A Civilisation, Decapitated

Often decried in these pages is the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of our political elites. While many of our cousins in the New World cast suspicious eyes at the mere mention of the word, reliance on populist upheaval alone has proven itself woefully inadequate in its efforts to arrest the gangrenous spread of social decay. Elites are necessary in the same way that no culture can flourish without that class of persons raised and dedicated, or at least with the requisite temporal and material resources available, to maintain the lifeblood of civilisation. They are, therefore, not merely those who rule, but those who have a cultivated moral imagination on which their authority to govern rests.

   The Occident has been denied such a class for centuries, and the consequences of this decapitation are becoming increasingly obvious to those who still nurture the memory of how things once were. Whenever the bitter fruit of idiocratic governance is felt by the public, the political class invariably responds by punishing the innocent and ignoring the root of the problem; they are, to quote an observer from another place: too simple, sometimes naive. It should come as no surprise that many feel their governments are at war with the people they should be representing, and that a growing cohort of the young now bite their thumb at the idols of the ‘boomer truth regime’ and its mythos. Banning the accoutrements of dissent is a fool’s errand, but we are indeed reigned over by dangerous clowns. If a correction is to be achieved, we must focus on rebuilding a future elite capable of asking, then answering, the questions raised in this issue of the journal.

   We know that there is more plurality of thought among the right than the left (Lüders et al., Social Psychology 63:1, 2023) and we recently learned that rightist males are more tolerant of alternative views than leftist females are of their own ideological colleagues (Lenthall-Cleary, FIRE, 2025). The crown lies in the street, waiting to be picked up. All we have is commitment and comradery, the dynamism now on our side.

To the British Australian Community, on the occasion of their Political Action Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, for 19 September 2025. 

   I lament not being able to join you all today on this momentous occasion. Unfortunately I have been called to Europe for the Jubilee Year, but my thoughts are with you and your cause. 

   The BAC is gradually becoming the peak representative body for Australian’s of British heritage. There is an urgent need for such a body today. The state has platformed every ethnic interest under the doctrine of multiculturalism, listening attentively to their concerns when it formulates social policy and sets its political priorities. How-ever the underlying ideology of this doc-trine routinely denies a voice to the country’s foundational population. This is an intolerable situation. You do not accept it, and you are right to refuse to remain silent.

   In recent years, we have seen the gradual erasure of our heritage from the public sphere: the renaming of streets and landmarks, the iconoclasm of our monuments; all of this has come to pass on the back of a relentless evisceration of how history has been taught in our schools and universities. The ground-work for this has been laid for decades, with little meaningful opposition even from conservative quarters. Today we witness intentional demographic transformation through mass, indiscriminate immigration, from parts of the world which have little to no cultural affinity with us, and from peoples who in many cases harbour ethnic animus against heritage Australia. This has significantly detrimental economic as well as social consequences.

   What we are witnessing is a function of policy, not a force of nature. The BAC, its members and supporters are the spear-head of principled opposition to this. Most importantly, you are not just reacting to the situation; you are affirming a positive view of a future safe for your posterity. There is no other group willing to speak on behalf of people of European descent in Australia with the professionalism of your association. Our interests, and the moral imperative to preserve our identity, need an advocacy group such as the one gathered here today. The recent brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk in the United States – and the reaction from militant progressives, not least of all here in Australia – has illustrated the climate in which we operate.

   The work you are all doing, and those who attend events such as these, is an act of courage. I congratulate you all and pray that BACPAC25 is only the next stepping stone on the way to the growth of a national body that will soon be impossible to ignore by government and policy analysts.

   Cordially,

   Signed for the Observer & Review.

   (Originally drafted and sent by post on 12 September 2025)