Dr. David Starkey delivers the keynote lecture at our New Culture Forum Locals Conference held in Salisbury: “A Celebration of England: Magna Carta and the Making of the English” – Salisbury 29.3.25.
The unravelling of our Western Judeo/Christian civilization
By Shari Goodman
Our Judeo/Christian civilization is unravelling before our very eyes and if we don’t dramatically change course we will be regressing to a pre-enlightenment dark period in world history.
Beginning in the early ’90s, multiculturalism was introduced and touted as superior to what were once homogeneous populations that promoted e pluribus unum (from many one).
Instead of advancing American patriotism and American exceptionalism, the global left here at home and across Western Europe adopted the U.N.’s agenda of transplanting millions of third world migrants from Africa and the Islamic Middle East into first world cities of Western Europe and North America. The result has been a disaster for native Americans and Europeans.
As we look across the pond, the U.K. under the leadership of Labour Prime Minister Keith Starmer is no longer free nor safe. There have been thousands of British girls and women raped by the influx of Muslim men who view non-Muslim woman as chattel to be used as sex slaves under the guise of sanctioned Quranic doctrine.
We read with increasing frequency and see the reports of many young girls, women, boys, and young males knifed to death or injured by migrant Islamic gangs, a crime almost unheard of before the influx of third world migrants.
To make matters worse, any criticism of Islam or migrants on social media will land one in prison. The justice minister of the U.K. is a hijab-clad Muslim as are many of the mayors of major cities in the U.K., and it appears that Islamic blasphemy laws are now openly enforced.
Churches are being converted to mosques and the call to prayer as morning dawns is now a common sound streaming from the hundreds of mosques now plaguing the U.K.
Ireland too is not far behind with many African and Muslim migrants transplanted into small Irish villages; thus, transforming the rich quaint culture of Ireland into unrecognizable uninhabitable third world outposts with third-world values.
Germany under Angela Merkel transplanted millions of these migrants into German cities, and although the Germans have seen their societies and culture transformed before their eyes (the traditional Christmas marketplace has been seemingly erased so as not to offend Muslim sensibilities), the native population appears too afraid and powerless to stop the transformation.
Nearby France has the largest Muslim population of any nation in Europe with many no-go zones where non-Muslims are not allowed to enter.
Many neighborhoods in Paris resemble third world enclaves, streets littered with dirt and trash and where there is no respect for local law enforcement. The once-clean streets of Paris laden with cafes, beautiful parks, and haughty couture are long gone. What we have today is women clad in black burkas with only their eyes visible, graffiti marked old buildings belying their once beautiful old architecture and remnants of Europe’s bygone era.
Here in the United States, the influx of Muslims from the Middle East and North Africa increased exponentially after 9/11.
In the aftermath of the largest Islamic terrorist attack by Muslims on American soil there should have been a halt to Islamic immigration, but instead the gates were flung wide open.
Today, we have millions of Muslims and thousands of mosques throughout the land, and the proposed implementation of Sharia law governed Islamic cities constructed only for Muslim inhabitants is under consideration in Texas.
Billions have been spent by foreign Islamic states to fund our universities to gain influence; to shape and control public opinion while undermining our love of country and American culture.
American Jews whose history on our shores goes back to America’s founding were once safe and secure, but now find themselves verbally and physically attacked on American streets and campuses for being Jews.
Anti-Semitism has increased exponentially since Oct. 7 and much of it is a result of Jew-hatred ingrained in Quranic doctrine.
Instead of leaving their Jew-hatred behind, they brought their hate with them to the West.
Our American campuses and streets are filled with young Americans openly calling for the genocide of all Jews, proclaiming their admiration for Hitler, and the call to complete Hitler’s Final Solution.
Additionally, the Islamic/communist alliance has brought forth a lack of civility unlike seen in American history where the rule of civil engagement is no longer respected and often disregarded in the media, television, schools, and even in our halls of Congress where profanity and the use of mob rule is encouraged as a means to an end.
When we have Democrat elected legislators (Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Jamie Crockett) encouraging Americans to take to the streets, it should be no surprise when people resort to violence (the attacks on Tesla cars, dealerships, and Tesla owners) to obtain what they couldn’t obtain at the ballot box.
