In The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier details the City of St. Louis’s catastrophic “doom loop” of rising crime, fleeing businesses, emptying buildings and worsening decay. The once-vibrant central business district is largely boarded up and the city saw the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities. The halting half-measures Putzier reports on are almost certainly destined to fail.
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.
