The notion that those in authority can account for and control (if not erase) life’s myriad dangers took centre stage in the pandemic. Allison Schrager argues in City Journal that society has fallen victim to the delusion that life can be lived with zero risk. Schrager proposes that a little uncertainty can reveal one’s true potential.
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.
