Glasgow: where frail nations go to die

I know a thing or two about terminal illness, and it seems to me that this patient, our country, has lost the will to live.

If the Morrison government goes gentle into Glasgow’s good night, what should grieve us most? That our hard-won sovereignty should be surrendered to the eco-socialists of the United Nations? That a pro-business party should subject business and industry to net zero’s suffocating regulations? That a Christian prime minister should bend the knee to an apocalyptic nature-cult that terrifies our children?

The biggest emitter of the elixir of carbon-based life, President Xi,...