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New article today (also published in The Critic) on how to address the harms of anti-racism on our institutions and society.
There have been many articles recently on the harms this ideology has caused. This one offers a few solutions.
Will Solfiac
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Will Solfiac
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Interested in history, demography, politics, economics, psychology. Writing on Substack (below), in The Critic and Unherd.
- Bit depressing the massive applause this woman got from the audience (though they are not a representative sample of course). I would genuinely like to know what form of anxiety means you are able to eloquently ask questions on national TV but not get a job.I was struck by this lady talking about her “anxiety” while having no problem asking questions on a live national TV show I don’t think the British people should have to pay £3.5 BILLION a year to support people with mild mental health issues
- One thing you can see in this map is now different the population distribution was before the industrial revolution. The North West is basically empty. East Anglia is full.A map of the monasteries of England dissolved by King Henry VIII.
- Stayed at a hotel in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Hotel manager and several of the staff are Pakistani. Hotel manager says he's on a 5 year visa. Looked up the hotel on companies house and one of the directors is also Pakistani, he owns three other venues in the area.
- In the 2011 London riots the (mostly black) rioters famously targeted JD Sports particularly for looting trainers etc. At the time Paul Mason described these riots as part of 'a new global revolution' caused by a corrupt global elite, inequality and the 2008 financial crisis.I'm so upset about refugees that I had to steal some trainers 👇🏽
- They've made London look like Copenhagen in the service of anti-racism.The photos that accompanied three BBC stories today (on its main news page, its London regional page, and its Facebook page) about the launch of Transport for London's 'Headphones On' campaign. This phenomenon is becoming impossible to ignore, isn't it?
- "Deindustrialisation and more recently higher property prices have pushed many of the Cockneys who once inhabited the East End of London out into neighbouring Kent and Essex." It must be so weird to be a journalist where you don't allow yourself to actually report reality.
- I'm not normally one to use phrases like 'regime propaganda', but from watching the first bit of Adolescence it's hard to resist. Tough but fair black police chief, for some reason speaking in an MLE accent despite living in the north of England.I noticed Netflix show Adolescence is being pitched at me as this incredibly hot and vital cultural commodity organically seizing the internet, and I wanted- just for kicks- to apply a post USAID lens, and see how quickly I could link it to UK government funding
- On the whole "Britain sucks, Americans are so rich they can earn $75k as a fast food manager in rural Texas" thing. Yes it's instructive in some ways, but you could go and earn £65k as an Aldi store manager in Lincolnshire and buy a nice big cheap house there. But do you? No.
- Worth going through this article, it's got every single lazy pro-immigration shibboleth there is. Thread below.The truth about immigration on.ft.com/3KwjdsX
- I love how they've made him not only an old white man, but in his earnest lib dem hiking jacket and rucksack, the least most likely perpetrator. I'd love to be in the meetings when they make these adverts. Are they explicit about 'countering stereotypes'? Or is it subconscious.TfL is targeting the "disruptive behaviour" of passengers who play music and make calls out loud ➡️ bbc.in/4oSGrcH
- Bizarre post-Boriswave experience today going to a small theme park in a pretty remote part of rural England that I last visited as a child. At that time staff were local young people. This time most were from Africa or India, "British money" reminder leaflets on the tills etc.
- "Too many overseas trained doctors are being reported for misconduct compared with white British-trained medics." "So you must have excluded the possibility that this is because they are committing more misconduct?" "I don't understand the question"
- The thing I found most interesting about this clip when it first aired was when Stacey Dooley says "I'm not judging you" Assuming that the Muslim woman would of course share this cornerstone of liberal morality with her. Only to be told in response "Yes I am judging you."This post is unavailable.
