Week in review

Feb 17, 2024 by Jill

by Kathy Gyngell, TCW:

THIS has been something of a ‘home truths’ week. Allister Heath in the Telegraph (playing catch up again – but better late than never) exclaimed over the rapidity of Britain’s decline over the last 25 years. It’s the first time in his life, he wrote, that he’s begun to feel Britain is finished: ‘Almost everything is getting worse, and almost nothing is getting better’. Indeed. But it’s far from the first time this truth has hit us at TCW – it’s a trajectory we’ve been reporting on since we started out in 2014.

Earlier in the week on the same topic Campbell Campbell-Jack came to the same conclusion that ‘it’s over’, but from the different and more profound angle of our faith. This was, for me, the seminal article. Allister might read it. Campbell wrote:

‘The thing which should truly worry us is not the future of the Western liberal democracy we are so used to. Political victories and the promotion of policies of which we approve are as nothing without foundational cultural change. The major concern of the Christian should be the future of the faith. Without the faith there will be no hope of recovery and rebuilding that which we have lost.’

I would argue that the collapse of faith is the product of a relentless top-down cultural revolution of the last 40 years at least, driven primarily, but not solely, by the new left to the benefit of the new techno, global elite. For the ‘anywheres’ as opposed to the ‘somewheres’. The so-called pandemic provided the perfect opportunity for the finishing touches to this brutal post-modern serfdom project. It could not have happened without these prior decades of assault on society’s basic bonds, beliefs and moral boundaries, atomising society, breaking up families, creating dependency, disrespecting faith, encouraging first ‘me, me’ and next woke victim identity culture and engineered distrust and resentment. Our political leaders, including so-called Conservatives, at the helm throughout.

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Read also: British Living Standards Are Going Down and the Conservatives Only Have Themselves to Blame by Noah Carl, The Daily Sceptic