Caliphate of Eurabia Alistair Miller Germany Kaput Ricardo Duchesne

The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought Caliphate of Spitting on the Gender Bending in Eurabia Anzacs Chancery Lane Alistair Miller Daryl McCann Peter Smith Germany Kaput Theatre of Blood The Easter Rising Ricardo Duchesne Tim Walker Michael Simison Spring 2015 Vol 33 No 3 £6.00 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 13 Gender bending in Chancery Lane Peter Smith 4 The Caliphate of Eurabia 15 Theatre Criticism Alistair Miller Tim Walker 6 The Bulgarian NHS 16 Charlie Hebdo Gabriel Hershman Theodore Dalrymple 7 Magna Carta, Agincourt and Waterloo 18 The Easter Rising Christie Davies Michael Simison 10 Care in the NHS and Africa 20 Germany abolishes itself Jane Kelly Ricardo Duchesne 11 Letter from Australia - Anzac heroes 22 In Swedish Chokey Daryl McCann Neils Olberg 24 PC Girlie Playground Penelope Fawcett Hulme Columns 26 Conservative Classic - 57 Arts and Books Bagehot’s The English Constitution 28 Reputations - 46 32 John Jolliffe Karl Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies on Roger Scruton 30 Roy Kerridge 33 C J Fox 31 Eternal Life on Charles Sisson Peter Mullen 35 Celia Haddon on Hawking 36 Anthony Daniels on Brain Surgery 37 Peter Mullen on Ezra Pound 38 Penelope Tremayne on Baghdad In future subscription payments by cheque should 39 Christie Davies be sent by post to on Capital 40 Martin Dewhirst The Salisbury Review, on Putin PO Box 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU 42 James Houston on Macmillan Changes of address or other enquiries should be 43 Merrie Cave sent to the same address or emailed to on Klop Ustinov [email protected] or by phone to 44 Penelope Fawcett Hulme 01908 281601 on Home Credit card payments by phone 45 FILM: Jane Kelly 01908 281601 on Testament of Youth 47 Ron Capshaw on Orson Welles 48 MUSIC: Boyd D Cathey on Russian Opera 50 IN SHORT Editor: Myles Harris Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Roger Scruton Lord Charles Cecil, Jane Kelly, Christie Davies PO Box 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU Tel: 01908 281601 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.com here is only one question to be asked at the next gated exclusive retreat in Shropshire? ‘White flighters’ will election. Who is going to pay at least a fraction leave behind cities, which will become, thanks again to the Tof Britain’s £1.4 trillion pound public debt? It is computer, filled with newcomers. Technology can now, for four times larger than it was in 1998 and rising vertically. little money, airlift the equivalent of entire Pakistani villages Traditionally state debt is serviced by taxes or further to London in twelve hours, imams, village seers and country borrowing. Yet while more people are being employed the midwives included, and settling them in east London where computer revolution means they often find themselves in they can resume watching their favourite Urdu soap opera jobs earning less money and thus paying less tax. Wages on satellite TV, popping out to buy their familiar foods in a are further diluted by net immigration running at a quarter Pakistani store around the corner. of a million a year. The jobs they do, the first £10,000 of earnings tax free A good example of how the computer has, and will, steal courtesy of the taxes paid by you and me, are not in high your job is offered by the software application Uber and the technology, but in low income catering trades. The corner driverless Google car. Uber allows you to summon a taxi on tailor to brain surgeon phenomenon – that from immigrants your mobile phone within minutes. It hugely expands the an educated middle class emerges – no longer holds true. available taxi fleet thus cutting fares, and allows multiple When the new migrants have sufficient money to send passengers in a taxi. Today that taxi comes with a driver, their sons or daughters to university to obtain a degree but in five years, when you call one, a driverless car will in accountancy or medicine, they find the machines have draw up beside you at the kerb. Versions of Uber and the got there first, as any English parent with an unemployed driverless car – EasyJet on the road – will steal the jobs of graduate loafing around at home now knows. many a taxi, lorry and bus driver in the country. Labour claims, with much class bombast, to be able to Computers will do the same to many jobs, from your solve this by taxing capital. Miliband’s mansion tax is a GP, replaced in ten years by a computer mainframe and taster, but capital can decamp overnight to more congenial a TV set, driverless trains, automated shops, skyscraper climes. Taxes are for ‘little people’ not the rich who have window cleaners with ten arms and eight suction feet and many mansions everywhere. The Tory plan, built on piles behind those windows, electronic stockbrokers