Another day, another stabbing. This time, Zurich. A man with a knife, a crowd, and the usual chorus of stunned officials promising reviews.
The British rail police, ever vigilant, are now poring over their own protocols as if the problem were a matter of paperwork. But let us not pretend this is an isolated incident. It is a symptom, a microcosm of a continent in decline.
We have seen this before: the late Roman Empire, the twilight of the Victorian era. Societies that forget how to defend themselves invite the knife. The EU's open borders, its bureaucratic paralysis, its reluctance to name the ideological rot—these are the accomplices.
The Swiss, once a bastion of neutrality and order, now find themselves a stage for this grim theatre. And Britain? We peer nervously across the Channel, tweaking our rail security while the real threat festers in the culture that allows such violence to be normalised.
This is not about mental health or poverty. It is about the collapse of shared values, the replacement of civic pride with a hollow multiculturalism that refuses to judge. The stabbing in Zurich is a warning.
The question is whether we have the intellectual courage to heed it, or whether we shall continue to shuffle papers as the empire burns.