Today we have a militant trans movement and Obama’s domestic shock troops (antifa and BLM) to stir unrest and destabilize what were once peaceful neighborhoods. They threaten and intimidate those with whom they disagree. We are now living in a period of disarray where violence, profanity, recreational drug use, homelessness, gender confusion, lack of standards, and incivility have become the norm.
The unravelling of our civilization can be attributed to the deliberate attempt by foreign enemies and a compliant willful global oligarchy to erase our Judeo/Christian foundation in their quest to destroy Western Civilization and to transplant it with a new form of feudalism controlled by a communist/Islamic one-world order.
GERMAN POLL SHOCKER: Alice Weidel’s Right-Wing AfD Surges to the Top and Is Now Tied with Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU
After the rather disappointing results in the latest elections in Germany that saw Friedrich Merz and his CDU Globalist ‘conservatives’ as the most-voted party, there are increasing signs that the German people isn’t letting up,
After Merz betrayed his voters and sought a coalition with the very same horrible parties (SPD and Greens) that led the failed and unpopular Olaf Scholz government we learned that Poll Shows 73% of German Voters ‘Feel Deceived’ by Incoming Chancellor Merz’s Spending Spree Plans – Right-Wing AFD Party Keeps Rising and It’s Within 4 Points of ‘Conservative’ CDU.
As the coalition talks extend, we observe a rapid crumbling of CDU’s poll numbers, with a simultaneous rise in preference for the right.
So now, for the first time, the INSA Sunday trend commissioned by the German tabloid BILD shows the AfD tied with the CDU/CSU Union in a major survey.
Alice Weidel’s party is now the strongest political force in Germany, with 24 percent preference, same level as CDU/CSU.
BILD reported (translated from the German):
“The jubilation and euphoria in the ranks of the AfD are correspondingly great! Early in the morning shortly after 8 a.m., co-party leader spoke out on social media and wrote on X (formerly: Twitter): ‘We have caught up with the CDU/CSU. Thanks to everyone!’. Alice Weidel”
We’ve come to the point where, as BILD states, ‘the nightmare of many Union politicians has come true’: they haven’t even formed their coalition yet, and are already collapsing in the polls – all while the right-wing ‘bogeyman’ AfD surges.
“In a letter published shortly afterwards by the AfD parliamentary group, Weidel goes even further. Her analysis of the survey: “The citizens do not want another left-wing government in which CDU/CSU the policy of SPD and Green dictate.” The party leader triumphs: “There is no way around the AfD!”
“Markus Frohnmaier (34), vice chairman of the parliamentary group and Weidel confidant, sees it similarly, he told BILD: ‘Friedrich Merz has brazenly fooled the citizens with the debt brake and in migration policy – now this deception is blowing up in his face’.
Frohnmaier sees the AfD already on the way to becoming the new, sole number one in Germany: ‘This is not a snapshot, this is the beginning of a turnaround. In the next few weeks, we will leave the Union behind us’.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/german-poll-shocker-alice-weidels-right-wing-afd/
Labour’s Muslim Problem—Blindness or Self-Deception?
The Left has a long, storied tradition of staring reality squarely in the face and refusing to believe their lying eyes. And nowhere is this more evident than the Left’s defence of multiculturalism—a project so disastrous that even its architects have admitted it to be dead. Yet here we are, in 2025, watching senior Labour politicians prancing around the corpse of cultural diversity, insisting it’s still got a pulse.
While the fabled benefits of multiculturalism are yet to materialise, its ill effects are now undeniable. In Britain, despite an impressive majority of 174 seats in last year’s general election, the Labour Party’s diversity chickens have finally come home to roost. First we were treated to the shameful spectacle of Angela Rayner, begging male Muslim voters (naturally, there were no women in sight) not to oust her from her Ashton-under-Lyne seat; promising that if Labour got into power it would ‘recognise Palestine.’ The clip is a painful, but necessary watch—more reminiscent of a hostage video than a party political broadcast:
Next up was the soi-disant feminist firebird of Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips. Last July, Phillips clung to her seat by a wafer-thin 693 votes—hardly a mandate to write home about. During her victory speech she was heckled by a mob of pro-Palestine activists, notably predominantly Muslim men, who chanted “Free Palestine” and “Shame on you.” When asked about the abuse, however, Phillips pooh-poohed the suggestion that the abuse was sectarian, as “too simple” an explanation:
People want desperately for me to announce that the people shouting at me and barracking me were Muslim men.
