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Explaining Oikophobia

Explaining Oikophobia

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Jul 01, 2025
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An interesting feature of the coverage of Bob Vylans’ vehemently anti-British, anti-Israel set at Glastonbury was white British people chanting along with the frontman. The crowd looked as white as a Reform UK conference.

Glastonbury attendees are disproportionately white. As Ed West wrote three years ago:

The reason that liberal cultural niches tend to …

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