Immigration, in which a growing number of people who do not share our history, culture and instincts, but who are allowed to play out ethnic and regional differences from overseas, to show loyalty to any counbtry but ours, is still the elephant in the room that media and politicians continue to deflect and distract from – except for Braverman who was promptly dispatched for saying what so many of us see. This article is just another distraction, another exercise in denial.
The Conservatives and Labour are like super depressive Goth kids, self harming and against anything positive and traditionally British. They add to nothing, create nothing but squalor and self degradation for the Nation.
A small minority abreact to what it means to live in our country but we are changing them, and all who come here, far more than they are changing us. Worth remembering that even when going through bouts of low self confidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or at least evidence. I take it you have some? Reminder: your claim seems to be “we are changing them… far more than they are changing us.” I put it to you that the marches “for Palestine” could not have happened they way they did without mass immigration; that’s only one way “we” (collectively) have been changed. How are we changing them? I think it was true that immigrants did assimilate more in the past, but there were fewer of them. If everyone around you acts in certain ways, it’s only human to act like them. If there are enough other people like you, you’re going to be much less influenced by the host culture.
Here’s a fact for you – currently 14% of NHS employees identify themselves as non British, and another 18% say their family heritage is non British. The NHS may have problems but it’s no hotbed of racial strife and illiberal acquiescence. Here’s some other facts – PM has Indian heritage and parents immigrants. Home sec has Afro-Cariibbean heritage. Scottish First Minister has Muslim heritage. Have a look at the English football team, and 43% of PL players are Black or Black heritage. Could go on, but brevity prevents.
I think you’ll find that the percolation and imbibing of British values in immigrants now and in the past much the stronger force. That does not mean some don’t resist it, nor that we do enough to drive our values – personally I’d have a formal naturalisation process that included understanding, appreciation of our values, and crucially competence in our language – a shocking missed opportunity of last 13yrs whilst distracted by other nonsense. But that aside I think you lack confidence in our values and their ability to act as a beacon of light of so many.
This is deluded, albeit well meaning stuff. Possibly yes, if you mean converting migrants to lightly worn, transactional and of course self serving ) “racism, racism, racism they cry!) “woke” values.
Nations cannot cohere with such levels of “diversity” of cultures and values. We have already had asylum seekers committing rape and murder. Yes, we have our own criminals – I think most ordinary people do not think that is a reason to import other peoples’.
Look for one example at Muslims’ attitudes to homosexuality. 50% believe it should be illegal – not, not disapprove of it. The latter would be more like 90%
I think the Policy deficit is not so much with immigration and more with assimilation. I suspect we’d find more common ground there. I think we do insufficient on the latter and need to be much more robust on what is expected re: adherence to British values. Of course we need to define those a little more first but we’d coalesce around rule of law, tolerance, individual freedom, religious liberty, free speech but no incitement to violence, command of the language etc.
As regards your last point – go back a few decades and British attitudes would have been closer to that. It was of course outlawed and offenders imprisoned or chemically castrated – such as war hero Alan Turing. We changed and many of a Muslim faith have and will too. But I’d accelerate it myself by being much more unequivocal about British values. I think the anti-immigration brigade would be better served pushing this much harder. We need immigration and that won’t change much.
Am I right in thinking religious texts are excluded from consideration as hate speech in the hate speech act . Surely if millions come here imbued with a religion whose texts overflow with hatred for infidels of every variety but especially Jews and polytheists , then the laws against hate speech are absurdly biased against non – Muslims . Forget Islamophobia , how about protection against the infidel phobia of Muslims . Of better still cling to our tradition of freedom of speech but watch carefully who we allow in . Too late
I would say your growing number of people who do not share our history, culture and instincts are, in the majority, white and under 40. Which country is Sadiq Khan or Hamsa Youssef loyal to? Karachi? Kabul?
Why is it denial? I know some people seem to be able to only think about one issue at any time, but the article wasn’t actually about that subject. That is discussed a great deal but isn’t the only one the country. The Labour Left – or indeed the party as a whole – is pro immigration, and about to form the next government, and it is their views, along with pro immigration free marketeers which count politically
The restrictionist immigration case has, sadly, and however unjustly, become totally impotent in this country. The country is simply never going to return to the 1950s on this.
Describing a state of affairs and agreeing with it are not the same thing!
