“Civilizationists”

Across Europe, gay voters are moving rightwards. Britain has not quite caught up yet, but it will. The only question is whether the Conservatives or Reform UK will be the ones to benefit.

I was reminded of this recently, while hosting a fundraiser for LGBT+ Conservatives at the Savile Club in London. Conservative MP Katie Lam was speaking, and she made a remark that would once have been uncontroversial, but now feels borderline taboo. LGBT rights, including same-sex marriage, she argued, are the product of particular cultures. Britain and the West built the legal and cultural framework that made LGBT equality possible. It did not happen by accident.

Europhiles often meet national consciousness with incomprehension and disdain. To them, it is a backward-looking and irrational obstacle on the path toward an enlightened and ‘inclusive’ European order. A united Europe, they argue, should have at its core the transcendence of national ideas. However noble, this approach is doomed to fail. Europe’s history shows that its sociopolitical structures are deeply intertwined with national identities, and that political unification requires a shared sense of belonging.

“We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his right to worship his God, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble laborer returns from his work when the day is done, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.”

—Prime Minister Winston Churchill, explaining Great Britain’s war aims to FDR’s close adviser Harry Hopkins, January 11, 1941, at “Ditchley” in England, as quoted in Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile (New York: Crown, 2020) p. 351

I WAS there. I stood at the front of the recent Unite the Kingdom event in London, and I led the prayers from the stage. I saw ordinary men and women – fathers carrying their children, pensioners gripping their sticks, young men and women lifting their voices – gathered not in hatred but in hope, not in rage but in resolve. I saw the cross of Christ raised aloft, not as a weapon of division but as a banner of faith.

In May, just months before his political assassination at a U.S. university, Charlie Kirk visited Britain to take part in the famous Union debates at our two top universities, Oxford and Cambridge.

Reflecting on his trip afterwards in the Spectator magazine, the American national conservative made a bold and prophetic prediction: “Make no mistake: Trump’s revolution is coming to the UK.”

Kirk said that his Oxbridge experience had taught him that, “just like in America, the students of the elite university may be the last to realise” how far and fast things are changing. But he was clear that “In Britain at large, a very different attitude prevails.”

And now a little smile …

It's highly likely that far-left Canadian YouTuber Rachel Gilmore will be BANNED from entering the United States of America over her posts about Charlie Kirk

US Congress has demanded the 40,000 name database of Charlie Kirk celebrators be handed to them to facilitate bannings pic.twitter.com/83jEmwTDOH

— The Pleb Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) September 14, 2025

h/t Mauser

By official estimates, more than 100,000 Britons gathered in central London on Saturday, September 13rd for the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march, set to be the country’s largest free speech festival. Organised by activist Tommy Robinson, the event brought crowds, including supporters from other countries, across Westminster Bridge before speeches near Downing Street.

#London flooded with crowds ahead of Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally #CharlieKirk
Streets packed 2.5 hours before start — police preparing for up to 1 million attendees. Could be Europe’s largest demonstration ever
British patriots are chanting the name of Charlie… pic.twitter.com/A8GdABBNwy

— Uncensored News (@Uncensorednewsw) September 13, 2025

The vice-president has waded in on the row over the depiction of the St George’s Cross in protest against immigration

JD Vance urged people to “push back against the crazies” who object to flying the English flag, in another transatlantic intervention from the US vice-president into freedom of expression.

Vance did not hold back when asked to comment on the summer grassroots campaign Operation Raise the Colours, which resulted in councils in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets pulling down flags from lampposts and bridges.