Marlow muses

The moment you finally realise you’re leading the most authoritarian government in our country’s history: 1️⃣ Introducing an official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” that silences legitimate criticism of religion — 18 years after Parliament abolished such laws. 2️⃣ Removing the right of most defendants to have a jury trial, in the biggest assault on English liberty in over 800 years. 3️⃣ Requiring pub landlords to monitor customers’ private conversations to protect staff from remarks, comments, or jokes they may find “offensive”. 4️⃣ Clamping down on lawful social media posts, arresting an Irish comedian for gender-critical tweets and even threatening to ban access to X in the UK. It’s not a great look, is it, Prime Minister…

@RokoMijic @AdamPerkinsPhD We can concede that people of foreign heritage can become fully assimilated into e.g. English or Scottish ways of life. That doesn't require us to pretend that assimilation will happen without an ethnic English or Scottish supermajority.

The problem with being "civically" English is it isn't a stable state. A nation of mostly Ghanians and Pakistanis and so on will within a few generations cease to have a civic connection to the old England. We've already seen the beginnings of this process as even ethnically English people have begun adopting foreign cultures. English cultural works from Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Huxley are now on a 'Terror watch list'. Young people of various races across Western countries are adopting "road men" style and language. Anyone who thinks that you can have England and English culture without an ethnic supermajority of English people is deeply delusional. Trying to split the issue between culture and ethnicity is simply a way to cope with the fact that Western nations are being genocided

@albieamankona @Fox_Claire @estherckrakue And let's stop using "British" as a signifier of cultural identity. "British" is just a collective term for the English, Scottish and Welsh ethnic and cultural identities. Suella Braverman is ethnically Indian but culturally English. She did not grow up in Scotland or Wales!

Agree 100%. This is a stupid exclusionary semantic point that is being weaponized on the left (to erase English ethnic identity), and weaponized on the right (to erase English cultural identity). One can be ethnically English, culturally English, both, or neither.

People are arguing against a position that no one is actually making. No one is saying a woman of Ghanaian heritage born in England is ethnically English. The argument is this: you can be civically English without being ethnically English. Take @estherckrakue and me. We both have Ghanaian surnames and neither of us are white. She is fully ethnically Ghanaian. I am half ethnically Ghanaian and half ethnically English. So I am ethnically and civically English. She is not ethnically English, but she is still civically English. That is the entire point people keep dodging. We both live here. We have both integrated. That makes us both English in a civic sense. The real disagreement is this: Some people want “English” to be ethnic only, and push everyone else into “British”. But the public does not think that way. Polling shows most people are comfortable calling black and brown Brits English in a civic sense. So what is this really about? Why are some people so determined to pretend civic English identity doesn’t exist?

@Telegraph @Nigel_Farage Religious tolerance exists to allow British people the freedom to express and develop their home-grown beliefs and values. It is culturally suicidal to extend that tolerance to foreign religions and customs that immigrants brought with them and which were never wanted here.

✍️ 'Our public squares should remain neutral spaces for all citizens, not venues for any one faith to assert dominance' | Writes @Nigel_Farage Read the full column below 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@nwnatur @Telegraph @reformparty_uk @Nigel_Farage Agree 100%. I said the same thing when @NJ_Timothy wrote his piece, which struggled to articulate why a nativity should be allowed but Muslim prayer should not. It's because one is culturally endogenous and the other is foreign cultural imperialism: x.com/i/status/20342…

@Telegraph @reformparty_uk @Nigel_Farage Christian prayer should still be allowed in public spaces. We shouldn't have to lose rights because of the mass importation of Muslims.

@christopherrufo @L0m3z, please stage an intervention!

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

@Harry_pitt @MartinSellner_ I don't think anyone could seriously suggest that the third world migrants coming to the UK in recent years represent their best and brightest. Nations like America might be poaching high-skilled migrants, but we have been far less selective about who we let in.

On the latest episode of The Forge, filmed before a live audience in Vienna, @MartinSellner_ makes the moral case for reversing mass migration. It is both good for us and good for the developing world. Full video at the link below 🔥

@charliecolecc @Harry_pitt This is great, but it would also be helpful (and even-handed) to explain the policies which led the Boris wave to ebb. Also, do we know how much of the Boris Wave was made up of e.g. care workers vs people fleeing Hong Kong vs people fleeing Ukraine? Has someone posted on this?

Here are all the major policy changes that caused the Boriswave. It's hard to map all the changes on a chart as you run out of room, but these are the major liberalisations under Boris Johnson's Government that caused net-migration to spike so heavily.

