Brexit appears symptomatic of broader political changes worldwide, including rebellion against ceding political authority to international bodies. In Unherd, Robert Tombs writes that visions of a “sovereign Europe” have faded. “Like the old Austro-Hungarian empire,” Tombs observes, “the EU continues because it cannot be reformed or replaced.”

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


