How far mighty Britain has fallen

Great Britain, once the master of the universe, has become a Third World country. I don’t write this fact with sadness or empathy. No – I am simply reporting. Dispassionately. The tiny sliver of the globe from whence the colossus of a state once rose lies in the ruins of Empire. Urban sprawl and decrepit wreckage stretch as far as the eye can see.

Today, Great Britain produces nothing of consequence. Not even culture, which is the residue of one-time hegemonies. Even music and high cinema have been entombed. The country's face is weather-beaten. It’s foreign policy, like its domestic counterpart, has gone to where all bad things go – south. Of course all this was inevitable. It’s a warning to all empires.