Simon Neale
5 months ago
But what is happening under the surface? Who is winning the battle for the soul of each party?
Unprecedented levels of immigration is happening under the surface. Immigrants and their descendants are winning the battle for the soul of each party.
I was back in my old parts of London last year. 45 years of living elsewhere, but returning often – and so I have watched London change in strobe light like, stop Motion, snap shots. Like a time lapse film of termites eating a log.
It is not 1970’s London… A sort of foreboding and dark feel permeates – a feel of where will I be when darkness begins to fall, because being out here would be worrying. Odd and kind of ominous men stand about, or wander about, during working hours. Children shout obscenities and move about in groups scowling. Hard and very foreign woman carry shopping and push prams, shop signs are in words other than English, litter is all over, a kind of shoddiness and down at the heels vibe in what was once the World’s First City..
This is the current and recent past politicians life work. Their creation. They gave you this, it was what they wanted for Britain for some reason……
How about Unherd doing some investigation in WHY. Why did they destroy what was great? What are they up to? It is totally obvious they govern to promote decline, to wreck rather than preserve. What is it they want for us?
Not for us at all , but for some reward for themselves that they will not share with us perhaps?
John Riordan
5 months ago
Britain at present is a lot like a ferry at sea with the doors wide open. It doesn’t much matter who’s the captain, what the heading is, or whether seas are choppy or calm: the ship will sink anyway.
So too with nations. Once a nation doesn’t even control its own borders, it isn’t really a nation at all, and so becomes ungovernable as one.
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Marcus Leach
5 months ago
Patrick O’Flynn has a very persuasive piece in the Spectator in which he suggests that Sunak and his close coterie of “liberal”, social democrats are resigned to defeat at the next election and are directing their election strategy to ensuring that it is ideologically sympathetic Tory MPs who will be the dominant survivors of the cull at the next GE.
With many of the distasteful right-wing oinks despatched, the Tory Party would then finally consolidate itself as the social democratic party Cameron originally envisaged. It would mean five years of Starmer’s Labour, but what does that matter when there is little ideological disagreement and when the new Tory Party will naturally regain power in 2029?
It sounds plausible to me. But if it is the plan, it will consign the Tory Party to history.
After five years of Labour’s heavy taxing and profligate spending. billions spent pushing through economically destructive Net Zero, mass immigration, granting every asylum application, inflicting full woke on the country and insurgent Islam, a cuddly Tory Party of wet social democrats will be a deeply unattractive proposition for voters. Instead there will be a yearning for a genuine right-wing party that promises to undo the last 30+ years of disastrous social and economic policy.
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Martin Smith
5 months ago
How long before an Islamic party arrives? First taking council seats in Bradford, Leicester, Luton, Tower Hamlets etc, then the councils themselves, then perhaps some cities then constituencies, boldly cocking a snook at regional and national regulations and laws, declaring them haram. Perhaps then sharia enforcement officers in some locales, churches and synogogues closed or islamified, english a second language, courts run by immans. Who among the weak and self-hating whites will oppose, and if they do by what means? What will Labour and Conservative mean then?
j watson
5 months ago
A good cautionary tale. What I’d argue though is the most fundamental geopolitical matter of the next 5yrs, which would make much of the subject matter in the article seem parochial, is entirely unmentioned. And that is what Xi does in the South China Sea. Remember he said he would, by force if necessary, take back Taiwan during his tenure. His window for this is almost certainly between now and 2030.
So why should this matter that much to any horizon scan of British politics? Because within a few feet of everyone reading this will be micro chips made in that S China sea vicinity that if control moves to the CCP will send a shock-wave (to continue the Authors placid sea analogy) around the Globe making Brexit seem like a small ripple on a village pond. Businesses and economics worldwide would be cowed by the CCP and Orwell’s fears would have been massively accelerated.
To emphasise to many geopolitically it can seem distant and why worry? But if the DPP wins in Jan 24, Putin emerges intact from Ukraine and Trump gets anywhere near power again in early 25 that shock wave becomes v likely. How Britain allies itself now and in near future to counter this, and prepares for the consequences of at best an on-going Cold War 2, the most under discussed issue we have. Some squabble on the Tory right between Faragists and Badenochist’s better start formulating a deeper view on this, as must Starmer and the Labour tradition of standing up to totalitarianism. And perhaps burn a bit more time on this than Woke/Anti-woke side show stuff, which almost certainly CCP likes to stir too.
