Mother Country
Frequent visitors to this website will recall that I posted an article a while ago about the decline of the White British birthrate in England and Wales in 2016 to a mere 60.6% of all births. I followed that with a piece about the depressing effect which a shortage of housing has on our birthrate, a shortage due in large part to immigration. I’m pleased to see that Lionel Shriver has picked up the connection…
The Land of Lost Content
Travelling on the London underground is usually an interesting way to observe “diversity”, but earlier this month I was too absorbed in a piece in the Evening Standard to pay much attention to my fellow passengers. The feature which had caught my attention was headed “Ben Fogle and the fine art of being English”. It turns out that Ben has written a new book: ” ‘we hit a funny obstacle today’ he said ‘the book…