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Since emerging from my coma, I have endeavoured to follow my doctors' advice to eschew stress-inducing things like the Internet and spend more time in serene contemplation of the birds and flowers. However, once in a while friends will insist on drawing things to my attention. For example:

A single tweet from Mr Musk was enough to catapult the industrial-scale gang-rape of English girls into greater public prominence than it had ever received - which is pretty amazing considering that it is "the worst scandal in British history", not just because of all the sex-slavery and murder but also because of the connivance of officialdom, from local child-welfare departments all the way up to the Home Office and the Prime Minister. And that's with something that's as vivid and visceral as any public-policy question surely could be: little girls in a so-called "rape flat" being sodomised by multiple men from a, ah, very distinct demographic. (It's interesting to see that all the "racially-aggravated" "hate crimes" legislation does not apparently apply to Muslims - a revealing preview of how things will go when the English are the minority.)

By contrast, comparative fertility rates is a more subtle and elusive concept for the average citizen, so Elon's dissemination of an ancient Mark Steyn clip will not have the same impact. (UPDATE! Mr Musk giveth and Mr Musk taketh away: X.com has just flagged my picture of Ornella Vanoni as "sensitive content".) Nevertheless, way back when, my point was correct, and so is Mr Musk's amplification of it a generation on. (While we're on the subject, I was heartened to hear Rupert Lowe use the term "Islamification".)

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