Category: COMMENTARY

Starmer’s Dilemma

Starmer tweeted: “Islamophobia Awareness Month comes at a deeply troubling time for Britain’s Muslim communities. The recent surge in Islamophobia is devastating.”

Reviving the European Family

Having children is a responsibility; it takes sacrifices, but it is also the greatest gift and the highest level of human fulfilment. 

A Case of Anti-Life Liberalism

Think baby factories are a thing for science fiction? Think again. A Swedish lawmaker wants his government to start researching the idea.

New Speaker, Same Old Ideas

The House of Representatives finally got a new Speaker. He starts off boldly, promising big achievements—while dressing his most important idea in worn-out garments.

Nationalism and Freedom: Thirty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nationalism and Freedom: Thirty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“Who are we, what holds us together, and how do we stay together so as to bear our burdens as a community? For conservatism is about national identity.”
— Sir Roger Scruton

Centrist Bill To Abolish Pension Reform?

Centrist Bill To Abolish Pension Reform?

The LIOT group announced its intention to propose a new bill to repeal the pension reform. They will focus specifically on the repeal of Article 7—the one that pushes back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

The Portuguese Right Unites Against Lula’s Visit

The Portuguese Right Unites Against Lula’s Visit

Chega managed to host the largest demonstration ever against a foreign head of state—and, in another first, secured unity among disparate factions of the Portuguese Right, which usually compete rather than cooperate.

Ten Years of Gay Marriage: How the French Right Gave Up the Fight

Ten Years of Gay Marriage: How the French Right Gave Up the Fight

The abandonment of the fight against gay marriage by the political class on the Right tells us a lot about one of the favourite weapons of progressivism: creating the appearance of an ineluctable process.

Shining Cities and Sovereign Nations

Shining Cities and Sovereign Nations

This year’s CPAC Hungary will showcase the country’s promise as a testing ground of conservative policies.

Centrist Bill To Abolish Pension Reform?

Centrist Bill To Abolish Pension Reform?

The LIOT group announced its intention to propose a new bill to repeal the pension reform. They will focus specifically on the repeal of Article 7—the one that pushes back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

No, Minister

No, Minister

To echo Raab’s sentiments: a dangerous precedent has been set here. How are ministers expected to effect change when the slightest criticism could see them hounded out of office? 

May 1, 2023
The America Report: Child Trafficking, Beer Boycotts, and UFOs

The America Report: Child Trafficking, Beer Boycotts, and UFOs

While a U.S. whistleblower reveals that her government is acting as a middleman in child trafficking, at least one European paper is more interested in the disclosure of the U.S. government’s involvement in reverse-engineering UFOs.

April 30, 2023
The UK Lacks the Will, Not the Law

The UK Lacks the Will, Not the Law

If the law is broken or ambiguous, fix it. But no law will be effective without the political will to enforce it.

April 30, 2023
Solar Utopias and Heavy Metal

Solar Utopias and Heavy Metal

From Tommasso Campanella’s City of the Sun, to modern ‘solarpunk,’ the sun has historically been linked to utopian thought-experiments in fiction.

Maxing Out The Race Card

Maxing Out The Race Card

Diane Abbott is merely the culmination of decades’ worth of identity politics— Labour’s stock-in-trade—for which she has long been the poster girl.

April 27, 2023
Blasphemy Laws and ‘Hate Speech’: Free Speech at a Crossroads

Blasphemy Laws and ‘Hate Speech’: Free Speech at a Crossroads

The roots of oppressive censorship are one and the same. Europe’s ‘hate speech’ laws are a secular equivalent to blasphemy laws—both hinder people from living and speaking freely.

April 26, 2023