The fact that they were men is quite significant to me—the fact that they were Muslim is not significant because there are Muslim people in my constituency who didn’t behave like this.
These people were idiots. They didn’t do it because they were Muslim—they did it because they were idiots, and they wanted something for themselves, and they used a terrible tragedy to get that.
There you have it—no reason not to berate ‘the patriarchy,’ but the Muslim element had absolutely nothing to do with it. The fact that her constituency is almost 43% Muslim clearly doesn’t faze Jess, especially when being ‘pro-Gaza’ apparently gets you better treatment on the NHS.
Last week, it was the turn of former Leicester South MP, Johnathan Ashworth, who was tipped for a cushy cabinet post under Keir Starmer before shockingly losing his seat to relative unknown Shockat Adam, a pro-Gaza independent who rode a wave of Muslim votes to victory. Interviewed in The Telegraph, Mr Ashworth claimed that multiculturalism hasn’t failed, and rejected the notion that the loss of his seat ought to give him pause for thought:
In my case, in my seat, there was a huge, huge, huge strength of feeling about the issue of Gaza, which I understand. People felt that somehow, if I had voted for an SNP rebel amendment, that would have delivered a ceasefire.
Of course it wouldn’t, and the campaigners who said so were obviously being dishonest. But that’s the rough and tumble of politics. I don’t think it’s a failure of multiculturalism, not at all.
‘The rough and tumble of politics’ John-boy?! You were chased out of your own patch by a baying mob screaming “Genocide John”, and were forced to take refuge in the local vicarage!
Here’s what Ashworth said at the time, although of course (like Phillips) he failed to make the multicultural connection to the extremism:
I have never known a campaign of such vitriol, such bullying, such intimidation built on the foul and obnoxious lie that I was responsible for genocide. That I had the blood of Gazan children on my hands.
This is the campaign that was run by a minority of bullies, and loud mouths. This is not representative of the many, many Muslim constituents I was proud to represent. This is not Muslim values.
Here’s the rub: data screams that he’s wrong. According to a 2024 poll commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society, 46% of UK Muslims support Hamas, and the majority does not believe the terrorist group committed murder and rape on October 7. Also 46% of Muslim respondents said they believe that Jews have too much influence, in comparison to 16% of the general public.
It’s hardly a shock that White Brits are now minorities in the nation’s largest cities, but if the multicultural hymn sheet had any validity this wouldn’t matter, thanks to the high levels of integration observed by Britain’s latest influx. The promised integration is a myth however: almost a million migrants can barely speak English.
Even the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, admitted a decade ago that Muslim integration is not going to happen: “Continuously pretending that a group is somehow eventually going to become like the rest of us is perhaps the deepest form of disrespect.”
‘Diversity is our strength’ is now a busted flush, and even its most die-hard advocates look a little embarrassed when parroting the line.
Which begs the question, what precisely are Ashworth and his ilk playing at? Are the Left genuinely so deluded they cannot see the reality in front of them, or is this myopia a mere cynical ploy to cling to office if not to power? Special cases aside, I generally credit the opposition with more intelligence than they choose to advertise in their shop window—and we’d better hope that’s the case—because if Starmer et al are truly as blind as they seem to be, then Britain on its current trajectory is finished.
The likely (and egregious) explanation is that Ashworth and co. know the score full well, and are simply too wedded to the votes mass immigration generates to come clean. In his interview with The Telegraph, Ashworth simultaneously claimed multiculturalism in Britain is not failing, and at the same time (no longer an MP) clearly felt confident enough to reveal that he has urged the Prime Minister to consider immigration caps for certain sectors of the economy, in order to curb numbers.
Unimpressed by the likes of Angela Merkel, David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy, all of whom admitted 15 years ago that multiculturalism was an abject failure, Starmer’s government may dodge the post-mortem for now. Rayner can beg for votes all she likes, Phillips can blame ‘idiots’ rather than Muslims, and Ashworth may feel secure heading up the Labour Together think tank, but the reality of multiculturalism will catch up with them one way or another. Most likely they will only lose their seats, unlike the rest of us who are losing our country.
