Wordsworth never met Greta Thunberg. Greta is 16 years old, possessed of the moral certitude of youth, and convinced that the world is ending soon. She is the self-anointed Cassandra to a cold and uncaring world. Parents of teenagers will recognize the animating themes of her recent speech at the UN: adults are stupid, materialistic and greedy, and their thoughtlessness is causing me great distress. Writing in the Spectator, USA, Dominic Green casts a gimlet eye over the culture which produced this “pig-tailed prophet of planetary doom”.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
