I well remember, during a previous life as a schoolteacher (see here and here) my first ever experience with a Muslim student. Despite being the only single freckle of brown in the otherwise pasty, albino-like face of her entire all-white year group, she appeared to expect the entire curriculum to revolve around her, like electrons around a nucleus. Having spotted a wall-display about Animal Farm in an adjoining English classroom, she marched up to my desk on the first day of the new term in September and arrogantly informed me – it was certainly not phrased as a request – that we would absolutely not be reading any books that contained pigs from hereon in, as it was against the tenets of her blessed religion. This was in a Catholic faith-school, by the way.
I told her none of the books our class would be reading that term contained pigs anyway, but, if they had done, then that was just a civilisational sausage she was going to have to swallow.
Lessons in Dictation
Another educationalist whom I imagine treats such request with similar disdain is Katharine Birbalsingh, the famously authoritarian headmistress of Michaela Community School, located in what is often described as “a deprived and highly diverse area” of London – which, these days, could be almost any of them.
Michaela School has attracted controversy recently due to banning public prayer rituals after a number of Muslim children began ostentatiously bowing down towards Mecca on prayer mats in the playground during lunch-hour breaktimes last year. This prohibition led the teenage girl who had instigated the prayer sessions to take the school to court for religious discrimination, an action ultimately funded by you, the dhimmified tax-payer, via legal aid – or jizya tax, if you prefer. This very same highly religious teen, it was reported, had also been suspended for allegedly threatening to stab someone with a knife: doubtless another blow against the girl’s precious human rights.
According to her lawyer, this allegedly discriminatory treatment had “fundamentally changed how she feels as a Muslim in this country”. Yes. For once, she hadn’t just been supinely pandered to. Despite the loud claims of religious discrimination, it turned out the prayer ban actually applied not only to Muslims, but to kids of all faiths, even Satanists. If Michaela School ‘discriminated’ against its pupils, then it discriminated against all of them on a fundamentally equal basis – which, as we shall see, is actually something of a double-edged sword.
In court, the school’s lawyer, Jason Coppel KC, furthermore argued that “peer pressure” was being placed on other Muslim pupils, who make up a large proportion of the school’s intake, to conform and begin praying during break-times too. This, he said, was feared likely to cause “unacceptable segregation or division” between not only the Muslim and non-Muslim pupils, but also between the praying and non-praying elements of the Muslim student body alike.
According to Headmistress Birbalsingh (whose own grandmother was herself a Mohammedan), “we believe it is wrong to separate children according to religion or race” – the problem being that certain of the children themselves apparently did not agree. Coppel told the court that, when ordered to put their prayer-mats away, the children involved had displayed “entitled behaviour”, feeling that “prayer somehow overrode the [secular] regime” at Michaela, which, after all, is not officially a faith-school of any kind at all.
So, Birbalsingh wants her ‘diverse’ pupils to live together in perfect harmony. Yet, quite clearly, a sizable proportion of the student body simply do not wish to live together peacefully and equitably in this manner at all. Neither, it would seem, do certain of their parents or other wider members of the local community, some of whom subsequently sent the school bomb-threats or put bricks through a teacher’s window.
As such, the only way Birbalsingh’s ambition of ‘harmony in diversity’ can be realistically pursued, as far as I can tell, is by her setting out to institute a disciplinary regime of almost comical harshness, restriction and regimentation upon the entire student body as a whole, whether each individual pupil happens to be a racially or religiously motivated troublemaker or not, thereby effectively punishing the innocent as well as the guilty. The scary thing is, such harsh methods are merely a school-based microcosm of what is increasingly coming for Britain’s wider adult population too.
Families at War
Michaela is often described as “Britain’s Strictest School”, due to its draconian policies, like its famed “family lunch” regime, where, in order to emphasise that they really are all part of one big happy school family, whether they like it or not, “teachers actively intervene in the socialising of the pupils to ensure that children are not left out and to encourage social integration” between different ethno-religious sub-groups, as KC Coppel put it in court.
Translated, this euphemistically named policy of “guided socialisation” actually appears to mean teachers choosing the children’s ‘friends’ for them, forcing them to sit beside one another, Muslim and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Sontaran and Rutan, Jedi and Sith, handing them out a single pre-agreed anodyne, non-controversial, permitted topic for each day’s shared mealtime conversation, and then squatting alongside them themselves as perpetual spies of the lunchtime Stasi, to ensure these rules are all slavishly adhered to.
