Category: COMMENTARY

Cruelty Cloaked in Compassion

It is cruel to demand that women accept their own demotion and dehumanization to avoid offending the cross-dressers in charge.

Sunak Seals His Fate

You cannot indirectly call your core voters ‘racists’ by dismissing a popular home secretary, and expect there to be no repercussions at the ballot box.

America: Still A Christian Nation

The abortion setback in Ohio was a loss for conservatives, but there is a Christian silver lining in it. For us pro-lifers, there is a need for reckoning—and grounds for hope.

The Pact of Infamy

“This is not the time for parties, it is the time to put aside our differences to defend the nation.”

Don’t Ask the State to Ban Hate

Trying to suppress views we find repugnant is no solution at all; banning something is not the same as defeating it.

De-Christianizing Remembrance Day

The men who perished at Ypres and the Somme, the Scheldt and Arnhem, died defending a Christian civilization.

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.

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.

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.

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
When Prevent Is Worse Than the Cure

When Prevent Is Worse Than the Cure

The UK’s Prevent labeled Shakespeare, Tennyson, Conrad, Chesterton, Tolkien, Chaucer, Kipling, and Milton “key texts” for “white nationalists.” Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1960s BBC TV documentary series “Civilization” was also named and shamed.

April 25, 2023