Re your final line, I’ve been saying the same myself for some time. The UK universites have been taking Chinese money for decades now, and it is impossible to accept that the seemingly inexplicable tolerance of Woke ideology by campus authorities isn’t actually approved of by Chinese financial donors.
This is impossible to prove of course, it’s just one of those ideas that is only possible to easily dismiss if one has poor or no judgement.
Yep JR very much agree. It’s much more insidious and crucial our politicians grasp it and speak much more about it.
Think about TikTok – what on earth are we doing letting a company controlled by the CCP into the heads of all our kids as increasingly their main source of news. It’s ‘digital fentanyl’ too as we know Jonathan Haidht also been conveying, albeit less through the prism of the CCP malign strategies. We should note in China their kids can only be on things like TikTok for 2 hours max per day and they only use it for educational purposes. They are v happy to spread a virus through our society and got a big head start whilst we are still waking up.
And as we saw earlier this year in Manchester the CCP actually runs it’s own Police enforcement units in the UK, as well as in other countries. WTF!
Still here on Unherd let’s debate cervix’s instead.
For global news analyst in a very sober and deep way, by people who quote their sources, it is very worthwhile watching ‘The Duran’ on Rumble or youtube. Typically a half hour, and as one would guess,very much at odds to the MSM sort of agenda.
This is one amazing thing – the source of news is breaking out of the iron fist control of the Corporate Media and Political powers. Rumble – much nuttiness though, is the censor free Youtube – Russel Brand was forced there – UK threatened Rumble if they did not shut him up and was refused. He is good to watch for his guests which can be very of high caliber.
It may be too late though… young people get their whole world view from Tick Tock, and we know the power of the Media algorithms, and so they are maybe lost already.
But with the massive financial crisis developing in China its ascent to pre-eminence is looking far from inevitable. Isn’t the smart money on India now?
I think smart money stays with the US. A free society that continuously shows the ability to innovate always going to out-perform these countries, but I hear what you say about India too. The issue India will have to face at some point is the role of religion. It’s more secular in certain sectors than it’s Muslim neighbours, but it’ll still act like an anchor on full development.
My original point through was that Xi and CCP have already been sowing the seeds for their world primacy for two decades, and the next year or so will be absolutely crucial to where things are heading. We talk about it insufficiently, and talk of course has to move quickly to action.
Victors write history.
Losers wait 20 years, bleating that it’s all so unfair, and then start writing revisionist history.
Alan Thorpe
5 months ago
Never trust the history that politicians present, winners or losers. As Churchill said “History will judge us kindly because I shall write the history”. Finally, we are starting to see some of the truth.
Richard Calhoun
5 months ago
“Four years later, the British public ratified the decision by a crushing margin in the country’s first ever referendum. The end.”
This is misleading nonsense, we were not ratifying the decision, it had already been ratified.
We were voting to remain ‘within’ the EEC after only 4 years of membership or not.
Philip Clayton
5 months ago
I think if you read the bible you will discover plenty of hate speech in it, a great deal of which in the old Testament is used to justify Jewish claims to the whole of Israel. I have never understood why people who call themselves CHRISTIANS spend so much of their time using the Old Testament to justify horrifying attitudes towards their fellow humans in direct contradiction of what was, purpotedly, the message of Christ. The WORD Islam MEANS peace, yet you seem astonished that, like the Bible, some Muslims, like some Christians, can find passages to support hatred and destruction. Remember, the Bible was used by people calling themselves Christians to JUSTIFY slavery; thousands of anti-slavery campaigners use the same Bible to justify attacking slavery and abolishing it. So stating that the Qu’oran is simply a hate filled book is simply a display of your ignorance.
The core messages of Christianity are in the New Testament and the Christian faith, as taught by Jesus, has now a very distant relationship with that of ancient Israel, turning many traditional ideas upside down, and finding much of the Hebrew Bible unacceptable as anything other than a lesson or a warning of what not to do.
James Kirk
5 months ago
Neither Suella, Sunak nor Starmer have any leadership qualities. Suella couldn’t even get her civil servants to do anything for her. It would seem our next leader is still at school, hence Cameron and Mandelson. Sunak is run by external forces and if Starmer has any vision for the future he hasn’t come out with it yet.
