Fantasy Island

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,” Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo in The Tempest. As Britain’s public morals and political conduct regress to their sleazy Georgian mean, the ordinary people are taking to the streets. Over the summer, every major city in Britain saw regular marches against the collapse of immigration controls, the block-booking of hotels to house “asylum seekers,” the sexual assaults, murder, and welfare fraud that have ensued, and the conversion of the taxpayer-funded welfare state into a reception committee for the customers of human-trafficking networks.