In Tablet, Lee Smith provides a sombre view of the metastasizing global empire of Palestine. Though founded upon strong support in the West Bank and Gaza, the empire has a much broader scope than negotiating two non-contiguous plots of land. Smith explains how a performative cult of death that should be self-extinguishing is sustained by cynical and/or nihilist forces the world over.

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.