Francisco Menezes
5 months ago
When I think of Britain, I see Mrs. Slocombe. Funny, but… Well, you know it.
Immigration, in which a growing number of people who do not share our history, culture and instincts, but who are allowed to play out ethnic and regional differences from overseas, to show loyalty to any counbtry but ours, is still the elephant in the room that media and politicians continue to deflect and distract from – except for Braverman who was promptly dispatched for saying what so many of us see. This article is just another distraction, another exercise in denial.
I agree, TLDR…..
The Conservatives and Labour are like super depressive Goth kids, self harming and against anything positive and traditionally British. They add to nothing, create nothing but squalor and self degradation for the Nation.
That and they are also super corrupt.
A small minority abreact to what it means to live in our country but we are changing them, and all who come here, far more than they are changing us. Worth remembering that even when going through bouts of low self confidence.
That was a joke right?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or at least evidence. I take it you have some? Reminder: your claim seems to be “we are changing them… far more than they are changing us.” I put it to you that the marches “for Palestine” could not have happened they way they did without mass immigration; that’s only one way “we” (collectively) have been changed. How are we changing them? I think it was true that immigrants did assimilate more in the past, but there were fewer of them. If everyone around you acts in certain ways, it’s only human to act like them. If there are enough other people like you, you’re going to be much less influenced by the host culture.
Here’s a fact for you – currently 14% of NHS employees identify themselves as non British, and another 18% say their family heritage is non British. The NHS may have problems but it’s no hotbed of racial strife and illiberal acquiescence. Here’s some other facts – PM has Indian heritage and parents immigrants. Home sec has Afro-Cariibbean heritage. Scottish First Minister has Muslim heritage. Have a look at the English football team, and 43% of PL players are Black or Black heritage. Could go on, but brevity prevents.
I think you’ll find that the percolation and imbibing of British values in immigrants now and in the past much the stronger force. That does not mean some don’t resist it, nor that we do enough to drive our values – personally I’d have a formal naturalisation process that included understanding, appreciation of our values, and crucially competence in our language – a shocking missed opportunity of last 13yrs whilst distracted by other nonsense. But that aside I think you lack confidence in our values and their ability to act as a beacon of light of so many.
This is deluded, albeit well meaning stuff. Possibly yes, if you mean converting migrants to lightly worn, transactional and of course self serving ) “racism, racism, racism they cry!) “woke” values.
Nations cannot cohere with such levels of “diversity” of cultures and values. We have already had asylum seekers committing rape and murder. Yes, we have our own criminals – I think most ordinary people do not think that is a reason to import other peoples’.
Look for one example at Muslims’ attitudes to homosexuality. 50% believe it should be illegal – not, not disapprove of it. The latter would be more like 90%
I think the Policy deficit is not so much with immigration and more with assimilation. I suspect we’d find more common ground there. I think we do insufficient on the latter and need to be much more robust on what is expected re: adherence to British values. Of course we need to define those a little more first but we’d coalesce around rule of law, tolerance, individual freedom, religious liberty, free speech but no incitement to violence, command of the language etc.
As regards your last point – go back a few decades and British attitudes would have been closer to that. It was of course outlawed and offenders imprisoned or chemically castrated – such as war hero Alan Turing. We changed and many of a Muslim faith have and will too. But I’d accelerate it myself by being much more unequivocal about British values. I think the anti-immigration brigade would be better served pushing this much harder. We need immigration and that won’t change much.
Thanks for your polite reply!
Am I right in thinking religious texts are excluded from consideration as hate speech in the hate speech act . Surely if millions come here imbued with a religion whose texts overflow with hatred for infidels of every variety but especially Jews and polytheists , then the laws against hate speech are absurdly biased against non – Muslims . Forget Islamophobia , how about protection against the infidel phobia of Muslims . Of better still cling to our tradition of freedom of speech but watch carefully who we allow in . Too late
Well stated.
I would say your growing number of people who do not share our history, culture and instincts are, in the majority, white and under 40. Which country is Sadiq Khan or Hamsa Youssef loyal to? Karachi? Kabul?
Why is it denial? I know some people seem to be able to only think about one issue at any time, but the article wasn’t actually about that subject. That is discussed a great deal but isn’t the only one the country. The Labour Left – or indeed the party as a whole – is pro immigration, and about to form the next government, and it is their views, along with pro immigration free marketeers which count politically
The restrictionist immigration case has, sadly, and however unjustly, become totally impotent in this country. The country is simply never going to return to the 1950s on this.
