Equality: The Lie That’s Killing Us

Last Monday’s attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast was a bloody encapsulation of the current woes plaguing Britain, and the wider West in general. Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese national, was arrested at the scene and charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie, who suffered severe knife wounds to his face, neck and back, and lost his left eye in the process. As he carried out the attack, Alodid screamed “Allahu Akbar” – which, if memory serves, is Sudanese for “have you got the time on you, chief?”

Everything was there: the ritualistic butchery of a local white man in his own city, carried out by a Muslim migrant who should never have been in the country. He entered via the Irish asylum loophole, circumvented normal immigration controls, and was granted leave to remain until 2028. The icing on the cake is that while Alodid was deemed safe to live among us, the UK government declares Sudan too dangerous to visit or return to, because of the savage civil war and ethnic slaughter tearing the country apart.

I’m doubtless going to lose a few readers for this, but please bear with me: the real enemy here isn’t the lunatic with the knife and the attempted sharia justice. The real enemy is the system that let him in – and, worst of all, the ideology which facilitates it. History has always had its butchers, maniacs and jihadis. Where history has never transgressed however, is the suicidal insistence that all cultures, traditions and groups produce the same outcomes. In other words, the lie of equality. 

Cue Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a man so obviously unworthy of his father’s name, he had to be christened after a woman. Asked in the House of Commons what would be done to stop “the importation of an alien culture that thinks it’s appropriate to try and behead someone?”, Benn was clearly distressed by the adjective and hit back with “I’m sorry the honourable gentleman used the term ‘alien culture’, because what exactly is he referring to?”

Jim Allister: “What will be done to stop the importation of an alien culture that thinks it’s appropriate to try and behead someone?”

Hilary Benn: “I’m sorry the honourable gentleman used the term ‘alien culture’, because what exactly is he referring to?” pic.twitter.com/nKdipg06gc

— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) June 9, 2026

That Benn appeared more concerned about the use of the word “alien” than he did the attempted beheading, should surprise no one. The lie of equality: specifically, that outcomes across race, gender, religion etc must be equalised, with those that are not automatically the fault of the observer, has long been the Left’s default position on facts of which they disapprove. As someone famously put it in Banalysis: The Lie Destroying The West: 

“In any conceivable form now, different outcomes by race, gender, religion, sexuality etc. are viewed by society as problems which must be solved, rather than interesting facts to understand.”

This twisted version of equality (as opposed to the only form that matters, equality before the law) is the fundamental reason our once-great nation is in decline. Here are just a few alternative examples: 

Two-tier policing

Never mind the charlatans like Starmer who insist two-tier policing does not exist; it must exist, because criminals steadfastly refuse to commit crime at equal rates. 

In order therefore, to propagate the lie that crime is committed evenly and that any aberration from the baseline must by definition be caused by systemic racism, a number of interventions are essential: 

1. Police must be relentlessly smeared as “racist” until they refuse to stop-and-search young black men – the very group most likely to be carrying knives.
2. Police must stop recording ethnicity when the data becomes inconvenient.
3. Race-baiters like David Lammy must be indulged when they demand ‘BAME offenders’ can expunge their criminal records “to combat bias”.  
4. Low-level crimes like shoplifting (under £200) and minor drug possession must be effectively decriminalised, to help ‘balance the books’.

Education

There is a stubborn refusal to openly discuss the well-documented cultural, family, and cognitive factors behind the persistent black/white attainment gap. Instead, the entire issue is almost exclusively framed as “institutional racism”. To sustain this narrative, the following mechanisms are rigorously applied:

1. White British pupils (especially working-class boys) are largely excluded from race-specific scholarships, mentoring schemes, and outreach programmes reserved for ethnic minorities.
2. Schools push “inclusive” assessment practices to account for “cultural factors,” often resulting in more generous predicted or teacher-assessed grades for black pupils.
3. Funding is disproportionately channelled towards black and other minority students, in order to address the attainment gap – despite decades of evidence showing limited success.
4. Diversity targets at prestigious schools and universities effectively lower the bar for black applicants, who would not qualify on academic merit alone. 
5. With black Caribbean pupils excluded at five times the rate of white pupils, the explanation given for this is “teacher bias”. 

Immigration 

For years, any link between mass immigration and elevated crime was furiously denounced as “racist scaremongering.” Migrants, we were emphatically told, were women and children – despite the constant images suggesting that if they were women, they are almost entirely the “women with penises” variety. When that lie could no longer be sustained, we were told the young, fighting-age men were coming to make a better life for their families (how exactly they were doing that, allowing the actual women and children to fight the wars for them was never fully explained). 

Liberals and officials alike, denied the connection between immigration and crime, until the data became impossible to bury – at which point they flipped the script and unleashed the new defence: trauma. Migrants convicted of rape, grooming or knife crime routinely plead PTSD from their home countries or the journey here, and sympathetic courts and campaigners treated it as mitigation. Afghans and Eritreans, for example, are convicted of sexual offences at over 20 times the rate of native Britons. Yet one rarely hears about the ‘trauma’ of their victims. 

An exhaustive list is not the point of course (and who’d have the time?). It’s fair to say however, that any case of disparity where the villain isn’t the white guy is one in which society now seeks to engineer the outcome. Whether it’s excusing or downplaying honour-based violence and FGM, grooming gangs, Muslim voting practices, the false equivalence of jihad vs ‘far-right’ terror, or trans violence, the response from the authorities is invariably the same. Even poor Henry Nowak’s case suggests police had one eye on his injuries and the other on the crime statistics.

It’s worth adding there is more than a degree of fraudulence on the part of our ideologues here. They have no problem discriminating when it suits them: favouring expense accounts over their wallets; the ministerial car over the bus; their neighbours in Hampstead over yours in Hackney. And presumably they lock their doors at night, if only to share all that wonderful cultural enrichment with the rest of us?

If diversity is truly “our greatest strength”, doesn’t that contradict the equality lie outright? Are they not by definition mutually exclusive? And if not, how can it be a ‘strength’, if it’s equal to everything else? 

There are those that wish to live in the real world, and those that do not. That should not be our concern. However, the point at which they force us (and only us) to live with the consequences of their lies, that most definitely is our concern. 

The equality dogma that imported this nightmare and now excuses it must be confronted and destroyed. Until it is, the blood of innocent Brits will keep flowing – in a very unequal way indeed.

Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and The Frank Report Substack.

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