Every crisis is an opportunity. And within Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lies the chance for the West to shake itself out of its slumber and rediscover its purpose in life. First order of business: accept that liberal democracy is a concept worth defending. Writing in Foreign Policy, James Traub discusses whether the free world is up for the challenge.
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.
