Carl Trueman writes here about disturbing developments in the UK. An extract is below.

“Over my many years in the U.S., I have resisted the temptation to buy into the catastrophism that characterizes American conservative commentary on my homeland, from claims about NHS “death panels” to the takeover of British cities by radical Muslims intent on imposing sharia law. I grew up in rural Gloucestershire where nothing much changes, from the appropriately warm beer served in the pubs to the faces passed in the streetlight-free lanes. There is little fodder there for sensationalist headlines about the death of England. But recent months have made it harder not to think that something has gone badly awry with this sceptered isle . . . They simply hate what the liberal West has traditionally represented, and they want it shattered—by any means necessary. There is no point in looking for any cogent or constructive philosophy here, for there is no positive vision, merely a Mephistophelean commitment to the negation of all that once was. For these useful idiots, the enemy of their enemy is their friend. And to make things worse, this progressive spirit blankets itself in sanctimony even as it burns down the past and buries people under the rubble of an empty nihilism.”