Describing a state of affairs and agreeing with it are not the same thing!
Unprecedented levels of immigration is happening under the surface. Immigrants and their descendants are winning the battle for the soul of each party.
I was back in my old parts of London last year. 45 years of living elsewhere, but returning often – and so I have watched London change in strobe light like, stop Motion, snap shots. Like a time lapse film of termites eating a log.
It is not 1970’s London… A sort of foreboding and dark feel permeates – a feel of where will I be when darkness begins to fall, because being out here would be worrying. Odd and kind of ominous men stand about, or wander about, during working hours. Children shout obscenities and move about in groups scowling. Hard and very foreign woman carry shopping and push prams, shop signs are in words other than English, litter is all over, a kind of shoddiness and down at the heels vibe in what was once the World’s First City..
This is the current and recent past politicians life work. Their creation. They gave you this, it was what they wanted for Britain for some reason……
How about Unherd doing some investigation in WHY. Why did they destroy what was great? What are they up to? It is totally obvious they govern to promote decline, to wreck rather than preserve. What is it they want for us?
Not for us at all , but for some reward for themselves that they will not share with us perhaps?
Britain at present is a lot like a ferry at sea with the doors wide open. It doesn’t much matter who’s the captain, what the heading is, or whether seas are choppy or calm: the ship will sink anyway.
So too with nations. Once a nation doesn’t even control its own borders, it isn’t really a nation at all, and so becomes ungovernable as one.
Patrick O’Flynn has a very persuasive piece in the Spectator in which he suggests that Sunak and his close coterie of “liberal”, social democrats are resigned to defeat at the next election and are directing their election strategy to ensuring that it is ideologically sympathetic Tory MPs who will be the dominant survivors of the cull at the next GE.
With many of the distasteful right-wing oinks despatched, the Tory Party would then finally consolidate itself as the social democratic party Cameron originally envisaged. It would mean five years of Starmer’s Labour, but what does that matter when there is little ideological disagreement and when the new Tory Party will naturally regain power in 2029?
It sounds plausible to me. But if it is the plan, it will consign the Tory Party to history.
After five years of Labour’s heavy taxing and profligate spending. billions spent pushing through economically destructive Net Zero, mass immigration, granting every asylum application, inflicting full woke on the country and insurgent Islam, a cuddly Tory Party of wet social democrats will be a deeply unattractive proposition for voters. Instead there will be a yearning for a genuine right-wing party that promises to undo the last 30+ years of disastrous social and economic policy.
How long before an Islamic party arrives? First taking council seats in Bradford, Leicester, Luton, Tower Hamlets etc, then the councils themselves, then perhaps some cities then constituencies, boldly cocking a snook at regional and national regulations and laws, declaring them haram. Perhaps then sharia enforcement officers in some locales, churches and synogogues closed or islamified, english a second language, courts run by immans. Who among the weak and self-hating whites will oppose, and if they do by what means? What will Labour and Conservative mean then?
A good cautionary tale. What I’d argue though is the most fundamental geopolitical matter of the next 5yrs, which would make much of the subject matter in the article seem parochial, is entirely unmentioned. And that is what Xi does in the South China Sea. Remember he said he would, by force if necessary, take back Taiwan during his tenure. His window for this is almost certainly between now and 2030.
So why should this matter that much to any horizon scan of British politics? Because within a few feet of everyone reading this will be micro chips made in that S China sea vicinity that if control moves to the CCP will send a shock-wave (to continue the Authors placid sea analogy) around the Globe making Brexit seem like a small ripple on a village pond. Businesses and economics worldwide would be cowed by the CCP and Orwell’s fears would have been massively accelerated.
To emphasise to many geopolitically it can seem distant and why worry? But if the DPP wins in Jan 24, Putin emerges intact from Ukraine and Trump gets anywhere near power again in early 25 that shock wave becomes v likely. How Britain allies itself now and in near future to counter this, and prepares for the consequences of at best an on-going Cold War 2, the most under discussed issue we have. Some squabble on the Tory right between Faragists and Badenochist’s better start formulating a deeper view on this, as must Starmer and the Labour tradition of standing up to totalitarianism. And perhaps burn a bit more time on this than Woke/Anti-woke side show stuff, which almost certainly CCP likes to stir too.
