England has and is, but Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are some of the most homogeneous places in Europe.

The cathedral’s feigned concern for economic recovery (in this case, through immigration) is just a cynical attempt to justify what they want (more immigrants) by couching it in terms that appeal to non-cathedralists (economic recovery).

You’re absolutely right that both Moldbug and WRM see Anglo-exceptionalism as a product of some kind of capitalist-puritanism. If memory serves correctly, he approvingly quotes Voltaire, who woefully observes that French patriotic ardor was soundly beaten by the bloodless efficiency of British finance. Voltaire lamented that even as they executed kings and insufficently enthusiastic admirals with alarming regularity, the British never failed to pay their debts on time.

This is the closest WRM gets to a realization of the Cathedral. The important differences are that WRM does not see the Cathedral as Orwellian. He believes it is staffed with true believers of missionary zeal. The second difference is that he has no conception of race-realism, and this is his greater flaw. He may be right in tracing the ascendency of the Anglos, from Elizabeth and Drake onwards, to Cathedral machinery he describes. But this model of human freedom, expansion, and success could only be sustained when confined to northern European Protestants. Since then, the continued expansion of the Anglosphere has begun to rot away its core. WRM doesn’t see that the formula which argubly worked very well for the first 350 years has not worked at all in the last 100. WRM is still a giddy triumphalist, when he should be very worried indeed.

“Without the efforts of … “dominant” communities and institutions to adapt and evolve in light of increased diversity, migrants may follow a pathway to separation or marginalisation and therein experience psychosocial stresses or social exclusion. Recent analyses … by staff at our Institute for Research into Superdiversity … have demonstrated clearly that for refugees at least there is a strong connection between feeling unwelcome or experiencing harassment and ill health. These findings provide robust and reliable statistics that support earlier qualitative work … where migrants have told us that they are too frightened to mix with local residents because they are aware of anti-migrant or anti-refugee sentiment … “

Given some of the emerging deep cultural arguments among Dark Enlightenment writers, it’s at least intriguing that — whilst both WRM and Moldbug represent remarkably subtle modes of attachment / response to the Christian tradition — it is WRM who binds an enduring religious faith to political optimism (and Moldbug who ironizes both).

It’s too bad WRM can’t apply this logic a mere twenty-three years forward from 1945, to Enoch Powell’s famous River’s of Blood speech.