 1991.
During his first three months on the comedy circuit, The Bernician was described by The Heckler magazine as "one to watch for the future", having gone on a run of storming gigs, sharing bills with award-winning comics Lee Evans, Bill Bailey, Jenny Eclair, Jerry Sadowitz, Phil Jupitus, John Thompson and Eddie Izzard, to name but a few.
In 1995, The Bernician wrote his first London play, The Truth Game, a snappy contemporary comedy about three couples lying to themselves and each other, which became an overnight fringe success and was described by the Blackheath Guide as "an unexpected treasure."
The Bernician then wrote and starred in Nightlights, a play about a narcissistic late-night radio talk show host, which also played to full houses in London, after Time Out described it as "a skillful light satire."
The Truth Game enjoyed several sell-out runs at theatres across London and The Bernician was commissioned to develop it into a screenplay by Kino-Eye Films, which led to his induction into the guerrilla film industry and the first of nine trips to the Cannes Festival in May 1996.
In the autumn of 1996, The Bernician performed his character-based, surreal and political stand-up in Ray Brady's Little England for Kino-Eye Films, which was eventually broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999.
In 1998, The Bernician co-produced and co-directed the 35mm fifteen minute black comedy, Roadkill, starring the late Brian Hibbard [pictured above], which was described by Total Film as "hilarious" and "beautifully shot" and was broadcast on Sky Moviemax in 2000, following popular screenings at the Cardiff, Leeds and Raindance film festivals.
From 1998 to 2001, The Bernician's stand-up workshops in London and the south east nurtured numerous national new comic award-winners and professional comedians, including Markus Birdman, Mark Dolan, Stephen Carlin, Patrick Monahan, Steve Williams and Josie Long.
In 2000, The Bernician was cast in a supporting role in the 1st episode of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, as an oddball workman, playing opposite Jessica Stevenson. The episode was directed by Game of Thrones director, Mark Mylod.
In August 2001, The Bernician was commissioned to write a historical television drama series called Geordie Boys, about three generations of Newcastle United fans and the players they idolised. The ten episode series is still in development and is partially based upon his own family.
In 2004, The Bernician co-produced the hit Danish action comedy, The Good Cop, starring Kim Bodnia and Game of Thrones star, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, which his company, Unspeakably Wicked Pictures, launched in Cannes whilst the film was #1 at the domestic box office.
The Bernician shot his directorial debut feature, Nefarious, also starring Danish legend, Kim Bodnia, alongside newcomers, Conor Woodman, Spek, Shaoron Percy and Guy Porritt, and Dutch stars, Alwein Tulner, Tygo Gernandt, Willy van der Griendt, Kenan Raven, Johnny Melville and the late Antonie Kamerling, in the spring of 2005. The film is currently being remastered for its long-awaited international release in 2021.
From autumn 2009 until autumn 2018, The Bernician and co-producer, Michael O'Deira, spent nine years making a coruscating documentary feature film called The Great British Mortgage Swindle, which was released in the UK on the 10th of November 2018.
The Great British Mortgage Swindle is written and narrated by The Bernician, who also appears in the film during footage of a talk he gave on mortgage fraud in Stony Stratford during the summer of 2011. TGBMS has garnered more than two hundred 5 star reviews on Amazon.co.uk.
Featured Video
Watch Michael O'Bernicia On Renegade Inc: The Great British Mortgage Swindle
Featured Article on Banking Crimes
Refusing to take lies for truth
Lien On Banksters | A Potential Remedy For 11 Million Void Mortgagors
In the absence of any realistic possibility of obtaining justice against the banksters in an increasingly tyrannous system, which we have already seen time and time again is rigged to protect them from the consequences of their myriad of crimes, we have been forced to identify, develop and implement a Common Law remedy for the TGBMS Claimants, which this article will endeavour to summarise and explain.
It is a remedy which not only requires no legal enforcement, it is also outside the jurisdiction of the courts and has the potential to indemnify every void mortgagor in the country for the losses they have incurred [or might incur] because of a fraudulently registered mortgage.
