Ethnicity, nationalism, Englishness and Britishness

This is in two parts … ethnicity and nationalism first (mine) … then Englishness with our Steve and Britishness with Bill.

As the atmosphere around this question, esp. in Britain/England is so toxic, I thought I could make this point on the whole issue by initially looking downunder at this news item:

And the bio on Wiki:

Why do I see him as not being of the slightest issue in a major role as state premier? Can Lucy White help out here?

Well, the first group are obviously English speakers and of home countries stock … whilst the third worlders are not. But what of Mr. Crisafulli? Italian or Sicilian, mafia involved in that land. There’s this song about Sicilian Born too:

I lived three months in Sicily, becoming friends with a young lady there … we spoke English. So on what basis do we have no objection to a home countries’ person and how does a Sicilian fit in there? I’d say being industrious is one major factor, good attitude, western culture maybe underpinned by cultural Christianity … assimilating.

There was an anecdote about Melvyn Bragg falling asleep at the theatre, the day after an Ashes clash. He woke up, shouting, “Bloody Australians!” To which his friend agreed, “Yeees, yes.” Dearieme here would regularly resent Americans, a reader from Lancashire could not stand Jocks. As for Brummieland … well! There’s stick between quite a few Americans and Canadians.

Up to this point, whom do we welcome, of all of the above, and whom not welcome? And is English an ethnicity, a language, a culture or is it a tag foreigners adopt once clutching their ILR? And would you agree that there are two questions here … is Englishness, Welshness etc. an ethnicity but nationality is just a bit of paper, an ILR so the extended family does not get kicked out?

Rupert upset the young bucks of Restore by saying he’d boot out illegals and overstayers but not so much those here legally, e.g. a Crisafulli type.

Steve from Unherdables (and of late in comments, at OoL) wrote this about Englishness:

Poole is sunny and bright today. The bird bath in my garden, frozen over. Bushes full of hungry Chaffinch now winter is upon us. Roll on the summer of ’27, a special year for the English..

On 12th July 927 AD, near Eamont in Cumbria, King Æthelstan met with several Celtic kings across Britain. At this meeting was the English Lord of Bamburgh, and possibly other nobles from the Viking territory of Northumbria. King Æthelstan brought the kingdom of Northumbria within his control, and in doing so, he was the first person to create the ‘kingdom of the English’, the forerunner to modern England.

Æthelstan had, in effect, created one nation for all the English people, and they were for the first time united under one ruler. From that point forward, King Æthelstan was no longer just King of the Anglo-Saxons; he became Rex Anglorum, King of the English. The 12th of July is England’s birthday, and in 2027 England will be 1100 years old, making England the oldest country in Western Europe 🙂”

Reader Bill came in about Britishness:

“The History of the British extends from around 1500 BC to the present day. There is no history of any nation on Planet Earth that has been so disgracefully abused and so completely distorted and mangled as that of the British Nation. The appalling mess that the 3500 years of British national record is now in is a National disgrace.

A major Kingdom of Britain was based in Khumric Wales that was much larger than it is today and the Kings resided in South East Wales and in the Midlands of what is now England. There were at least seventy-eight successive Kings ruling from this area from the arrival of Brutus in 500 BC to AD 1300. The collapse began when Iestyn ap Gwrgan was deposed in AD 1091 and King Morgan was murdered by Edward I of England in AD 1300.

Here we have another problem as the megalomaniac Edward I of England finally succeeded in having Llewellyn Olaf (the last) a Prince of tiny North West Wales assassinated in AD 1282, and in AD 1300 he declared his second son Edward II to be “prince” of Wales. Strange as Wales was always a Kingdom. This was to lead to further gigantic historical distortions.

https://www.black-shuck.co.uk/arthur/history.html

Official history cannot be relied on for accuracy any more than the above can.
Fwiw I take the above to be closer to the truth than the ‘official’ history.”

To which Steve added:

“The Plantagenets weren’t called “the devil’s brood” for nothing, Bill. Nothing of what you say would have happened if England hadn’t been conquered by William the Bastard in AD 1066. Despite their cathedral building they enjoyed killing and did not honour Him:

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him – Colossians 3:17

I refer you to the Domesday Book, commissioned in AD 1085 by William the Conqueror. Its current location is the National Archives in Kew, London.”

