Last week’s stunning defeat in local elections has sent the UK’s Labour Party into turmoil. Increasingly, British workers believe Labour scorns and demonizes their patriotism, values and views on identity, crime and immigration. In Unherd, Paul Embery argues that Labour’s problems run far deeper than leadership or party management.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


