The Dangerous Nihilism of the UK Riots

Why social pessimism and cultural nihilism are factors in the incoherent violence of the last week

I don’t believe for one minute that this is all the work of the ‘far right’. I think this feeds into a deeper anger. There’s a weirdness to the world. A sort of disconnect between what you see, what you’re being told and what you know to be true.

The above is a comment from an article published in the excellent online magazine Unherd. You might think it’…