The DT takes the first step on the journey

Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 03 July 2025 05:02.

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The English “can trace their roots back over generations” and have a history which is “the legacy of our collective identity”. This should be an uncontroversial claim. When the Venerable Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, almost 1,300 years ago, he felt no need to define the English, and even described “the English nation” as existing in the 6th century.

The first King of the English, Æthelstan, was crowned in 927AD, and it was during his reign that the word “England” was first written down, by Ælfric of Eynsham. The English have been a people, and England a country, for a very long time. We are what the Bible calls an ethnos; a people and a nation.

Making a point nationalists have made for decades, and in the same general language, someone named David Shipley, of whom I previously knew nothing, was allowed by the Daily Telegraph to write the most positive (albeit pay-walled) statement of Englishness I have encountered in the MSM for as long as I can remember. It followed the reaction from certain quarters to a video interview of the steadily right-migrating Matt Goodwin with the former Conservative minister Michael Gove, who is now editor of the DT’s sister publication The Spectator, . You can see it here:

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As Shipley puts it, Goodwin drew:

a distinction between Britishness, a wide, cultural identity, and Englishness, a “very distinct identity… which goes back for centuries”.

Shipley then names four of the many spitting blood at Goodwin for this heresy, none of whom, in truth, have any business telling a whole people it may not exist. Three are Jews. The other is a former backroom boy in the Blair government named John McTernan. He describes himself as “Irish” and “never English”. “The concept of the ethnic English is truly evil”, says McTernan, which is an astonishing and hateful claim. “Is it racist to recognise that the English exist?” asks Shipley of his readers. In his closing paragraph he answers his own question:

It seems that this anger and horror that the English might identify as an ethnos is grounded in a prideful self-loathing. To suggest, as McTernan did, that it is “truly evil” to even conceive of the English as an ethnic group, is to deny our right to describe, recognise and understand ourselves. That is the true evil.

Well, it’s actually a modus operandum of the true evil that is the erasure of our ethnicity and peoplehood. But the journey of a thousand miles, they say, starts with a single step. Let that be it, and let the impudent scheming of the British Establishment and its agora of hostiles like McTernan be dragged into the light of day. Let the final step of the nationalist journey bring us home as a native English people seething with the life and energy, positivity, and natural spirit that manifested itself right up to 1945. Let each charactered part, each person, know what it is to belong to the whole and to be steeped in mutual recognition and mutual acceptance, therefore; each given to care where now there is indifference, and to feel generosity where now there is estrangement and withholding; and let each and every one of us be imbued with a sense of the venture and destining of the all. These things made concrete make the land and home of an authentic “ethnos, a people and a nation”. Sunk in the estrangements of liberal modernity though we are today, for each Englishman and woman to be able one day to know this lived truth again, and to be able to name it, and speak that name with love, would be enough.

Tags: Awakenings, British Politics, Journalism, Media

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Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00 | #

Matt Goodwin is at it again this morning, this time writing a piece for the DM on the cost to the tax-payer of the Labour government’s migrant policy. It is behind the pay-wall. We folk who prefer not to subsidise this rag can only read the header and the opening lines:

This is the dark truth of Keir Starmer’s catastrophic failure to stop immigration - and exactly who is raking in YOUR cash as illegal migrants continue to flood in: MATT GOODWIN
When future historians look back at this lamentable Labour government, they will identify it as the administration that presided over the obliteration of a British identity, culture and way of life that has existed on these islands for centuries.

For the greatest disaster of Sir Keir Starmer’s first year in office has been his catastrophic failure to curb mass uncontrolled immigration.

But it is more evidence of the awakening of Matt Goodwin. Ten or twelve years ago he was still all anti-fash. Now he’s leading the ragged forces of respectable reaction. All power to him.

Posted by Manc on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:30 | #

I can’t bring you Al Ross but I can give you a little of Craig Houston…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5Cd7xyeiA

The Trust Fund Taliban and Incapacity Benefit Intifada don’t actually want to live in an Islamic state. As one of the idiots outlined to me a couple of weeks ago, it’s all training for their Communist revolution and all they need is the working class to get on board .(lol).

The white working class have a good sense of Englishness and belonging but as we know, they are not allowed to express it. The likes of Matt Goodwin could help a lot to change that.

Posted by Manc on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:58 | #

This thirty seven year old Yorkshireman gave expression to his Englishness and needless to say, he was arrested but you’ve got to love the guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693WyjsWFO4

Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 23:02 | #

Craig Houston is a gas, Manc. His argument raises the question as to why the woman in that video clip behaves in this way. Houston asks, in essence, “what does she think she is doing?” A famous answer to that question was offered a decade ago in Black Pigeon’s provocative “Why women destroy civilisation.” His conclusion was that women think reproductively more or less all the time. They are given western civilisation by us. They are given their freedoms by us. Those on the left routinely then despise us as “weak”, in contrast to the men from, as BP put it, hyper-masculine Muslim and Sub-Saharan societies who are colonising our home and who control their women, indeed female fertility itself. Apparently, the deepest wish - the most alluring and irresistible sexual fantasy - of left-wing women is not to be loved, or treasured and protected, but to experience domination as a measure of male physical desire. It’s all about degrees of female constriction and submission. No wonder Fifty Shades of Grey caused such a stir among repressed female Guardian readers.