Majority of Germans ‘want return to nuclear power’
A majority of Germans have said they were in favour of a return to nuclear power, two years after the last of its 17 nuclear power plants was switched off.
Comparison website Verivox revealed the numbers on April 4 after what it said was a representative survey conducted by pollster Innofact in March 2025.
According to the survey, 55 per cent of Germans wanted the country to start producing nuclear power again while 36 per cent rejected the proposition. Nine per cent of the 1,007 respondents were undecided.
Of the supporters of nuclear power, 40 per cent would simply like to see the retired nuclear power plants back online while 60 per cent were in favour of building additional power stations.
Support for nuclear power was stronger among men (62 per cent) than women (47 per cent). Regionally, a pro-nuclear mindset was more prevalent in eastern and southern Germany (around 60 per cent in favour) than in western and northern Germany (about 50 per cent).
The survey results underscored that most Germans appeared ready for a return to nuclear power.
Recently, there have also been tentative signs that a growing movement within the Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, set to lead the incoming government, was in favour of turning some nuclear power stations back on – as evidenced by a recent internal CDU working paper.
The CDU under leader Friedrich Merz has not taken a clear position in favour of nuclear yet – and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as potential governing coalition partners has voiced its clear opposition.
In the ongoing negotiations, the two parties could not agree on evaluating whether a return to nuclear was technically and economically feasible.
Companies from the nuclear energy sector have recently stated that six nuclear power plants could be turned back on by 2030 – provided there was political will to do so.
The first decision to abandon nuclear power was taken in 2000 under a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens, under then-chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD).
The first two power plants were switched off in 2003 and 2005 , respectively, with the rest set to be decommissioned by 2020.
In 2010, under then-chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the timeframe for the exit from nuclear power was greatly extended up to 2034.
After a huge tsunami hit the Japanese nuclear power station at Fukushima in 2011, Merkel completely turned around her nuclear policy and instated a nuclear safety commission and an ethics commission to determine the future of the country’s power supply.
While the safety commission found no faults in keeping the nuclear plants running, the ethics commission recommended to shut down all plants by the end of the decade.
That commission comprised 17 people and included politicians, union leaders, church representatives, sociologists and a philosopher – but not a single energy expert.
Merkel followed the advice of the ethics commission. In June 2011, the German Bundestag, or parliament, voted with an overwhelming 85 per cent majority to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2022.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 drove up energy prices in Europe, Germany decided to extend the runtime for some power plants by up to year.
Despite protests from energy experts, the last three German nuclear reactors were switched off on April 15, 2023.
As a consequence of abandoning reliable nuclear power in favour of renewable energy production, Germans now pay the highest prices for electricity in Europe.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/majority-of-germans-want-return-to-nuclear-power-survey-says
Children win wars, not generals. Europe and West-leaning Asia do not seem to know that simple truth. Israel does
by Giulio Meotti
“Wanted: New Soldiers for Europe’s Shrinking Armies,” headlines the Financial Times.
The German government is worried: its army is small and decrepit. In Germany, the average age in 1990 was 36. Today it is 44, an increase of eight years in the space of a single generation. If the trend continues, in two generations more than half of Germans will be over 60. And today Germany must convince “Generation Z” to take the army seriously (judging by the levels of sympathy for Hamas, that will be difficult).
Spain has an army of old men: more than 34 percent of non-commissioned officers are aged 50 or older.
The inability of European countries to rebuild solid armies reflects the great taboo that grips the old continent: Europe is the demographic Titanic.
Italy continues to fall in an endless descent. This is from last year:
Births: 370,000
Deaths: 651,000
Immigrants: 435,000
Emigrants: 191,000
The average age of Italians has risen to 46.8 years (a European record), fewer and fewer children are being born (1.18 children per woman, a new negative record since 1861), young people are increasingly fleeing abroad (up 36.5 percent compared to 2023) and families are getting smaller.
Italy is becoming, at best, the tourist hospice of Europe.
Who will we call to close ranks of the army, the grandparents?