So, dear reader, are we any furtherer on what is English, British, whom we ship out, whom we let stay? And if we push Big Tent, then does that extend to Zionists, Deathculters and third worlders of alien habits?

'Parallel Societies' Is Quite The Euphemism

Denmark’s supreme court is expected to rule on whether the state’s classification of residents with “non-western” backgrounds is covered by racial discrimination law.

Of course they are.... 

The appeal by residents who were evicted from Nøjsomhed-Sydvej in Helsingør, a city north of Copenhagen, could have far-reaching implications for others who have been forced out of their homes by the controversial legislation previously known as the “ghetto law”. The government now refers to affected neighbourhoods as “parallel societies”.

Though they are often barely worthy of the term 'society'. The appeal is the latest in a long-running saga in Denmark.

The residents, who have been unsuccessful in other courts, argue that the evictions by the housing association were intended to cut the number of residents with a “non-western” background in order to stop the area from becoming a “ghetto” and therefore subject to the legislation.

Once again, Denmark is proving a bastion against whole-scale Islamic conquest, alone in the EU.

In December, the European court of justice (ECJ) ruled that the legislation may be unlawful.

'May be'? Well, that's definitive!  

The law requires housing associations to cut not-for-profit housing by 40%, including by selling or demolishing properties or terminating the lease of tenants by 2030. It also includes demolishing apartment blocks in areas previously labelled “tough ghettos” (now “transformation areas”) by the government, where at least half of residents have a “non-western” background. Other areas with similar socioeconomic conditions – such as high levels of unemployment or crime – are not subject to these measures.

Yet more euphemism - 'transformational areas' indeed! We alll know what they are transforming into, and why the Danissh people want it to stop, don't we, Reader?  

The quality of Englishness is not strained

… it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.

It’s not as if it’s a new issue … Somerset Maugham and Mr. Know-All (1925):

I had scarcely started before a man came up to me and asked me if he was right in thinking my name was so and so. “I am Mr. Kelada,” he added, with a smile that showed a row of flashing teeth, and sat down.

“Oh, yes, we’re sharing a cabin, I think.”

“Bit of luck, I call it. You never know who you’re going to be put in with. I was jolly glad when I heard you were English. I’m all for us English sticking together when we’re abroad, if you understand what I mean.”

I blinked. “Are you English?” I asked, perhaps tactlessly.

“Rather. You don’t think I look like an American, do you? British to the backbone, that’s what I am.”

To prove it, Mr. Kelada took out of his pocket a passport and airily waved it under my nose.

This was the latest attempt:

Ed Davey (Mr. Post Office) spoke in parliament on “Englishness” … comment on that:

Lisa is what people might call “white English” but she sports the Union Flag, not St George:

In my time in Russia, I was often spoken of like: “Он наполовину русский,” or “He’s half Russian.” It was an honorary title, not a citizenship claim … I was still “иностранец” or “a foreigner”, officially … but a friendly one who spoke the language passably.

Coercion

The creator of the Ask for Angela campaign says its new charity status will help it support more people who feel unsafe on a night out. Hayley Crawford started the scheme 10 years ago in Lincoln pubs and named it after Angela Phillips, a family friend who was killed by her husband in 2012. Ask for Angela allows people who feel unsafe in bars or clubs to discreetly seek help. When someone "asks for Angela", staff can help them leave safely or take them to a secure area.

A worthwhile voluntary scheme, you might think, Reader. But voluntary isn’t good enough, apparently. 

Crawford hopes its new status will encourage more bars to take it on. She said: "There's never any excuse why a venue doesn't implement Ask for Angela."

Yes there is. A bar may feel it’s not for their staff to take the responsibility, and that’s their prerogative. They hire people to pour drinks, not be police or security. You may not think that’s a good enough reason, but you aren’t paying those staff, so it’s not your call to make. 

Failures were uncovered by the BBC in 2024 when secret filming found that in more than half of the London venues they visited, staff failed to respond to the code word. 

In 2025, Phillips's daughter, Hollie, called for government action to ensure the scheme was implemented properly.