Well, I haven’t met many Arabs or Turks. Sub-continental Indians and Sub-Saharan Africans I know better. I don’t find either especially masculine by the western sociobiological standard. At the mean, SSAs are hyper-sexualised and more assertive behaviourally. But - at the mean - they are also quite simple and child-like, and less emotionally predictable. One may not want to be too honest with them for that reason. At the mean, they are not like us, and neither are Indians. They cannot be what we are. Obviously, I would not distinguish between Muslim SSAs and Indians and non-Muslim SSAs and Indians in that respect.

To me, as a western man, masculinity cannot truly be measured without recourse to the fundamental creativity required to turn towards the cold north wind and make a whole world from the wilderness to bestow upon western woman. The western civilisational genius is absolutely fundamental to the measure of our masculinity. If left-wing women have forgotten that masculine miracle, and hold it and us cheap because of mass immigration, basically ... if they actually believe that we are Nazis if we reject the foreigner in our home while the foreigner cruelly dominating a woman is desirable and evincing strength ... then they are suffering from some psycho-sexual pathology. Seeking some S&M experience from totally foreign men is, to quote Craig Houston, “absolutely bonkers”.

For the record, from the western male perspective the need for some crude domination of women is evidence of a terrible weakness. All essentially violent behaviour in the self flows from weakness. Violence against the weak, including sexual violence, is never an act of strength.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:01 | #

Matt Goodwin is back at it again today, publishing a piece on “cultural change” at the DT:

This is how mass migration will change Britain beyond recognition
Our political elites have utterly failed to address the cultural changes that are undermining our nation

Britain will be unrecognisable by the end of this century. Unless things change, and change fast, the population of the UK will be permanently transformed by mass immigration. White Britons will become a minority by the year 2063. The foreign-born and their immediate descendants will become a majority by 2079. And nearly one in four people in the UK will be following Islam by the year 2100; this figure would rise to around one in three among under-40s.

Many people struggle to make sense of the pace and scale of these changes. They ask how a nation can be transformed this fast without the consent of the governed.

But, last week, brand new data from the Office for National Statistics has made it abundantly clear that these trends are already well underway.

The findings are indeed shocking: more than one in three babies that were born in England and Wales last year have mothers who were not born in the UK; this rises to more than 40 per cent for babies in England, a record high and up by nearly 10-points in less than a decade.

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Why does this matter, some will ask? Who cares if the ethnic make-up of the country is undergoing such an extraordinary transformation? It matters, I think, for three reasons.

For a start, this issue goes to the heart of our democracy: we didn’t vote for this. We have a political system and a ruling class that is no longer responsive to an electorate that has, for much of the last thirty years, been consistent in asking for less immigration and slower demographic change.

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Nobody in Westminster is currently asking, or even thinking about, these fundamental questions. But if they don’t, and they assume that people from different backgrounds will just naturally gel together, they are creating a recipe for disaster.

Which brings me to the most obvious reason why I think all this matters: culture.

Well, either he actually believes that or he just can’t talk about the English blood in his veins or - more likely - as he is now part of Nigel Farage’s circle he is holding to the red lines of Reform. Farage is building a broad coalition, as he must. It may include Dom Cummings, who has been seen dining with Farage. In his interview of Liz Truss, Andrew Gold felt constrained to ask her if she thought Reform could win power, and if she would be “with them”. She gave a politic answer, which did not address the question. She would, she said, like a re-alignment on the right, excluding the CINOs. Blood and soil is a long-long away from all this. But that’s OK. No one but genuine nationalists will ever do nationalism right.

Posted by James Bowery on Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:24 | #

“28 days later” opening scene downtown London as Rip Van Winkle awakens:

https://youtu.be/rGfy3vpnz-M

I remember watching the ending scene of the sequel with the “rage virus” emerging in Europe from the channel tunnel to the mainland after the recent history of immigrants from Europe invading the UK via the channel tunnel and thinking: Yes, that’s how the wild fire sparked in the UK will consume the overgrowth of political underbrush and spread throughout the continent.

https://youtu.be/rWX9W8Wpf6Y

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:21 | #

I have to say, James, I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to convey here. Do you really think you’re reaching people who are opposing race-replacement? It seems to me like you’re living in an entirely different reality. Could you explain your perspective to us ordinary folks?

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:14 | #

Jeez, James, I know MR is quiet, but I don’t yet see myself as that guy on Westminster Bridge.