More than four years after the Brexit vote, Great Britain has finally, formally left the European Union – yet managed to ratify a new trade agreement. In National Review, John O’Sullivan explains why the Remainers (“Rejoiners”?) are likely to fail, for Brexit is as close to irreversible as any decision can be in a democratic society.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
