Matthew Goodwin is right about what makes someone British

It was only a matter of time before the Guardian came for Professor Matthew Goodwin. The honorary president of Reform’s new student wing came under attack this week after he said a UK-born man of African heritage – who is alleged to have stabbed ten people on a train near Huntingdon earlier this month – was not truly ‘British’. Any sane person would agree that the actions of the train attacker did not uphold British ‘values’. Yet the Guardian was determined to whip up a storm of condemnation.

It’s as if terror attacks and mass stabbings are to be treated as just a normal part of life in diverse, modern Britain

Goodwin’s ‘crime’ was to write that ‘migrants do not instantly adopt the host country’s “British” or “English” culture and identity the moment they sign a few papers.’ On X, w