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Five Quick Things: Henry Nowak, the Inevitable British Civil War, and What It Means for Us

Why a murder case, a collapsing government, and growing public fury have become symptoms of a deeper British crisis.

Let’s just get into this, quickly, before something else horrible happens across the pond and this column goes out of date.

1. The Henry Nowak Case

It all happened in December of last year, and it’s taken seven months for this to finally come to a head with the release of the bodycam video of Henry Nowak, 18, a white British teenager who was stabbed to death by a Sikh wielding a ceremonial knife, bleeding out while in handcuffs, and telling police he couldn’t breathe before passing out.

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