'Live Not By Lies' In London

And: On Not Noticing Degeneracy; Queering Anne Frank; Catholicism Is Not 'Vibes'

Konstantin Kisin introducing the movie

Well, that was fun. Hunter DuBose, a British supporter of Live Not By Lies, last night hosted a screening last night at a super-British location: a restaurant called Boisdale, which I’m told is a kind of clubhouse for conservatives. Dress code was black tie, which was MISERABLE in this ungodly heat. Still, the Champagne flowed endlessly, and the company was very, very good. Here I am with my dear friend Melissa O’Sullivan:

Melissa took that selfie, and also this of Isaiah and me waiting for the film to start:

Isaiah Smallman, the film’s writer-director, showed a feature-length re-cut of the four-part series. I swear to you, I cannot watch the Timo Križka parts (in which Timo talks about photographing and talking to the elderly survivors of the Czechoslovak gulag) without crying. Even now. And when Kamila Bendova recounts how she and her fellow dissidents from the 1970s and 1980s used to wonder, like the hobbits, if people would sing songs about them one day — man, that was it. Tears.

Lots of folks were talking about Glastonbury, and what it revealed about the mentality of the UK at the moment. Here’s what I wrote about it in today’s European Conservative. Excerpt:

In a recent essay on Camus, titled “The Crime Of Noticing,” the English writer Douglas Murray decries how Camus and people like him are treated by the pro-migration crowd. They follow this scheme to disable noticers:

First, that it isn’t happening, that what you are seeing with your eyes you are not seeing; second, that it is happening but it is good for you; third, that it may not be good for you but you deserve it; and finally—it doesn’t matter, because it’s going to happen anyway.

This is how Britain in 2025 finds itself with hundreds of thousands of (mostly white) people spending nearly 500 euros to go to a gated music festival and hear denunciations of borders, calls for genocide of Israeli Jews, a de facto celebration of Hamas terrorists who massacred Israeli civilians, and a call for a race war against white British who supposedly stole Britain from blacks. And almost nobody—at least almost nobody in power—notices! Those in power who do are not going to do a damn thing about it, aside from tweet angrily, and make stern-sounding remarks on television.

The powerless in Britain, though—the “gammons” hated by the Left and the elites—are increasingly unwilling to live by these lies, and to submit to the people and the ideology dispossessing them in their own land. What will they do, then?

Well, it’s not quite true that nobody in power notices. There has been some commentary from the ruling class about it. But not nearly what this kind of provocation should occasion. Labour is never going to say or do anything meaningful about any of this, because it has become utterly dependent on the UK Muslim vote. I mean, look (“Met” is the police; Kneecap performed at Glastonbury):

I remind you that in recent years, two MPs — Jo Cox and Sir David Amess — were murdered by political extremists. Amess’s killer was an Islamist; Cox’s was a white supremacist. Kneecap’s was not an abstract threat

The Tories might make a big deal of it, but many Britons are skeptical of anything the Tories have to say, because of how that party opened the door for mass numbers of migrants, even while promising to do otherwise. Not sure about Reform.

Speaking of Reform, last night I spoke to a young Jewish woman who works for the party. She told me how she is treated for daring to wear the Star of David in public. When she was at college, she was mercilessly targeted by Muslims and left-wing activists, and driven out of her school. She told me the university told her it couldn’t protect her, and gave her permission to do her coursework online.

This kind of thing burns me up. It happens in the US too. I think it is a cowardly abdication of moral responsibility by universities. That university certainly could have protected that young Jewish woman. It just didn’t want to, if protecting her required expelling those threatening her. A liberal democratic order that will not defend itself from thugs — and make no mistake, defending that woman is defending liberal democracy itself — is not going to make it.

In any case, the big lie told by Bob Vylan onstage at Glastonbury was that Britain was stolen from black people by the Anglo-Saxons. Hysterically stupid, but as an English person told me yesterday, two years ago a children’s book won acclaim because it claimed that black people built Stonehenge. People need myths to live by. I guarantee you that those 200,000 lefties, most of them white, at Glastonbury will convince themselves at some level that Britain was, in fact, stolen from black people. They need to believe something to justify their hatred for their own nation.

I said it last night in the Q&A following the screening: there is no country in all the West that needs the Live Not By Lies message more than Britain. Britons (and everybody else) can screen the four episodes here. And who on earth would have imagined that a book that is five years old would be even more relevant now, at least in Britain, than it was the day it was published! (UK edition link here.)