New article - Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie II: “Nations are Modern Creations”.

How the modernist approach to nationalism of Gellner, Hobsbawm etc. became conventional wisdom, ideas which are both false and dangerous.

www.willsolfiac.com/p/folk-belie...

New article looking at the Trump admin and different conceptions of power. Power via shaping the system as America has traditionally done, versus abandoning this role and aiming to dominate within the system. www.willsolfiac.com/p/does-trump...

New post looking at the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain and how, contrary to a common belief, the primary sources show a deep concern for the unified identity of the peoples or nations involved, Brythonic or English.

www.willsolfiac.com/p/how-nation...

My review of Adolescence: a manosphere morality tale that doesn't get the subjects it talks about right.

thecritic.co.uk/adolescence-...

New article in UnHerd arguing that claims like "the NHS and care system would collapse without immigration" fail to look at how our closest neighbours in Europe run often superior health systems with far less immigration.

unherd.com/newsroom/the...

On taxpayer funded healthcare, the US isn't as different from Britain as many think.

In 2022 Britain spent 9.3% of GDP on publicly funded healthcare (i.e. the NHS).

In the same year America spent 6.7% of GDP on publicly funded healthcare (Medicare and Medicaid).

Netherlands planning to implement the asylum restriction package already successfully done by Denmark and Sweden:

- Naturalisation time extended from 5 to 10 years
- Tighter family reunification requirements

migrant-integration.ec.europa.eu/news/netherl...

My article on this (link in reply below) is much better. Fraser is directionally correct that Sweden has made a change and is restricting asylum while remaining in the EU and ECHR.

But it hasn't 'reduced net migration' to zero, this is a statistical artifact.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

I also wonder if Musk's approach to twitter will change now it has "done it's job" for him.

Obv the main reason for people moving to this app is political. But I hope it will also be a signal to X that the market will punish suppression of external links and algo-slop.

Or more precisely, it's not the market in the sense of the mass of users, but the more 'elite' and thus influential ones.

Latest article: The Politics of Clarkson's Farm.

From blokeish Top Gear Clarkson to Tory / Lib Dem 'Lovely Britain'.

www.willsolfiac.com/p/the-politi...