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The Vanishing Englishman: Inside the Schools Forecasting the UK Future

If you want to know what a country will become, don’t ask a pollster — ask a headteacher. The corridors of Britain’s state schools are no longer corridors of power, but corridors of prophecy. The future is not some abstract projection. It is lining up in assembly, being taught phonics, and growing up in a reality utterly detached from the assumptions of Westminster or the nostalgia of middle England. White Britons are projected to become a minority in the U.K. if current immigration and birth-rate trends continue. This isn’t Back to the Future. It’s forward without a map. And the DeLorean isn’t taking us to 1955 but straight into 2066, when White Britons are projected to become a minority in the U.K. if current immigration and birth-rate trends continue. But you don’t need a flux capacitor to see it. Just check the class registers of England’s schools. According to the latest data, 72 schools now have zero White British pupils, and 454 have fewer than 2 percent. In a quarter of schools, White British pupils are now a minority. The historic majority is no longer assumed; it’s disappearing. (RELATED: The Business of Borders: The Economy of Virtue) In Birmingham, England’s second-largest city, White British pupils account for just 24-27 percent of the student population. Pakistani-origin children nearly match and often surpass that number in many wards. At Rockwood Academy in Alum Rock, not a single one of the school’s 1,084 pupils is White British. (RELATED: Ireland Just Sealed Its Fate on Mass Migration) In Leicester, the pattern is similarly stark: White British students make up only 22-23 percent. Indian-origin pupils form 33 percent of the school cohort, with substantial Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and African populations. More than half the city’s students speak a language other than English at home. (RELATED: Asylum to Austerity: Germany Leads Europe’s Retreat From Open-Ended Migration) In Luton, a town of roughly 200,000 people, White British children now represent only 17 percent of the student population. Over 25 percent are of Pakistani heritage, and Arabic, Bangladeshi, and Black African communities further diminish the shared cultural center. Some schools report over 90 percent of students speaking English as an additional language. (RELATED: Britain’s Mass Immigration Scam) In Bradford, White British pupils account for only 40 percent, down from over 60 percent in 2004. Pakistani-origin pupils make up 36-37 percent, and in many inner-city primary schools, the proportion exceeds 90 percent. And in the capital, London, the nation’s supposed cultural beacon, White British pupils now comprise less than 30 percent of the state school population. In boroughs like Tower Hamlets, Brent, and Newham, the figure is often below 15 percent. In dozens of schools, over 80 percent of students speak a language other than English at home. This is not cultural diversity. This is demographic inversion. Britain is no longer a melting pot. It is a mosaic without mortar — each community increasingly living in its own linguistic, religious, and cultural zone. And schools, which once passed down a coherent story of British nationhood, can’t even agree on the script. Policymakers love to talk about attainment gaps and language support. But these are symptoms, not causes. The deeper issue is that the state education system no longer serves national cohesion. When children grow up without shared holidays, literature, or historical reference points, what sort of society is being assembled in these classrooms? White working-class pupils — once the statistical backbone of Britain — now perform worse than almost every other group. In 2021, the U.K. Parliament’s Education Select Committee described them as “the forgotten children.” But “forgotten” implies an oversight. This is abandonment. And it’s not just about numbers. In 2024, Ofsted reported that the head of a state-funded Islamic girls’ school in Birmingham had longstanding ties to a group accused of promoting religious segregation and undermining British values. Despite this, the school passed funding inspections and continued to operate with public support. Integration has become optional. Accountability is selective. We are told not to worry. That this is enrichment. But enriching for whom? For the lone White British child in a class where Christmas and Remembrance Day are footnotes, if acknowledged at all? For the teacher walking on eggshells around topics once considered unifying? For the country that now stammers to explain what exactly it is? Britain is not being overwhelmed overnight. It is being reconstituted by stealth. The state school is the laboratory — and the results are already in. A nation’s identity isn’t codified in constitutions; it is rehearsed in classrooms. When those dissolve, so too does the nation. If you want to see where Britain is headed, don’t wait for 2066. Just visit a primary school in Bradford, a secondary school in Tower Hamlets, or a classroom in Luton. There, the future is already in uniform. READ MORE from Kevin Cohen: Hungary’s Sovereignty Renaissance: The Europe That Refused to Fall Asylum to Austerity: Germany Leads Europe’s Retreat From Open-Ended Migration Ireland Just Sealed Its Fate on Mass Migration