Category: COMMENTARY

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

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? 

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.

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

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.

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.

The Meaning of Monarchy

The Meaning of Monarchy

Activist lecturers like this belong to a small minority of people within Britain, but it is worth going through her fierce assault on the recent Platinum Jubilee, if for no other reason than to expose the hostile activism that now passes for teaching at our publicly funded universities.

June 14, 2022
The Values We Teach Our Children

The Values We Teach Our Children

As Ronald Reagan put it: “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation from extinction.” This requires no explanation for us Hungarians—we have learnt this from repeated experience.

June 13, 2022
Joining the Euro: Stern Advice for the Croatian Government

Joining the Euro: Stern Advice for the Croatian Government

As Croatia’s lawmakers enter the final stretch toward euro membership, it is essential that they understand exactly what happened in Greece, and why. In five short years, 2009-2014, the Greek economy imploded: one quarter of it vanished. This was a direct result of the austerity packages that the EU and the ECB forced upon the government in Athens. What will Croatia do to avoid ending up in the same trap as Greece?

June 11, 2022
New Consistory: What Will the College of Cardinals Look Like?

New Consistory: What Will the College of Cardinals Look Like?

Consistories usually take place in February, June, and November. This time, the pope stepped a little ahead of schedule, as if he wanted to anticipate and name—as soon as possible—those who will compete for the election of his successor.

June 11, 2022
Flurry of Studies Exposes Dangers of COVID-19 Vaccines

Flurry of Studies Exposes Dangers of COVID-19 Vaccines

New studies exposing the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines are published on a weekly basis. But, along with the mounting number of vaccine-related side effects, they are routinely met with silence by the media and politicians.

June 10, 2022
Davos: No Talks about the Looming Debt Crisis

Davos: No Talks about the Looming Debt Crisis

A debt crisis sweeping across both continents has the potential of bringing about a new global depression. Governments have no room to use fiscal policy to mitigate the crisis; their monetary policy capabilities have already been depleted in responding to the recent pandemic. Yet there was no mention of this threat in Davos.

June 9, 2022
God, Profit, and Capitalism

God, Profit, and Capitalism

Capitalism does not destroy other values, nor does it come without respectable merits. Quite the contrary: the profit motive has elevated human existence to unprecedented levels. We can feed more mouths, cure more of the sick, educate, and elevate more people than we have ever been able to do. The problem lies instead in the fallibility of human nature.

June 7, 2022
The Wrong Kind of Diversity: Vatican Suspends Ordinations in Toulon

The Wrong Kind of Diversity: Vatican Suspends Ordinations in Toulon

A choice of diversity and openness—to use concepts that should be in vogue—has worked to reverse the aging trend in apostolic vocations in Bishop Rey’s diocese. But the decision from Rome proves that the Pope, and he alone, determines what passes for diversity and openness.

Faith in Victory: the Conservative Renaissance in Europe

Faith in Victory: the Conservative Renaissance in Europe

The common good is superior to the sum of individual goods; the nation is above the lobby; and truth, good, and beauty are those eternal values that, together with human dignity, represent the triumph of faith and reason.

June 5, 2022
Prepare for Another Debt Crisis

Prepare for Another Debt Crisis

A new debt crisis looks unavoidable. There is practically no interest in fiscal reforms across Europe, leaving the continent vulnerable to a destructive downward spiral of rising interest rates and structural budget deficits.

June 4, 2022
A Sensible Guidance: UK Attorney General Says School Pupils Are Legally Their Biological Sex

A Sensible Guidance: UK Attorney General Says School Pupils Are Legally Their Biological Sex

Schools are a key battleground in identity politics. It is refreshing to see some common sense from the Attorney General.

June 3, 2022
The Fall of Anne Spiegel: Revealing the Hypocrisy of Modern Feminism

The Fall of Anne Spiegel: Revealing the Hypocrisy of Modern Feminism

It is not only the Anne Spiegels of this world who pay the bill. All families are affected, and even women who do not consider themselves feminists can no longer escape the social demands of this profoundly anti-family feminism.

June 2, 2022