In this important lecture, Professor Bill Durodie argues that the real threat to Western civilisation isn’t external—it’s internal. We are not in a clash of civilisations but a crisis of culture. 🔹 Loss of Shared Culture – Tradition has been discarded, but nothing has replaced it. Fragmentation replaces continuity. 🔹 From Resilience to Fragility – A society that once rebuilt after the Blitz now responds to crises with run, hide, tell. 🔹 Flattening of Meaning – Culture is reduced to checklists, identity to performance, and history to a crime scene. 🔹 Managerialism Over Meaning – Bureaucrats and data rule over wisdom and creativity; even art is state-funded into irrelevance.   Western civilisation’s problem isn’t external enemies—it’s self-doubt. Until the West believes in itself again, no defence will be enough. This is not a cultural war but a cultural vacuum. It is not a debate over competing ideas but a surrender of ideas altogether. We do not need to defend Western civilization from outsiders—we need to recover it from ourselves.