Dr Rakib Ehsan
@rakibehsan
PhD (Social Integration). Researcher in democracy, politics & governance. Author of Beyond Grievance (Forum Press). Sports fanatic. Spice king. Proud Lutonian.
* Britain is arguably the most minority-friendly place on Earth * Family stability plays a crucial part in many outcomes * The Left should talk more about class barriers * Kehinde Andrews is a truly toxic voice in our race-relations debate To buy my book: amzn.eu/d/fOm48eU
Most residents of Epping will be 'small c' conservative types. I don't think people grasp what instinctively being "far right" looks like—authoritarian mindset, race realist, blood and soil. It's not just "anti-immigration policy" but a gut-level worldview. These are normies.
Three Epping residents. All of them thoughtful and articulate. Plainly not 'far right'. When folk such as this, in a usually sedate English market town, are getting angry, trouble is brewing.
The migration crisis now being felt in Epping - a traditional market town in Essex where an Ethiopian small-boat migrant was charged with sexual offences involving a schoolgirl. Migrants are being housed in a 3-star hotel which is just half a mile away from a CofE coeducational.
With next year’s local elections taking place in cities such as Birmingham and Bradford, towns such as Blackburn and Oldham, and London boroughs such as Newham, all signs now point towards Labour suffering an electoral bloodbath. My latest @unherd. unherd.com/newsroom/labou…
Hard agree
Anyone remotely familiar with my work would know that I have regularly criticised the ridiculing of traditional working-class Brexit voters. That includes bad-faith interviews (including vox pops) by metropolitan liberal outlets who are intent on embarrassing them in public.
Tbf @rakibehsan has never been silent on attempts at ridiculing Brexit voters. More vocal and consistent than many of his critics.
This is worth reading from @rakibehsan. The conclusion to draw is that Labour is in serious and as yet undiagnosed electoral trouble. Its traditional coalition is under pressure from three sides. First, the younger student radical types prefer the purer left Greens; those who are…
With next year’s local elections taking place in cities such as Birmingham and Bradford, towns such as Blackburn and Oldham, and London boroughs such as Newham, all signs now point towards Labour suffering an electoral bloodbath. My latest @unherd. unherd.com/newsroom/labou…
“It attempted to ridicule a friendly and humorous young man who clearly harbours no ideologically hostile feelings towards Britain –Amid so much pessimism, polarisation and racial grievance, he is to be treasured, not scorned” Great @rakibehsan spiked-online.com/2025/07/21/bri…
"This attempt at gotcha-style journalism was a terrible misjudgement. It attempted to ridicule a friendly and humorous young man who clearly harbours no ideologically hostile feelings towards Britain." My latest @spikedonline. spiked-online.com/2025/07/21/bri…
Long before Goodwin and others on the right, Dr Ehsan is one of the few academics and commentators who has written extensively about White British communities & has written and talked about how the country is failing the white working classes (because of the altar of diversity)
The "Senior Policy Fellow" of the Restore Britain movement now appears to be suggesting that I have a "track record" of not caring about white-British people? News to me.
The "Senior Policy Fellow" of the Restore Britain movement now appears to be suggesting that I have a "track record" of not caring about white-British people? News to me.
Glad to see that the words host people suddenly no longer require scare quotes. As for your point, it looks like this article was written a matter of weeks ago. If Ehsan meant it, well and good. His track recorded, to which I’ve pointed, leaves cause for doubt.
According to this account, I am supposedly against the "host people" of Britain because...I am not in favour of ambushing an autistic young man on the street, firing questions at him about Alfred the Great, and then posting it online as a form of attempted ridicule? Go figure.
This gentleman seems like a nice chap, but @StevenEdginton helps to show that he is anything but assimilated. Huguenot-descended Brits are in all relevant respects invisible. Meanwhile, Edginton’s interviewee associates “Britain” with its most conquered, colonised, YooKay…
Does anyone seriously think regular white English lads know much about Alfred the Great? Or the unification of England under Athelstan?! 🤣 The median voter won’t know who the foreign secretary is. 1 day canvassing regular people might wake a few people up. Utter nonsense 🤣🤣🤣
This was a failed "gotcha" attempt. The lads says Britain is his home and that his life has been amazing. Good on him. As for not having a clue about Alfred the Great and The Duke of Wellington - I suspect that would be the case for most young people across the ethnicities.