I MEANT to avoid any more political commentary this week. The country is drowning in comment. Is there anything left to be said? Shouldn’t we all just shut up? Me included?
It turned out to be easier said than done with idealists on the New Right downplaying the prospect of another five years of self-inflicted (and increasingly irreversible) decline that an Andy Burnham premiership would inevitably mean. Add a million more Neets, as Bruce Newsome put it in TCW yesterday, ‘raised to think they are the turkeys that would be voting for Christmas if they voted for Reform’, to his payroll, plus a million more immigrants every year, and we may never get the opportunity to vote Labour and their Animal Farm ‘utopia’ out again.
Don’t be taken in by Kemi Badenoch’s performative reaction to Phoney Tony’s warning about Burnham’s promised trajectory. It was Tory fascination with and veneration of Blairism – which she seems to share – that entrenched his disastrous legacy and is why we are where we are today. Something she does not get. Labour won’t change, she told Sir Tony via the Times, as though his so-called New Labour recipe for Britain was ever honest or right.
Ok, she criticised Blair’s constitutional changes and his Human Rights Act in her open letter to him. But it fell far short of doing a full David Starkey on him. Or of demanding an apology for his constitutional sabotage, erosion of freedom, his attack on national identity and his creation of a House of Cronies. Or giving an apology of her own!
Did her own party attempt to reverse any of this? No, bar one or two Cameron pledges, they doubled down on it. Will she admit from her party conference platform Tory responsibility for the state we are in? Will she be shouting her commitment to ‘demographics, demographics, demographics’? I am not holding my breath.
Last week saw good reason why she or any aspiring political leader should be making this his or her mantra. Take the staggering million immigrants the ONS revealed to have arrived in Britain last year. Over the same period nearly 700,000 UK nationals left – a high proportion of them young. A straight swap, you might say. Except it’s not. Law-abiding skilled workers, people with initiative and enterprise, are being replaced by people who have no qualms about breaking the law, speak little English, and are a social drain. This latest million follows the so-called ‘Boriswave’ of arrivals under the last Conservative government, a net 2,950,000 people – the equivalent of two and a half Birminghams – arriving in just five years from 2019 to 2024.
It made me wonder what England’s population density is now. Was it eight years ago that we reported England was already fit to bust? A short, sharp article setting out the fact that England then was fifth on the world’s list of the most densely populated countries.
Overcrowding of course will be yet another excuse for the indoctrinated childcare generation to decide not to reproduce – on overpopulation/climate grounds – further exacerbating the demographics crisis. Last week brought further evidence of our culture’s suicide wish. It was reported that births plunged to their lowest level in half a century last year. Meanwhile foreign-born parents accounted for a record four in ten births. I love (I am being ironic) the Daily Mail’s politically correct reporting of this: ‘Meanwhile, in a sign of how diverse Britain’s population has become, the data showed 40 per cent of births (235,273) in 2025 were to parents where one or both were foreign-born, the highest since 2008.’
Of all the changes Blair made, the one most responsible for our declining home-grown birth rate was his attack on the married family, the nationalisation of childcare, and the benefits preferencing of single mothers – to be married to the state. This is the one thing David Starkey didn’t mention in his analysis of the Blair revolution. Engineered family fragmentation and round the clock childcare create a fertile field for unhappiness, indoctrination and censorship, all factors in today’s reproduction crisis.
Thankfully, along with David Starkey, there are still some of us whose minds have not been destroyed. The indefatigable oncologist Professor Angus Dalgleish is one. He wrote to me (a bit too late for last week’s review) about the launch of a book called Canary in a Climate World: Climate Realism vs the Net Zero Myth. You can read more about it here. It brings together 38 experts – ‘climate canaries’ – from science, climatology, geology, engineering, economics, law, journalism, medicine, public policy and independent research, all challenging key assumptions surrounding climate change and the Net Zero narrative. Gus was asked to write the foreword as the editor said he was the first to point out that the climate and covid scams used the same blueprint! An essential summer read, I would say.
So too will be Norman Fenton’s upcoming book, The Capture of Academia. I have read the proofs. It is, as Daniel Jupp writes in his endorsement, ‘a calm, cogent but ultimately moving account of how one of the most respected academics in the country became a rebel and outcast for his insistence on truth and honesty. Fenton is a genuine national treasure.’ He is.
Finally another of our contributors, Alain Wolf, has turned his own experience into a novel. Magnus Jones is about an embattled lecturer in contemporary academia; it has just been published by a US house, Wipf and Stock. If anyone interested in reviewing any of these books for TCW, please contact me. I will be able to get copies to them.
I can’t close without praising the politicians doing most to defend the West from its externally as well as its internally driven demographic crisis, another aspect of which was set out this week by Matt Goodwin. The one and only Donald Trump and his remarkably cool, coherent and consistent Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. Since the great and the good of the British establishment can only ever find airtime or column inches to trash these men – see Sir Lawrence Freedman’s latest – I thought I would leave you today with the pair speaking for themselves. Here they are at last week’s Cabinet briefing.
All I can say is that I wish we had politicians here like them.
