State elections in Germany constitute a “political earthquake”, given the surge in support for upstart parties on the far right and far left. Writing in Spiked, Sabine Beppler-Spahl figures such tremors are the result of “government failure”, as crime rates and illegal immigration rise and the economy goes sideways. If the traditional voices can’t fix things, she argues, voters are prepared to let others give it a try.

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.”


