Boris Johnson’s victory in last week’s UK election heralds a historic realignment in British politics. Writing in The New York Intelligencer, Andrew Sullivan argues that while Johnson appealed to similar populist forces as Donald Trump, Johnson unveiled a fresh formula for the political success of right-of-centre parties: make no apologies for your own country and culture.

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.”


