A message has been going around the London free-speech group chats for the past week. “This is a link to a secret party I’m doing with the Jordan Peterson gang to close ARC 2025,” it says. The location has yet to be disclosed, but the attached website promises “the new sounds and styles of an unstoppable subculture”, and also “a heated cigar terrace with cask-aged whiskies. Admission is by invitation (followed by approval) only.”
I get invited, and then approved. But first I have to actually get through ARC 2025. This is the second London conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, the conservative political organisation headed by, inter alia, Peterson and Paul Marshall, the owner of GB News, UnHerd and the Spectator. Enduring the conference is harder than it sounds. It’s at the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands, and attending the conference feels a lot like waiting for three days at an airport full of the richest people you have ever met, waiting in vain for one exciting idea to take off.
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