The chattering classes almost all believe the Enlightenment led to a permanently secular world, unencumbered by the dogmatic superstitions of religion. Tom Holland, writing in Unherd, argues that two recent developments – one in India, the other in Turkey – show that the ancient encounter between the secular and the sacred is far from settled.
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.
