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 2019.
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 1,000,000 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 draftsman of the first Anarcho-National Treaty and a Great Charter for the 21st Century.
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 2019.
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.
Featured Video
Watch Michael O'Bernicia interview Anthony Stansfeld about The Great British Mortgage Swindle
Featured Article on Banking Crimes
Refusing to take lies for truth
Rothschild: The Hidden Sovereign Power Behind BIS
In order to prove that the House of Rothschild was the hidden hand behind the founding of the Bank of International Settlements [BIS] in Basle, Switzerland – purportedly the central bank for the central banks, pictured above – the following facts need to be sustained with compelling evidence:
1. The men who founded BIS were working for or with the House of Rothschild when they founded the bank.
2. The governors of the central banks which became members of the BIS board of directors were working for or with the House of Rothschild in their financial policy-making.
3. The House of Rothschild has benefited, whether directly or indirectly, from any aspect of the business conducted by BIS.
Featured Podcast
Politically Incorrect Podcast: 8 Steps To Cancelling Your Illegal Mortgage & Claiming Indemnity From The Land Registry
Featured Article on Critical thinking
A Great Charter for the 21st Century
Magna Carta 2018 - Restoration of Common Law
In the shadow cast by the continuing Brexit Pantomime, which has proven beyond reasonable doubt that Parliament is incapable of carrying out the will of the people, here lies the 1st draft of Magna Carta 2020, a Great Charter for the 21st century.
Let it be known by all concerned, interested and affected parties, that the following declaration is made for and on behalf of the Sovereign People of Britain, in the absence of a legitimate Parliamentary democracy, following the UK Government's constitutionally unlawful subjugation to the dictates of the European Union, as exemplified by its abject failure to implement the people's decision to leave the EU, three and a half years after the referendum result in favour of leaving.
In addition, given that successive UK Governments have knowingly and consistently committed the following wrongdoings against the Sovereign People of Britain:
1. Unconstitutionally ceded British Sovereignty to the European Union [a foreign power].
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
Brexit Shambles: Britain Left The EU On March 29 2019
Brexit Shambles: Britain Left The EU On March 29 2019 Here lies what might turn out to be the real reason for the Brexit shambles presided over by Cameron and May, who teed everything up perfectly for Boris Johnson to play the role of the English Trump and finish the job of fraudulently replacing UK […]
The Cheddar Man of Britain: Fact, Fantasy or Fiction
“Cheddar Man is a human male fossil found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The skeletal remains date to the Mesolithic (ca. 9100 BP), and it appears that he died a violent death. A large crater-like lesion just above the skull’s right orbit suggests that the man may have also been suffering from a bone infection at the time. It is Britain’s oldest complete human […]
Here Lies Yet More [Yes, More!] Incredible TGBMS News
More Incredible TGBMS News Here lies yet more [yes, more!] incredible TGBMS news. Case One Last Monday, a friend of mine appeared in the Birmingham County Court, defending his void mortgage company’s possession claim. Only a few days before, he filed an N244 application to set aside the bank’s claim on the TGBMS grounds, on […]
Victory At Long Last – Massive #TGBMS News
Victory Is Ours I am delighted to be the bearer of massive #TGBMS news. In a word, Victory. After almost a decade of legal action, the Land Registry has cancelled the last remaining charge over my family’s property trust. This has transpired n the wake of the enormous pressure Lloyds has been placed under by […]
Totally Without Merit – The Defendants’ Arguments
Totally Without Merit – The Defendants’ Arguments Here lie the arguments that will almost certainly be thrown at us in the class actions by the defendants, as written by a man who I mistook as a loyal and trusted friend and the barrister he took advice from on the veracity of the TGBMS Grounds, which […]
So You Want To Join The Class Actions To End UK Mortgage Fraud?
So You Want To Join The Class Actions To End UK Mortgage Fraud? So you want to join the class actions to end mortgage fraud and claim compensation for your losses from the Land Registry? You do? Well, this post is the one you’ve been waiting for. On the 6th of August 2019, the class […]
Hepscott Hall, Coming of Age and Kevin Keegan – Chapter Five of The Bernician Chronicles
Hepscott Hall, Coming of Age and Kevin Keegan From the birth of my sister, Joanne, in 1974, our house in Cramlington felt smaller every year that passed, so my Dad started looking for a bigger property in Hepscott, Northumberland, where Newcastle legend, Malcolm MacDonald used to live. In late 1978, he took us to see […]
The Treacherous Legacy of Having Inside Knowledge
This article could rightly be considered a follow-up to an explosive account of the silencing of “Petra”, the first 9/11 whistle-blower, which can be read here, for a full understanding of the following piece. Recent events compel me to write this article, in no small part to express what my faithfully logical wife and two […]
