Poppy Coburn considers Extinction Rebellion comfy, aging posers doing little more than loudly petitioning the government for reform. That doesn’t mean the onetime Anarcho-Syndicalist (there still is such a thing) thinks climate fears are overblown. Far from it; as she explains in Unherd, the entire regime must be overthrown. Sometimes it helps to know what one is up against.
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.”
