John Gillam

Library haul in preparation for a very special event with John Gillam @thinkingclasses plus @Harry_pitt and @David_Goodhart on 28 April.

A pleasure to sit down with @thinkingclasses, in this episode: "Did England Quietly Disappear?" We discuss the concept of “Yookayification”, the logic (and risks) of a 'Great Repeal' of the post-1997 constitutional settlement, and the permanent state. youtu.be/frd-3qaoRUE?si…

The approach of this site should form the backbone of our history curriculum. If this nation will not tell its own best story to itself, while admitting to itself its errors, who will ?

@LockeOfLiberty @Sargon_of_Akkad As ever, Shakespeare captures the English moral compass as it has ever been without compare. These last 30 years have been an abomination and shall see whether the nation recovers its sense of justice once more.

@Sargon_of_Akkad I think about this scene from time to time when thinking on this subject youtu.be/vIwfwyjbP4g?si…

The people defending the colonisation of Britain now will end up being seen as collaborators.

Today marks the end of the survivor participation for our rape gang inquiry hearings. I simply have no words that describe the bravery and courage of these women who have come forward. No words. What they have been through is indescribable. It has been a life-changing experience for me. I never thought such evil was possible. Never. Not here, in Britain. In our towns, in our communities. It is pure evil. These men are so utterly depraved. If it were up to me, thousands of them would receive the death penalty. To do what they did, on such an industrial scale, to innocent young girls - many of whom were already in such an incredibly vulnerable place? There is no redemption possible. The world is a better place without them in it. I started this inquiry because so many others failed. Speaking honestly, I did not understand how deep this evil is rooted in our society. Police, politicians, council officials, the NHS, social workers, children’s homes - it is everywhere. IS everywhere. Not was. IS. Meeting these women, and men, listening to how severely they were failed by those tasked to protect them? My views have changed forever. I knew it was bad. I never knew how bad it was. Every single one who has come forward is a hero in my view. The courage and grace in how they have conducted themselves is unlike anything I have seen in my life. All because they don’t want others to suffer the same fate. That is an extraordinary sacrifice. They could have just moved on with their lives. Tried to forget. But no, they chose to do this. I am in awe of all of them. Our hearings will finish tomorrow, following the contribution of three more expert witnesses. Then the next stage begins. We will produce a report, and then we will seek to put people in prison. There are FAR more testimonies and evidence to release - this will keep coming and coming and coming. Even with a media blackout, we have reached tens of millions. We have made real progress. And following such immense demand, we will reopen the portal so that more women can tell their stories. This is just the beginning. Politicians from all parties have failed these girls, again and again and again. I do not intend to join that list. To everyone who donated, thank you. To our team, thank you. And especially to the survivors, thank you. I believe that together we can start to make Britain understand what is happening, and then finally do something about it.

The dam is breaking, has broken on a taboo. @MorlandDemog and @epkaufm joined me on Thinking Class in December to talk about Britain's demographic timebomb. Glad to see the bigger channels going against the tide / adding to the countercultural tide. youtu.be/bN_areRhyg8?si…

@firasmodad Sage observation as ever. Bread and circuses becoming something something else entirely in front of our eyes.

Football and other spectator sports have been used to numb the masses. Now they're being told the truth. And they can all see it on their streets. This constitutes permission for the masses to notice and speak up. After that comes the justified, righteous, and perhaps blind rage. Labour won't survive the coming tsunami. This could be a very, very hot summer.

you lived in paradise and scarcely knew it

Why are the plans for the Palace? Of Westminster so bad & what can we do? For @TheCriticMag I read 128 pages of “Delivering restoration & renewal of the Palace of Westminster: the costed proposals” report so that you don’t have to. It’s worse than you think. 🧵 …

A very big mistake like sending thousands of the best British men to die and be maimed for ridiculous nation-building schemes? Or a minor admin error in a by-election mailout?

We must be mad, literally mad. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

We see very similar talk in Britain (Anas Sarwar) I’m curious. Do liberals see anything wrong with this? I’m genuinely interested. Do you think it’s just unhelpful, or do you actually realise how destabilising it is?

A progressive before and after for our own Parliament: "And now, the senior national director of HR passes the Lanyard of State to the King, who begins his PowerPoint presentation after the Lord Chancellor has offered him the Imperial State Memory Stick..."

« An Englishman’s mind works best when it is almost too late. » Lord d’Abernon

This is the Avalon Marshes – the birthplace of England – once our most important and magical wetland landscape. Just for a moment, as it should be. Spending a ton of public money continually pumping water out of England’s most precious wetland is an insanity. Time for change.

They're trying to collaterialise and financialise everything air, water and soil. If they can't outright own you, they'll own everything about you. This is not a Christian or Muslim way of thinking.

"Restoration and renewal". I'd be mightily interested to hear the planners' explanation about what exactly they hope to 'restore' with their washed out, minimalist, body design, which, as far as I can see has absolutely nothing to do with restoring any aspect of our inheritance. As for 'renewal', it appears what they mean is erasure. Erasure of anything unique upon which one can remark, erasure of cultural artefacts - the physical embodiment of our national character and identity. It's all so incredibly soul-sapping.

It's worth remembering how the Victorian gothic architects used fine details to bring to mind our deep connections to history. Couple of examples🧵: the contrived arms of Anglo Saxon kings on the Palace of Westminster...

“The internationalist… is only too happy to transplant people from place to place, to abolish local attachments, to shift boundaries and customs in accordance with the inexorable demands of economic progress.” Sir Roger Scruton

Thinking Class reached 10,000 YouTube subscribers this morning. I’m grateful to all of my guests for accepting my invitations and providing such valuable contributions to the public square. And I am of course deeply grateful for the well-read, engaged, and deeply attentive audience the channel has attracted over the last two years and three months. If you value historically-grounded analysis of the civilisational moment in England, Britain, and the wider West, rather than headlines and hot-takes, then you’ll be right at home here. New episodes every Friday. There is more to come from the channel this year outside of its current format, and then from Substack too. Keep an eye out for an announcement in the coming days and consider subscribing if you value my work.

This is another scandal about Starmer's judgement, and ethical collapse of British institutions. Ann Limb lied about having a doctorate but worked in education: Starmer has given her a peerage, and she remains a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge @lucycavcoll 1/2