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The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought England’s Down Mexico The Six Day War Suicide Way Christie Davies Paul Weston Jay Treiber Hippocrates Spills A Tory Teacher Adam’s Rib the Beans Jane Kelly Lindsey Dearnley Theodore Dalrymple AUTUMN 2017 Vol 36 No 1 £6.00 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 18 From Walden to the Bronx Mark Mantel 4 England’s Suicide 20 The Left’s Grief Paul Weston Penelope Fawcett Hulme 6 Coming Out as a Tory Teacher 22 Hippocrates Spills the Beans Jane Kelly Theodore Dalrymple 8 Down Mexico Way 24 Poggers, Elves and Baby Barbara Windsors Jay Treiber Sarah Jane Searle 11 Adam’s Rib 27 The Latch Key Generation Lindsey Dearnley Niall McCrae 12 The Left’s Narcissism 29 Nowt Oop North Cocker David Frampton Tom Nolan 14 A Night Discharged of all Care 31 Multiculturalism’s Holy War Michael Warren Davies Tobias Gerrard-Anderson 16 The Six Day War – Fifty Years On Christie Davies Columns Arts and Books 32 Conservative Classic — 67 37 John Jolliffe David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions on the Strange Death of Europe 34 Reputations — 56 38 Anthony Daniels Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Brain Surgery 35 Roy Kerridge 40 Jane Kelly 36 Eternal Life on the Thorpe Affair Peter Mullen 40 Andrew Wilton on Art Dealing 42 Celia Haddon on Villages 43 Christie Davies on Ludovic Kennedy and Justice 44 Brian Eassty In future subscription payments by cheque should on Multiculturalism be sent by post to 46 Martin Dewhirst Spooning with Marx The Salisbury Review, 47 James Monkton PO Box 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU on Ballot Rigging 49 Sara Moore Changes of address or other enquiries should be on Versailles and WWII sent to the same address or emailed to 50 Penelope Tremayne [email protected] or by phone to on Borderlands 01908 281601 51 Peter Mullen Credit card payments by phone on a Christian Mystic 01908 281601 52 FILM Ransom 53 ART John Singer Sargent 54 IN SHORT Editor: Myles Harris Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Sir Roger Scruton, Jane Kelly, Christie Davies, PO Box 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU Tel: 01908 281601 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.com he left want to convert Britain to veganism; no of private homes for immigrants, the seizure of all meat, no eggs, no animal products whatsoever. property by the state and no private schools. But if, like TIndustry is only too eager to assist. Hellman’s many socialists, you are a home-owner yourself with are already producing egg-free mayonnaise and dairy- children at private school, does clean eating put you in free margarine. In many of our biggest restaurants you an awkward position? No, think of Diane Abbot and can order four types of vegan burger along with almond eat up. It’s the gesture not the belief that’s important. milk and cruelty-free cheese. Once the media cameras are turned elsewhere you There is huge public sympathy for the movement. can step down to the local MacDonald’s without fear. Vegan food is called ‘food with a conscience’. Which The food industry has had it coming. For years its means if you refuse to eat your dandelion pie at a vegan factory farms, fertilisers sprayed by helicopter gunships, dinner party you are a holocaust and climate change testosterone-injected chickens and genetically tortured denier, a fascist, belong to UKIP and the English Frankenstein foods, swept all before. Then the public Defence League and follow the hounds on foot. You proved sentimental, took against battery farms and might even be a Sky TV subscriber . began munching muesli. We are entering a winter of Yet many conservatives are sympathetic to the idea of puritan eating. becoming vegetarians now that 80 per cent of animals Vegans have set their sights on criminalising the are so cruelly slaughtered by Halal butchers. However eating of meat. Give it ten years and we will see the giving up meat is not enough for the Vegan lobby, first trials of battery farm owners accused of historical a Trotskyist movement intent on food absolutism. cruelty to animals, just as we now have historical Vegans hate vegetarians and have obtained huge sexual abuse trials. As in medieval times – to which financial backing to fund adverts on buses showing a we are rapidly regressing – there will be counsel for chicken announcing ‘Vegetarianism isn’t good enough the dead chickens, porkers, lambs, and Maisie the for him, all male chicks are killed at birth.’ A picture cow with the court proceedings being suspended as of a cow demands we ban milk, cheese and butter. jury members faint at the sight of an early 21st century Humans can be killed however, few vegans object to butcher’s window. abortion. There will be resistance, the smell of meat is in our Which is why becoming a vegan would be no longer genes. We can expect flying right wing dinner parties, be a pleasing eccentricity. You would be joining a far hunted by vegan patrols, with the consumption of left political movement, intent, like the transgender bloody steaks in cellars, Polish sausage (no to Syrian lobby, on confusing and disorientating the public. No Immigrants) Hungarian Tokay (mined borders) and women or men anymore, just an infinitely expanding toasts to the memory of ‘Trump over the Water’ register of freaks. No choice of food, only that which (assassinated by a radical Vegan in 2021). But they defines your politics. Uncooked lettuce fronds good, will soon become a memory as animals are given a Big Macs, a war crime. subsection under the Human (and non Human) Rights The weirder the diet the further left the politics. Act 2025 EU Reg 567/nc4. (We will be back in 2019) ‘Clean’ eating, stepping off the industrial food chain Will the mid 21st century ever see a meat pie, a plate altogether to become a vegan grazing on ‘fresh’ of cod and chips, or a Big Mac again? I am afraid not. vegetables direct from the earth, comes with a set of far It’s dandelion pie for ever. left political beliefs – open borders, the commandeering But M’lord. ‘What about the rights of dandelions?’ The Salisbury Review — Autumn 2017 3 England’s Suicide Paul Weston he Grenfell Tower tragedy seems to have a demographic point of view, until one discovers the quietly slipped into Britain’s historical past. native British constitute a rapidly declining population TThe immediate aftermath certainly excited whilst the migrant population is exponentially many scribblers within the liberal media, but as some exploding. of the issues raised were hugely embarrassing to both This disastrous demographic disparity is clearly the government and the BBC, so the Grenfell inferno visible in London, where according to Migration Watch was consigned to Orwell’s Memory Hole. the majority of children born are the progeny of foreign One of the main embarrassments was the inability born parents. This ethnic minority majority becomes of the establishment to even larger when the actually establish how number of children many poor unfortunates born to first and second had died and how many generation immigrants is had survived. This was factored in. because large numbers of O n e i n e v i t a b l e the Grenfell inhabitants consequence of the rise were ethnic minorities in foreign numbers is the of dubious paperwork. inevitable demand they Some were legal migrants, subsequently make on some illegal. Many were the long suffering native unknown to the authorities British tax-payer. We despite being in receipt of are told immigration is government welfare. The a cultural and economic numbers of inhabitants boon to frowsty, pale old seemed markedly out of England, but this is a lie proportion to the number easily evidenced in the of flats. Flats were let and clamour by foreigners sub-let and then sub-sub- for subsidised housing. let before falling off the According to the Muslim state radar and entering Council of Britain almost such murky depths as only to be detected by sonar. one third of British Muslims live in social housing and Grenfell Tower, in point of fact, serves as a it is the Muslim community which is growing far faster microcosm of modern, progressive Britain with than any other migrant demographic. regard to controlled immigration and controlled Perversely, even as the numbers seeking social welfare. By which I mean there is no control at all. If housing increased by 60 per cent since 1997, the the British state is unable to track the state-financed number of social housing units actually declined inhabitants of a single building, how on earth can by half a million between 1997-2007 and has since it track the gargantuan numbers of people entering declined even further. The higher percentages of ethnic porous Britain? The answer of course is it cannot, and groups seeking social housing are as follows: Nigerians it really is high time we stopped believing a single 29 per cent, Bangladeshis 41 per cent and Somalians thing the government tells us about migrant numbers 80 per cent. Needless to say, all these groups represent and national population figures. high unemployment statistics and average at least four Social housing has become a huge issue for our children per couple. politicians, albeit for quite the wrong reasons. We The government predicts Britain will have to build need more and more subsidised housing we are told, five million new homes over the next two decades in in order to satisfy the demand of a cheerfully ever- order to house newly arrived migrants and the children expanding population.