Decline Is a Choice

Is Western civilisation in decline? It depends on your standpoint. If it is India, the future looks bright, thanks to the fortunate circumstance that the world's largest democracy belongs to the Anglosphere and therefore to the West. The same applies to Australia and Canada, under the dynamic leadership of two prime ministers, Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper respectively, whose allegiance to our civilisation is not in doubt. In Europe, such optimism is harder to sustain. Intractable as the demographic and cultural causes of the European malaise may be, however, the British have more room for manoeuvre than their Continental neighbours. We have the ancestral inheritance of freedom and the rule of law to thank for the fact that Britain is still a land of hope and glory.