There is an effort among the British elite — the media, the politicians, the civil service, the academy — to pretend that there are not and never were a people called the English, and that talk of English culture is folly, a lie, and the sure indicator of dark imaginings.
This is part of a widespread policy of demoralisation.
People are afraid of this word because it has wide currency. On right-wing circles it is sometimes used to suggest that the administrative state has been taken over by the kinds of people who ran the old KGB. That the state is perpetrating ‘active measures’ — intellectual terrorism — against the public in a bid to move the needle, to tell the public that it must abolish itself if it is to be worthy of being ruled.
Of course, Britain’s primary problems are not about race. They are about money, and the fact that we have none of it. But we ought to imagine that for some people, those two things are not in the same moral universe.
To someone who did care about race, how would they think of this question? They would have distinctive and specific things to suggest. It is reasonable that we attempt to imagine what those things might be.
The newsletter is for the first time being surrendered.
The following will be written by Junius Pimlico, a man whose thoughts on the matter of race and nation are well-articulated, but unpopular. It is my duty to bring you what he thinks.