Let's pretend
We live in pretend times. Nearly everything is fake. Fake news is more common than real news. Our current reality makes The Truman Show look real in comparison. The political and media class and most of our institutions engage in a 24/7 campaign of subterfuge, deceit and outright lies about the past, the present and the future. They pretend many things. For example, they pretend that the importation of millions of people from foreign cultures hasn’t had an effect on crime, terror, division and unhappiness. In fact, they claim the very opposite, that immigration has enriched us and ‘diversity is strength’. They pretend that Islam isn’t a civilisational threat to Britain and the West. When confronted with the murder of one of their kind by an Islamist, MPs instead debated the perils of social media. Labour MP Jess Phillips pretended that the reason the 2024 election was ‘the worst I have ever stood in’ was because of the behaviour of men. And not Islamists, which was the case. With ev