Civilizations have always understood that looters were criminals and looting a sign of civil decay. A chorus of commentators has sought to justify looting since the riots precipitated by the death of George Floyd, however. Frank Furedi, writing in Spiked, argues that adopting the philosophy of violence must eventually overwhelm democracy itself.
A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”
