Great Britain is a storied land of legend. It was the home of the fabled King Arthur, along with such historic figures as Henry V, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and Winston Churchill. This island nation once was the master of an empire on which the sun never set.
No longer. The Second World War and the decades that followed saw Britain’s empire slip away, and the British people, who once had a globe-spanning navy and maintained a Pax Brittanica for centuries by their ironclad control of the world’s seas, lost that grip, replaced by their larger, wealthier, more powerful offspring, the United States. Even after that, thanks in no small part to the “special relationship” defined by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Britain remained pretty great.
Now, unchecked waves of immigration from North Africa and the Middle East are changing Britain forever, and it’s not changing for the…
