The City of Alight

As has become traditional, my decrepit semi-comatose body roused itself for its annual appearance on the Mark Steyn Cruise only to implode immediately upon disembarkation. So I am playing catch-up here, even though there is nothing much to catch up to, only the same old same old, albeit accelerating toward the final civilisational dénouement: today, a Canadian province votes on whether to hold a binding secession referendum; an Australian MP is in critical condition after being deliberately mown down by a constituent; and a UK woman has been marked down by HM Constabulary as having "mental health issues" because she...