Thus, in the name of ensuring racial ‘harmony’, kids are not only prevented from spending the entire lunch hour contentiously discussing how the Holocaust was all a lie, or slavery should never have been abolished, but also from chatting innocently about completely innocuous subjects like last night’s big football match, or who their favourite Pokémon is, like most normal, non-monitored kids would do. In other words, their traditional individual freedoms are severely curbed, in order to ensure that, collectively, the whole incoherent, balkanised multicultural ‘family’ doesn’t potentially collapse down into serious inter-ethnic strife to such an extent that they all start stabbing one another to death with forks.
Therefore, the Michaela inmates’ lunchbreak is “not free time in the usual sense”, KC Coppel argued, but instead “an integral part of the educational regime”. Hence, the litigating schoolgirl’s case that she should be allowed to pay obeisance on her knees to Allah during her own free time did not apply here, as prisoners in Cellblock Michaela H had no free time during school hours; rather, the entire building was one gigantic teacher-monitored panopticon (toilet cubicles apart, one hopes). This may sound somewhat dystopian, but by such means “the school’s community spirit is strengthened”.
The truly alarming thing about the logic of Birbalsingh’s iron discipline here is that it has distinct echoes of the likely modes of population control that will increasingly be placed upon the wider ‘multicultural’ adult population of the country by Governments of the future. In the name of a greater good, that of forcibly-maintained community cohesion, a strong, centralised governing force (here, adult teachers, not policemen, prosecutors and politicians armed with weapons like hate-speech laws and DEI policies, as exists outside the school gates) running Michaela School places severe restrictions upon pupils’ freedom of speech, action and association: it’s like Alawite Syria in miniature form.
“We believe it is wrong to separate children according to religion or race,” say the school’s governing body – but what this simultaneously also means in practice is, “We therefore believe it is right to force children to interact with one another according to religion or race instead.” Isn’t that also kind of a bad thing, too? I don’t want to have to be friends with a Salafist. And, to be fair, a Salafist probably doesn’t want to be friends with me.
You’ll Eat What You’re Given
In a statement later posted online, Headmistress Birbalsingh said the following:
The thing is, what Birbalsingh describes here isn’t actually multiculturalism at all, is it? It is actually the precise reverse, because in truth “multiculturalism can only succeed” when it is used as nothing more than an inverted Newspeak label for imposing a centrally mandated and centrally enforced monoculture upon all by force.
Multiculturism is a recipe for abject failure, as different cultures, surprisingly enough, are different, and therefore frequently fundamentally incompatible with one another. Unless the majority culture (where one still actually remains) is allowed to dominate and dictate the behaviour of all other minority-groups – the ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do’, model – the only other option, as chosen by Birbalsingh herself, is to rob all cultures present of their chosen ways of living, including the majority one, and replace them instead with a wholly artificial ‘neutral’ option somewhere awkwardly in-between, with which no-one ends being particularly happy – the ‘When in Rome, do as the deracinated do’ model, as it might be dubbed. This sad truth can also be seen in other aspects of Michaela School’s “family lunch” policy:
What this actually all means is that, under a regime of alleged ‘multiculturalism’ like that currently enforced at Michaela School, nobody gets to live their lives how they would naturally choose to do so any more. Instead, they all have to be force-fed the same diet of broad-minimum, mutually acceptable, civilisational pap – here, in a literal sense, bland vegetarian food. Out there in the outside adult world, the Government-enforced diet-plan is both more metaphorical and more all-encompassing.
We all “must make sacrifices for the sake of the whole”, being allowed “freedoms of all sorts, as long as those freedoms do not threaten the happiness and success of the whole… community”. So, no meat for any remaining local white British Christian kids who would previously have been perfectly free to eat the stuff since the year dot, but they do now get alternative new “freedoms of all sorts”, such as the ‘freedom’ to nibble on boiled cabbage, limp carrots or damp lettuce instead, none of which many of them might actually have preferred to a nice hot bacon sandwich. But never mind, “We all make our sacrifices so that we can live in harmony”.
At least Michaela kids just have to sacrifice their meat pies and sausage rolls. What do their parents increasingly have to sacrifice? Oh, just trifling little things like freedom of speech, association, action, conscience, religion, culture and equality in the eyes of the law.
Object to any of this stuff? Just shut up and eat your multicultural greens, your handily non-culture-specific generic ‘Wintervals’, ‘Holiday Seasons’, ‘Multi-Faith Quiet Zones’ and ‘Community Interaction Hubs’, they’re good for you, you know. Swallow ‘em all and you’ll grow up nice and strong, just like tomorrow’s ‘multicultural’ utopia will surely be – or so say the Westminster dieticians forcibly shovelling such unfilling, tasteless, cattle-fodder down our forced-open throats on a daily basis. Talk about being made to swallow lies.
