In 2009 Christopher Caldwell published Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. The book is well written, in an almost aphoristic style. Chapter 4 is titled “Fear masquerading as tolerance.” In chapter 4’s section on Diversity and self-loathing, Caldwell writes:
Diversity described both a sociological reality (there were more foreign looking people around) and an ideology (there ought to be more foreign looking people around). The ideology was perfectly in tune with the neutrality among cultures espoused by the builders of the European ideal. Diversity, though, could never really be a stable or neutral ideal because Europeans did not know enough about other cultures to make it one. Diversity meant rooting out traditions that excluded people and trammeled the liberties of newcomers. All cultures have many such traditions. But while Europeans could easily dismantle their own prejudices, the prejudices of other ethnic groups were, quite naturally, invisible to them. At the heart of European universalism was European provincialism.
We are victims of a similar provincialism with a whopping dollop of the left’s hatred of the United States thrown in for good measure.
In his latest essay on “the revolution in Europe” for the Claremont Review of Books, Caldwell updates the case of Great Britain. His current (accessible) essay is headlined “Land’s end.” In it he observes the impact of mass immigration from Islamic countries to Great Britain. The present is dire and the future looks even grimmer.
Caldwell observes that a whole new vocabulary has emerged to describe British politics: Not just “two-tier,” but “Boriswave,” “Deliveroo economy,” and “Yookay.” Here is Caldwell’s explanation of “Yookay”:
The U.K. has become “Yookay.” That is what the country is called in the extraordinary X feed “Yookay Aesthetics,” curated by the pseudonymous Drukpa Kunley (the name is that of a 16th-century Tibetan Buddhist monk, poet, and sexologist avant la lettre), who posts photos, video shorts, and articles that generally have the effect of making one vaguely sad: like an immigrant barmaid who doesn’t know how to pour a pint of beer, or a podcast clip of two immigrants discussing how much they hate non-Muslims, under the heading “Integration Update.” Alongside a picture of a pretty and tidy Japanese girl in an enviably orderly Japan, captioned “Stuck in the past,” one finds the text “RIDDLE ME THIS: If Japan is so great, where are its Pakistani Vape Shops?” The tone is always deadpan in this way: spitting back propaganda about the economic and cultural blessings of “diversity” in a way that makes it look not well-meaning and progressive but cynical and destructive.
Here is one of Mr. Kunkley’s current X posts, with a nod to this Telegraph story (behind the Telegraph paywall).
— 🇬🇧 𝙔𝙊𝙊𝙆𝘼𝙔 𝘼𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙎 🇬🇧 (@MythoYookay) September 28, 2025
Hey, we can beat that! Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar could tell us about the benefits of sibling marriage when she chooses to level with us.
The post below by Dominic Green bears directly on one of the subjects Caldwell addresses in his essay.
If a gang of rapists is still at large in Banbury, you might think the police & BBC would release a description. But no. https://t.co/apuxEmROP1
— Dominic Green (@DrDominicGreen) September 28, 2025
Here is one more from Green’s X feed bearing on another of the subjects that Caldwell takes up.
“I was in charge of the department that accidentally emailed top secret identity information to the Taliban, so I know full well how important it is to let us build a national citizenship ID database” is his actual argument here, no joke https://t.co/lRVgHRFfKX pic.twitter.com/vOEY4eefCS
— Adam Wren (@G0ADM) September 27, 2025
I urge readers who are interested in the issues raised by Muslim immigration to the United States to read Caldwell’s current essay and, on a related note that brings it home, Dexter Van Zile’s Focus on Western Islamism column “The new Jim Crow in Dearborn.”
