Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
The mid-sixth century monk on observing the Saxon invasion and subsequent descent of Roman Britain into barbarism gave both a warning to posterity and an explanation of how a wealthy, civilised, province declined into the Dark Ages. Given the current divided and depressed state of Britain, Gildas’s commentary is worth recalling. The threat posed by unlimited migration turned into an invasion that fundamentally transformed the British Isles, and not for the better.
The mid-sixth century monk on observing the Saxon invasion and subsequent descent of Roman Britain into barbarism gave both a warning to posterity and an explanation of how a wealthy, civilised, province declined into the Dark Ages. Given the current divided and depressed state of Britain, Gildas’s commentary is worth recalling. The threat posed by unlimited migration turned into an invasion that fundamentally transformed the British Isles, and not for the better.
