The Fuse of History Is Lit

American Thinker ^ | 15 Sep, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

Earlier this month a British academic named Michael Rainsborough wrote an insightful essay on the United Kingdom’s descent towards civil war. Once the head of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, Rainsborough was dismissed from his post for committing a series of “thought crimes.” His final offense came in the form of a co-authored essay entitled, “The British Road to Dirty War,” in which he and former colleague David Betz diagramed “the hollowing out of British democratic institutions” and the dangerous rule of a permanent governing class filled with authoritarian elites.

Now working in Australia, Rainsborough returns to the subject with additional wisdom that only time and distance can provide. His verdict is as incisive as it is sobering: Britain’s institutions are irreparably damaged. The country is headed for long-term Balkanization. A “dirty war” similar to those that gripped Latin America fifty years ago may usher in an era of assassinations, hostage-taking, disappearances, industrial sabotage, censorship, and general repression. Although he acknowledges that the question of how bad things will become in Britain is still very much an open one, he doesn’t envision any set of circumstances that can entirely avert the misery to come.

Rainsborough describes a series of intentional acts engineered by governing elites to diminish democratic accountability and maintain permanent control. Rather than recognizing the democratic will of the people following the Brexit referendum in 2016, the ruling class responded with a “deranged mixture of denial and contempt for the electorate.” Even before the Brexit vote, however, leftist-globalists were engaging in a great “demographic transformation” intended “to rub the Right’s nose in diversity.” Today the whole British government “operates from a post-nationalist outlook, one that treats the very idea of nationhood as negotiable, even alien, to the political class.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: keirstarmer; leftism; unitedkingdom

[MtnClimber]

I think all of Europe is in the same predicament. I see no easy solution and the politicians (and those who voted for them) brought it on themselves.

[Bayard]

Rise of new European aristocracy.

[uranium penguin]

True to form.. These people ALWAYS believe that when stuff happens.. All will flock to them for guidance.

But the simple truth is that all of these people are soft, the majority of us as well.

When the power goes out, or the internet stops. By and large we are screwed.

people from miserable hell holes that have lived all their lives without power and running water, having to hunt and forage for daily food. have an immediate massive advantage.

[KingLudd]

This is the first I’m hearing about what’s happening in Nepal.

[Savage Beast]

Of course you're right.

It could all have been prevented. Many predicted it, Jean Raspail for one. Many shouted warnings but to Europeans deafened by denial.

Europe has a long, bad tradition of mass insanity. This is just the latest example.

How many times must Americans rescue them from their madness?

[bert]

Viewed in Darwinian biological terms, Britain et al are unfit and being replaced by the stronger, more fit, humans.

The wars of the 20th century destroyed the existing Brit et al gene pool leaving a much less fit genetic pool.

Survival of the fittest prevails. Pakis are more numerous and more fit

[RoosterRedux]

Rise of new European aristocracy.

The article is suggesting exactly the opposite. What happened in Nepal is coming to France and the UK soon. Politicians will be dragged out of their homes by angry citizens.

[Rich21IE]

“Today the whole British government “operates from a post-nationalist outlook, one that treats the very idea of nationhood as negotiable, even alien, to the political class.”

Same could be said of the Democrat Party elites.

Interesting thing to think about. I mean, to what extent is “politics” even a thing when the government has a post-nationalist outlook? And then again, to what extent is a “national” government even relevant to a country that’s adopted a post-nationalist attitude?