Peak Telegraph as paper calls for patriots not to fight for Britain

Have we finally reached Peak Telegraph? The increasingly crackpot paper this week published a comment piece saying that patriotic Brits should, er, no longer fight for their country.

The piece, by David Shipley and unambiguously headlined ‘Patriots should not fight for the British state’, rolls out the Telegraph’s well-trodden tropes about immigration, multiculturalism and the like, and comes to a conclusion Britain is no longer worth fighting for.

“The nation has changed almost beyond recognition since we were last called upon to mobilise and fight a global war,” wails Shipley. “We are no longer one people, but numerous parallel societies with little to no connection to one another.

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“It is easy then to understand why so few Britons would be willing to fight for a state which seems to care so little for us. While many of us feel a deep and profound patriotic love for the British nation, our land, our people and our heritage, that love is increasingly not felt for the state itself.”

While the piece may have the retired Lt Col Arburthnot-Blenkinsopps who actually still buy and read the Telegraph choking on their toast and marmalade, maybe there is some method in the madness. With culture secretary Lisa Nandy considering whether to trigger an investigation into the £500m takeover of the Telegraph titles by the owner of the Daily Mail, there is concern too many right wing papers could be in the same hands. Is the Telegraph moving so far to the right that the Mail is basically the Mirror in comparison?

“Multiculturalism shows no sign of ever working as promised,” goes on Shipley. “Against all this, Russia’s ambitions in the Donbas may well feel relatively insignificant to many Britons.”

Russia, of course, once it ran out of willing volunteers to fight in the Donbas, turned to emptying its prisons and sending their occupants to the frontline. Shipley must be grateful Britain didn’t have to do this a few years ago – he was jailed in 2020 for fraud after lying about his income in order to secure a loan to fund a film about the benefits of Brexit. His company, which he wanted to fund with the fraudulent loan, was called Spitfire Capital Advisers Ltd.