Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis - Hardcover

"'Few people have a better understanding of how endangered free speech has become in these islands than Ben Jones. This urgent cry for its restoration is a must read.'"
— Toby Young

BRITAIN IS BEING TRANSFORMED. IT IS UNFREE. AND IT IS GETTING WORSE.

As mass migration reshapes Britain's population, an increasingly authoritarian state attempts to manage the resulting hyper-diversity by suppressing freedom of speech. This suppression is evident in:

• Two-tier policing.
• Attempts to criminalise blasphemy against Islam.
• Actions within the private sector, where thousands have lost their jobs or faced punishment for expressing their beliefs.

In Island of Strangers, Ben Jones, a director of the Free Speech Union, explores how multiculturalism emerged just as Britain was losing its sense of identity, coinciding with the decline of Christianity. He reveals how the nation's elite embraced a creed of 'diversityism'.

Grounded in a long view of Britain's history, this book delves into the fundamental causes of why Keir Starmer's UK feels increasingly unfree.

The Free Speech Crisis

The crisis of free speech isn't just a passing issue. Silencing dissent has become ingrained in how the fractured UK is governed. Key points include:

• Different identity groups increasingly locked in competition to protect their sacred ideas.
• The most potent challenge to Britain's tradition of free speech arising from within Islam.

This book is unafraid to grapple with these uncomfortable truths.

Increasingly, it seems impossible to define who 'we' are, much less what we believe or what unites us. Do we really have more in common than that which divides us?

Island of Strangers argues that the answer is no. Taking inspiration from Keir Starmer's infamous line, this book contends that Britain has been transformed into 'an island of strangers.'