the brave new (destructive) world of globalisation:

PETER HITCHENS:
‘..Here in the English fenland, everyone involved is a victim of enormous, irresistible powers. Those abstract ideas called  ‘market forces’ and ‘free movement of peoples’, so beloved of academics, politicians and journalists far away in London, come to life and stalk the streets. Like most grandiose ideas, they are not as nice as they sound…
….The difference is that the British louts are the end-product  of decades of social tenderness, child-centred education and welfare. But the newcomers, emptying their bladders where they stand or driving drunk and uninsured after an evening of illegal hooch, are the end of 70 years of miserable communism, deliberate demoralisation and a culture of desperation and drunken oblivion. Both systems have more in common that you might suspect…’