UK voters will go to the polls in the next 12 months. Conservatives have held office since 2010, but Simon Heffer doubts they’ll convince voters one more time. Writing in The New Criterion, Heffer asserts that a decade-plus of incompetence and mostly self-inflicted wounds have disgusted Brits of all stripes. And now come the engineers of Brexit – Nigel Farage and the Reform Party – to nail the lid on the Conservative coffin.
The Science of Personal Self-Destruction
During the recent power blackouts in Spain, police raided a home containing three dishevelled – and triple-masked – children who hadn’t left the house since the pandemic lockdowns began. The parents are now in jail. At SteynOnline, the great Mark Steyn points out that the weird duo were actually “following the science” to its logical – and self-destructive – conclusion, and asks why the leaders who imposed such measures to begin with aren’t the ones behind bars.
