posted by Helena Hankart
There are many wholesome images we associate with the season of goodwill: trees bedecked with tinsel and baubles, elves distributing candy canes and enticingly-wrapped gifts, Mariah Carey frolicking in the snow with that corpulent fellow in a fake beard. And now we might also add to that list anti-terror crash-barriers and armed police at festive markets. God bless us every one.
Frustrations are running especially high due to the reluctance of our law enforcement agencies to be honest about the issue. On Tuesday, a British police force posted the following on X:
“Whilst you are out and about at events in the festive period, you may see some armed police presence. We appreciate that this can be an alarming sight, which is why we wanted to take the time to reassure you that these are part of routine foot patrols to deter serious criminality and not in response to any particular threat.”
It’s not difficult to detect the unsaid words screaming through this mealy-mouthed statement. There has been a radical shift in recent years which has meant that public events now require a perimeter of what some are sarcastically calling “diversity barriers”. These huge steel bollards and barriers are designed to prevent a repeat of the appalling atrocity in Nice in July 2016, when a Tunisian jihadist ploughed through crowds of families on Bastille Day in a truck, killing 86 and injuring a further 434. For the police to claim that there is no “particular terror threat” is unlikely to be believed by anyone with a memory more far-reaching than your average goldfish.
So much trust has been lost through underhanded deception, mostly for purely selfish financial motives. A highly moralistic generation that uses new modes of communication to seize control of the national conversation and impose its moral absolutes and which includes groups formerly outside of power have risen up tp take over the system.
There is something undeniably incongruous about the sight of happy-go-lucky police officers patrolling with lethal weapons at Christmas as though it were the most unremarkable thing in the world.
Is
this the “new normal”? Has the very concept of the high-trust society
depleted to such an extent that a visit to Santa’s grotto must now be
supervised by uniformed men with machine guns? London mayor Sadiq Khan
famously claimed that terrorist attacks are simply “part and parcel of
living in a big city”.
The events of 2020—the coronavirus pandemic; the killing of George Floyd; militias, social-media mobs, and urban unrest—were like hurricanes that hit in the middle of that earthquake. They did not cause the moral convulsion, but they accelerated every trend. They flooded the ravines that had opened up in society and exposed every flaw.
Now, as we enter the final month of 2025, this period of convulsion hurtles towards its climax. Donald Trump is in the process of shredding the old order that hid its corruption and self interest undeer a veneer of politically correct thinking, latrerly known as being 'woke.'
The outgoing president, unable to behave responsibly, unable to deliver even a short speech coherently, unable to even tell the country the truth about his own medical condition, has undermined the basic credibility of the government and arouses the suspicion that every word and act that surrounds him is a lie and a fraud.
Finally, he threatens to undermine the legitimacy of our democracy and incite a vicious global conflagration that no sane person wants and that woulf would leave survivors trying to rebuild a charred and shattered civilisation. Trump may turn things around, but the conditions that brought him to power were decades in the making, and those conditions will not disappear once he is sworn in.
Social trust is a measure of the moral quality of a society—of whether the people and institutions in it are trustworthy, whether they keep their promises and work for the common good. When people in a church lose faith or trust in God, the church collapses. When people in a society lose faith or trust in their institutions and in each other, the nation collapses.
This is an account of how, over the past few decades, the liberal democracies became a more untrustworthy society. It is an account of how, under the stresses of 2020, institutions and the common social order of the free world crumbled and were revealed as more untrustworthy still. We had a chance, by resisting the pandemic hoax, by rejecting BLM, by refusing to suport the proxy wars in eastern Europe and the middle east to pull together as a nation and build trust. We did not. That has left us a broken, alienated society caught in a distrust doom loop.
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