You risk descending into the absurd idea that an Anglican or Methodist service, or indeed a secular humanist gathering, should not be allowed to take place on our streets lest it ALSO be construed as "an act of dominion". But the reason these are not "acts of dominion" is because they are expressions of British identity. They are cultures and traditions which developed organically here rather than being brought with them by foreign settlers. In this respect Sikh festivals in our streets are ALSO acts of cultural imperialism by foreign cultures. While Islamic imperialism is the most acute cultural and political threat, cultural imperialism of ANY type should not be tolerated on Britain's streets. Until the Conservative Party can face up to this, it will remain the party of (slightly slower) cultural extinction and continue to hemorrhage voters to insurgent parties like @RestoreBritain_.

The wilful misunderstanding in this post says everything about the people behind the “Islamophobia” definition. The point is not that Sikhs have danced on Trafalgar Square. Or that the Passion Play has been hosted there. Neither is the point that Muslims gathered on Trafalgar Square. The point is that mass ritual prayer in public - in this case next to a church - is an act of domination. So is the public call of the Adhan, which explicitly denies other religions including Christianity. That is the difference. And yet neither Dominic - nor the Labour MPs who were instructed by No10 to attack me last night - will engage with the substance. Instead he claims he knows my personal views when we haven’t talked, and incorrectly describes me as a spokesman for the Free Speech Union. People like Dominic can’t work out why the ideological world they built is falling apart. They never pause to wonder if perhaps they might have got things very badly wrong.

It is perfectly reasonable for British people to discriminate with regards to who they allow into their country, and also with regards to who is allowed to celebrate their culture on our streets. Public displays of cultural imperialism by foreign cultures should not be tolerated in Britain, irrespective of whether it is being done by Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Swedes, Poles or anyone else. @RestoreBritain_ should propose we end all of it.

This is a very odd post from a Conservative who says he believes in freedom of expression under law and is a principal spokesman of the Free Speech Union. I appreciate that he does not like Islam and there is no reason why he should. As a Christian it is not my faith. But the use of Trafalgar Square ( with permission) for religious events Christian and other goes back a long way. There have been prayers and hymns, chants and religious events performed there in the past. If such an event 'shouldn't happen again' it raises the question of whether this is to apply to all religious events or just to Muslim ones. If to all, then we are moving like France to imposing secularism as a norm and it is contrary to our national tradition and does not seem to have helped develop social cohesion there.If just to Muslims then it is an act of discrimination against them without any lawful basis. To achieve it you would have to enact discriminatory legislation targeted at Muslims. Is this what Nick Timothy is advocating ?

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

@parmita Incredible cope. You should be embarrassed writing this. There's nothing more pathetic than someone who can't admit they were wrong.

Jonathan is great and this is a serious paper but “correlation of .5 with IQ” is doing a lot of work. read this during my lunch just now: raw R² is 16.4% against a brief fluid intelligence screen, and the .5 only appears after reliability-correcting to a latent variable. this means ur looking at 84% of variance unexplained Within-family ie the relevant scenario for EMBRYO selection, is even less. “Not fake” and “can predict an embryo’s IQ” are very different claims; there is a clear relationship, but the relationship is complex and predicting IQ is still an extremely loose claim. i would be surprised if this was possible, as a biologist who sits in the cell and molecular biology side of this

@jonatanpallesen @curtis_yarvin wrote a blistering review of this in The Spectator. Highly recommended. spectator.com/article/one-ba…

The Oscar favorite One Battle After Another is a libtard mess. It paints a picture with the basically good (if flawed) radical leftist terrorists, who work towards the goal of open borders. Some people argue that they are portrayed as bumbling and not as heroes. But no. There is a mix of people on the leftist side, some more competent than others. But clearly they are the good guys overall. This can be seen, for example, by considering that they have Benicio del Toro on their side, and he is obviously good. Also, it is portrayed as a good thing when the daughter joins the radical leftist activism at the end. Plus, on the other side we have the most embarrassingly cartoonish villains ever, in the form of White Supremacist cartoon characters. Open borders is an extreme ideology that would completely transform the U.S. and the world if actually implemented. I don't think this is what Paul Thomas Anderson actually wants. I think he is just a libtard who doesn't think things through. Ok, so this overall world of the movie is dumb. But furthermore, the central plot of the movie does not make any sense! What is the purpose of Sean Penn's character (Lockjaw) going after the daughter and trying to kill her? The movie presents this as being driven by the White supremacist organization being opposed to race mixing. But they discover Lockjaw's race-mixing purely through background research, which has nothing to do with actually finding the daughter. If anything, Lockjaw launching a whole operation to find the daughter would make it more likely that her existence becomes more widely known. In the end, the White supremacists also kill Lockjaw without ever finding the daughter, showing that this was indeed irrelevant. This is the plot for the vast majority of the movie. The movie is not, in fact, one battle after another. It is one meaningless, never-ending chase after this daughter character. And fittingly, the actress playing her is literally named Chase Infiniti.

@Sargon_of_Akkad Because Downes keeps saying batshit crazy shit that will alienate voters who support remigration but aren't ethnically English or Christian fundamentalists. He keeps making tactical mistakes that Lowe would never make, and is making himself a liability to @RestoreBritain_.

