In the aftermath of the Southport massacre, I travelled to north London to talk to Andrew Gold about race and crime, and how the negligence and bashfulness of the British establishment led to a violent Rwandan teenager being free to maim and murder eleven school girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer.
The conversation became much deeper as Andrew and I ended up arguing about the nature of nationality, ethnicity, identity and belonging in an age of mass migration.
I explain to Andrew Gold why the Southport triple murderer — Axel Rudakubana — will never be ‘Welsh’ and make the case that Rudakubana cannot even be understood as ‘British’ despite being born in the UK.
Ethnicity is not a costume one can don for political convenience. It is as fundamental as biological sex and perhaps as immutable. But the influence of ethnicity in our relationships, and the importance of the motherland in the formation of our character has been underplayed in order to make multiculturalism palatable and integration possible.
The identities of new arrivals into Britain and Europe — particularly those arriving from the developing world — have been elevated and celebrated to the obscurity of the cultures, traditions, and religions of Europe. As Douglas Murray directed our attention to last month at the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship, Europe believes it has to pretend to have no culture — no flavour — in order to attract immigrants. But this dynamic of surrender and invitation transcends economy…
The supplanting of European cultures, values, ideals by third world ‘indigenous’ peoples and their ‘culture’ is intended to repair the divide between the white populations of the world, and, well, everyone else. In volunteering their cultural and moral achievements for criticism, deconstruction and erasure (quite literally when one observes in the smashing of statues and the removing of literary classics from the state school curriculum), the peoples of Europe can demonstrate contrition for their historic “judginess” — their forthright assertion of moral superiority — during the age of colonialism.
The upshot of this surrender is the disintegration of the European conception of ‘place’ itself. Denied the legal recognition of ‘natives’, the ancient populations of Europe are no more entitled to the fruits of their civilisation than Muhammad from Syria who arrived by dingy yesterday. As politicians distribute bread, bricks, and iPhones to the ‘new world’, the starving masses in Europe look on with vengeance in their eyes…
Author’s note — Twitter/X account hacked
Please note that my Twitter account is still hacked. I have been locked out and have not tweeted since Monday 27th January 2025. The only thing to be deleted was my Southport coverage which is…something. I have been cut off from most of my contacts in Southport, along with much of my evidence from the final days, which is why my Southport reporting has been stymied.
Twitter has also refused to give me my account back, first claiming that there is no issue, then claiming they cannot prove who I am. I am working various people to get this investigated and get my platform back. In the hiatus, though, I have not been idle! There are plethora of interviews and essays landing this month and the coming weeks which I am excited to share with you.
Stay tuned!
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You should do more of these interviews
Superb, well written and insightful, as a Welshman I agree.