Month: September 2022

Energy, Inflation, and Taxes

This essay may not be a plug-and-play survival guide to inflation, but it should help to explain where you can go and what information you can find, in order to educate yourself on inflation, specifically energy costs.

Putin’s Speech at the Eastern Economic Forum

Vladimir Putin predicted the demise of the West and the continued global power shift towards Asia. When asked about Ukraine, he said that Russia has “not lost anything and will not lose anything.”

Liz Truss May Freeze Energy Bills

Liz Truss May Freeze Energy Bills

Despite spending much of the leadership campaign denouncing Sunak’s “handout” schemes and proposing generous tax cuts instead, now in government Truss seems to have U-turned.

September 7, 2022
Chileans Reject Constitutional Reform

Chileans Reject Constitutional Reform

Apart from vastly increasing the executive’s power, the proposed reform would have enshrined ideological assumptions around gender and sexuality and the green energy transition. In the end, 62% of Chilean voters voted against it.

September 7, 2022
The Metaphysics of Dogs<br>From Tobit, to Dominic, to Dante: Part I

The Metaphysics of Dogs<br>From Tobit, to Dominic, to Dante: Part I

“The world is full of devouring wolves, and you, unfaithful dog, know not how to bark.”

September 7, 2022
Strauss’s Shadow Over Munich: <em>Die Frau ohne Schatten</em> Overwhelms at Munich’s Opera Festival

Strauss’s Shadow Over Munich: <em>Die Frau ohne Schatten</em> Overwhelms at Munich’s Opera Festival

Warlikowski’s productions tend toward the visceral. His exploration of the opera’s mythological content led him to profound meditations on the fluidity of space and time, of the real and the unreal.

September 6, 2022
Order of Malta Under Drastic Reform

Order of Malta Under Drastic Reform

The debate over the Order of Malta’s status as a “subject of the Holy See” is not new, but Pope Francis’ reforms have caused anxiety for those who understand what is at stake in the Order’s loss of sovereignty.

September 6, 2022
German Fertilizer Factory Halts Production Over Energy Prices

German Fertilizer Factory Halts Production Over Energy Prices

One of Germany’s largest nitrogen plants, responsible for producing fertilizer and AdBlue supplements for trucks, has halted production, putting crops and supply chains at severe risk.

September 6, 2022
Sweden Bails Out Power Companies

Sweden Bails Out Power Companies

The parliament was called in for an extraordinary session because the prime minister’s measure would make the government a co-signer for new lines of credit from private financial institutions for energy companies.

September 6, 2022
Vostok 2022: Russia and China Display Their Military Cooperation

Vostok 2022: Russia and China Display Their Military Cooperation

The number of troops on the ground is much lower than in the previous 2018 exercise. But the symbolic significance of this event is quite different. It is an explicit display of the Sino-Russian alliance on the international stage.

September 6, 2022
EU Oversteps on Supply Chain Emergency Powers Proposal

EU Oversteps on Supply Chain Emergency Powers Proposal

A group of nine countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark, already warned the EU that it was going too far.

September 6, 2022
Liz Truss Becomes PM

Liz Truss Becomes PM

Truss faces multiple political challenges from the outset, not least of which is to unite a Conservative party still scarred by the toppling of its most successful leader in decades, not to mention the less-than-amicable leadership contest which followed.

September 5, 2022
Sweden Democrats’ Immigration Policy by Far the Most Popular, Poll Reveals 

Sweden Democrats’ Immigration Policy by Far the Most Popular, Poll Reveals 

A majority of voters (35%) view the Sweden Democrats’ immigration program as the most favorable to the country’s interests.

September 5, 2022
Germany: Interior Ministry to Dissolve Expert Group on Political Islamism 

Germany: Interior Ministry to Dissolve Expert Group on Political Islamism 

The leftist-led interior ministry’s decision has drawn sharp criticism from Germany’s center-Right and Right.

September 5, 2022