 The idea of the no-go zone, that there are parts of European towns and cities that are so dominated by ethnic minorities that white people cannot even enter, is a far right myth that just won't die. And that's partly because even though it's patently untrue, it's constantly pushed by the mainstream media, including here in Britain. This weekend, the Daily Mail ran a story with the headline, British towns that are no-go areas for white people. Muslim authors study of mosques reveals children attacked for being white, parents making families live under Taliban-like rules, and women who can't leave home without permission. Now when it comes to no-go zones, whichever town the Daily Mail had picked, this would have been a divisive and bullshit story. There aren't any no-go zones in Britain for white people. This article was ridiculed more than the usual piece on no-go zones because of the nature of at least one area it picked out. Blackburn, white men fear violence if they enter no-go areas. Bradford, local sphere, all become an apartheid city within 30 years. Jewsbury feels like a different country and century. And Didsbury, sharia court within the mosque, which was once a church. Now it was the inclusion of Didsbury that raised the most eyebrows. That's because it's in fact one of the whitest and wealthiest parts of greater Manchester. The 2011 census showed that Didsbury West was 84.1 percent white and Didsbury East was 77.9 percent white. As I said, it's also one of the poshest. So many social media uses came out and said how ridiculous this was and how clearly it how clear it was that the Orv had no idea what this place was like. Any idea that there is a no-go zone in this country is ridiculous. But the idea that you would put this in that category even more ridiculous. I used to avoid Didsbury when I lived in Manchester only because I couldn't afford to live there and I once ordered fish and chips in a restaurant and got eight chips piled up like Jenga and the amount of fish wouldn't have filled a fish finger. Now I could show you a lot more comments like this from social media, but I don't need to because debunking this story is also the Daily Mail itself. This was from just three weeks ago. That's when Didsbury appeared in the paper, not as an example of Britain's no-go zones, but rather as an up and coming location for property buyers. So the article here reads, a posh and leafy Manchester suburb has been named as the most popular place for buyers actively looking for their new home. Didsbury on the north bank of the River Mersey is 4.5 miles south of Manchester City Centre. It is an attractive suburb with plenty of pubs and executive homes. It has been identified by right move as the most popular local neighborhood for buyers signing up to the property website to find out about properties for sale. Now, you really could not make this up. I mean, the purpose of that map that the Daily Mail put in their weekend newspaper was it supposed to be this double spread? You look at that and you think, oh, the whole country is being taken over. Look at all these hotspots that we can't go to anymore because of the Muslims. Three weeks prior, they'd been saying this is a hotspot precisely because we think you guys should move there. Our readers, you'll love this posh, leafy suburb. So it just shows you, I think, how disingenuous, how ridiculous, how I mean, I suppose, also the editorial standards here for your paper one week to just completely contradict your paper three weeks previously. The whole thing is, of course, well, it's more than embarrassing. It's also incredibly racist, but it is embarrassing as well as being incredibly racist. On the issue of no-go zones more generally, as I say, anyone who's lived in a so-called no-go zone or near one knows that this is complete bullshit. But I want to bring up a couple more perspectives as well. My colleague Ash Sarkar put it well. There aren't any Muslim no-go areas in the UK. Only places that the Daily Mail are confident that its readership would feel uncomfortable in because there are too many brown people walking around. One of my favorite tweets was a quote tweet of that tweet from Ash. So it's someone who said, I'm A for paper white and I live and work in one of these no-go areas. If by attacked for being white, you mean the neighbors come round with a pot of biryani and samosas whenever they have a religious holiday. Then yes, I've been attacked multiple times. Jason, I want to bring you in on this story. Why won't the no-go zones myth die? Well, I mean, this is based on this book by Ed Hossein called Fear and Loving, which at the moment is being praised by the times, but it's been thoroughly debunked and kind of ripped apart by an author called Samir Rahim, I understand. But I think at the moment it's very convenient to entrench this idea of no-go zones for white people because of the current culture war, particularly around London. I mean, I know that London doesn't quite feature in this in terms of, you know, places we should be taken over by Islamification or whatever. But we keep on seeing these videos coming out of knife crime and people talking about, you know, city cards, legaches and things like that. And they're trying to really cement this idea that there are certain cities and parts of the country which are in a kind of stranglehold and have been taken over and therefore, you know, the white majority is starting to go extinct in that sense. And, you know, the minorities are really running the show there. And whilst it's difficult to take seriously, you know, these myths really begin to take hold. People really do believe in this idea of, you know, white extinction. People do really believe that they are part of the UK, which they simply can't go to. And it also deflects from the fact that, you know, the billionaire owner of the Daily Mail, Lord Rothmere, owns significant portions of the United Kingdom. 