Globalisation is passe, normalisation has become the new world mantra

Nations are being made great again by reinforcing fences and enforcing cultural homogeneity with big spiky sticks

How can the leading country of the world, beacon of liberty and democracy, custodian of freedom and human rights, snatch little children out of their parents’ hands, detain them in barbed wire pens with aluminium foil for cover, and make toddlers represent themselves in court? Nah, just kidding, Germany would never do that (I think. I have learned not to put anything past anyone). That kind of barbarism is reserved for nasty tinpot states, like the United States after its tragic takeover by a petulant mandarin—in the sense of orange—who came pre-loaded with a gold-plated piece of flint where his