“What was it about her?” Many have asked themselves that question in the days following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Sebastian Milbank reflects in The Critic on the carefully curated role played by her family in modern Britain; one that now appears invulnerable because, rather than in spite, of its own powerlessness.

Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.

