Since the autumn of 2025, a wave of youth-led uprisings has spread across South Asia and beyond. The protests have had different triggers, but they are unified by a striking consistency of grievance: political corruption, economic exclusion and police repression. They are driven by a sense prevalent among Generation Z that today’s young people lack a political voice, and have been saddled with exceptional economic hardship.
Can’t say I blame them.
The leader of Oxfordshire County Council issued a stern warning this week. Acts of ‘intimidation’, Liz Leffman said, had left residents feeling ‘distressed, unwelcome and unsafe in their own communities’. ‘We will not hesitate to take further legal steps where necessary’, she said, reassuring Oxonians that this outbreak of criminality would be met with the full force of the council’s authority.
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to address members of the European Parliament. Many of the things I said will sound familiar to regular readers of my column, but I believe I was able to deepen some of my thoughts, and would like to share them with you here.
Revolutions make for fascinating case studies in hindsight. We like to imagine them as eruptions of grand philosophical discontent, the oppressed masses rising against an unjust order in the name of some great principle. And there is always a philosophical dimension lurking in the background. But the spark that actually ignites a revolution is often far more mundane than historians care to admit.
Closer to home …
Canada is becoming a feudal state. pic.twitter.com/ujPA252tq8
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) March 29, 2026
Many government officials already perceive the horrific implications of Europe’s nation states losing their self-belief and descending into polar factionalism, with the continued existence of Europe or its constituent parts in question, but understand that speaking of it openly remains career suicide, a conference at the European Parliament has heard.
It is “a possibility that is quite close” that the British people will pass into history “like the Canaanites or the Arcadians”, and it is an open question whether there will be a Europe in 50 years’ time, a European Parliament conference heard from a panel of expert speakers.
Mass immigration from incompatible cultures will solve all their problems just look what it did for Canada!
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has made two more arrests in connection with the disruption of a Minnesota church service by anti-ICE demonstrators on Jan. 18, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday.
“If you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you,” Bondi wrote on X. “We have made two more arrests in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota: Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson.”
What the civil war in Minneapolis is really about.
Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured?
What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?
‘THERE is a revolution coming. It will not be like the revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture and will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. This is the revolution of the new generation.’ — Charles Reich, The Greening of America, 1970.
The first shot of the American Civil War was the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour on April 12th 1861. Of course, no serious historian begins the tale there. Wars of brothers do not erupt in a single day. Beneath the first cannonade lay a generation of corrosion – of trust, wealth and truth. Civil wars begin not with gunpowder but with people ceasing to believe in the same story.
The United Kingdom, our confection of islands and illusions, now trembles on a similar fault line. The question that once belonged to the margins – could Britain experience civil war? – has migrated, awkwardly, to the mainstream.
