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Celtexit Planned for Britain

Celtexit: Britain Planned Its Breakup Before Anyone Even Voted The constitutional panic is magnificent: Reform has not won the next election, yet several politicians are already measuring Britain for four separate removal vans. Officials have not agreed on a single policy for the imaginary government they are furious about, but they have already agreed on a name for the imaginary divorce: Celtexit. It is Brexit’s damper, sadder cousin, conceived not in…

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Britain’s Economic Decline

How Britain’s Economic Decline Left It as Poor as Mississippi Britain combined European socialism, American debt, record immigration and Victorian infrastructure, then expressed surprise when GDP per person disappeared behind a wheelie bin. Britain has finally achieved the economic equality politicians promised. Unfortunately, the equality is with Mississippi. According to The Atlantic’s examination of Britain’s productivity collapse, British output per person now sits barely above that of America’s poorest state after nearly…