European Zoomers & Electorate Turn Right, EU & UN Censorship, Muslims Say No To Islamophobia Laws
Good evening, Classmates. Firstly, a hearty apology for being incognito for the last month or so and not sharing my usually weekly posts. I’ve been working like mad to secure a new job and record enough podcasts to see me through a four-week sojourn around Europe in my clapped out camper van followed by a two-week stay with my future in-laws.
Secondly, I’ve also been using this time to think about the best format and frequency for the newsletter while simultaneously building the podcast. I’m also considering how frequently I can release monthly articles for paid subscribers. Watch this space (and I ask for your patience).
Let’s see what’s been going on in the minds of our governing classes. We’ll then dive into some recent podcast highlights before I share who you can look forward to hearing from in the next six weeks.
Zoomers move right
Nigel Farage has returned to politics with a strange new energy, and an increasing number of polls show his Reform Party overtaking the Tories. The once absurd scenario of the populist Right replacing the mainstream now looks at the very least possible, just as has happened already in Italy in France (and with parties carrying far more baggage).
What should alarm the Tories most of all is the that fact that Reform may have twice as many young voters. Farage is surrounded by young activists, and is outperforming everyone on TikTok, appealing to young men in particular, just as the populist right has done across the continent. His account has almost 800,000 followers, more than double the combined total for the four other large parties in Britain, and one video has had almost eight million views.
Europe’s Zoomers on the March |
in the European ConservativeIndeed, it’s not just the thymos of charismatic politicians convincing men to return to tradition. A constant supply of videos of migrants stabbing police officers and politicians, advertising women and girls in vulnerable states to prospective trafficking clients, and boasting about their tax-payer subsidised lifestyle has enraged those of us working, saving, and doing the right thing. Consistent polling has shown that young men are affiliating with conservative parties earlier than we might have been led to expect. This is not, as the BBC scaremongered, proof that the continent is on the precipice of recycling the 1930s. This is a desire to punish a neoliberal, open borders establishment for depriving them of the same sense of cultural belonging, and opportunity to earn a living, own a home, and have a family, afforded to their grandparents.
However, the EU, UN, and Big Tech don’t like the vibe shift:
Exhibit A: Inside the EU and UN Censorship Project | UnHerd
Exhibit B: Google (briefly) blocks Farage account and is accused of interference
British Muslims on Islamophobia, and Multiculturalism
Don’t outlaw ‘Islamophobia’ | Ed Husain in The Spectator
The notion of Islamophobia was invented to mirror homophobia and draw parallels with anti-Semitism. But the word itself is inherently flawed. Both homophobia and anti-Semitism are directed against specific peoples. ‘Islamophobia’ is a fear of ideas, beliefs and attitudes. Violence or discrimination against adherents of any religion is obviously indefensible, but it should also go without saying that in a free society people should be at liberty to criticise or mock any organised religion. No intelligent Muslim should place the word ‘Islam’ and the word ‘phobia’ together in a single phrase. This is why the word did not exist until relatively recently. Islamophobia has been largely promoted by Islamists and jihadists, to protect them from scrutiny.
The de-Christianisation of the mainstream population combined with multicultural policy thinking, has fed the rise of non-Christian religious identity politics. Only a robust civic nationalism which appreciates Britain's Christian heritage and traditions can reverse the trend.
If you gave me the choice between living in a civic-nationalist Britain which is unapologetically protective over its Christian heritage, or a fragmented multicultural state of competing tribal grievances and sectarian tendencies, I will always choose the former - no-brainer.
People who originate from the Indian subcontinent and resettled in the UK to escape from religious sectarianism and communal disorder know what is at stake in Britain. "The Muslim Vote" and a "Hindu Manifesto"? No thanks. A stable, self-confident, traditional Britain is needed.
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This episode with
was a hit with fellow Englishmen on X. An elegy for England, the English, and Englishness:Who can you expect to see joining the show in the coming weeks? The increasingly popular Substacker
, historians John Rapley and Peter Heather, is coming on the show for the second time, young climate scientist Chris Martz, and Anglofuturist Captain Benjamin.Until next time, Classmates.
Keep up the good work, John. If your van happens to take you to Portugal, I hope we'll meet. You're welcome to stay at my place too.