Featured Podcast
Politically Incorrect Podcast | PUB To Lay Charges Of Mass Murder By Government Policy
Featured Article on Critical thinking
The Antidote To COVID-1984 Is Magna Carta 2020 – A New Declaration of Rights
Magna Carta 2020 – Declaration of Rights
Let it be known by all concerned, interested and affected parties, that the following declaration is made by and for the Sovereign People of Britain [the People], in the absence of a legitimate Parliamentary democracy or lawful governance, following the constitutionally repugnant subjugation of the People to the dictates of unaccountable government and a demonstrably fraudulent and genocidal agenda.
Wherefore, given that since the enactment of the European Communities Act 1972, the UK Parliament has committed the following Common Law wrongdoings against the People:
1. Unconstitutionally ceded British Sovereignty to the European Union [a foreign power].
2. Permanently denied the People the rights to bear arms, be presumed innocent until proven guilty, to exercise their conscience and to remain silent.
Featured Article from The Bernician Chronicles
All The World or Nothing
An Introduction To The Bernician Chronicles
This is an introduction to The Bernician Chronicles, the eclectic journal of my life and times as a comedian, playwright and a filmmaker, a blacklisted ‘potential subversive’ and a notoriously unrelenting recalcitrant.
It is a story that spans fifty years, which is told partly in prose and partly in extracts from my diary, which I have kept since I was a twenty two year old London comic with serious writing ambitions and a predilection for politically incorrect subject matter.
The dual purpose of these chronicles is to document the extraordinary events which have dominated my life; and to set aside persistent suspicions, doubts and lies about the life I lived before I changed my last name from Knighton to O’Bernicia, more than a decade ago.
Featured Poetry
True Love
True love is not a curse, a spell or a potion.
Nor is it transient, fickle or bereft of devotion.
It is not superficial, arrogant or materialistic,
Nor is it foolish, messianic or narcissistic.
True love is all powerful, yet sweeter than Marzipan,
Like a gloriously reassuring, transcendental commotion plan,
To wager our hearts, minds, bodies and souls,
Lifetime after lifetime, for whom the belle tolls.
Miscellanous Posts
Wake-The-Feck-Up Podcast #001 – Grand Illusions
Wake-The-Feck-Up Podcast #001 – Grand Illusions Transcript, audio and references for Grand Illusions: http://self-realisation.com/grand-illusions/grand-illusions/ Subscribe to The Bernician on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/Self-realisation A Self-Realisation Community Podcast: http://self-realisation.com/ All Rights Reserved under the Treaty of Universal Community […]
TGBMS Class Actions | It Was The Conveyancing Solicitors What Done It
TGBMS Class Actions | It Was The Conveyancing Solicitors What Done It Letters Before Claim On August the 6th 2019, Letters Before Claim were served upon most of the banksters currently doing business in the […]
Heartbreak, Homelessness & Geordie Boys | Chapter Sixteen of The Bernician Chronicles
Heartbreak, Homelessness & Geordie Boys | Chapter Sixteen of The Bernician Chronicles The first year of the new millennium, which seemed to promise so much during one of the most exciting six months of my […]
True Love
True love is not a curse, a spell or a potion. Nor is it transient, fickle or bereft of devotion. It is not superficial, arrogant or materialistic, Nor is it foolish, messianic or narcissistic. True […]
Reviews of The Great British Mortgage Swindle – Odeon Belfast
Please take less than ten minutes out of your day to watch this amazingly inspiring and profoundly energizing interviews, given after the Belfast screening of The Great British Mortgage Swindle and the live version of […]
BOOM! TGBMS Shakes The Room At The Land Registry
Here lies yet more [yes, more!] tremendous TGBMS news, as major progress has been made in an AP1 application to the Land Registry, for the purposes of cancelling the entry of a fraudulent mortgage in […]
Notice of Intended PCP For Mass Murder By Government Policy
The following Notice of Intended Private Criminal Prosecution for mass murder by UK Government policy is an amended version of the notice served upon the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social […]
ICC Asked To Investigate Allegations of Genocide Against UK Government
ICC Asked To Investigate Allegations of Genocide Against UK Government There now follows a Press Release from a highly qualified Barrister and a Justice of the Peace who has presided as a JP in central […]
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