Voters Should Be Seen and Not Heard
“Our children, whatever their background, are British,” Birbalsingh wrote, as if simply saying it over and over again can somehow make it come true. Therefore, “as a school, we celebrate what we have in common so that the extraordinary diversity of cultures that we have under our roof can succeed”. The unspoken truth of this being that “we also studiously ignore what we do not have in common”.
And, if any pupils are foolish enough not to ignore such things, that’s 10 portions of boiled broccoli for them. According to this mindset, the only way ethnically and religiously incoherent societies like those of the West are rapidly becoming can ever potentially ‘succeed’ is via regimes of ever-more limiting rule from the centre – just look at how the AfD in Germany is being threatened with being banned by Germany’s own all-powerful school governors in the Reichstag in the name of “protecting democracy”.
This is not to blame Birbalsingh herself for the sad necessity of her own personal harsh disciplinary policies, of course. She has been placed in a very difficult position by the criminal folly of others, and it may well be that her own unpalatable choice of action is the least-worst option, things now being what they lamentably are. If children really are our future, then, to judge by what’s been unfolding recently at Michaela School, our future is one of centralised Government tyranny – but purely for our own shared collective good, you understand.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
Stop Press: Watch Katharine Birbalsingh tell TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer that parents should buy “brick phones” to keep their children safe. “All teachers will tell you every altercation starts on social media, all the bullying starts on social media.”
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Yes pricing is an issue, but also Machete wielding lunatics trying to chop everyone’s heads off probably play a role too.
” tourist numbers remain below pre-pandemic levels”
What pandemic was this? I remember lockdowns and other restrictions on normal life, imposed by our and other governments and I remember being told there was a “pandemic” but I never saw or read any compelling evidence pointing to it being real – just stuff about “cases” and “deaths” based on a “test”, none of which were meaningful or properly defined. Just after “lockdowns” were declared, an unusual number of mainly old people died in a short space of time, but the reasons for this could be various and not necessarily “covid”.
“Just after “lockdowns” were declared, an unusual number of mainly old people died in a short space of time, but the reasons for this could be various and not necessarily “covid”.”
Come on tof, stop being cutesy – Midazolam Mat.
Certainly the most likely explanation along with general denial of care/drop in care standards.
Exactly that!
Cheers Ron.
Never Forget, Never Forgive.
Given Kneel’s wholehearted commitment to utterly destroy our country I am sure he and Robber Reeves will be delighted with this news. Sadly, the collapse in our hospitality standards and inexorably rising prices has done nothing to deter the Calais Yatch Club arrivals. Whoops…but they only come to TAKE not give. Silly me.
Realistically though why would anyone want to visit this country? Everywhere we go, every town and city is full of non Brits wandering about jabbering away in anything but English and wearing pyjamas while their women have their faces covered for some obscure reason not linked to the C1984.
Anyway, more WEF browny points for Starmer Feuhrer.
They are probably just using the main cities as an airport Hub. I used Birmingham Airport and got straight out of there once I got to my car!
The internet means that a Country’s problems are now fully on display for any would be tourists to see. So what do they learn about the UK?
There is permitted violence in the form of the Palestine protests in London, which have resulted in the defacement of some of the national treasures that tourists would choose to see.
The Museums have now fallen under the spell of re-educstion such that great works of art are either no longer available to be seen, or the visitor is told that they need to be aware that they might be “triggered” by what they see. In addition there is always the possibility that a JSO, Extinction rebellion member will throw dye over them, or glue themselves to the picture.
Then there is the knife crime, the machete incidents, the muggings which are a risk, one example the little Australian girl a tourist with her mother stabbed in Leicester square, how do you think that went down in Australia?
The terrorist offences.
Then there is the general standard of filth in our Cities London stinks of weed, in Tottenham court road human excrement littered the pavement, and tents in various side streets with visibly drunk people inside.
Then the cost of things, the cost of a round of drinks in London and in the Cotswolds for 4 people is circa thirty pounds, the cost of a very average meal won’t see you out with less than 50 quid per head, that’s in a pub, and the service is very rarely service, the guest is made to feel more of a distraction from the mobile phone of the server.
Hotel room costs are a joke, its cheaper to stay in a luxury hotel in Asia than it is in a bog standard hotel in London.
Transport unless its the Elizabeth line is filthy and dispiriting, trains elsewhere are likewise cripplingly expensive, overcrowded and again less than clean.
