Move over Australia, there’s a new prison colony in town. Once proud of its ability to “Keep Calm and Carry On,” Britain is well on its way to earning the title of “most frightened nation in the world,” says Lionel Shriver in City Journal. As Covid-19 rules and restrictions proliferate, she observes that part of the problem is Britain’s lack of a written constitution or bill of rights.
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.”