This is the same great demographic question that was at the center of the obsessions of the French elites between 1870 and 1940. The French had almost no children left, coffins outnumbered cradles, and the “hereditary enemy” Germany proved more prolific than the devil. The massive losses suffered by France in the First World War prompted Georges Clemenceau, the prime minister known as “the tiger,” to say a phrase that all Western leaders should keep in mind: “Children win wars, not generals.”
Eastern Europe is collapsing.
Poland in 2050 will have 40 percent of its population over 60. You don’t go to war with a population pyramid that looks like a mushroom cloud. You go to the hospice. Let’s take another country under threat, Moldova. Since 1991, the country has lost 1.5 million inhabitants and will lose another 40 percent of its population of just 3.5 million by 2050. Estonia will collapse below 1 million, Latvia is “the disappearing nation” (it lost 8 percent of its population in just one year) and Lithuania is “the fastest shrinking country in the world”.
Just look at the countries in Asia that are part of the Western axis: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Japan’s unprecedented aging is having a frightening impact on its military: the number of young people between 18 and 26 – the age for conscription – has been falling since 1994. In 2015, there were 11 million in that age group, a 40 percent drop from 1994.
The same in South Korea, the Wall Street Journal reports: “The declining birth rate has become a challenge for national security, with fewer young people available for military service. That’s why Seoul officials have said the army will be reduced to half a million from the current total of 600,000”. In South Korea, it is the old men who now hold the rifles: “I don’t remember them being this heavy”.
And then Taiwan: “It has long lived with the terrifying prospect of invasion by China, but one of the biggest threats to its security comes from within: the world’s lowest birth rates”, the Telegraph reports. Taiwan now has the lowest birth rate in the world and by 2050 will have just 20 million inhabitants, with the average age from 39 today to 57. It will be so insignificant that China may not even have to invade it. “Analysts estimate that the number of pets – 3 million – has exceeded the number of children under 15. Now on the streets of Taipei, strollers carry more dogs than children.” Taiwan has already decided to recruit residents rejected for their short height into the army.
Demography and geopolitics have always been inseparable. Along with its geographic location and economic power, a country’s population is one of the main factors that determine what military capabilities it can develop.
As Gunnar Heinshon, a professor at the University of Bremen and author of the book “Söhne und Weltmacht” (Sons and World Domination), wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “the percentage of young Europeans in the world, which was 27 percent in 1914, is now lower (9 percent) than it was in 1500 (11 percent). The new clothes of European ‘pacifism’ and its ‘soft power’ hide its naked weakness. In the 16th century, Spain called its young conquistadors Segundones, second-borns, those who did not inherit. Today there are Islamic Segundones.”
We should learn from the only country of European and Western culture that has understood this, and moreover a country completely surrounded by countries that do not recognize its existence: Israel. While European countries will halve in a generation, the Jewish state will double from 9 to 17 million. In addition to the atomic bomb, its army, its identity, its ideology and its courage, Israel has always known that a society lives and resists only thanks to what, in bureaucratic jargon, they call “human resources.” Children.
Israel is experiencing a baby boom even after October 7.
On one side there are the withered clothes of European military and demographic pacifism; on the other Israel, the only affluent society that lives in a permanent war regime and that knows no demographic collapse. Quite an extraordinary paradox to decipher. And a lesson for the Western Titanic.
Germany: Afghan petrol station employee stabs customer fatally
A 24-year-old employee of a petrol station in Dogern is said to have attacked a customer with a knife on Wednesday, causing life-threatening injuries. According to the police and public prosecutor’s office, the incident occurred at around 5 pm. The 37-year-old victim was able to escape into his car and flee from the petrol station.
With life-threatening injuries, he was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Waldshut, where his condition is now stable. The suspected attacker was arrested by the police at the scene a short time later.
The public prosecutor’s office in Waldshut-Tiengen intends to obtain a warrant for the arrest of the 24-year-old Afghan national on urgent suspicion of attempted murder in the course of Wednesday.
According to the current state of the investigation, the attacker and the victim are said not to have known each other and there is currently no reliable information on the suspect’s possible motive. The suspect had appeared in the past for possession of narcotics. The investigations by the public prosecutor’s office and the criminal investigation department are ongoing.
