“Italy faces the most serious demographic crisis of all the EU economies.  By 2050, according to the United Nations, more than a third of Italians will be 65 or over, roughly double the current proportion.  Increased longevity and the recent collapse in Italian fertility are the prime culprits.

Cherish those memories of Italy as a country of narcissistic young Lotharios, buxom mamas and multitudes of bambini.  The Italy of the future is an old folks’ home.”

Niall Ferguson, writing on Italy and the Euro in today’s Sunday Telegraph.

Some might consider the looming demographic disaster also to have been brought on by unfettered individualism, feminism and loss of faith, and that it somewhat outweighs in importance economism and the fate of the Euro.  Ferguson might also, in fairness to Italians, have noted with a little less complacency that Italy will be only the first of the nations of Europe to sink slowly beneath the Western horizon.  Unless proper feminine values are re-asserted in very short order (but how?) we shall all fade quietly away.

And those we import to care for us in our dotage shall have no complaints.

Today’s Guardian carries a piece by a QC practising at the highly activist Matrix chambers.  He is a British Sikh named Rabinder Singh, and he is affecting the pain of rejection because someone on his train journey to work yesterday got up and walked away from him:-

... you were already sitting there in the seat opposite. Your eyes were closed. You must have been tired. Then you opened your eyes and you saw me. You got up and moved to the next carriage. Perhaps you wanted some privacy or did not want to disturb me with a mobile phone call. Or perhaps you were afraid of me ...

The rest of the piece is the usual plaint of how the immigrant is so badly misunderstood, and very weak it is.  Singh tells us he lives among white people.  He eats Italian food as well as Indian.  He is not a religious fanatic.  He has been “formed” by Shakespeare, John Locke, Tom Paine (Tom Paine!  Bloody hell, no wonder he’s one of the Matrix culture warriors).  He is British ... British through and through ... British, I tell you!

Well, he’s waving around an already devalued currency - and the more he does it, the cheaper it will get.  Britishness has plainly had its day.  It was rejected by the Scots and Wesh long, long ago.  I know Mr Paisley still clings to it - all those bowler hats, black umbrellas and Union Jacks.  But the English have it in their power, if they so wish, to respond to the assimilationist thrust by falling back upon their true national identity.  They may dispense with this worthless notion of Britishness and reject the new assimilationism and Mr Singh with it.

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David Davis, the front-runner and bookies’ favourite to succeed Michael Howard as leader of the Conservative Party, has declared himself a liberal where it matters in “modern” Britain.

Now, I’m no longer a member of Mr Davis’ Party.  Well, obviously they wouldn’t want me!  So, I don’t have any kind of say in electing Howard’s successor.  If I did, sadly, I would probably vote for Davis.  But golly, I would like him to understand at least something about the philosophy of his own Party and of the opposition, as well as something – anything - about the land and the people he would lead.

So, I’ve written a quick draft letter to the man.  You never know, he might have a mental impasse, a fast-forward, while dutifully googling for Minority Rights, and wind up here.  Hi there … read on.

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For some weeks I’ve been putting off the major revamp the site needs.  The delay arises purely from the extreme, shekel-counting demands of having a seriously pianistic offspring, I’m afraid.  But the GW household now sports two grands side-by-side in our principal room, one of them a concert-quality monster of wondrous power and beauty.  I’m thinking about other matters again, and where MR goes from here.

The revamp must do far more than just enliven its general appearance (yes, I know it’s dowdy as it stands!).  Content-wise, the plan is to continue the existing MR main page as now, committed to general and political commentary.  Accessible from it there will be an OpenMajority thread for non-main board debate on the hoof - whatever you want to talk about, basically.  And there will be a specific MajoritySciences page bringing together all the past scientific contributions by Matt, John, JW and JR.  I hope in time it will develop into a really worthwhile and “majority-conscious” scientific forum.  At least it will have the chance to do so.

But I’m also considering setting up a further addition, and this idea I want to test on you.

It is often said of blogs like MR that we are basically grumpy old white men complaining about the loss of a world that never existed anyway.  I’ve seen this sort of comment on the radical right as well as the left.  True or not, we can dispense with it quite easily.

All that is required is a board here wholly dedicated to the exploration of positive proposals for the future of European Man.  Initially, I’m thinking specifically of all the subject areas - the design, morality, politics, demographics, technical logistics, economics et al - that describe the emergence of a white ethno-state in America.  We might call it MajorityAmerica.  But ... from where do we find the writers with genuine expertise and specialisms in these areas who are free and willing to contribute to this exercise?  That’s the problem.

The alternative would be to run the page as a dedicated open thread.  But that would be too conversational, I think, to produce really interesting and informed thinking - and I don’t intend any disrespect to MR commenters there.  But I, for one, would defer on, say, the subject (in my case) of returning England to its own people to those with genuine expertise in the specialisms that might involve.

OK, that’s where we are with it right now.  Just an idea, though I think quite an important one.  Do you have any thoughts about it?