One has to wonder why BAP has become so engaged on this subject recently. Why would a Romanian Jewish man care so much about the minutiae of British politics as to campaign non-stop to delegitimise the insurgent right-wing party? I enjoy many of his takes, but this is strange.

Thanks for replying. I hope you're right and that said tactical advice is forthcoming. Lowe and Downes have both been very effective in opening the Overton window about national identity and mass migration in the UK, but if Downes pushes too hard on the Christian ethnostate stuff, I worry it will come crashing down again. I think the key is recognizing people can be culturally English without being ethnically English, and culturally Christian without being believers.

@marlowmuses Will check. My sense is that Charlie's heart is in the right place, but he might benefit from a tactical advisor.

Dear @xenocosmography, You have discussed how the ethnats, the theonomists, and the techno-commercialists must hang together or hang separately, and that each contingent needs to curb its excesses to maintain a coalition that can defeat the progressive Regime. You must see that Charlie Downs is making @RestoreBritain_ unviable as a serious electoral prospect with his ethno-nationalist and god-bothering talking points in recent media appearances. He's already alienated patriotic, 2nd & 3rd generation immigrant voters by refusing to call them "British". Now he's saying even English Unitarians barely count as British because they don't think Jesus was God! This is all very good for mobilising a small, die-hard base of English, Christian, Charlie Kirk fans, but it's going to alienate vast swathes of voters who hate woke authoritarianism, support mass deportations, and want law and order restored.

Excellent, @RupertLowe10. We should be able to accept that someone can be culturally English without being ethnically English, just as you acknowledged Paul Pogba was (culturally) French without being ethnically French. @KonstantinKisin's distinction between being British as a cultural label and being English (or Sottish etc) as an ethnic label makes no sense. Like Rishi Sunak, Konstantin is obviously more culturally English than he is say, Welsh. "British" is an umbrella term that can cover ethnicity as well as culture? If someone asked the ethnicity of a group of people consisting of an Englishman, a Welshman, and a Scotsman. "They're British" would be a perfectly acceptable answer.

If I moved to Japan, and lived in Japan for decades, speaking the language, integrating into society, contributing to the economy. Would I be ethnically Japanese? No. No I would not. I would never pretend to be. Nor would that apply to India, Thailand, Mexico, Denmark or anywhere else. So why is England different? Of course there is an English ethnicity. I am entirely bemused by how so many argue against that. It’s just a fact. Politicians who say otherwise are cowards. This is painfully obvious. Restore Britain’s position is clear. English ethnicity exists - it’s the only sodding data point that the Government collects on anything. Of course someone who is not of that ethnicity can be British, obviously. But it equally does not mean that the English ethnicity is imaginary. Those two things can be true at the same time. I got in trouble years ago for suggesting that the footballer Paul Pogba was French, but not ethnically French. It’s insanity. That is just a factual position. Common sense, clearly. Separately, Restore Britain has said from the very start - owning a British passport does not make you British. We have seen how lazily those documents have been frittered away. Holding that piece of paper does not automatically make you British, we are very clear on that. Is the Egyptian lunatic Alaa Abd El-Fattah British? He has a passport. Restore Britain says NO. No, he is not and he should be stripped of that paper and deported. Being British encompasses so much more than that, it means so much more than that. It is not simply a piece of paper. It is culture, shared beliefs, patriotism, language, a common understanding of what is right and wrong. That has nothing to do with ethnicity, obviously. But for even daring to suggest that English ethnicity exists I’ll be roundly attacked. It is just a fact. Every other country in the world manages to acknowledge ethnicities exist without descending into hysteria. England should be able to do the same.

@ALScyborg @coldxman @jenniferdoleac This seems to take a conveniently narrow view of deterrence. Felons cannot commit more crimes against law abiding citizens when they're in prison. Prison works.

Fascinating interview on @coldxman with economist @jenniferdoleac: why both left and right get crime policy dead wrong—ideology over evidence. Swift/certain punishment crushes long sentences for deterrence, DNA databases slash recidivism, “Ban the Box” backfires hard on ex-offenders, fatherhood/marriage cuts reoffending, plus state-level wins and situational fixes that actually work. Data gold from her book *The Science of Second Chances*! youtu.be/6gMwh3jkWy0

@StefanFSchubert Nope.

Any sane person would rather entrust Amanda with the future than Musk

@PL_UK_25 @MontgomeryToms Open and shut assault case. Prosecute.

@MontgomeryToms This is the one who smacked him in the face with the can and poured the drink over him.

After I was attacked, I was called a scumbag because I stated that I do not want illegal migrants in my country who rape young girls. Apparently, coming from France means you are “fleeing war”. This person even claimed that we bomb France. This is INSANITY!