Re your final line, I’ve been saying the same myself for some time. The UK universites have been taking Chinese money for decades now, and it is impossible to accept that the seemingly inexplicable tolerance of Woke ideology by campus authorities isn’t actually approved of by Chinese financial donors.
This is impossible to prove of course, it’s just one of those ideas that is only possible to easily dismiss if one has poor or no judgement.
Yep JR very much agree. It’s much more insidious and crucial our politicians grasp it and speak much more about it.
Think about TikTok – what on earth are we doing letting a company controlled by the CCP into the heads of all our kids as increasingly their main source of news. It’s ‘digital fentanyl’ too as we know Jonathan Haidht also been conveying, albeit less through the prism of the CCP malign strategies. We should note in China their kids can only be on things like TikTok for 2 hours max per day and they only use it for educational purposes. They are v happy to spread a virus through our society and got a big head start whilst we are still waking up.
And as we saw earlier this year in Manchester the CCP actually runs it’s own Police enforcement units in the UK, as well as in other countries. WTF!
Still here on Unherd let’s debate cervix’s instead.
For global news analyst in a very sober and deep way, by people who quote their sources, it is very worthwhile watching ‘The Duran’ on Rumble or youtube. Typically a half hour, and as one would guess,very much at odds to the MSM sort of agenda.
This is one amazing thing – the source of news is breaking out of the iron fist control of the Corporate Media and Political powers. Rumble – much nuttiness though, is the censor free Youtube – Russel Brand was forced there – UK threatened Rumble if they did not shut him up and was refused. He is good to watch for his guests which can be very of high caliber.
It may be too late though… young people get their whole world view from Tick Tock, and we know the power of the Media algorithms, and so they are maybe lost already.
Avoid Tussell Brand no matter how entertaining, as he is bad news for all our moral wellbeings.
But with the massive financial crisis developing in China its ascent to pre-eminence is looking far from inevitable. Isn’t the smart money on India now?
I think smart money stays with the US. A free society that continuously shows the ability to innovate always going to out-perform these countries, but I hear what you say about India too. The issue India will have to face at some point is the role of religion. It’s more secular in certain sectors than it’s Muslim neighbours, but it’ll still act like an anchor on full development.
My original point through was that Xi and CCP have already been sowing the seeds for their world primacy for two decades, and the next year or so will be absolutely crucial to where things are heading. We talk about it insufficiently, and talk of course has to move quickly to action.
Worth worrying about Hindu nationalism though.
Victors write history.
Losers wait 20 years, bleating that it’s all so unfair, and then start writing revisionist history.
Never trust the history that politicians present, winners or losers. As Churchill said “History will judge us kindly because I shall write the history”. Finally, we are starting to see some of the truth.
“Four years later, the British public ratified the decision by a crushing margin in the country’s first ever referendum. The end.”
This is misleading nonsense, we were not ratifying the decision, it had already been ratified.
We were voting to remain ‘within’ the EEC after only 4 years of membership or not.
I think if you read the bible you will discover plenty of hate speech in it, a great deal of which in the old Testament is used to justify Jewish claims to the whole of Israel. I have never understood why people who call themselves CHRISTIANS spend so much of their time using the Old Testament to justify horrifying attitudes towards their fellow humans in direct contradiction of what was, purpotedly, the message of Christ. The WORD Islam MEANS peace, yet you seem astonished that, like the Bible, some Muslims, like some Christians, can find passages to support hatred and destruction. Remember, the Bible was used by people calling themselves Christians to JUSTIFY slavery; thousands of anti-slavery campaigners use the same Bible to justify attacking slavery and abolishing it. So stating that the Qu’oran is simply a hate filled book is simply a display of your ignorance.
The core messages of Christianity are in the New Testament and the Christian faith, as taught by Jesus, has now a very distant relationship with that of ancient Israel, turning many traditional ideas upside down, and finding much of the Hebrew Bible unacceptable as anything other than a lesson or a warning of what not to do.
Neither Suella, Sunak nor Starmer have any leadership qualities. Suella couldn’t even get her civil servants to do anything for her. It would seem our next leader is still at school, hence Cameron and Mandelson. Sunak is run by external forces and if Starmer has any vision for the future he hasn’t come out with it yet.
When I think of Britain, I see Mrs. Slocombe. Funny, but… Well, you know it.