CASE FILE: Simon Webb / History Debunked

History Debunked, run by Simon Webb, is a YouTube channel with 240,000 subscribers. It publishes videos about the perceived decline of Britain and the so-called “blackwashing” of British history.

Webb addressed the Traditional Britain Group Christmas social in 2022, and told his followers to vote for the English Constitution Party, a conspiracy theorist organisation, in the local elections that year.

Although he was best known for blogging about history, he has become increasingly known as an author on race science. He has written for Aporia Magazine and appeared on the podcast of Edward Dutton. In 2021, he received funding from Andrew Conru, the tech entrepreneur behind the Human Diversity Foundation. Thanks to a grant, Webb wrote a book on race science called The Equalitarian Dogma.

Last year, his Substack — which has 5,000 subscribers — began to publish a number of articles about racial differences in intelligence. In one article, he wrote: “White people, by and large, know that black people tend not to be as articulate and bright as they are themselves, and simply adjust their conversation and behaviour towards them accordingly.”

Webb’s articles also assert that black people are incapable of deferring gratification and being on time. In another post, he writes that “black people seem to prefer to operate in groups”, and make excessive noise “either by shrieking and shouting or playing loud pop music”. He has also suggested that black people belong to a different species and asserted that Muslims are “working from within to subvert” the nations of Europe.