The $30 million toe in the water

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that more than four per cent of London's population speaks very little or no English,while a study by the Henry Jackson Society found that over half of British Muslims believe that depicting Mohammed should be illegal.

This is increasingly becoming a country without a common culture or even a common language: a country more divided, with more latent potential for conflict, than at any time in modern British history.

We have all just watched, with horror, one outburst of that conflict on the streets of Belfast.

Why 4,000 unsold units became the prize

The scale of immigration is unprecedented in English history,with over 4 million migrants arriving in Britain between 2021 and 2025.

The implications for free speech and democracy are profound, as the country becomes increasingly divided.

Between 2001 and 2021, the Muslim population of the United Kingdom grew from about 1 .6 million to about four million.

An echo of Sydney's 2024 institutional buy-up

A 2024 study by the Henry Jackson Society found over half of British Muslims (52 per cent) think depicting Mohammed should be illegal, while 32 per cent 'favour the implementation of sharia law' and the same number wish to see 'the declaration of Islam as a national religion'.

One young Muslim man was asked in a viral video interview for his message to the 'far-Right people', a term which nowadays could mean almost anybody.

His reply was: 'We're here to take over your country. You can't stop us, you can try, but we're here to uphold sharia law.'

Tehran's two-track response

According to the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, more people moved to Britain in those four years than the entire population of Wales.

That is comparable to England's entire 17th-century population .

The public voted for reducing migration consistently throughout the 2010s, yet by 2019/20 the foreign-born popultion of Great Britain was estimated at 9.25 million people.

What auditors flagged in the May filing

The ONS stopped publishing data on population by country of birth in 2021.

But before it did, it found that no fewer than 16 countries had more than 100,000 of their citizens living in Britain.

According to 2021 census figures, 10 per cent of all residents of England do 'not identify with any UK national identity'.

A familiar pattern from the 2019 crash

In the year to June 2023, net migration was fully 906,000 people with another 728,000 in the year to June 2024, according to the ONS.

The total for those two years alone is about half of England's popultaion at the time of the Norman Conquest.

Muslims were angered by a teacher after they showed an image of Muhammad in a class on free speech.

The backlash forced the teacher into hiding.