Septic City: Monstrous Rats and Mountainous Rubbish in Mutant-Ruled Birmingham

It doesn’t say what it was meant to say. Not today. When the Scottish firebrand John Knox railed against “the monstrous regiment of women” in 1558, he wasn’t talking about women as a group, he was talking about women as rulers. By “regiment” he meant “rule.” Knox was a fierce opponent of Mary, Queen of Scots, and thought her rule would bring Scotland to disaster.

From Second City to Septic City

He might well have been right in that particular case, but his claim doesn’t work as a general principle. Women can rule as individuals without bringing a nation to disaster, as Elizabeth I, another fierce opponent of Mary’s, proved when she ruled England for nearly half-a-century. But Knox’s misunderstood phrase does apply to the rule of women as a group. When feminist preferences govern society and feminist logic directs law and public policy, disaster inevitably follows. That’s why Knox must be chuckling sardonically in Calvinist heaven as he surveys the fruits of feminism in Birmingham, which has long been known as Britain’s Second City. In 2025, ethnically enriched Birmingham has become Britain’s Septic City, because the streets are full of monstrous rats and mountainous rubbish.

Birm, Baby, Birm! Mountains of rubbish in Britain’s leftist-ruled, ethnically enriched Second Septic City (image from David Atherton)

The rats and the rubbish are fruits of feminism and egalitarianism, which are key components of leftism. As Steve Sailer has explained, by feminist logic it was wrong and unjust that men doing dirty and difficult outdoor jobs were paid more than women doing clean and comfortable indoor jobs. So women workers mounted an equal-pay claim against Birmingham’s leftist Labour council. The women workers won and a judge ordered the council to pay more than a billion pounds in back-pay. The council promptly declared bankruptcy and began slashing public services, which has led to a strike by male bin-workers under threat of a cut in wages. I think those male workers are also making a sharp point about the idiocy of “equal pay for work of equal value.” Work done by men and women doesn’t have “equal value.” If men stop servicing a city — collecting its rubbish, repairing its roads and buildings, maintaining its power, water and communications — the city will collapse. If women stop servicing a city — teaching its children, answering its phones, staffing its florists — the city will not collapse.

More harm to more women

Indeed, in some ways the city will be much better off. Do White children ever benefit from being taught by leftist women? Of course not. But the rats and rubbish in Birmingham are also the fruits of another key component of leftism: the rule of law, which Britain’s Jewish attorney general, Richard Hermer, has hailed as the “bedrock” of democracy. As I explained in “Kritarchs on Krusade,” what Hermer really means by “the rule of law” is “the rule of leftism” (as the Trump administration is realising in the U.S. as the left demands “due process” for millions of illegal aliens admitted by Biden/Mayorkas).

And when a leftist judge applied leftist law to a leftist claim for “equal pay,” Birmingham got monstrous rats and mountainous rubbish. But leftist “rule of law” also means abandonment of genuine rule of law. Birmingham is one of the British cities I’ve described as “Much Worse Than Rotherham,” because non-White rape-gangs have done more harm to more White girls and women in a big city like Birmingham than in a small town like Rotherham. But Birmingham’s Labour council has done its best to ignore its non-White pathologies and assist its pathological non-Whites to “Carry On Raping.” The council declared literal bankruptcy in 2023, but it’s been morally bankrupt for much longer than that.

When women get their way: “The Beguiling of Merlin” (c. 1875) by the great Birmingham artist Edward Burne-Jones

The same goes for Labour councils in cities like Manchester, Leeds and Bradford, which are ethnically enriched and rape-gang riddled just like Birmingham. As its very name proclaims, the Labour party was founded in 1900 to champion the White working-class. By the 1950s, it had a new mission: to wage war on the White working-class. Labour’s complicity in — and collaboration with — the rape-gangs is part of that war. So is Britain’s under-reported and over-looked “opioid epidemic.” The drug-addiction and “deaths of despair” afflicting the White working-class in America are also suppurating in Britain. Here’s the political scientist Matt Goodwin describing his own recent visit to Britain’s Septic City:

The streets were filthy. The smell of drugs was constantly hanging in the air. Gangs of young people roamed the streets — on a Tuesday morning. I found the atmosphere oppressive and intimidating. […] Many people were visibly struggling. I was continuously asked for money, usually by people from the white working-class who were visibly addicted to Class-A drugs and whose gradual replacement in England’s second city was perhaps best symbolised by the countless hijab and keffiyeh scarfs, abayas, and more. (“What happened to Birmingham?,” Matt Goodwin’s Substack, 28th March 2025)

Birmingham was once a proud White city, one of the dynamos of the Industrial Revolution and capital of a region that produced great White scientists, engineers and artists like Francis Galton, Matthew Boulton and Edward Burne-Jones. Now Birmingham is a filth-ridden dump where, as Goodwin says, “fewer than half of all residents are now white [and] nearly one in three [is] Muslim.” The rats, the rubbish, the racial and religious enrichment — they’re all part of the same leftist war on Whites and the West.

Egregious egalitarians

The psychologist Edward Dutton would say that the leftism destroying Birmingham is the ideology of “spiteful mutants.” He argues that modern life and vastly reduced rates of infant mortality have relaxed selection against deleterious mutations, which are now affecting the brains and psychology of far more people. Whether or not Dutton’s ideas work in reality, they certainly work as metaphor. Birmingham has monstrous rats and mountainous rubbish because Birmingham has mutant rulers — leftists who have mutated from the energetic champions of White workers into the avowed enemies of White workers.

But in truth egalitarianism of leftism was always going to mutate in egregious ways. Equality is an idiots’ quest, whether it’s pursued between Blacks and Whites or men and women, between the young and the old or the clever and the stupid. If it were achievable, it wouldn’t be desirable. And even if it were both achievable and desirable, leftists don’t actually desire it or want to achieve it. They preach equality and practise hierarchy, because what truly interests them is not justice or equality, but power and privilege. They want power for themselves and privilege for their pets. Britain’s Septic City is a perfect symbol of where leftism leads: to a hell-scape of rats, rubbish and rape-gangs.