With a collapse of social norms no constitution can act as a total barrier on the road to disaster

But a written constitution can provide enough legal speedbumps to slow momentum and give more time for a defence for democracy

Without one the UK system gives a fascist leader a smooth speedway

The Tomahawks were never going to Kyiv. Moscow will not get its new Yalta.

A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin.

A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world

Brexit stoked the belief among the UK Right that pursuing a maximalist agenda is a path to victory. The surrender of much of the UK political establishment to Brexit delusions encouraged the UK Far Right to move more quickly to seize control of the Conservatives and impose their agenda on Britain

The anti-Eastern European xenophobia of the years building up to Brexit in the 2010s was always going to flip viciously against other social groups once the decline in East European migration accelerated after Brexit