Category: COMMENTARY

Challenging COVID Worship Bans

Religious freedom was repeatedly violated during COVID. Yet it is essential for everyone—not only for people of faith. It enables all people to live according to their conscience, regardless of their religious convictions.

Andy Pandy: Time To Go Back in the Basket

If Anjem Choudary is convicted of terror charges, anything other than a life sentence will be risible. It’s high time our government got serious on the issue of radical Islam.

Viktor Orbán: China Prophet

The thing Prime Minister Orbán did not say, but easily could have, is that the West is quite decadent, and in civilizational decline by almost any measure.

With the Central Bank in Charge, Does It Matter Who Is Prime Minister?

With the Central Bank in Charge, Does It Matter Who Is Prime Minister?

So long as the Bank of England is entrusted with as much power as it has assumed for itself—it matters little whether the prime minister is Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, or even Margaret Thatcher. 

October 31, 2022
Reflections on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Reflections on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The numerically smaller Ukrainian ‘David’ stumped the behemoth Russian ‘Goliath’ at the start of the operation. ‘Mission command’ style of leadership is the source of Ukraine’s strength.

October 30, 2022
How Corona Killed the Crown

How Corona Killed the Crown

Soon, even conservatives will have to ask some unsentimental questions. Where was the royal displeasure when most needed? Where was that counterweight to political power? ‘Locked down,’ is the answer.

October 29, 2022
White Girls: The Victims the Left Ignore

White Girls: The Victims the Left Ignore

Western leaders pay for these crimes with minor blips in the opinion polls; Europe’s daughters pay with their lives. But those in power have one more trick up their sleeve: to stop us noticing, and to criminalise our speech when we do.

October 28, 2022
How To Make Britain Great Again

How To Make Britain Great Again

There is only one path forward for conservatives: to combine tax cuts with structural reforms to welfare-state spending.

October 24, 2022
Boris Palmer, Sahra Wagenknecht, and Hans-Georg Maassen: A Tale of Three German Politicians

Boris Palmer, Sahra Wagenknecht, and Hans-Georg Maassen: A Tale of Three German Politicians

These three politicians may not belong to AfD, but their turn toward conservative principles allies them with the Right in common sense and civic discourse.

October 23, 2022
The Green New Zeal: A Very Bourgeois Malady

The Green New Zeal: A Very Bourgeois Malady

Theirs is performative activism—a self-indulgent pastime to signal luxury beliefs. Pouring milk all over the floor at Harrods doesn’t save the planet, it just shows how little they care about the staff who have to clean it up.

October 23, 2022
Soup Nazis: Climate Activist Tools Take on Vincent van Gogh

Soup Nazis: Climate Activist Tools Take on Vincent van Gogh

There is no indication that anyone’s opinion of climate change is different now from what it was before the souping.

October 21, 2022
Time for Britain to Euthanise the Conservative Party

Time for Britain to Euthanise the Conservative Party

Facing inevitable electoral oblivion, in an odd way, affords the political Right a rare opportunity. With absolutely no chance of keeping Labour out of Number 10 (nor any possibility that they could prove worse), the nation finally has the opportunity to bury the Tories once and for all, and unite behind a genuine conservative coalition.

October 20, 2022
Lola’s Murder: Searching For Political Decency

Lola’s Murder: Searching For Political Decency

Recuperation is quite simply the preferred and almost exclusive modus operandi of the Left. Having abandoned the idea of truth, it must look for something else to fuel its battles.

October 20, 2022
VOX’s Viva22: Remembrance as Resistance

VOX’s Viva22: Remembrance as Resistance

Viva22 centered on the need for historical memory as a safeguard against social engineering and the push for a borderless global market.

October 20, 2022
An Exceptional Mosaic Unveiled During Excavations in Syria

An Exceptional Mosaic Unveiled During Excavations in Syria

Prior to the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, Rastan—the town where the mosaics are located—had not been the subject of any archaeological campaign.

October 19, 2022