Category: COMMENTARY

A Bastille Day Love Letter To France

A world without Chartres, without Mont Saint-Michel, without Pernand-Vergelesses, without Monet and Matisse, without the oysters of Brittany, the butter of Normandy, and the quenelles of Lyon, and without autumnal strolls through the Luxembourg Gardens, and a spring gallivant up the Boulevard Saint-Germain would be a world of acute poverty.

The ‘H’ Word

Throughout human history, hate was not viewed as generally abnormal or anti-social. It was just another emotion that, along with anger, despair or love, had a place in human relationships.

Amalfi Coast, you have failed Lexi Jordan

The Lexi character is becoming normal among the young raised in the comforts and choices of late capitalism. They cannot bear even the slightest glitch in the matrix of experience without going to pieces.

The Tories: Cutting Throats to Cut Costs?

The Tories have made it as plain as they can: they will do nothing to stop the boats. And not one of them will entertain hosting an illegal migrant, but they’ll make sure you do.

Excluded for the Crime of Whiteness

The overt betrayal of the white working-class on the grounds of innate privilege is a contemptible policy. It’s high-time that those in authority put a stop to it.

Energy Price Caps: Good or Bad?

Energy Price Caps: Good or Bad?

The actual fallout of the price cap depends in part on the contractual situation between seller and buyer. However, no contract is immune to the forces of the free market.

October 10, 2022
In Defence of the Nation State

In Defence of the Nation State

Germans have become incapable or unwilling to defend our national interests. We no longer secure our own borders—we are too refined for that. We leave it to others, such as Poland and Hungary, and then lecture them when they do it.

October 8, 2022
How Facts Cease To Be Solid

How Facts Cease To Be Solid

The establishment’s cowardice leaves no place for honesty. It is a safe, risk-averse, and timid strategy for those without guiding principles or will to follow them. As Mikhail Bulgakov once wrote, “cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”

October 8, 2022
Despite the Italian Example, the French will not be Uniting the Rights

Despite the Italian Example, the French will not be Uniting the Rights

The French believe a union of the Rights is highly unlikely in the French political landscape, and perhaps more significantly, they consider coalitions undesirable.

October 5, 2022
U.S. Debt Crisis: One Step Closer

U.S. Debt Crisis: One Step Closer

The cold, hard truth embedded in all these numbers is this: going forward, the U.S. Treasury will have to continue to raise interest rates just to keep investors from selling American government debt.

October 5, 2022
Bring Back Prejudice

Bring Back Prejudice

The modern media environment is less and less informing and entertaining, and more and more ‘re-educating.’ It wants us to question and then reject the instincts which have served us well for millennia. It wants us to doubt our own eyes and ears.

October 5, 2022
Energy Transition as Class Warfare and National Subordination

Energy Transition as Class Warfare and National Subordination

The new enclosures and ‘fourth industrial revolution’—with its counterfeit morality, its saccharine pseudo-ethical appeals to inclusivity and saving the planet—may not need a large force, but they do need a disciplined, dependent population.

October 5, 2022
Pound Plunge: Don’t Blame Kwasi

Pound Plunge: Don’t Blame Kwasi

There was no ‘crash’ of the pound. The big rate increase by the Federal Reserve simply created an irresistible opportunity for investors to make some good money, and do it safely.

October 2, 2022
Lessons From Italy for the French Right

Lessons From Italy for the French Right

For the Italians, there is no ‘fascism’ attached to Giorgia Meloni. Her coalition is centre-right, full stop. On the other side of the Alps, the repeated use of the word ‘fascist’ dispenses with any nuanced analysis; few articles actually look at Meloni’s programme.

October 1, 2022
NatCon Statement of Principles: The Road Ahead

NatCon Statement of Principles: The Road Ahead

It is time to break the unproductive loop between impatience, single-issue rejection of remarkable candidates, and the political status quo. The NatCon Statement of Principles is a first, major step in that direction.

October 1, 2022
The Politics of Decency

The Politics of Decency

Like radicals in all corners of the world, instead of celebrating a leader and iconic figure, the government chose to make politics of the monarchy which has always stayed above the fray of politics.

September 28, 2022
Fresh Ideas for Conservative Reform

Fresh Ideas for Conservative Reform

A conservative system of benefits protects citizens from destitution, but to succeed, the definition of poverty needs to be overhauled. The Heritage Foundation is moving in this direction, and their ideas could positively impact European welfare policy.

September 27, 2022