We are all troubled by the exploitation of children. Why is it, then, that children are so often used to promote political or environmental causes, the complexity of which no child could grasp? Melanie Phillips argues that the weaponization of children has become an appalling feature of contemporary political debate.
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.
