BY ALEX STORY
Pride Month 2026 is upon us.
Men can be women and women men.
Our police are even-handed. The state invests.
Debt is wealth.
And our politicians have our best interests at heart.
The direction the country is taking, the changes to our society, our leadership, are all for the better.
The broad trajectory is in line with the plan.
As Pangloss, Voltaire’s infamous philosopher, said:
“Tout va bien dans le meilleur des mondes.”
There is nothing with which to disagree.
To do so would be to “sow division”.
And that would be bad, and in many cases worthy of arrest.
Indeed, in the spring of 2025, The Times reported that police officers were “making over 12,000 arrests a year, equating to over 30 a day” for offensive tweets, a “58% increase” from 2019 to 2023. The number is bound to grow given how increasingly fertile the ground on which the seed of division has been thrown.
Because the British state believes it embodies all that is best, it brooks no dissent.
As a result, the plant of discord grows with every passing day.
So much so that discussions are no longer about what rate of tax one ought to pay to finance what self-serving civil servants like to call “services” and those paying for their insatiable demands might call extortion; they are about the survival of the country and her inheritance.
For the first time in centuries perhaps, the leader of an important party, Kemi Badenoch, spoke of “civil war” in a BBC Radio 4 documentary produced before June 2026.
Prescient words perhaps, but spoken before a life sentence was handed down to Vickrum Digwal last week for the murder of Henry Nowaks, who was arrested by the police as he breathed his last.
Oddly, a few days ago, though, she was praised by Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on June 3rd 2026 for “her approach and tone in relation to the tragic Henry Nowak case“, this after the production of the Radio 4 programme.
Civil war one day; praise from Starmer the next, exemplifies the intellectual stasis in which we find ourselves.
During PMQs, she equivocated as graciously as feasible.
Her aim, evidently, was to avoid both “sowing division” and watering the ground on which that fearful plant grows.
Her statement on the “wrongful arrest and tragic murder” of Henry in Parliament was something, but it was brief, bland and insipid.
A tone, in fact, expected from grown-ups, as our most progressive wizards in the equivalent of white robes would have it.
She simply said that the incident was a “wake-up call to the entire country and our institutions that every life matters“, before moving swiftly to welfarism in Britain.
In contrast, when Nigel Farage rose to speak, the entire house booed.
There he was sowing division by bringing up Henry Nowak’s heartrending death.
He said, above the parliamentary brouhaha, that “it is now clear to growing millions in this country that we are living under two-tier policing“.
All waved their fists at him because to them, he represented that plant’s ghastly fruit, which is made up solely of problems (or more darkly, solutions) the establishment itself created, and from which only the most optimistic think a political solution can be found.
To them, problems would disappear if ignored. So, when the issues metastasize and the deaths, rapes and thefts multiply such that no part of the country is alien to these scourges, the messengers’ missives are most unwelcome. Farage is one of them.
He is, therefore, attacked with all the might the state has at its disposal.
Identity politics, or the politics of biology, also known as Progressivism, only has “civil war” as a possible destination.
Identity politics is the Progressive‘s weapon of choice.
It dissolves the nation state, cuts the British oak’s roots and enables those in power to rewrite our story.
Context is removed so that accusations can be more easily contrived, stunning the accused into remorseful acquiescence.
These habits are deeply ingrained in our state psyche, supported by acts of parliament such as the Equality Act 2010, in which “companies and public bodies are permitted to take ‘positive action’ to ‘address disadvantage or under-representation’“.
In short, the British State is racist by design, hiding behind the term “equality” with the same duplicity as North Korea does behind that of being “democratic”, while Britons are not.
Indeed, discrimination against the majority is a daily occurrence and ingrained in the notions of “multiculturalism”.
The removal of Churchill from £5 notes, the sacking of former Police Community Support Officer Luke Salmons for his Christian beliefs, MI5 and MI6, the National Audit Office, Transport for London and the Bank of England, no less, openly offering internships to non-white children are all products of the same belief, deeply held and actively promoted across all the state’s institutions.
The result is that our people have no home and nowhere to turn.
In fact, the Island is open to all, whatever sufferings are caused in the ongoing hand-over process.
It has been, in short, a swift Kafkaesque transition from rulers of an Empire on which the sun never sets into a cockroach feasting on the philosophical faeces of our tormentors.
The multitudes in Britain are aware, as Farage says, but do not know how to react. They are paralysed by custom.
The only retaliatory weapon they have is the ballot box, which was disarmed long ago.
Finally, we are all, in a way, both victims — the terms of the debates are set by our state actors’ Panglossian understanding of our world, which we grudgingly accept — and also accessories to the crimes committed against us.
Indeed, we comply, as exemplified by Badenoch talking about civil war one day and receiving praise from Starmer for being a grown-up the next.
We equivocate when attacked;
We submit;
We repeat much of the slogans.
Because all is well in the best of all possible worlds.
And June is Pride Month…
Alex Story is an Olympian, entrepreneur and writer on economic and social issues.