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Will Solfiac
@willsolfiac
Interested in history, demography, politics, economics, psychology. Writing on Substack (below), in The Critic and Unherd.
Mar 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting example in this video of the transformation of Islam in Britain - Mothin Ali's mother didn't wear a niqab, but his wife does.

Other than that, I thought it was hilarious that he seems to be claiming that back when the working class had more political power, they didn't see ethnic difference, only their shared 'chains of hardship and debt.' This has always been a left-wing fantasy with very little connection to reality. Working class British people have always strongly opposed mass immigration. It's actually pretty slanderous to claim that people only oppose mass immigration and demographic replacement because Thatcher closed down their steel mills, meaning they fell under the sway of, formerly, the Daily Mail and, latterly, shadowy online right-wing influencers probably funded by the Russians.

People opposed it just as strongly in the 60s and 70s before deindustrialisation. False rhetoric like this obscures their agency and desire and willingness to stand up for their identity.
Mar 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Best moment in the Louis Theroux manosphere doc so far is about 20 minutes in when he asks this guy:

"So how many kids have you got?"

"I've got some, yeah."

"You know how many you've got, right?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"What's the number?"

"It's two." Image And it later turns out he lives with these kids and their mother. Bizarre shift from the past where men would hide their indiscretions/illegitimate children behind a facade of monogamous family life. These guys promote a harem-style image while living conventional lives.
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
New article — Grooming gangs and the failure of social science: How a 1980s study into Oxford's Pakistani community highlights the blindness of our institutions.

Stimulated by recently reading Alison Shaw's study, which put a lot of things into context.

willsolfiac.com/p/grooming-gan… See here for previous posts
Feb 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Only just discovered Alison Shaw's study from 1988: A Pakistani Community in Britain. It's incredible reading as it explains the context of how the rape gangs developed so well.

In a better world this would have formed the basis of an official enquiry into immigration policy. Image What's especially poignant about this study is that it was of the Pakistani community in Oxford, from where one of the many grooming gangs would emerge some years later.

This is something you always see. All this was known, and nothing was done.
Sep 19, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I had a read of this paper. It's amazing how much faith Blair et al put in the idea of 'globalisation'. Barbara Roche said in 2000 "As with other aspects of globalisation, there are potentially huge economic benefits for Britain if it is able to adapt to the new environment." "According to Blair the only ‘rational response’ to globalisation was ‘to manage it, prepare for it, and roll with it’ (Blair 2006).", ‘Migration is driven by globalisation’ (Home Office 2005, 11; Blair 2004)
Aug 31, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Stayed at a hotel in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Hotel manager and several of the staff are Pakistani. Hotel manager says he's on a 5 year visa. Looked up the hotel on companies house and one of the directors is also Pakistani, he owns three other venues in the area. So what I imagine has happened is this guy bought the hotel, then used the fact that hotel managers are on the 'skilled worker shortage occupation list' (yes) to bring over workers from his home country who he knows can't complain or leave the job for five years.
May 17, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
On a wall in Reading - Islamism vs reddit 'just-be-a-heckin-decent-human-being' liberalism. Image Reading has become very yookay. It feels like Reading station is the current boundary between Britain and the yookay.

Other yookay-aesthetics - a burquad woman with her kids, oblivious to the trans protest (various beefy men shouting about the infringement of their trans rights) Image
Aug 4, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In the 2011 London riots the (mostly black) rioters famously targeted JD Sports particularly for looting trainers etc.

At the time Paul Mason described these riots as part of 'a new global revolution' caused by a corrupt global elite, inequality and the 2008 financial crisis. In the blurb to his book 'Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions' "he charts the new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters who understand how power works."

Very inspiring Paul!
Jun 11, 2024 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
One of the most interesting social questions which I've never got a satisfactory answer to is why 'diversity' is portrayed so disproportionately by black people and not by Asians or other minorities. As an example, see the current ScotRail homepage and their posters at stations.


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Image The current homepage has three black/mixed people, six white people, and no Asians. Scotland is 93% white, 3.9% Asian, and 1.2% black, so obviously the proportions are highly skewed, with black people overrepresented about 30-fold.scotrail.co.uk