Le Pen Arrested: Democracy Under Attack in Europe + TRUMP tells UK: No Free Speech = No Free Trade
On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Dr. Philip Kiszely and Amy Gallagher of Stand up to Woke discuss: Le Pen Arrested: Democracy under attack in Europe Trump’s tariffs shame Britain on Free Speech White boys demonised in TV drama
No Dissenting Views Permitted at Manchester University
At the end of last month, an extraordinary incident took place at a leading university in the UK. The Pro-Life Society at the University of Manchester had organised for a speaker, Dr. Dermot Kearney, to give a talk to the society on the 28th of March.
The location had not been made public, but instead was sent out to interested individuals privately, to prevent any disruption by protests. The room for the event had to be booked via the Student Union, however, and was promptly leaked by members of its staff. Indeed, at the ensuing protest that gathered on the evening of the scheduled talk, at least two members of the Student Union were present, and so it’s evident how the protestors learned of the location.
Two attendees arrived early for the talk and were able to enter the building. Soon after, the speaker and the rest of the attendees arrived, but by that point, the protestors were blocking the only entrance to the building. There were around 50 protesters with signs, megaphones, and loudspeakers; one of them was handing out masks for the other protestors to wear.
The Pro-Life Society members were prevented from entering the building for the talk. Present were at least four security guards and around five police officers. The police officers told the Society’s members that they were awaiting police reinforcements, which gave those members the impression that they would be assisted to enter the building when more police officers arrived. That never happened. Some of the attendees, with the speaker, went to a nearby library for safety, and in the hope that their departure would de-escalate the situation.
That evening, the meeting was officially cancelled by Manchester University. The Society’s members were finally informed that they would not be allowed to enter the building. Later, the attendees who had been trapped inside the building for hours were assisted by the police to leave. They felt extremely vulnerable and threatened as the crowd closed in around them while they exited the building. The speaker along with the attendees were also escorted by police officers to the main road and had to find another impromptu place to hold the event off campus.
The protestors were loud, aggressive, and intimidating, shouting abusive language at the distressed attendees. “F**k the Church!” was repeatedly screamed at them. The protest was organised by the Feminist Society of the University of Manchester.
Free speech is a protected liberty. Intimidation is not. So, we might ask ourselves why, when observing threatening and intimidating behaviour, the police officers present stood by and watched, doing nothing to address it. If Manchester University’s Feminist Society had scheduled a talk or lecture on a contentious issue about which they cared deeply, and 50 pro-lifers had turned up and began barring the door, trapping people inside the building, and screaming abuse at the feminists, would the police have refrained from acting?
Given the distinctly anti-Christian nature of the slogans chanted by protestors, one might also infer that religious intolerance and discrimination are no longer treated with seriousness in the UK. Under the Equality Act 2010, it is the law of the land that citizens are to be free from persecution on the grounds of their religion. But perhaps, in two-tier Britain, Christians are excepted from such protections.
Now that we have all got used to the UK’s two-tier policing, we can imagine how the police would have acted if such a situation were reversed. They would have gone about dispersing the crowd and probably arresting people. But in the UK of today, the role of the police, it seems, is no longer to uphold the law fairly and firmly, prevent crime, pursue and bring to justice those who break the law, and keep the King’s peace. Rather, it appears their role is to act or not act in accordance with ideological fashion.
And what of Manchester University? Would the university have tolerated such behaviour from the Pro-Life Society’s members? Were the situation reversed, would the university have simply cancelled the Feminist Society’s event and said no more about it?
Following the abuse they suffered on the 28th of March, there are now a number of students studying at the university who feel distressed, threatened, and outcasted on account of their moral convictions—which were, it is worth mentioning in passing, the convictions of our entire civilisation for millennia until half a century ago, and hence can hardly be considered very eccentric. It is surprising, in fact, that such a scandal of bullying and intimidation of a small group of students at a top UK university has received no mention at all in any mainstream media outlet.
So, there we have it. In the UK today, the once privileged place of the liberty of assembly and freedom of speech has been lost. If your convictions do not sufficiently concord with those of the dominant ideology, you can expect harassment and ostracization, even in and from institutions that will happily take your money while they’re at it.
