Today marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the first such milestone for a British monarch. In Unherd, Helen Thompson catalogues the evolution of the modern-day monarch’s roles, from Edward VII to George VI. If the monarchy is to survive beyond its second Elizabethan Era, Thompson warns, it must evolve once more.

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.”


