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He Warned Us in 2009. The Experiment Never Stopped. By Dan | Restore Britain In 2009, Christopher Hitchens sat in a quiet meeting room, beside a fireplace and in front of a crowd, and told them exactly what was coming. Hitchens was a lifelong man of the left and one of the sharpest minds of his generation, and no one could ever call him a Little Englander. "Resist it while you still can," he said, "before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next thing. You will be told you can't complain because you're Islamophobic." He warned that the word was being slipped into the culture "as if it was an accusation of race hatred, or bigotry, whereas it's only the objection to the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion." Then he gave the line that should hang over the door of every council chamber in the land: "The barbarians never take a city till someone holds the gates open for them." He said it would be our own preachers and our own "multicultural authorities" who held them open. Seventeen years on, look around you. He didn't just predict it. He described it. A country run as an experiment Somewhere along the way, Britain stopped being a nation and became a laboratory. Ordinary people became the test subjects, and nobody asked our permission. We saw it most clearly during COVID: rules made overnight, neighbours encouraged to report neighbours, questions treated as crimes, and a political class that partied while families said goodbye to dying parents through care-home windows. We were told to trust the experts and stop asking awkward questions. But that experiment didn't end when the masks came off. It simply moved into every other part of our lives. In the classroom It moved into the schools, where the most basic fact of human life has become something you're not supposed to say out loud. Children have been taught that whether you're a boy or a girl is a matter of feeling rather than biology. Girls have been told to share toilets and changing rooms with boys and keep quiet if they feel uncomfortable. And parents who simply noticed, who asked what their children were being taught, were treated as the problem. Some were labelled bigots for stating what every generation before them took for granted. It took the Cass Review in 2024 to stop puberty blockers being handed out to children on the NHS, after years of anyone who questioned it being called hateful. It took a Supreme Court ruling in 2025 to confirm that, in law, a woman means a biological woman. Those ought to be the easiest questions in the world. Instead, they had to be fought for through the courts. Hitchens warned that the right to complain would be the next thing to go. In our schools, it nearly went first. On the lampposts The experiment moved into the town halls too. When ordinary people across England put up the St George's Cross and the Union Jack on lampposts and roundabouts, many councils rushed to tear them down, calling them divisive, unauthorised, even intimidating. The same councils had happily flown other flags from their own buildings for causes they approved of. So the flag of this nation is a problem, and almost any other banner is "culture" or "inclusion". In what other country on earth would its own flag be treated as a threat on its own streets? In the hotels It moved into the hotels. Across the country, hotels have been block-booked to house asylum seekers, the large majority of them young, single men, many from countries that have collapsed into war, dictatorship or chaos. The cost to the taxpayer has run into billions of pounds. At the same time, veterans who served this country sleep rough or wait years for help, and young British couples who work full time can't find a flat they can afford, never mind buy a home. A generation is told to be patient, while hotel rooms are paid for, three meals a day, for people who arrived illegally on a dinghy. This isn't compassion. It's a government that has lost the ability to put its own people first. In the courts And it moved into the courts. More and more people feel there's one law for them and a softer, more "sensitive" one for others. We saw how grooming gangs were allowed to operate for years because officials were frightened of being called racist. In Rotherham alone, an independent inquiry found around 1,400 children were exploited between 1997 and 2013. Baroness Casey's audit in 2025 found the same fear and the same looking away. Meanwhile, Tommy Robinson spent years being called a liar for raising the alarm about grooming gangs, until the inquiries proved the scandal was real. And today, Danny Tommo sits in HMP Winchester, held since September. He's charged with criminal damage to a dinghy in the Channel and denies it, yet he won't face trial until March 2027. As Rupert Lowe put it: "It remains absolutely astonishing that Danny Tommo is in prison BEFORE his trial, for MONTHS. I won't forget it, and nor should you." English law should mean one law, the same for everyone. No exceptions for "community sensitivity". No quiet pressure from religious tribunals working alongside it. One country, one law. The word that ends arguments Through all of it, there's one weapon used again and again to shut the conversation down, and it's exactly the one Hitchens named. In 2025 the government set up a working group to write an official definition of "anti-Muslim hatred". Free speech campaigners warned it could be used to chill legitimate criticism of a religion and its practices. Let's be clear. Hating people for who they are is wrong. But criticising an idea, a doctrine or a practice is not hatred. It's free speech, the very thing this country gave to the world. When a government starts drawing lines around which beliefs may be questioned, you're no longer living in a free country. You're living in a managed one. The high street we don't recognise You can see the change with your own eyes. Walk down almost any high street and you'll find rows of barbershops, vape shops and mini-marts, many of them cash businesses. Trading Standards and the National Crime Agency have repeatedly linked some of them to money laundering, illegal workers and illicit goods. Most people working there are just working, but nobody in power seems interested in finding out which ones aren't. Britain now has one of the highest rates of cocaine use in Europe, fed by organised international gangs, while our border has never looked weaker. Over 200,000 people have arrived on small boats since 2018. The little things that aren't little Hitchens finished with two small examples. A cricket team, the Middlesex Crusaders, changed its name. Stories about little pigs were reportedly dropped in some schools for fear of offence. They sound trivial. They aren't. That's how surrender happens: not in one great defeat, but in a thousand small retreats, each one too minor to fight over. A flag taken down here. A word banned there. A parent silenced. A child confused. A veteran forgotten. Until one day you look up and the country you grew up in has gone, and you can't even say so. Resist it while you can Hitchens ended with five words: "Resist it while you can." He's gone now, but his warning is more urgent than ever. Resisting doesn't mean hatred and it doesn't mean violence. It means refusing to be silent. It means flying your flag, protecting your children, speaking plainly about what you can see, and backing the people who'll put it right. Restore Britain is saying out loud what millions of us think: control the borders, deport foreign criminals, put British people first in housing, one law for everyone, and stop apologising for being British. The gates were held open. It's time to close them. He warned us in 2009. Don't let anyone tell you, seventeen years later, that you're not allowed to notice. Dan | Restore Britain I'm a member, not affiliated with Restore Britain, and I get no money from them.