Why I Doubt That Britain Is Facing Civil War

Is Britain set for civil war? David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, suspects as much. He authored a bleak essay in 2023, “Civil War Comes to the West”, and has been doing the podcast rounds in 2025.

I hate the idea that questions such as that posed in the title of this essay have to have…