The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen | Owen Jones

The useful part

What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming The symptoms of decline are everywhere you look. On Sunday, Germany's far right won another state election, taking nearly 40% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. France is preparing a €54bn fiscal squeeze, which could turn the screw still further on a foundering so-called European social model.

How it works

• At the UN general assembly, Donald Trump once again threatened to "annihilate" Iran, even as the fourth failed western war on a Muslim nation this century has added more than $100bn to Americans' fuel bills.
• The great fight of our age is over the diagnosis, and the right has been winning it for years.
• Its story is simple and, as the latest German state election underlines, effective: the west is dying because of migrants, Muslims, trans people, "woke" and the "deep state".
• It, they worried I had shape-shifted into Liz Truss, who, after being outlasted in office by a lettuce, produced Ten Years to Save the West.

Details worth keeping

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