Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deportation gimmick has already collapsed. Small boat crossings are up 50 per cent since it was announced, with migrants now arriving at a record pace - 50,000 under Labour so far. Mass immigration is battering services and living standards, but the deeper crisis is cultural.
Take the awesome Lionesses who roared again by winning the European Championship. It was the most-watched TV moment of the year.
Chloe Kelly, exulting in her win, declared how proud she was to be English. Hannah Hampton proudly stated that her English blood meant she would never say die, whilst Michelle Agyemang, an Englishwoman of Ghanaian descent, quoted the Bible and expressed humility before God, thanking him for the win. These were women to look up to and whose example we should all learn from.
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But not everyone was told to celebrate them. Roshan Muhammed Salih, the host of the sectarian Islamic YouTube channel 5 Pillars, had other ideas:
“I would encourage Muslim women not to get involved in this manufactured women's football fad. It's totally unbefitting for Muslim women to compromise their modesty like this, and also quite embarrassing for them to show the world how useless they are at football. Much better for Muslim women to practise sports amongst themselves and behind closed doors.”
Medieval nonsense, but also revealing. 5Pillars is, of course, registered to Crown House, dubbed a Muslim Brotherhood hub in Europe. At least Mr Salih is saying what he and too many others actually believe. Their candour reflects a growing confidence and highlights a deeper crisis that extremist Islamist ideology isn’t just a growing threat to life, but to our historic ways of life.
It has become very unfashionable to talk about the culture of this land, especially since 1997 and the beginning of the Blairite rot in our institutions. This lack of confidence has struck at precisely the same moment when first hundreds of thousands, and now millions of people from quite different cultures have arrived all in an incredibly short space of time.
You are likely unaware of the term Da’wah. But it is dragging Britain back to the dark ages - James Price
Most of the British public are aware of this phenomenon, and the way it has dampened efforts at integration of other minority groups.
But our remarkably stable culture, with elements of law, language, administration, religion and manners still recognisable in the state that Alfred the Great founded, has no antibodies to the rise of an aggressive Islamic extremism, whose target is our culture itself.
Many will be grimly familiar with the concept of Jihad – often sanitised in the West, but plainly understood as ‘holy war’ when it explodes onto our streets.
Europe still suffers the consequences all too often. Less well known, but no less significant in Britain, is Da’wah: the Islamic call to convert others through inducement, persuasion, or pressure.
It’s rampant in our prisons, as highlighted by Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, where prisoners are coerced into converting to receive protection.
Meanwhile, halal ritual slaughter is being normalised despite excellent reporting on the disgustingly cruel treatment of animals. And there’s the creeping push to mainstream full-face coverings, even for children.
Al-Islamia Primary School in leafy Queens Park, close to where I live, suggests hijabs for five-year-olds. It mandates them for 8-year-olds. Eight-year-old girls, of course.
Most Britons know this Da’wah represents a threat to centuries-old norms that have made this country what it is. Indeed, recently we saw the inaugural Da’wah conference held in Leicester, a city which was 98 per cent white in 1961, but only 23 per cent in 2022. This isn’t an argument about skin colour, but it is the starkest example of the unprecedented speed of change.
And now, the prospect of an ‘Islamophobia’ definition by this spineless Labour Government will make it impossible to have a debate around these issues.
This will allow Da’wah to thrive, along with more sops to single-issue Muslim voters whom Labour are desperate to hold onto ahead of the next election.
It's no wonder groups like the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations, named by the French government as being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, have now set up shop in the UK.
This rapid change is warping our politics, and augurs very ill for the health of our national culture. The name Yahya has leapt in popularity for babies this year.
I doubt this was because of a renewed interest in John the Baptist, rather than the name of the Hamas Terrorist leader. The most popular name this year was, of course, Mohammad.
And the sad truth is that with the speed of demographic change, and our unwillingness to stand up for our dominant, superior national culture, many of those babies will grow up to believe that women should stay indoors, rather than win the football, as an English lioness.