with a of printed money, will also fail. We know that from the vote worldwide reach dealing at speeds of thousandths of a second of no confidence in money printing made by the Swiss in independent of human control. January when their government uncoupled the franc from The people replaced by these machines will pay no tax the euro and the franc’s value rose instantly by 30 percent. but nor will they be able to afford anything the machines The Swiss were not just talking about the euro, they were produce. They will not be able to hire a taxi, invest in stocks thinking of that huge overhang of incomeless, unemployable or shop for anything but essentials. Nor will the government people who have to be fed and amused or they will riot as be able to raise the revenue to pay its bills. The old model they did in Greece. of work, pay your taxes, spend what is left, and hope the We are moving backwards to a late 19th-century world of a government bails you out in thin times, is dying. few very rich families living cut off from an undercapitalised Tax will become a matter between large companies like mob controlled by an underfinanced government. Such Google and government. As Google is often bigger than governments tend to be brutal, often replacing food subsidies many government departments, certainly more organised with doses of the water cannon. Whitehall recently bought and efficient, it may turn into an unequal struggle. a fleet. What is either party going to do about public debt, Google-Uber will also cause a demographic shift in unemployment and immigration? If you have children or population. Why live in an overcrowded immigrant city expect to live another decade, this is a question you must if you can phone a driverless car to pick up your groceries ask before you vote. from a supermarket miles away and bring them to your back to contents The Salisbury Review — Spring 2015 3 The Caliphate of Eurabia Alistair Miller rnold J Toynbee once argued that civilisations that newcomers might be assimilated into a dominant die from suicide, not murder. Many in Britain, culture is heresy. Aas across Europe, are fearful that they are living And so to Paris where twelve people were gunned through just such a collective suicide. By encouraging down at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie mass immigration, by adopting multiculturalism as Hebdo by ‘Islamists’ claiming they were avenging an official creed and rigorously enforcing this creed the prophet Muhammad. Understandably, the terrorist through a raft of ‘hate-crime’ legislation (all in the outrages at Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket name of fostering tolerance, inclusion and diversity), two days later provoked an outpouring of solidarity. and by elevating equality and diversity to the status of President Hollande declared them to be an attack on central policy objectives, a perversely well-intentioned the values of the French Republic and world leaders liberal establishment has sealed the fate of secular joined a mass demonstration on the streets of Paris liberal Enlightenment values in the West. to declare ‘Je suis Charlie’. Yet no-one in the British Few dare express their concerns openly for fear of press dared reprint the cartoon that provoked the being branded ‘racist’ or being prosecuted for acts and massacre. And we know full well that had Charlie thoughts deemed racially or religiously ‘aggravated’ if Hebdo been published in Britain rather than in they cause offence; but the rise of UKIP and the scale France, the journalists responsible would have been of ‘white flight’ from the cities speak for themselves. roundly condemned as ‘Islamophobic’ and prosecuted In his brilliant polemic The Diversity Illusion, Ed West for inciting religious hatred. For all the talk of notes that the flight of the middle classes from the solidarity, the fundamental problem remains: Western cities and suburbs to the counties of Devon, Dorset, Enlightenment values – the values exemplified by the North Yorkshire, Worcestershire and Cumbria, and to French Republic – are antithetical to a religion that is Wales, constitutes ‘perhaps the biggest shift westwards to all intents and purposes stuck in The Middle Ages. since the Anglo-Saxon invasion’. Are these ‘little Apostasy is still punishable by death under Sharia law; Englanders’ who have eschewed the lively diversity and in many Muslim states, including Pakistan, so is of the cities for a life among their own kith and kin blasphemy. Moderate Muslims might well dissent therefore racists and bigots? Or is it, as evolutionary from these extremes. But how moderate are Muslims psychologist Jonathan Haidt reminds us in The who want to institute Sharia law (a third of British Righteous Mind, simply that human beings are by Muslims according to a 2006 poll) or prosecute those nature ‘groupish’.

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