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Sunday, 16 August 2026

Live and Let (the State) Die

 I want to make an exact argument here that I think is fundamental. 

There is a relation between: “Climate change,” “Net Zero,” Green, Environmental politics, and
Immigration, Colonisation, Decolonisation, Cultural Problems.

The death of Rod Liddle algorithmed me back to the Ray Honeyford story and it was musing on that disgraceful episode that made me think about this. For there is a relation between these two. There is a relation between the issue of global warming / climate crisis / extreme weather events and the issue of race and immigration that we have associated for almost 60 years with the name of Enoch Powell. Both of these issues are discussed at maximum volume now.

For both Left and Right there is an existential crisis.

For the Left it is about the Planet.

For the Right it is about the State.

First on the state.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Until we have some grand theory of global order and an international treaty, or a subsumption of states into a World State or, more likely, a subsumption of them into Schmitt’s Grossraüme or Orwell’s Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia (China, Russia, America): until any of that happens, then we will have states. And, as Machiavelli put it in the Prince, the major interest and activity and necessity of the prince (i.e., any government) is mantenere lo stato – to maintain the state....<<<Read More>>>..