Let's Shoot the Messenger!

In a book appropriately titled “Is Reality Optional?” Thomas Sowell once wrote that:

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”

It is therefore unsurprising that in the wake of the violent riots which have shaken Britain in recent days, the people who predicted all of this are in the crosshairs. This evening, Alastair Campbell, suggested that the police should investigate Douglas Murray for writing and promoting The Strange Death of Europe.

Campbell is a “mental health campaigner” (he was known for screaming at underlings during his time in Downing Street) and is currently positioning himself as the voice of Britain’s moral conscience (he was the spin doctor who helped Tony Blair lie the country into invading Iraq, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people).

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Murray’s great crime, on the other hand, is writing a book which predicted with great accuracy everything that is happening across our continent today. And the people who ignored and dismissed him have the audacity to blame him for what is happening instead of themselves.

As you know, I am rarely lost for words but the hypocrisy on display here is stunning. Let me, therefore, condemn myself to a place in a cell next to Douglas by reposting the preface to my book, written over 3 years ago now:

“The Gur Emir Mausoleum stands in the heart of the ancient city of Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan. The magnificent structure, known colloquially as the Tomb of the Commander, was built to preserve the remains of Tamerlane, a terrifying conqueror who modelled himself on Genghis Khan. His tombstone is inscribed with the words ‘When I Rise From the Dead, the Whole World Shall Tremble’.

On 21 June, 1941, Soviet anthropologists led by Mikhail Gerasimov opened the tomb on the orders of Joseph Stalin and began exhuming Tamerlane’s body. As the scent of frankincense, rose, camphor and resin filled the air, Gerasimov and his team discovered an additional inscription inside the casket: ‘Whoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible Than I’. The following morning, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.