Yes we have some castles, museums, and places like the Palace of Westminster etc, but as with much else in the UK the citizens have been conditioned to feel shame at these places, as representative of our terrible history, that patriotism and pride in your culture is to be abhored, and so these places look neglected, the staff reflect the state of decay and neglect.
In summary the country to the outsider is dirty, crime ridden, unsafe, expensive and in a state of collapse. Why would you choose to risk a holiday here.
Depressingly well put. I have avoided any cities for years now, but I will not go anywhere near London exactly because of the reasons in your comments. I would have loved to take my grandchildren to visit all the places I took my children, to show them the treasures of our country but it has all been debased and I will not put their safety at risk to even travel on public transport.
I must say not everywhere is tainted by the Globalists (yet at least). Was walking around Hereford the other day, with it being a nice day there was a generally good atmosphere. Events outside of the amusements of kids etc, I used to live there so it was normal for there. But while walking through the back of my mind was full of the dark news events. End of Rome maybe.
You are very wise to protect them. An acquaintance said that he took his wife and kids to London for the first time last summer, to visit their own capital city, and to show them the world-famous historical sights which his own parents had shown him as a child.
He and his wife were utterly shocked to see so many Third World Immigrants swarming everywhere, with few English people to be seen, along with the general atmosphere of dingy, filthy, menacing decay. He hardly knew how to answer his young son when he asked, “Why are all the men wearing pajamas?”
He said he couldn’t believe this had happened in only a couple of decades, and he would never go back there again, or let his children go even on a school trip there.
Here’s an example of public transport in Sweden:
RadioGenoa on X: “”Get up you old Swedish woman, I must sit down now!” How much longer do we have to endure this? https://t.co/SvD9q53THh” / X
Your description of London sounds like it should be twinned with San Francisco!
Off-T
Another excellent article from Colin Todhunter on how the big corporations are working to take over world food production.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/agrarianism-transhumanism-long-march-dystopia/5865602
Todhunter supplies this quote:
Silvia Guerini says [3]:
“The past becomes something to be erased in order to break the thread that binds us to a history, to a tradition, to a belonging, for the transition towards a new uprooted humanity, without past, without memory… a new humanity dehumanised in its essence, totally in the hands of the manipulators of reality and truth”.
Is this not so obviously what has been happening to this country for at least fifty years and which Kneel and Co are now pushing in to overdrive?
They haven’t won yet, we may be at a metaphorical crossroads.
Just go to the main visitor attractions. Arrival at the aitrports and the journey through Britain are depressing. Service at hotels and restaurants is surly and expensive. Service everywhgere is poor because it is based on minimum wage immigrant labour, in the main.
The National Trust displays its wokery at every opportunity as do museums, theatre and other attractions.
Safety concerns have been circulated around the world and the attitude of the elites and the police is hardly encouraging. Removal of VAT refunds for high spending visitors makes a 20 per cent difference to the disadvantage of London.
Good points. And here is the kind of “London Theatre Experience” on offer, entitled “Death of England”, featuring an Ethnic African complaining about racism, and boasting about impregnating the English sister of his English “best friend”.
Then there’s his angst-ridden English “best friend” deciding to wait until his own English father’s funeral to publicly denounce his dad’s “racism”. Perhaps he will also kneel before the theatre audience.
Then there are the two mothers-in-law: one Ethnic African, one English, and we can guess which one is portrayed as the “victim”, and which one the “villain”.
Tickets for Death of England: The Plays | London Theatre Direct
It really feels like the country is returning to the 1970s sometimes
“It really feels like the country is returning to the 1970s sometimes.”
Or perhaps soon to be the 1470’s.
But the 1970’s where? Bangladesh? Syria? Pakistan? Iraq? Afghanistan? –or maybe all of those?
Which is why I referred to 1470. Feudalism incoming. Or maybe even worse for the survivors.
But the 1970 were also better in many ways.
I don’t remember any of this in the 1970s. “The Winter of Discontent”, all the trade union strikes and IRA Catholic Terrorist atrocities can’t compare with this total Alien Invasion.
I agree with Nigel Farage, when he said that in London in the 1980s, “Life was fun!”
I was thinking that the ‘entertainment’ referred to sounds like the political theatre of an earlier era. The air of general decay and cultural malaise, too. Granted there were grounds for optimism then, which I don’t see today, as you say.
Oh, yes, I see what you mean. I meant that at least the towns, cities, villages and workplaces of the UK were still recognisably English/Welsh/Scots/Northern Irish back then, before Andrew Neather bravely revealed the plan to “rub our noses in diversity”.
“…with accommodation costs up by 35.8%, restaurant prices by 28.7%.”