Much of the world currently thinks that the UK has become a basket case of ideological inquisition, thought crime, and two-tier policing. This recent incident at the University of Manchester confirms that such a verdict is dead right.
Founding WPATH Academic Defended NAMBLA Leader, Child Porn, and Worked with Pro-Pedophile Academic Journal
Reduxx can reveal that a founding member of the organization now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) was in correspondence with and defended a leading figure behind a notorious pro-pedophile lobby group. American sexologist Vern L. Bullough was a pioneering academic involved with the US-based Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, later renamed to WPATH, and served on the editorial team for a pro-pedophile academic publication which advocated for the normalization of adult-child sexual relations.
Bullough was a prominent sexologist. He was Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Social Science at the state university college of Buffalo, New York, in addition to acting as a professor of history at the San Fernando Valley State college. He was also professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), as well as Faculty President at California State University Northridge, and a president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, first established in 1957.
Bullough was the founding director of the Center for Sex Research at Cal State, Northridge, where he organized international conferences on prostitution, pornography, and gender identity. The university now has a “gender-affirming care” clinic.
Bullough published and spoke on the topics of transvestitism, transsexualism, gender identity, and child sexuality. In 1973, he was the first speaker to present at a conference organized by World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), when it was still known as the Erickson Educational Foundation. His lecture on “Transsexualism in the Past” came directly after an introduction by sexologist John Money, his colleague, who pioneered the development of the concept of “gender identity” and medical “transition.”
His most well-known books include “Sexual Variance in Society and History” (1976), “Homosexuality: A History” (1979), and “Cross-Dressing, Sex and Gender” (1993), which is still used as a textbook in some university gender studies programs.
In addition to his role in the early formation of WPATH, Bullough was a member of the editorial board of Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, which advocated for sexual relationships between adults and children.
In 1996, Bullough was interviewed for Paidika by editor Joseph Geraci — with whom he maintained a close working relationship, as Bullough’s position on the editorial board lent academic credence to the pro-pedophile journal.
Despite repeatedly arguing that his interest in the topic of pedophilia, or “intergenerational sex,” as he referred to it, was purely academic, Bullough revealed during the Paidika interview that he believed there was a “hysteria” surrounding the topic of child sexual abuse, and blamed “feminists” for the widespread opposition to pedophilia.
“The feminist influence also most certainly is a factor in the hysteria,” Bullough said. “Some radical feminists, though thankfully a minority, have gone so far as to claim that every female child was probably sexually abused in some way by a male member of their family, and can even define sexual abuse as show-and-tell and other childhood activities.” Bullough did not provide a reference for his claims in regards to his argument.
“I do not subscribe to their version. Unfortunately, many of these most militant feminists are involved in the child-abuse industry,” he added. Bullough defined the term “child-abuse industry” as involving individuals he saw as profiting from the “hysteria” over childhood sexual abuse.
“Paedophiles have become the scapegoat for everything that seems to be wrong with American society and the family,” Bullough continued. “We have institutionalized the hysteria… Paedophiles are so excluded from mainstream American society that they cannot really say what they do or what they believe in.”
But perhaps most disturbingly, Bullough kept regular correspondences with a top member of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a lobby group that advocates for the normalization of sexual relationships between adult men and young boys.
Attorney Lawrence Stanley was a member of the steering committee for NAMBLA, which advocated for relaxing laws regarding sexual activity between men and boys. Stanley also published a newsletter titled “Uncommon Desires,” which focused on pedophilic relationships between adult men and young girls.
In July 1987, Stanley wrote to Bullough imploring him to read and consider his article “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” which was soon published in Paidika and Playboy. In an introductory letter, Stanley told Bullough: “With respect to sizeable collections of child pornography, it is my impression that the Kinsey Institute’s is larger than the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.”
Stanley’s article, “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” argued that law enforcement officers engage in deliberate entrapment schemes. “Under the guise of ‘protecting children,’ millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to investigate and prosecute would-be consumers of child pornography, many of them individuals who do not pose any immediate danger to children.”
Stanley went on to describe at length various international publications specializing in pedophilic content to the sexologist, and stated that the “largest source for erotic depictions of young girls is Japan.” The NAMBLA attorney added: “I hope this information has been both interesting and helpful to you.”
Bullough replied in a letter dated January 1988, congratulating Stanley on the publication of his article.
