“Dystopia At Last”

This is an explanation not an endorsement.

We can blame the internet and Andrew Tate, but the root of the crisis is clear: boys without fathers or guidance are lost and angry

How do you fancy bringing Andrew Tate back to the UK? National treasure that he is. According to a news report on Sunday, Yvette Cooper is considering extraditing the British-American influencer and his brother Tristan, after the two men travelled by private jet from Romania – where they are under investigation for human trafficking – to Florida last week. Any request could cause friction between Trump’s administration and Starmer, insiders say, although surely the larger problem would potentially be… having Andrew Tate back in the country.

Tolkien can teach the English a lot about how to make their country their home again.

One of the most surprising things about reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time is the ending. After spending many hundreds of pages fighting terrifying monsters and vast armies, the protagonists return to their home to find it overrun with a nondescript band of ruffians. The penultimate chapter is spent recounting the struggle to return the Shire to its previous condition, a process that involves rousing the demoralised hobbits to overthrow the rabble who have taken control of their land.

What is this evil acid that corrodes Western humanism, and where does it come from?

… And while in Canada – the country of Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow and Mordechai Richler, one of the most peaceful and safe places in the world until a few years ago – Molotov cocktails are thrown against synagogues, stars of David and threatening letters are painted on Jewish homes. University of Alberta Samantha Pearson, the head of the campus’ sexual assault centre, signed an open letter denying that Hamas-led terrorists raped Israeli women during the devastating assault of October 7th.

International cities are organised in a cabal to euthanise the antiquated nation-states of the West along with the international Westphalian system.

One of the central features of the diplomatic career is the practice of temporary assignments. In the beginning, before the centralisation of governments and the professionalisation of diplomacy, inter-governmental contacts were left to third parties such as merchants or clergymen. The practice was eventually discontinued because, not only were diplomatic mercenaries biased, self-interested, and unreliable, but they often ‘went native.’ The tendency for diplomats to empathise more with the native government rather than their employer became so prevalent that rules had to be devised to mitigate the problem.

In the UK, so many diplomats were seduced by the exoticism of India that they became known as the ‘white Mughals.’ In Portugal, the author Venceslau de Morais took his duties of Consul in Kobe to the extreme of becoming a Japanese citizen, even marrying and dying in the Oriental nation.