Will Solfiac's Newsletter

November roundup and links: catastrophising about British emigration; the fertility crisis; and women with PhDs

Some articles, books, podcasts, and Twitter 'current thing' discourse

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November 2025

Modern Folk Beliefs IV: “Climate change will lead to human extinction”

Tracing the rise and decline of climate catastrophism

Nov 23 • 

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Why are black people so overrepresented in advertising?

Sarah Pochin, diversity as blackness, and the taboo around honest discussion of asymmetrical multiculturalism

Nov 4 • 

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October 2025

The liberal centre has run out of ideas on immigration

A deconstruction of Stephen Bush's FT article – "The truth about immigration"

Oct 2 • 

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August 2025

Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie III: “Europe was a Backwater Before Colonialism”

How a mistaken argument from the California School in the 'great divergence' debate became conventional wisdom

Aug 27 • 

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June 2025

The process of yookay-ification

A personal tour around an emerging country

Jun 17 • 

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April 2025

Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie II: “Nations are Modern Creations”

How the modernist approach to nationalism of Gellner, Hobsbawm etc. became conventional wisdom.

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Does Trump understand the true nature of power?

Who has more power, the person who picks up the bill in the restaurant, or the person who gets the free dinner?

Apr 13 • 

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Adolescence: a manosphere morality tale

A show so heavy-handed it makes me want to start talking about 'regime propaganda'.

Apr 1 • 

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March 2025

How nations and peoples mattered during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain

The importance of ethnic identity in Gildas, Bede, and in legal codes.

Mar 29 • 

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On the Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie: “National identity is just about citizenship”

Where the illusory idea of purely civic nationalism came from, and how it became conventional wisdom.

Mar 23 • 

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“The NHS and social care would collapse without immigration”: a European comparison

Those who make claims of inevitable collapse never look at our nearest neighbours

Mar 15 • 

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