Joanna Williams in The Spectator reflects on institutions that seem to be losing sight of their actual reason for being. A British bank recently froze the account of a pastor who complained about the bank’s messaging during Pride month. Williams argues that countries need to depoliticize businesses and institutions or encourage the emergence of viable alternatives.
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.
