Category: COMMENTARY

A Hens’ Party

The Partido Popular has surrendered to the entire political agenda of the Left.

Milei’s Blessed Madness

Ordinary Argentines have found in Milei a compatriot willing to take the bull by the horns. 

Not Just the Farmers’ Fight

The EU’s increasingly stringent environmental laws, already responsible for putting many farmers out of business, is something all should worry about if we value easy access to affordable food.

Pax Suella

Sunak would have done well to uphold his bargain with Braverman.

Silencing the Irish To Save Them From Themselves

Any Irish person who has a critical thought about the mass migration overtaking the country better keep his mouth shut and not write, tweet, or TikTok anything about it, or face prison.

When Aliens Land in Washington

When it comes to UFO disclosure, the biggest worry is not the general public. They are resilient and will take transformative news with strides. Congress is a bigger problem.

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
The America Report: Mental Health, Elections, and Debt

The America Report: Mental Health, Elections, and Debt

While Americans are worried about mental health, election fraud, and government debt, Europeans think that the most important things in America are abortion pills and ice hockey.

April 23, 2023
Of Heritage and Power: Who Owns the Tradition?

Of Heritage and Power: Who Owns the Tradition?

If the human factor determines the chances of preserving a fragile tradition, it is also the factor that can condemn it to extinction.