30 percent of land in the United Kingdom is owned by Gentry and aristocracy. I think the sad is that half of the land in the United Kingdom or in England is owned by one percent of the country. But those kinds of areas are never described as these no-go areas of places which you are kind of isolated from because of class stratification. Everything always has to be kind of about race and racism. I mean, areas where I grew up in, you know, South London, where I grew up was always seen as a kind of no-go area in the Pamora state. But now, as we've seen, we now have the kind of like infinity sky pool in the nine ounce area, which is right next to the state where I grew up. And we have, you know, all sorts of yuppies and we have like those like tiny little chihuahua dogs and things like that going around now. Whereas when, you know, I was youth in those places, that was kind of a place where you'd be like, oh, no, you can't go there. I mean, I remember next to the Pamora state, there used to be all it's still there. There's this like Newton Prep primary school. It's kind of like private school for posh children, basically. I remember you would never see the kids kind of go beyond this like bridge because that was seen as going into the kind of like the layer of where the ethics are, where everyone is getting stabbed and places like Brixton were described as that as well. The ideology of white flight has always kind of, you know, been described for these areas. So, yeah, it's interesting how they, you know, some of these people understand that I don't think it's without its context. And as much as we can say, you know, Ed Hussain's book is absolutely bullshit. He doesn't know what he saw from that. I mean, I think that his book is a bad investigation of different masks and apparently looking at, you know, hostility and the conclusions that he's making is basically that, you know, if Muslims can't integrate, then they should simply be deported. These are credible ideas. These are completely silly solutions to questions of racial integration, but they are hot topics. And I think it's going to be especially hot topic around the issue of the badly unspent by election, which is coming up as well. Badly unspent has a significant Pakistani population, a significant Muslim population and I've got a friend up in Leeds who basically kind of gave me the rundown of what that place is like. And he basically said that the ethnic tensions between, you know, white groups there and Muslim groups there are kind of at an all time high. And even with the, you know, assassination of Jocots in 2016, I think it was in 2017, although, you know, most of the major parties stood down for Labour, the parties there, the kind of like far right parties which stood up, it was kind of seen as almost like a referendum on Jocots death to say, no, do you approve of it? And it's there was a sizable vote for some of these far right parties. So, yeah, I think it fits with the kind of broad community economy trying to look at these kind of like potential race riots and kind of like race revolutions supposedly popping up across country. Whilst these are most mythical in a sense that there are no go areas of white people, it is true that there are pockets in the country where actually like tensions are bubbling and we are actually going to start, you know, seeing is coming up, you know, the increase in revitalised far right movement and how that's thinking into culturals at the moment. And, you know, the kind of brouhaha around BLM as well. Of the responses to this story in the Daily Mail, beyond just sort of plain debunking it and saying, you know, loads of people saying, I live in this place, it's clearly not a no go zone. Have been people saying, look, the only reason there are no go zones in this country is because, as you say, rents are too high because of people like Lord Rovamir hoarding the land. But I have seen a lot of other people, POC, saying, actually, there are some no go zones in this country, but they're no go zones for non white people. It's when you go to areas where you think people are going to look at you funny or where you're going to be more subject to racial abuse than when you're in a multicultural part of the country. I don't know if those, if you saw any of those comments or if you had any thoughts about whether or not there are no go zones for non white people in Britain. I mean, there absolutely are no go zones for non white people in Britain. But I think that something which was, you know, quite interesting was the response to the inclusion of this brief. As you said, you know, the kind of response was like, you know, this is a kind of like afternoon area. And I read up on some of the articles that you mentioned and they were basically saying, you know, this is like WAG central, like, you know, all of the kind of like Manchester footballers and their wives live here. But there was no self-awareness when people were kind of saying this. It was it was I remember it reminds me of this kind of line that someone once wrote about the kind of difference between like Remainers and Brexiteers, where Brexiteers say they're going to let all these Turkish people into the EU. And, you know, the Remainers are like, oh, no, of course we wouldn't do that. It kind of had that kind of veil of like liberal racism and saying that, of course, that area isn't affected with this image. You know, we're white there and we're affidant and we're posh. And those kinds of areas are no go places for people like me for visibly Muslim people as well. The areas where you might fear, even if not necessarily, like, you know, physical, racial abuse, you might fear some kind of, you know, hostility. And it's interesting. The area where the young boy, the young 14 year old boy, I don't want to get his name wrong because I can't remember. So I'm not going to say it was learned in the past week. Would that now be described as a no go area for black people? Will we have articles basically, you know, determining different areas where you're more likely to experience some kind of, you know, racist incident? Because even the links that story has to, you know, Stephen Lawrence is quite interesting because, you know, the area of Southeast London where Stephen Lawrence was affecting Lynch did in some ways become a no go area for black people. The BMP had set off a kind of like library there, which operated as offices. They used to go on marches. They used to put up posters around St. George's Day, which had St. George slaying the dragon. That kind of made it very visible that, you know, this is not a place where you can go and, you know, even like, say, like the bearings of the St. George's Cross and things like that. These are very visible markers of, you know, no minorities here, no immigrants here, no black people here. You can't name parts of the country where you have that kind of, like open anti-white display of hostility either in the past or now. So, you know, it is fragrant bullshit to suggest there are no go white areas, but there are absolutely no go areas for PSE.