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A nicely-timed if squalid example of the low art of politically progressive journalism appears in this Easter Sunday morning’s edition of The Observer.  It is written by Jay Rayner, son of “the nation’s favourite agony aunt”, Jewish authoress and Labour Party supporter, Claire Rayner.

Jay is a well-regarded restaurant critic and occasional novelist who writes for pretty much any mainstream newspaper that will pay him.  Evidently, he has an abiding interest in the hate-filled English.  Four years ago he marched briefly to the fore of the restless crew who would release us lovingly into our golden, non-English future.  This he did by producing the cover article for an ICM/Observer investigation into “hate crime” - not in multi-ethnic inner-cities but in the cruel heart of the countryside.  All thoughtful people would necessarily conclude thereby that diversity brings not conflict, as the racist right claims, but peace and the wisdom of Karl … and Walter … and Theodore … and Max.  No, the “hidden truth” is that it is in bucolic, sheep-filled, racially white, white, white rural England that the dirty-stained face of hate – the real face of the English – snarls and leers murderously at innocent difference.

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A new book has been published detailing the slave raids on Europe from 1530 to 1780. The raids were carried out by corsairs - North African pirates - who delivered their European captives to Muslim overlords to work as galley slaves, labourers and concubines.

Although most were captured in Italy, Spain, Portugal and France, there were also raids as far afield as Britain, Ireland and Iceland. In fact, in 1631 nearly all of the inhabitants of the village of Baltimore in Ireland were captured by Barbary Coast pirates.

Professor Davis, the author of the book, claims that white slavery has been minimised or ignored because academics prefer to treat Europeans as evil colonialists rather than as victims.

Today that organ of unquestioning anti-racism, the Guardian, reports the Commission for Racial Equality’s latest Terror: 125 happy news ways (pdf file)  to make Britain’s police force fit for our happy, happy, race-blind future.

Sir David Calvert-Smith, a benign-looking and perfectly white, former director of public prosecutions and now a high court judge, has authored the latest hate attack on – or, as he sees it, attack on hate in - the police forces of England and Wales.

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I am grateful to John for this link to Charles Bremner’s Times article on the forthcoming hate speech Bill in France.  It ties in, of course, with David Blunkett’s decision to insert a clause protecting Muslim sensibilities into his Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill.  A high-class article in today’s Telegraph by Charles Moore argues against that injustice more eloquently than can I.

We do not lack compelling arguments against a religious hate speech law or, for once, compelling arguers.  To their credit, Liberal Democrat MPs and, it’s said, many Labour ones, too, are also disturbed by this attack on freedom.  I don’t suppose more than one in ten non-Muslims sees it as anything other than another unjust imposition on the real British peoples.  But that one in ten evidently includes our political and juridical elite as well as all the little bees who work so busily in the public and voluntary sectors to neuter us and make Britain safe for minorities.

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Americans who don’t realize how traditional complexities often linger in England in spite of the left/liberal tendency of British politics are surprised by the persistence of faith schools there. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, though, that the secular and multicultural commitments of the British state have now made faith schools an issue, or that the issue has its practical complexities that reflect something more general than peculiar English conditions.

The practical problem is that secular multicultural education is always bad, at least on any large scale, because schools of that kind can’t have educational goals that are more sustaining than pliability on the one hand and the effective pursuit of self-interest on the other. If the moral world consists solely of the conflicting purposes of various people, then you either teach children to do what they’re told or you teach them to get what they want. The results of such an outlook when applied to education are fundamental aimlessness, aggression, manipulation, boredom, stupidity, and general bad conduct. Everybody hates everybody, and nobody learns anything.

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Over the rich, indeed fabulously rich years since 1997 all the willing little helpers of the Blair-Mandelson Project have, like all large criminal enterprises, demonstrated that familiar, old habit of going legit.  The clashing, renegade clamour of the first, orange-haired Lesbian Outreach Officers and Directors of Asian Women’s Collectives has modulated to the smooth, machine-like hum of (if not sober-suited, at least no longer dungareed) public sector professionals.  The marxism is the same.  But these days Blair’s helpers –  those classes of being faultlessly assessed by Sean Gabb back in January 2001 - are infinitely more self-assured and certain in the permanence of their revolution.

And why not?  It’s not as if the argument ever risked being lost.  There was no argument, no public discussion at all.  Marxism has no need to win over public support.  It wins simply by seizing the manifold positions of power and unpacking its programme from there.  So, today, what tangible opposition do public sector “professionals” encounter in their daily round of service delivery to the indolent, the ineducable, the criminal, husbandless, queer or “vibrant”.  None from the ideologically moribund political right, that’s for sure.

In quiet moments, when the vibrancy calms down a bit, our new elite can reflect upon the killingly funny fact that The Project is entirely financed by the capitalist, middle-class - who can’t do a damned thing about it.  Meanwhile, the traditional, working class Labour supporters - who could - are simply too engrossed in footy and Corrie to notice that they, too, are the reactionary enemy now.  They simply carry on voting for their own cultural persecution, because it doesn’t hurt their pay packets.

But the greatest source of comfort to the Blairite public sector is surely of the spirit.  The Project bestows upon those who have yearned for equality all their lives the chance to make their dream come true.  The Project works, or so it appears.  The cultural and racial landscape of Britain is being changed, or so it appears.  A more egalitarian society – or, and this is no mere appearance, a more repressive one - is being engineered.

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