It is sad to have to have to acknowledge that the country of one’s birth is in decline, but there are signs that Great Britain has fallen on the slippery slope of moral deterioration. The recent surge in nationalistic jingoism and xenophobia in Britain is lamentable and obnoxious. On November 14 it was reported that the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, a civilised man who replaced the erratic Boris Johnson (now, heaven help us, Foreign Minister), said that some of his friends had been called ‘niggers’ and ‘Pakis’ and it is apparent that such racist abuse has greatly increased in recent months.