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 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
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
Amsterdam Beckons, Cannes Return and Christopher Walken | Chapter Fourteen of The Bernician Chronicles
Amsterdam Beckons, Cannes Return and Christopher Walken Probably the best birthday present I have ever received was the trip to Amsterdam for CR and I, which was very generously bought and paid for by her lovely mother, M. The trip was a thirtieth birthday gift, which we took in the sunny spring of 1999. Chillin’ […]
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation Here lies the Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, the Church of Rome approved ‘English’ history by the Venerable Bede. CONTENTS & PREFACE To the most glorious King Ceolwulph, Bede, the servant of Christ and Priest BOOK I I. Of the situation of Britain and Ireland, and of […]
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 […]
Mortgage Fraud 101: Maxims of Equity and Commerce
Mortgage Fraud 101: Maxims of Equity and Commerce Maxims of Equity Here lie the Maxims of Equity: Equity regarding what ought to be done Equity will not suffer a wrong to be without a remedy Equity delights in equality One who seeks equity must do equity Equity aids the vigilant, not those who slumber on […]
Teaser for The Great British Mortgage Swindle
For those who haven’t already seen it, this is the Teaser for The Great British Mortgage Swindle, the coruscating documentary feature film, which is now the most talked about documentary feature film in virtual memory.
8 Steps To Cancelling Your Illegal Mortgage and Claiming Indemnity
8 Steps To Cancelling Your Illegal Mortgage and Claiming Indemnity In the event you are a UK mortgagor and you are able to provide all the evidence required to prove that your mortgage is illegal and void on one of more of the TGBMS grounds [as set forth in The Great British Mortgage Swindle], here […]
Stabbed In The Back By The Spy Who Said He Loved Me
Stabbed In The Back By The Spy Who Said He Loved Me A shocking account of an 8 year secret services operation to kill, frame, defame and discredit M O’B. Please be advised that the video contains occasional swearing and is therefore not suitable for children under the age of 12. Transcript: https://www.thebernician.net/stabbed-in-the-back-by-the-spy-who-said-he-loved-me/ Subscribe to […]
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 […]
