“What was it about her?” Many have asked themselves that question in the days following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Sebastian Milbank reflects in The Critic on the carefully curated role played by her family in modern Britain; one that now appears invulnerable because, rather than in spite, of its own powerlessness.

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.”