The irony of expecting the government to coerce everyone into complying with their ‘voluntary’ scheme is clearly lost on them. 

Crawford said the charity status would help solve the issue of pubs not implementing the scheme. "Hopefully, that will give them the confidence to implement the scheme and not feel like it's going to cost them a lot of money, or it's complicated, or that they won't have the support in place because they'll be able to access that all through the charity," she said.

And yet, they still may feel like it’s not their responsibility to take this on, and that’s perfectly fine. 

Westwide trends as of 4.30 a.m. GMT Tuesday

Am deliberately avoiding party leaders afap in this post … aim is to look at trends in almost all western countries as of this timepoint. To do this, I’ve taken screenshots and am running them in the order in which they appeared on X except the first two from Lord Toby’s newsletter from London this morning.

Just before that … Thune has called a special rushed vote for him to be Senate leader for two years at 9 a.m. Washington time, before anyone (and there is one by the way) can be brought in to oppose him:

It Will Be Ironic If This Finally Seals The Met Police's Fate...

Meghan Markle wanted to go public after she was made aware of child sex abuse claims against her father but the Metropolitan Police's royal bodyguards advised her not to, it is claimed. The revelation comes after Scotland Yard confirmed it handed the Duchess of Sussex, 45, a letter containing allegations against Thomas Markle, 82, in January 2019, but failed to alert other law enforcement agencies.

I don't know whether to be horrified by their lack of responsibility to law and order or astonished at their success in getting this woman to keep her mouth shut for once:  

The handwritten letter from Loveless, who died in 2024, was assessed by the Met's royal protection team, before it was passed on to the office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Kensington Palace for 'awareness'. It has now emerged that Meghan wanted to speak out about the allegations, which she last week described as 'troubling and disturbing'.

You have to admit, that's some achievement!  

However, one of her Royalty and Specialist Protection [RaSP] bodyguards reportedly told her: 'Leave it with us, we'll investigate it.' The same officer reportedly advised Meghan not to go public at a time she was being criticised for cutting ties with her father without any explanation, who did not attend the Sussexes' wedding in 2018. The Met, who did not did not investigate any of the allegations against Markle due to them taking place abroad, are still trying to identify and find the officer in question, The Times reports.

Due to them 'taking place abroad'..? That's stopping them now?  I guess there's not a lot of golf courses in the Phillipines...

But there’s always someone to tell you black is actually white and you are wrong for thinking that a police officer should have any concern for illegal activities:

On Saturday, a source within the Met said it appeared as though the RaSP officers who assessed the 2019 letter had failed to understand the significance of the allegations and failed to refer it up the chain of command. The source said: 'These people are not detectives and have a tendency to be quite linear in their thinking. 'RaSP would only have been interested in what it meant for the security of the Duke and Duchess [of Sussex]. Having assessed that, they should have thought about the wider consequences.'

Clearly employing the best and the brightest for the role! 

Remembrance Day in Britain in 2026

Julia and I and I hope Grandpa wish you all the best in your commemorations today.

One of the two poems in the British commemoration of Armistice and subsequent remembrances was:

They won’t age, no, but we will … and the friend of many here, LegIron, has written this morning:

Yes. But by the same token, people are still commemorating the Fallen in various ways, for example:

… which is nice, almost quaint and may that sort of thing never dies out.

Just a word on why Remembrance Sunday for Britain and some other places, instead of on Wednesday, November 11th, which is Armistice Day:

Here’s a nice gesture which at least until recently was still being offered:

And so to the opening poem and the attached bugle call for the 11th of the 11th, at 11 a.m.:

Is there any defence against this global collusion?

One argument goes that if our issues are tackled nationally, e.g. in Poland, hence the all out war between von Leyen’s mob and the Polish President, as it had been against Hungary’s Orban, then the globo-psychos stand a chance of being toppled, despite the civil service, e.g. the FCO.

In a functioning electoral system, perhaps this might bear fruit:

Going back in history to Thanet South, with Nige poised for victory, the Tory number cruncher was interviewed at 11 p.m. and predicted the eventual outcome before the ballot boxes were due to be opened at 2 a.m.

