M C StarlingM.C. Starling is not a politician, academic, or professional commentator.Starling is a private citizen who has lived and worked across multiple continents, witnessing firsthand the cultural, political, and social shifts reshaping the Western world.Over several decades, Starling has served governments, institutions, and their Queen - experiences that offered a unique vantage point on how nations function, how power is exercised, and how easily the values of a civilisation can be eroded when ordinary people are ignored.Having lived all over the world, Starling has seen the best and worst of governance, the rise of radical ideologies, and the steady encroachment of unelected influence over democratic decision making. These experiences shaped a deep concern for the future of Western nations and the freedoms that once defined them.Starling does not claim expertise.Only perspective.Only experience.Only the conviction that ordinary citizens have both the right - and the responsibility - to speak when their civilisation is drifting toward danger.This book was written not from an ivory tower, but from lived reality: the observations of a concerned citizen who believes the West is worth defending, and who refuses to remain silent while its foundations are dismantled. Read More Read Less