Elizabeth, full of sunshine and roses - LOL. The thing she forgets to mention is that under the socialist governments things have escalated out of control and it will take conservative governments around the globe to repair it. The other thing I believe she overestimates is the average person feeling sorry or responsible for those poor souls living and dying on the street.
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France is a warning – our civilisation is not immortal
Douglas Murray - The Spectator/October 24, 2026
Could it happen here? I suppose that’s the underlying thought many of us have had as we watch France burn. And the immediate response is, why wouldn’t it? I am old enough to remember in the early 2000s when people used to say France was a model of integration. Then in 2005 the suburbs went up in flames, followed by parts of the centre of Paris and other major cities. The Citroën flambé became a national dish and suddenly talk of ‘the French model of integration’ disappeared. That same year, eight home-grown terrorists of foreign origin attempted to blow up the London transport network, four succeeded and a little bit of that blasé British attitude that we know better than the French disappeared too. In 2011 our own cities started burning, but we learned nothing from that.
However, I would like to linger on that early 2000s period for a moment because of something in a faraway country ...