Will there always be an England, Europe or America, whatever the origin of their inhabitants?

But today, France’s most read and most discussed popular writers—novelists and political essayists—are conservatives of one stripe or another. They are not concerned, even slightly, with the issues that animate American “mainstream” think-tank conservatism—lowering taxes, cutting federal programs, or maintaining some kind of global military hegemony. Their focus is France’s national culture and its survival.

These words are from an article by Scott McConnell in the latest issue of The American Conservative called The Battle for France, which you should print off and read, whether or not you are interested in France. It is about the future, or lack of one, of Western/Christian civilisation. 

I came across it via Professor Tom Gallagher, the historian and commentator.

It contains a quite astonishing piece of information, which I had seen before.

Because the government does not publish statistics about race, some curious researchers have looked at the number of newborn babies screened for markers for sickle-cell anemia, a test given if both parents are of African, North African, or Sicilian origin. The figure has risen from 25 percent in 2005 to 39 percent in 2015. In the Greater Paris region it has risen from 54 percent to 73 percent.

Gentle reader, I don't suppose you have time or patience just now to read several brilliant articles about the effects on the West of mass immigration from the Third World. 

Still, I wanted to post links to another six 'must read' articles on the subject, which is almost the only important political issue of our days. You might want to bookmark this page or even print them off to read at your leisure. 

Like most nice people, I didn't give immigration from the Third World into Great Britain or Europe much thought until a few years ago. When a man I knew in MI6 tried to tell me about the dangers caused by Muslims in Europe I assumed he did so because he was a very rigorous Low Church Protestant. When Tom Gallagher told me about the late Oriana Fallaci and opened the subject of the 'Islamisation' of Europe with me I thought he was absurdly alarmist. I thought the same at first when Ruth Dudley Edwards talked about Islamisation.

Now, like everyone's, my views have changed, because the world has changed and we have all noticed. Despite the official propaganda. It is not that we become more extreme as we age, though we certainly become wiser and less inhibited. It's the world that has become more extreme.


The trigger for me to start to think about how my country is changing was the 2005 London tube murders, carried out not by foreigners but by Muslim British subjects. I imagined that this would lead to a very animated discussion about whether mass immigration had been a good idea but, to my astonishment, nothing whatsoever was said about rethinking immigration policy.


American writers feel very much freer to discuss the subject of immigration into Europe than do Europeans.


1. A few years ago, the very gifted American writer Christopher Caldwell of the Financial Times wrote an invaluable and startling book on the subject of immigration into Europe, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West, which I urge you to read. To save time, or to whet your appetite, he discusses the ideas in the book in brief here.


2. Please read this one too, by Jewish American Benjamin Schwartz, called Unmaking England: Will immigration demolish in decades a nation built over centuries?

3. Mr. Schwartz also wrote The Diversity Myth that explodes the idea that the USA was multicultural before 1965.

4. Chinese American Hua Hsu wrote this article in The Atlantic, The End of White America?

5. Former editor of The Spectator and authorised biographer of Mrs. Thatcher Charles Moore wrote this elegy for the death of England.

6. Finally, this is another very interesting article by Christopher Caldwell on the ideas of geographer Christophe Guilluy about immigration and globalisation in France. They explain the success of Marine Le Pen.

I sometimes wonder what Churchill, De Gaulle, Evelyn Waugh, Belloc, T.S. Eliot or any of the other great men of two generations ago would have had to say on the subject of mass migration in our day. 

We know, in fact, Churchill's very strongly hostile views. De Gaulle's were similar. Both men were what Bagehot said statesmen should be: men of common opinions but uncommon abilities. Their opinions were almost universally held in their day. But people nowadays always assume that they know better than their ancestors.