Wot? Despite all that essential, cheap, enriching, immigrant labour?
Interesting article thanks. Especially the bit on pricing, “The CEBR report says that overall prices in the U.K. for 2024 are expected to be 23.5% higher than in 2019, with accommodation costs up by 35.8%, restaurant prices by 28.7%, and airfares by 47.6%.”
The Fake News tells me that inflation is low…..in the past 10 years some products have gone up 50%… for people from ‘weak currency’ countries, the UK is increasingly unaffordable to visit. Rona, Net-tard zero, massive immigration, etc etc to blame. But I am sure the BBC will find a way to blame ‘Brexit’….
The airport experience both arriving and leaving is uniformly horrendous.
And once you’re here, prices are high quality is let’s say variable.
Destinations such as museums display an unpleasant level of cynical self hate, so why would anybody spend gazillions taking their kids there.
The weather and the traffic are hideous, and our cities, where most tourists would go are run by metropolitan councils whose main concern seems to be to make a misery for all. Parking impossible, boarded up shops, and a lack of care and maintenance.
Pubs closing, idiotic petty rules everywhere…I’m amazed anybody still wants to visit.
Here’s a rare cheerful snippet from Germany, showing Ethnic Europeans at their best:
Klaus Arminius on X: “A Scotsman lost his iPhone and these Germans found it, they took a selfie and hand it over to the police. Normally phones that are lost are found in Morocco, Algeria or some African country. https://t.co/viwJijNIwH” / X
Let’s see if I lived in Alabama would I want to visit London? I realise that crime exists everywhere, but when was Alabama last in the news for Palestinian Marches, Pitched Machete battles in broad daylight, gangs marauding with knives and guns, a multicultural clutter of disparate groups not integrating, sex crimes and women not feeling safe etc etc etc? ——-Oh but maybe they will feel safe that people are being arrested for being offensive on their laptop
Nothing to do with our shocking summer weather then ?
Britain has certainly lost its attractiveness: overcrowded, expensive and most of the big cities seem to have picked up a certain shabby, slightly menacing atmosphere. I can’t put my finger on what it is, it’s just something that makes you feel uncomfortable.
I have to say though that I had the same feelings in Paris as well the last time I was there.
“most of the big cities seem to have picked up a certain shabby, slightly menacing atmosphere.”
I agree. And the towns in the North West are similarly afflicted.
Britain is also becoming an economically and socially failing state. The unfettered immigration is changing our country into nowhere land. No one wants to go to nowhere.
Except for thrill-seeking tourists from North Africa who pay thousands for the excitement of a trip across the Channel from France by giant inflatable ferries.
Sadly, they can only afford a one-way ticket but not a problem as the inflatables only go one-way.
But what the hell. A holiday is a holiday and it is a holiday of a lifetime or indeed some hope for a lifetime [and not just Christmas, although it seems most don’t celebrate Christian festivals].
Oops – am I going to get banged up in chokey for a couple of years for those remarks?
“Visit Britain ….. the roads are appalling; the trains are expensive and frequently on strike; town centres look like a wasteland; eating-out costs a fortune; the weather’s unpredictable, but usually bad and to top it up, in London and other cities there’s a very good chance you’ll be robbed or stabbed.”
I wouldn’t want to visit London, or a great many other places. It’s OK down here in the west country, which is mostly still recognisably England, but I wouldn’t go anywhere near Bournemouth which is rapidly sliding down into the multi-culti hellhole which has already ruined so many other cities, or Bristol.
It seems not even London’s Mayor likes London.
He feels unsafe here.
And that is despite travelling around in a bomb-proof armoured car with armed close protection.
And it is his job to make sure we all feel safe.
I wonder how he will spin that achievement on his CV?
He claims he does not feel safe as muslim in London.
I am not sure why with all the rate-payer’s money spent on his security.
And that is necessary not because of his religion [which I understand he does not observe nor practice] but because he is so unpopular as a politician with downright crooked ULEZ money-making scheme and other policies so unfair to poor working class white and other peoples.
However, judging by the machete and knife-wielding muslim rioters who have free rein in Birmingham he should resign and stand as Mayor of that great British city safe in the knowledge that his muslim brethren are there to keep him safe from the Far White rioters.
NB ‘Far White’ is not a typographical error. It is not an error at all.
Starmer must really clamp down on the Far White. There are far too many of them, making up about 80% of the population.
They should go back to where they came from.
Erm, what do you mean – they come from here? Are you sure?
I was born in London and worked in the CoL until we moved away over 40 years ago – from what is happening nowadays it was a good move!