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 2020.
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 2020.
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
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 | MOB Interviews Dr Sherri Tenpenny - The Eugenics Vaxtrap
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:
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
TGBMS: A Catalyst for a Very British Cause
The Great British Mortgage Swindle is finally finished. There, I said it. After nine long years of technical, physical and legal struggles, at the cost of three homes, £6.3M worth of property and my formerly optimum health, the master of the film has now been delivered to its UK distributor, 101 Films, and the Theatrical, […]
Mortgage Fraud 101: The Conditional Acceptance Process
Mortgage Fraud 101: The Conditional Acceptance Process In the event I was beginning a process of discovery, in relation to ascertaining whether my mortgage was illegal and void, I would begin with the following conditional acceptance process. Notice of Conditional Acceptance Dear Mortgage Bandit [Add Real Name]. Re: Account Number ########## With reference to your […]
The Life of Gildas By The Monk of Ruys
The Life of Gildas By The Monk of Ruys Here lies a remarkable account of the life and works of Glidas the Wise, by the Monk of Ruys. 1. ST. GILDAS, born in the very fertile district of Arecluta, and descended from his father Caunus, a most noble and Catholic man, was desirous, from his […]
King of Plants | The Gift From God
The “Gift from God” Rather than soft like a mushroom, chaga is hard, almost as hard as wood. It is unique, nothing like common mushrooms. In fact, chaga is the most nutritionally dense of all tree growths. Known by the Siberians as the “Gift from God” and the “Mushroom of Immortality,” this vibrant growth has […]
Doctor Cowan Alleges 5G is the Real Cause of ‘Corona Virus Pandemic’
Doctor Cowan Alleges 5G is the Real Cause of ‘Corona Virus Pandemic’ In this devastatingly simple, empirically supported explanation of the singular cause of every flu-like pandemic since 1918, Dr Thomas Cowan MD lays out a shocking fact which is being ignored by every government worldwide and you will never discover on the hysterical mainstream […]
TGBMS Day Is Coming For The Banksters
TGBMS Day Is Coming For The Banksters In the face of continued criminality, three remarkable events transpired last week, which should provide inspiration and encouragement for everybody fighting mortgage fraud on the front line. Dorset Police and Crime Panel After being confronted with allegations of doing nothing to investigate allegations of institutionalized mortgage fraud, by […]
Here’s What People Are Saying About The Great British Mortgage Swindle
Here’s What People Are Saying About The Great British Mortgage Swindle Here are some heart-felt, thoughtful and passionate reviews of The Great British Mortgage Swindle, given after the film’s recent screening at the Vue cinema in Islington. Subscribe to The Bernician on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheBernician TGBMS Links Visit the official website for The Great British Mortgage […]
Politically Incorrect Podcast – The Falsification of British History: M O’B Interviews Alan Wilson – Part One
Politically Incorrect Podcast – The Falsification of British History M O’B Interviews Alan Wilson – Part One Here is the first part of a series of interviews with Britain’s greatest living historian, Alan Wilson. The interviews were filmed by Anarcho-Film Productions in late 2018, at the octogenarian’s home in the west end of Newcastle. During […]
