The United States, a nation once thought automatically prosperous, is suddenly thrown back on its essentials. Although the current unrest appears to be about race, Joel Kotkin argues in The American Mind they are more rooted in class. America, he says, has produced young, growing and multi-racial class of neo-serfs with few economic prospects and little hope.
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.
