https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/farewell-to-not-so-merry-old-england/Farewell to Not-So-Merry Old EnglandSEPTEMBER 2025
BY TAKI THEODORACOPULOS
After more than 45 years of living in merry old England, I called a halt some time ago and chose the Big Bagel as my main residence. Alas, I left many friends behind, very good friends who ask me what New York has to offer that London does not. Well, I’ll only tell you, my Chronicles readers, because it would seem like rubbing it in if I published this in an English mag.
British phlegm, humor, self-deprecation, and good manners are now a thing of the past in that nation’s capital. London no longer has a majority white population, but is a mixed-race city in which Islam is the religion of the fastest-growing minority. London and some other major British cities now have Muslim mayors, who all favor woke policing. That means they turn a blind eye when people of color demonstrate illegally, but apply the full force of the law against whites for lesser offenses.
One such lesser crime is writing the wrong thing online. According to The Times of London, police make bout 12,000 arrests per year for offensive social media posts, or more than 30 arrests per day. The most egregious of these was the arrest and sentencing to 31 months in prison of Lucy Connolly, a mother who had already lost her firstborn son, a toddler, due to the negligence of hospital officials. Reacting to reports of an African murderer of three white toddlers during a school picnic in Southport, England, she tweeted for “mass deportation now” and said she couldn’t care less if someone burned down all the hotels housing illegal immigrants.
She almost immediately took down her post with apologies, yet, as I write, she’s in prison for “inciting race hate.” If this is justice, I’m Stormy Daniels.
Things are upside down in Britain, which was once known for orderliness and civility. When I first moved there, bus conductors, taxi drivers, salespeople, and policemen were good-tempered and had a sense of humor. Cops did not carry guns, the justice system punished shoplifters with incarceration, and murderers with hanging. Today, muggers and thieves are released by woke judges while journalists who made George Floyd their top priority in 2020 are now largely silent when migrants commit crimes. The police are focused on the people protesting outside hotels housing young men who have broken into the country illegally. The latest figures are something like 32,000 of these male “asylum seekers” in 210 hotels, with all expenses paid by the government (i.e., the taxpayers).
The establishment appears far more interested in the human rights of criminals and illegal immigrants than its citizens. Quality of life in modern Britain has nosedived as the population increased due to millions of immigrants overwhelming the island nation. The cultural costs of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ridiculous 2015 decision to invite millions of migrants from Syria and elsewhere into the EU have turned countries like France, Germany, and Britain into hotbeds of resentment.
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