"The Gas Weapon"?

No sign of it in this of all winters, Professor Garton Ash.

We must refuse, as a matter of principle, to be dependent on any foreign power for our energy supply. We need nuclear power. And we need coal, not dole. But the Red Menace has no more existence than the equally fashionable Yellow Peril, on which, as on any foreign power or powers, we must refuse, as a matter of principle, to be economically dependent.

Instead, we have the pre-eminent gatekeeper of Biblical-Classical civilisation as much against decadence within as against any and every threat without. As surely as we have a culture which is firmly centred on the family and the local community, reveres tradition and ritual, upholds government by moral rather than physical force, affirms the Golden Rule, is Agrarian and Distributist, has barely started an external war in five thousand years, and is especially open to completion by, in, through and as classical Christianity, even to the Biblical, Classical and Patristic extent of taking Africa seriously.