AS THE new year marks a quarter-century into this third millennium, we face assailants on all sides whose intentions are to service their unending war against the people.
A chronicle of the century so far would show Britain (and the developed nations of the Northern Hemisphere) besieged by marauderes, emboldened by malign government ministers, under attack in urban and rural areas alike; white working-class girls in town centres offered up to hordes of Muslim men to be raped and tortured; establishment complicity in these horrific crimes, with perpetrators aided and abetted by community leaders, police, social workers, doctors and other prominent authority figures. Listen to campaigner Raja Miah, who explains how these children were collateralised to secure block postal votes so that Labour’s cronies could remain in power.
Metropolitan areas such as London are under siege too, blighted by epidemic knife crime, moped muggings, homeless camps on pavements and open drug dealing in front of tube stations. A hapless soul travelling on public transport, even during the day will inevitably find themselves in the lap of the Gods.
Sadiq Khan’s knighthood for allowing the city to rot into a state of lawlessness, rivalling that of New York and San Francisco, is another assault on and insult to the terrorised law-abiding citizens. In all these cities, ‘next door’ email networks and apps are alive with notifications of violent crimes, some pinging every single minute.
Rural areas await further assault from the Exchequer while the likes of BlackRock wait in the wings to profiteer from the fallout. We have witnessed desperate farmers and their suppliers bringing tractors to Parliament Square to protest against the tax grab which, according to the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), will devour 136 per cent of profits made by the most modest of farms (200 acres turning over just £27,300 per year). That’s a bill of £370,000 across ten years, that is until the farm has to be liquidated. Fire sales of these insolvent farms will be made to large conglomerates and doubtless they will be repurposed for lucrative agrochemical production or to support factories for toxic seed oils and synthetic soya-derived meat substitutes laced with preservatives and pesticides. You would be forgiven for believing that their aim is the destruction of just our land or ways of life, but it extends beyond that – to our bodies, minds and spirits.
To compound the misery at home there are the armed conflicts overseas: in Ukraine, as a profit centre for military industrialists; the threats of jihad with fundamentalist regimes in Syria and Iran; a looming trade war with China; and other ongoing foreign wars, which drive more displaced masses of migrants towards our shores who serve to metastasise the tumour eating away at our nationhood. These wars are brought to our streets, too. On most Saturdays since the atrocities committed in Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, the streets of central London and other cities are filled with braying mobs chanting anti-Semitic slogans and calling for the destruction of the Jewish nation state.
The Government continues to fuel this domestic unrest by stoking ‘anti-racism’ hate and division, once again putting children in the cross-fire. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson recently announced plans for a review to ‘decolonise’ the school curriculum due to its overly ‘mono-cultural’ features, a strategy to separate children from any sense of belonging to a common heritage.
Besides multicultural and international warfare, the destruction of the countryside, and the onslaught of crime on the streets, another battlefield – the gender wars – can be found, fomented by the elites. As TCW recently highlighted, parents have watched helplessly as their own power to stop their children from gender-transitioning (whatever that means) was removed by authoritarian operation of state controlled child health and welfare agencies.
Further attacks on our personal freedoms are centred around thought and speech. A few examples are the incarceration of Tommy Robinson, the arrests of ordinary citizens for posting memes, and a facility set up for the online reporting of Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHI), allowing anyone’s name to be recorded without their knowledge nor the right to confront their accusers. These are extreme assaults on free expression worthy of repressive regimes.
You can be deprived of your livelihood through an NCHI report, as your name on their database will cause the criminal background check by employers to fail. You would be left unable to find out if you’ve said or written something that has been flagged as offensive, since it is based on the feelings of your accuser, and anything could be deemed offensive by anybody. There are language diktats which are enforced with militant enthusiasm, as Allison Pearson has recently learnt to her cost, while Andrew Doyle, the creator of Titania McGrath, says that such measures have hastened his departure from the UK for America.
It is not surprising that our collective stress and fear has taken a cultural form, in the shape of an onslaught of demoralising imagery in media, advertising and the arts. As Laura Dodsworth has observed, companies employ their logos to reinforce desired values in our subconscious minds. She cites the golden arches of McDonald’s as resembling a mother’s nurturing breasts and the swoosh of Nike representing progress. These symbols tell us who we are and where we are going. Now, they are becoming increasingly aggressive and violent.
On a recent trip to Paris, I noticed that fashion trends were rife with war motifs. Dresses looked like chain mail or suits of armour, handbags were shaped like shields, and chunky combat boots abounded. This Lanvin runway show has an example of such a dress, and Kendall Jenner, garbed here in a khaki suit, is playing military officer with a Mercedes three-pointed star and an army jeep in the background. Would you follow her into battle?
A clear signpost for resurgence of this appetite for violence is the record-breaking show Squid Game, which, according to Forbes, debuted at number one across all 93 countries where Netflix is available. This thirst for blood is matched only by the ancient Romans, who threw Christians into arenas to be mauled by lions, except that now we have technology to enable viral broadcasts of such gruesome spectacles in real time. Take the recent case of a woman set on fire in a New York subway station: onlookers filmed on their smartphones to upload footage as she burned to death without anyone bothering to help or call the police.
This unhealthy obsession with violence is made easy through online gaming and similar forums, the users having to make no personal interaction with another human being: one’s adversaries are but faceless avatars. Numbed by SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors used to treat depression, anxiety, panic disorders and other mental health conditions), urban zombies play out their aggressions over a screen and need get up only to answer the door to their food delivery drivers.
How can a society so beaten down prevail against this onslaught of fear and degradation?
Full restoration will come at the price of security. This isn’t only a question of standing ready to challenge groupthink, but of a willingness to take risks. Upon consulting ChatGPT about historical correlations between risk appetite and victory in war, it spat out the Battle of Midway (1942) in World War Two. Here, the US Navy defeated the Japanese by ambushing three aircraft carriers in the Pacific after suffering massive casualties, despite being outnumbered four to one against better planes. Dozens of American Devastator torpedo pilots were shot down or had to land in the sea in what appeared to be an assured Japanese victory, but the tide was turned by one doggedly persistent Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky. McClusky would not return his Dauntless dive bombers to their carrier, despite being low on fuel and having no visibility of the enemy. When the Japanese fleet finally appeared, his pilots swooped into position and hit the ships like lightning, a crucial element in the American victory.
Should we likewise refuse to be bowed or corrupted by the relentless onslaught of those bent on our destruction? Take a cue from McClusky’s Dauntless pilots: be ready to sacrifice comfort, quick to strike at the first opportunity, and prepared to take the tractors to Whitehall.
