Is the UK lost?

England is the source code for everything that is good about the Anglo-sphere. She must be saved.

“It has been a dark week for England.

Something deeply evil squats over my land.”

— Mary Harrington June 20 on X

It’s been a dismal week in UK politics. So bad, in fact, that the publication of a report confirming the shocking extent of rape gang activity, appeared to be good news. Because at least the author of the report, Baroness Casey, was brave enough to state what has been common knowledge for some time: white, working class, vulnerable young teen girls have been systematically exploited by an organised criminal network run by Pakistani-British men. The report was so strong that the Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer went back on his previous position and announced that there would be a “national inquiry” — which in theory should mean a thorough investigation, with statutory powers, of the many layers of corruption and criminality that aided and abetted this appalling crime.

Then there was the vote to decriminalise women who procure late term abortions. And then, just a few days later, the House of Commons voted to move forward with the euphemistically titled ‘assisted dying bill.’ It was passed with a 23 vote majority.

Afterward, my friend Nina Power wrote on X: “23 votes. Psalm 23: yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

Nina is a writer and teacher of philosophy. By contrast, the centuries old Church of England, via an unnamed spokesperson, called the abortion vote “worrying” but also that “women should not be criminalised for having an abortion.” Following the assisted dying vote, a lady bishop called the bill “unworkable” and “unsafe.” Anodyne, bureaucratic language. No trace of Christianity in those words.

Meanwhile, the head of the Church of England, as far as I can tell, has remained quiet on the fact that the real Christians who’ve warned about the slippery slope for years, were in fact, correct. One commenter wrote on X: “It’s still very striking that the Church of England had more to say about Brexit and the Rwanda plan than decriminalising abortion up until birth and assisted dying.”

This absolutely tracks with the great cultural cleavage of our time. There is the elite and professional managerial class, who fixate on the problems of the world and disregard the problems of their own people, and then there’s those of us who still believe in nations, and that our fellow citizens are worthy of our respect and protection over everyone else.

In this regard, the Casey report was heartening. Not only did she collect a lot of damning information on the harms done to British girls and their neglect at the hands of those people payed to look out for them, she was also brave enough to include that among the ongoing police investigations into group child sex exploitation, “this audit noted that a significant proportion of these cases appear to involve suspects who are non-UK nationals and/or who are claiming asylum in the UK.” So it’s not a historical problem that has been dealt with. The waves of people who are right at this minute being allowed into the country are also participating in the sex crimes against English children.

I think this is the best summary of the situation:

Dominic Cummings — Boris Johnston’s former adviser — made the observation that the people who populate the ranks of the civil service in the UK are just not the best and the brightest. And it has been that way for some time. This is the same impression I got during the Biden administration. Example after example of puerile, clownish, ham-fisted and palpably incompetent fools being paraded in front of the public as ‘experts’ and ‘grown-ups.’ Americans got their chance to turf the imbeciles out of office. I imagine the English will do the same five years hence.

But the obviousness of the degradation of our elites on both sides of the Atlantic is such that I actually find it gives me hope. It’s out there, for all the world to see.

In spite of all the terrible realities of British politics at the moment, I find my respect and fondness grows and grows for the English people pushing back against the concerted effort to destroy them. In the absence of any moral authority whatsoever from the once-great institutions, at least we have Mary Harrington and Nina Power, and others like them, relatively small though they may be, as voices to guide us through the wilderness. The establishment political class here may be a lost cause. But I’m happy to report that the nascent dissident class is growing more fearless by the day.

To me, England holds a special place in our collective cultural conscience. Like Italy is for all of the West and Christendom, England is the source code for everything that is good about the Anglo-sphere. England must be saved.