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From today’s European Conservative site . (Edits mine) . . .

“The old institutions that once connected people have weakened considerably. Fewer young people participate in religious life. Fewer join civic organisations, clubs, or community groups. Family formation is delayed. Marriage rates continue to decline. Pubs disappear. Libraries close. Youth centres vanish. Neighbourhoods become increasingly transient. Even friendship itself is often mediated through screens rather than built through sustained presence and shared life.

Many young people now inhabit what might be called socially thin societies: places where interaction is constant, but meaningful attachment is increasingly rare.

Recent work from the Scottish think tank Logos Scotland described Britain’s growing loneliness crisis as, in part, a “crisis of belonging.” That phrase captures something important. The deepest forms of loneliness are not merely about being physically alone. They emerge when people no longer feel rooted within relationships and communities where they are truly known, needed, and recognised.

This is especially visible among young men. Across Britain, many drift through extended adolescence suspended between childhood and adulthood. Educational engagement declines. Screen dependency rises. Confidence weakens. Commitment is delayed. Friendship becomes thinner and more fragile. Increasing numbers retreat into private digital worlds which offer distraction but rarely meaning.

But this is not simply a crisis for young men. It is a crisis of social trust and human attachment more broadly.

Britain’s loneliness epidemic does not stand alone. It exists alongside collapsing birth rates, declining marriage, weakening religious participation, rising anxiety, and deepening social fragmentation. These are not isolated developments. They are symptoms of a civilisation steadily losing confidence in permanence, obligation, and belonging itself.”