In May, Charlie Kirk, who died on Wednesday from a gunshot wound, visited the United Kingdom to debate the students of Oxford and Cambridge, Britain’s two most prestigious universities.

The Spectator World asked him to write about the experience. The result was this well-observed, funny and now strangely prophetic-sounding piece about the condition of England .

Charlie Kirk believed in free speech. He died speaking freely. RIP.

When I was growing up, people often said British politics were where America’s would be in five, ten or 20 years. What this meant was that Britain was more to the left of America: more secular, more socially liberal, more environmentalist, more globalised. The assumption was that, over time, the left would always win out, so wherever Britain was now, America w

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