About 50 years ago I read this dystopian novel by French author Jean Raspail. It depicts the destruction of Western civilisation through Third World mass immigration to the Western world. It was attacked by both French and English language commentators for what they said was racism, xenophobia, nativism, monoculturalism, and an anti-immigration stance.

In the novel Western liberals ensconced in their governments allow this mass movement to take place. The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to Western culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder indigenous citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them.

They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber the indigenous people. In a matter of months, the West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the local people are ordered to share their houses, and flats, with the immigrants. European civilisation is destroyed.

Does any of this sound remotely similar to today's headlines? Many now believe that The Camp of the Saints should join Orwell's 1984, and Kafka's The Trial as horrific visions which, while not yet realised, certainly see the future through a glass darkly, and are warnings of what may happen.