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Over the last several days, there have been a number of outbreaks of violence in towns and cities up and down Britain, including Liverpool, Stoke, Bristol, Blackpool, Nottingham, Hull, Mancester and Leeds.
These incidents first started on Tuesday after a number of children were stabbed, 3 fatally, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event.
Since then, groups of violent anti-immigration protestors have attacked shops, mosques and the police around the country in ugly scenes.
There is much than could be said about what is happening and much we do not yet know. As usual, public commentary on this issue revolves around name-calling, apportioning blame and doing everything possible to avoid discussing the underlying factors which have brought us here.
Against this backdrop, I keep being asked why I haven’t commented on what is happening. And the reason, as my readers know, is that I already have. Months ago.
In May, I wrote this article:
Why I Fear the Future
In New York, Francis and I were invited to attend a musical about the artist Tamara de Lempicka. Lempicka, the wife of a Polish noble, flees the Russian Revolution and ends up in Paris. With her husband struggling to adjust to his loss of status and wealth, the family lives in poverty until Lempicka is discovered as an artist. She gradually finds her feet and eventually thrives in the rapidly changing world of the 1920s.
In June, I wrote this one:
It’s Political Extremism All the Way Down
In my last piece, we covered how the balance between order and chaos is increasingly being lost in modern Western societies. As we trend towards chaos, our craving for order is guaranteed to rise, once again, to the top of the agenda.
And this one too:
How to Stop the “Far Right”
The predictable success of so-called “far right” parties in elections across Europe in recent days–combined with the Reform Party leapfrogging the Tories in one of the latest polls–has, naturally, produced a glut of hyperventilating commentary from the world’s media led, as usual, by
In all of these pieces, I explained that government policy across the Western world over the last two decades had brought the pot to boiling point. And predicted that instead of turning off the gas and listening to people’s concerns, the reaction from the media and politicians would be to screw the lid on tighter and make things worse. Which they have now done.
What can one do in the face of such reckless stupidity? Of course, anyone with a modicum of sense rejects political violence. People who attack police officers, target random ethnic minorities and loot shops should be arrested, prosecuted and condemned by all right-thinking citizens. But that won’t change anything because the people on Britain’s streets are merely the symptom of a much larger problem.
And so, the reason I haven’t said anything is that there is nothing left to add.
Attack the System
Categories: Geopolitics
