2025-07-28
Ben's report this week majors on the much-anticipated but much-delayed Epstein case, in the context of western public opinion becoming even more hostile to their governments, if that might still be possible.
Are we in for an autumn, even a winter of "discontent"?
And did I mention the thousands of unaccompanied children that came through the southern border of the USA under Biden and are now unaccounted for? And the general western crisis of largely undocumented "asylum seekers" and the associated issues in the public mind?
In a world in which nothing is as it seems, it's hard to be sure, but it's also hard to see how existing governments can possibly reverse the decline in popular trust. At some point, change becomes inescapable.
Still, a revolutionary take-down of the "ancien regime", that has ruled the world seemingly for ever, seems inadvisable over the holiday season, when too may families are away from home.
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