A historic election has delivered a decisive mandate against mass migration in Japan. Amid rising foreign crime, “nuisance tourism,” and growing public unease, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has secured a commanding supermajority, pledging stricter immigration caps, tougher naturalisation rules, and constitutional reform.

Buried inside the Crime and Policing Bill, Clause 191 looks like a minor amendment. It is anything but. By removing criminal penalties for self-managed abortion at any stage, it quietly erases one of the last legal guardrails in British law. Critics warn that once this boundary disappears, safeguards fade with it – and practices long considered unthinkable edge closer to normalisation.

In Memos from the Edge, Dina-Perla Portnaar traces the quiet unease that comes before political rupture – when language hardens, camps demand loyalty, and conscience begins to feel homeless. Refusing left and right alike, she explores freedom, restraint, and the fragility of liberal civilisation, drawing on thinkers such as Eugen Fink and Helmuth Plessner. A meditation on belonging in an age of moral certainty.