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Must we really repeat the mistakes of the past?
J.B. Shurk | April 16, 2026
Britain’s civilizational collapse bothers me. As much as we Americans enjoy defining ourselves by the whooping our ancestors gave to the Crown, Brits and Yanks share a common language, enjoy similar beliefs, and broadly relate to one another. Rebelling against the British Empire is one thing. Watching foreign peoples conquer what’s left of that empire in another thing altogether. Every day the United Kingdom becomes less united and more likely to collapse upon itself.
The U.K.’s media Establishment used popular actor Idris Elba to promote a documentary last year entitled, “Our Knife Crime Crisis.” Elba spent twelve months trying to understand why there’s a “stabbing epidemic” in his country. He concluded that it mostly had to do with unregulated social media, corporate profits, and not enough Big Government. The actor then suggested to his countrymen that they hand over sharp kitchen knives or perhaps apply for permit licenses. Nobody had the guts to say, “Hey, maybe we should stop inviting Islamic terrorists to live inside our borders, rape our daughters, and stab and murder our people in the name of Allah.” It’s as if the U.K. Establishment is going to wait for civil war to begin before considering the possibility that its open borders policies are killing people. Or maybe civil war is what the British government wants. That’s certainly what it looks like from this side of the pond.
Everybody understands what’s happening because similar happenings are occurring throughout the civilizational West. Economic and political “elites” have spent the post WW-II decades engineering a new kind of global order. They didn’t ask for our advice or permission. We were never allowed to vote for or against their long-term plans to reshape our worlds. They just decided to topple over this thing we once affectionately called home. That malevolent cabal we often call “the powers that be” decided to end the “nation state” for good, and that’s what we’ve watched unfold for three-quarters of a century.
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