“As far as collections of movies of child porn, the San Francisco Institute is much larger, simply because the major distributors of porn films in the United States, particularly child porn, got rid of incriminating evidence by donating it to the Institute in San Francisco.”
In a follow-up letter the next month, Bullough suggested: “If you get good duplicates of material and don’t know where to send them, I would like to add to my collection, most of which is now in the California State University, Northridge, library.”
In September 1989, Stanley was found in possession of hundreds of child pornography publications, as well as five videotapes, which he had kept locked in a safe under his bed. Various titles of the magazines included Bambina Sex, Children Love, Lolita Color Special, Loving Children, Masturbating Lolita and Schoolgirls.
Most of the photographs depicted very young girls with their genitalia exposed. In certain instances, children were seen to be masturbating or urinating, and other photographs depicted prepubescent girls engaged in oral sex with adult men.
In his defense, Stanley claimed to be a sex researcher acting on behalf of The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and claimed that that as an academic researcher, he was entitled to possess the child pornography under the First Amendment.
Stanley testified in court that the pornography was acquired in connection to research he was conducting on the topic of “The Child Pornography Myth,” an article he authored which was published in the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal. The magazines were obtained in the Netherlands, where the journal Paidika was published — and where Bullough had himself just visited.
As the court proceedings were underway in 1991, Bullough submitted a character testimonial in favor of Stanley, calling him a “knowledgeable professional in the field of human sexuality,” and that he would “strongly vouch for his character and integrity.”
Bullough wrote: “I have known Lawrence Stanley for four or five years and worked closely with him for part of that time in publishing a newsletter for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.”
In 1993, federal authorities accused Stanley of conspiring with photographer Don Marcus to import child pornography. Marcus fled to France to escape prosecution, and asked Stanley to retrieve a suitcase that was found to contain child pornography. His attorney argued that Stanley did not know what was in the suitcase, and a jury acquitted him in 1993.
It was during this time that Bullough again argued in his defense and sent him multiple letters of reference. The academic leveraged his credentials in universities and as an expert in the area of modern sex research.
“I can speak with some expertise on the subject of child pornography. I know of few topics more deserving of intense, scholarly investigation than child porn, a topic about which there is both a great deal of hysteria couple with a lack of information,” Bullough prefaced.
The professor then pleaded for the release of the “seized material,” referring to the child pornography magazines that were confiscated by authorities. He requested that Stanley “and others” should be permitted to “examine” the pornographic content, and that it might be “deemed suitable for widespread publication.”
“In the past we used to cover up child abuse, now we exploit it and exaggerate it,” Bullough said. “What we need is to do some serious investigation. Lawrence has an effective methodology to study the materials, and should be allowed to continue the studies he started.”
In 1998, a Dutch court convicted Stanley in absentia for the sexual abuse of three children ages 7 to 10. As Stanley’s legal troubles worsened, he fled the United States for Brazil. In 2002, he was arrested on charges of child exploitation. Stanley had built an international business photographing Brazilian girls and selling their photos online. Stanley’s “MiniModels” web site featured photos of girls ages 8 to 14 in what authorities described as “sensual poses.” Police said Stanley paid the girls $20 to $40 for each photo session.
Bullough was also a main organizer of the World Pornography Conference, with the first event taking place in 1998 at the Center for Sex Research at Cal State Northridge, with the financial backing of the pornography industry’s lobby group, the Free Speech Coalition.
One journalist, Matt Balash, who attended the 1998 conference took note of a presentation on child pornography, which included photos of a boy holding the photographer’s penis.
“Dr. Bullough thought it was OK as long as the photographer was a professional and had obtained permission from the parents. Dr. Bullough related how his kids used to pull on his schwong in the shower. Matt asked if Dr. Bullough invited other children into the shower to pull on his schwong. A conference organizer and hospitality lawyer stepped in to reprove Matt for asking inappropriate questions.”
When Bullough passed away in 2006, his obituary, published by the Los Angeles Times, was penned by former WPATH president, and former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Eli Coleman.
“It would be very hard to find somebody that had so extensively studied so many areas within sexuality,” Coleman said. “Vern was all over the field — not in a superficial way but in a very deep way.”