The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has warned on Stephen K. Bannon’s War Room show that Britain is now struggling with a deeply embedded “fifth column,” arguing that mass migration, restrictions on speech, and a two-tier justice system have left many Britons afraid to openly challenge the transformation of their communities.
Kassam said there is “multi-tiered policing and multi-tiered justice going on in the United Kingdom,” adding that the issue extends beyond the preferential treatment of Islam and minorities to “how white people are being treated as second-class citizens in their own home nations at the moment.” Complaints against “two-tier policing” have become a growing political controversy in Britain in recent years.
Kassam argued that Britain’s speech laws also contribute to an atmosphere in which people think twice before discussing immigration, Islam, or some political leaders in a negative way. “It is one of the most stifling environments to speak that I’ve ever experienced,” he said, explaining that he is “certainly aware” that something he writes could potentially be construed in a way that results in criminal prosecution while he is in England.
Those concerns exist against a real legal backdrop: Britain’s Malicious Communications Act and Communications Act criminalize certain communications deemed offensive. Freedom of Information data reported in 2025 indicated police were making more than 12,000 arrests annually under the two laws.
Britain has also established 150-meter “safe access zones” around abortion facilities where conduct intended or likely to influence someone accessing so-called abortion services can be criminalized. Significantly, government guidance says that, depending on the circumstances, this can include silently praying inside your head.
Kassam said the larger danger is what happens after alien communities become sufficiently entrenched that assimilation and political integration become increasingly difficult. “I think that there is a fifth column in this country, Steve, that we’re not allowed to talk about, we’re not allowed to mention,” he told Bannon.
Kassam connected that warning directly to his 2017 book No Go Zones, for which he traveled through immigrant-heavy neighborhoods in the likes of Britain, France, Belgium, Sweden, and later Dearborn and Hamtramck in Michigan. Recalling a warning he attributed to the late Christopher Hitchens, Kassam argued that “if you allow these people into your midst, this fifth column into your midst, it is incredibly difficult to cut that cancer out of your society once the roots have taken hold.”