What is anarcho-tyranny? Modern Britain gives a disturbing glimpse of our future.

Anarchism and tyranny have been around since time immemorial, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the term “anarcho-tyranny,” denoting a synthesis of these two opposites, entered the popular lexicon, courtesy of the late ultraconservative Sam Francis.

Francis, among the many men vilified by the Southern Poverty Law Center, observed in the United States and elsewhere:

both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny — the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through “sensitivity training” and multiculturalist curricula, “hate crime”