The type of global thing we’re up against across the west, in every western nation, is:

Von Leyen? Australia? And electoral integrity in other nations?

Or this:

Which raises the question of the point of voting in the first place? Let’s say people decide to stay home … then we get Labour majorities on 20+% of the eligible vote.

All right, let’s say a few thousand do a Dover-Portsmouth sit-in and their leader is of course now in prison until June, uncharged, as with J6ers. So old soldiers just press on, selling poppies, right?

Well, the kids doing it can’t be identified, but the woman’s photo can be seen … the chief stompette … she’ll need reparations for that.

Sort of an organised tsunami of assault on us from every direction, would you not say? And as was shown in NIMBY Piddington, if it’s not kids attacking and maiming the elderly, then it’s barracks of fighting age third worlders awaiting the call, raping here and there in the meantime. In villages and towns, let alone in the Lake District.

Is there a Homan or Miller anywhere, as in the States, who could rid the country of the problem? Only if the political leadership was onside with that. Not a lame duck.

Oh, say I, voice heavy with irony … but what if a strong leader were to arise from nowhere in a Hegelian way, offering to scour the land, to wash away the Augean stable ordure, to sweep away the Weimar Republic of deliberate sleaze? And if not national, then how about continental blocs or even One World Govt and Religion?

*Sigh*

 Isn't it all just so bloody tedious?

This is definitely the most niche brag you will read today: with the release of A Wall Is Also a Road, I will have a 5/5 score when it comes to publishing sci-fi books with nonbinary protagonists. No matter the topic of my books—time travel, robots running a noodle restaurant, far-future terraformers—I always include a nonbinary point of view.

Of course you do, dear boy…. 

This is trickier than it sounds, because nonbinary pronouns in science fiction have a pretty checkered history. Over the past century, sci-fi authors have often deployed nonbinary pronouns to make characters seem incomprehensibly abnormal.

Stop sniggering at the back! 

After the rise of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, authors became bolder about using nonbinary pronouns without inserting a judgey, binary-centric protagonist.

There was a rise of ‘feminist science fiction’? Really? 

Marge Piercy consistently uses the neopronoun “per” for the eco-conscious future humans in Woman on the Edge of Time (1975). And Octavia Butler’s female protagonist in the iconic 1980s trilogy Lilith’s Brood has children with an ooloi, the third sex of a spacefaring species called the Oankali.

The fact they probably did this to make characters more ‘other’ and so alien has gone right over his head, hasn’t it? 

But something profound has changed: Today, nonbinary characters are protagonists. Readers are invited to identify with em, table-flip the typical narrative, and perceive binary gender as abnormal.

It isn’t, no matter how you might wish it to be, and ‘queer fiction’ isn’t going to change that one iota. 

Being nonbinary in a binary world feels like living in a state of low-key defamiliarization all the time. I’m constantly confused by the weirdness and artificiality of binary gender, which inspires all kinds of out-of-pocket assumptions about who I am.

We know just who you are, unfortunately… 

Since the 1780s, linguists, journalists, and even mathematicians have been advocating for a simple act of language reform that would give nonbinary people more options. With nerdy fervor, they’ve coined gender neutral neopronouns like ip, thon, xe, ir, and ae. Not for political reasons, or “wokeness.” Just to settle on a grammatically correct way of describing individuals without reference to their genders.

Have they really? Since the 1780S? 

Nonbinary pronouns aren’t mere rhetoric. They’re about selfhood and being seen for who we are. Whether a story introduces 15 wild neopronouns, or a single epicene one, it creates a space for imagining what our hearts might do if we had more choices than two.

Pronouns eh? The dictionary definition of which is 'a word or group of words used to replace a noun or noun phrase to avoid repetition and make sentences flow better'. So you're asking rather a lot of them, aren't you?

The assault on the farm

 … and in particular on the cow

The overriding question, after the deep state attack on farming itself (so many other articles) … is that of food additives … and today, the humble cow.

https://www.farminguk.com/news/arla-and-tesco-suspend-dairy-farms-after-shocking-welfare-allegations_69413.html

Any ideas for a solution to this, some way to stop these deep state monsters doing these things to humans … plus cows themselces?

Here’s one idea: