A top British intelligence official has broken cover to issue a stark warning: Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is no longer a far-off tragedy but a direct threat to these shores. One must ask: has our ruling class finally awoken from its slumber of careless globalism? For years, we have been told that disease knows no borders, that our open-door policies are a moral imperative. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost, carrying the haemorrhagic fever in their beaks.
Let us not pretend this is a surprise. Every Victorian schoolboy knew that empire brought exotic plagues, but also that quarantine and border control were the price of safety. Today, our borders are sieve-like, our public health system underfunded, and our political elite more concerned with virtue signalling than with the gritty business of national defence. The spy’s warning is not a revelation: it is a confirmation of what anyone with eyes could see.
Consider the parallel with ancient Rome. As the empire expanded, so did the reach of disease. The Antonine Plague, brought back by soldiers from the East, gutted the legions and weakened the state. Sound familiar? Our legions are the NHS, the Border Force, the public health officials. They are exhausted, demoralised, and stretched thin. A single case of Ebola in London would be a catastrophe. We have the contact tracing ability of a Victorian parish council and the hospital capacity of a field hospital.
The intellectual decadence of our age is to blame. We have convinced ourselves that borders are arbitrary, that national identity is a fiction, and that universal brotherhood will protect us. Meanwhile, the Congo burns, and the virus mutates. The spy’s warning is a clarion call for realism. We must rediscover the lost art of quarantine, of travel bans, of putting our own people first.
This is not xenophobia. This is epidemiology. The disease does not care about your moral purity. It only cares about transmission. If we fail to act, we will reap the whirlwind. The Victorians knew that a healthy nation needed clean water, good drains, and strict borders. We have forgotten the basics while indulging in the luxuries of globalist ideology.
The time for hand-wringing is over. The time for action is now. Seal the borders. Prepare the hospitals. And for God’s sake, stop pretending that threats from afar cannot land on our doorstep. They can, and they will.
