On April 22, the Telegraph published the results of an investigation showing that London landlords are advertising rental properties based on religious preferences.
The listings appear on Facebook pages openly named “Renting room in London for Muslims” and “Muslim rents,” with language like “only for Muslims,” “for 2 Muslim boys or 2 Muslim girls,” “prefer Punjabi boy.” A single letting agency, Roshan Properties, posted dozens of them on TikTok before anyone noticed.
Personally I think property owners should be able to rent out their flats to whoever they want.
For example, if I want to rent my guest cottage exclusively to English-speaking retired couples, I should be able to do that.
But this practice is illegal in a multitude of countries, including the UK.
Section 33 of Britain’s 2010 Equality Act states that property owners and landlords “must not discriminate” based on “protected characteristics” including “age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation”.
Point is, renting to someone based on their religion is against the law, subject to fines of up to £7,000 per violation.
Yet according to the Telegraph’s investigation, no one has been fined.
This is the latest sign that the United Kingdom is splitting into two societies with two different sets of laws, customs, and social norms. To see how literal that is, look at what the British state does and does not punish.
Last December, a 36-year-old man named Luke Yarwood was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Bournemouth Crown Court. His crime was posting two anti-immigrant tweets in the weeks after the 2024 Magdeburg Christmas market attack in which a Saudi immigrant killed six people.
To be fair, the tweets were over the top, calling for migrant hotels to be burned down and for “Brits to gang together and start the slaughter,” then to “head to MPs’ houses and Parliament.”
The tweets were viewed thirty-three times in total — eighteen months in prison for two posts that almost no one saw.
Four months earlier, the same British justice system had handed down a very different sentence to a different man.
His name is Ayomide Famakinde. He is twenty-three, a gym instructor based in south London, and he had been convicted of sexually assaulting a nineteen-year-old woman near Bournemouth beach.
Famakinde had approached the woman late at night, put his hand down her pants, and ignored her when she screamed for him to stop. She had to fight him off until his friend pulled him away.
Three years passed before the case got to court. When it was finally time for justice, the judge sentenced Famakinde to 150 hours of community service.
The judge described the assault as a “momentary aberration” and cited Famakinde’s “very troubled background and difficult life.”
Yarwood was sentenced to eighteen months of prison for two tweets. Famakinde got no prison for putting his hands down a stranger’s clothes. Both sentences came out of British courts within four months of each other.
This is not the first time the British state has protected rapists.
For nearly two decades, organized grooming gangs of overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men raped thousands of underage British girls, some as young as ten, while police, NHS staff, and social workers looked the other way.
Health professionals dismissed twelve-year-olds with multiple pregnancies as making “lifestyle choices.”
When Parliament was forced to decide on whether to conduct a formal inquiry in January 2025, every single Labour MP under Prime Minister Keir Starmer voted it down.
The Prime Minister himself, a former prosecutor, insisted that the public’s outcry for an investigation was “the bandwagon of the far right.”
Meanwhile, the British state has plenty of energy for the things it does want to enforce. Every household with a television is required to pay £174.50 a year for a license, and the BBC sends Christmas-card threats of £1,000 fines and promises door-knocks on December 25th.
And a single offensive tweet can get you swarmed at the airport: in September 2025, the British comedy writer Graham Linehan was met at Heathrow by five armed officers and arrested over three tweets criticizing transgender activists.
In a single school year, 94 British primary-school children were disciplined for wrongthink against the trans narrative, including a three-year-old suspended from nursery.
This same machinery runs the British economy, picking which industries to protect and which to choke. And it is driving the country off a cliff.
For starters, the British government is actively dismantling its own oil and gas industry.
All new North Sea exploration licenses have been halted. The government additionally slapped a 78% windfall tax on existing production — one of the highest production-tax rates in the world.
The result is what anyone could have predicted. A decade ago, Britain had ten operating oil refineries. It now has four, after losing two in 2025 alone.
Yet demand for energy within the UK has not fallen by a single barrel. Brits are still consuming the same amount of oil; they’re just importing it from other countries now.
Norway is pumping oil from the very same North Sea basin that Britain abandoned and selling it back to the UK. It’s crazy.
The Office for Budget Responsibility projects roughly £50 billion in lost tax revenue over the life of the policy because there is no production left to tax.
Unsurprisingly, British motorists pay roughly three times what Americans pay at the pump.
It’s crazy to think that Britain used to be the largest and most prosperous empire on earth. Yet today, on a per capita basis, it’s poorer than the poorest state in the US (Mississippi). Strip out London from the calculation and the difference becomes even more stark.
This is what happens when incompetent fools refuse to enforce the law equally, charge outrageously high taxes, and prioritize woke, leftist fantasies over productivity and national interest.
America has major, major problems. But Britain is in much deeper trouble that should serve as a cautionary tale to the West.
For all of the pomp and circumstance of the King’s visit to America this week, I sincerely hope his crumbling nation provides sufficient inspiration for Congress to pull its head out.
