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16 capital responses to a Christian journalist’s bigoted nostalgia for a time when London was ‘more English’

If you aren’t familiar with Caroline Farrow, we almost feel the need to apologise for ruining that blissful state.

The Catholic journalist – and we only mention her faith because it’s the topic of much of her writing – first came to our attention back in 2019, when she complained that her then six-year-old shouldn’t have to know that there were gay penguins in London Zoo.


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Imagine taking your 6 year old to London zoo and them asking you which penguins are gay?
It's nonsense like this which is causing a pushback. Which isn't hatred but people saying enough. Stop pushing your values on my children.

Shoutout to Ronnie and Reggie, the male Humboldt penguin couple that raised a chick from an abandoned egg.

There was also this 2023 tweet about how rainbows make her feel less safe.

Correspondence from Surrey police this morning, about an ongoing matter I have reported, came with this insignia at the bottom.

It hasn’t made me feel safer, quite the opposite. The LGBT rainbow is a political, anti-religious sentiment. (With an image of the police insignia in rainbow colours)

Ms Farrow’s latest public self-own veered from blatant homophobia to some common racist tropes, and the old ‘it’s not my England anymore’ gubbins.

She wrote a ten-post thread, which you can read in full here, but we’re going to show you the essence of it.

I walked through central London last night and realised something that made me genuinely sad:

The city I once loved—vibrant, safe, recognisably English—is gone.
Here’s what I saw

I’ve lived and worked in London.
It used to feel alive.

But as I walked from Oxford Street to Bond Street, I didn’t feel excitement.
I felt unsafe.

And worse—like a stranger in my own country.

Groups of non-English speaking men filled the pavements.

They shouted comments at me.
They stared.

It wasn’t just uncomfortable—it was intimidating.

Before anyone calls this “racist”:
It’s not.

I’m a Christian. I believe we are all made in God’s image. We are all equal in Christ.

But I will not ignore reality just to appease ideology.

I miss the London that felt English.

That was proud, open, fun, and safe.

Now it feels like a place that doesn’t belong to its own people. That's lost its identity.

And no one is allowed to say it.

Is she sure her name’s Farrow and not Farage? Far-something, though – right? Twitter had a few things to say.

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A lot of people took a more mocking tone. Much more, in fact.

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We’ll just leave this here.

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