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.

Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Opening of CPAC Hungary

Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Opening of CPAC Hungary

“The only way to win is to refuse to accept the solutions and the paths offered by others. As Churchill said, having enemies is a sure sign that you are doing something right.”—Viktor Orbán

The Threat to National Independence

The Threat to National Independence

Weak armies, illegal immigration, debt, energy dependence, and unbalanced trade are all undermining the European nation-state, argues Juan Ángel Soto Gómez.

May 19, 2022
Emulating China: How Social Media Groomed Us for a Social Credit Score System

Emulating China: How Social Media Groomed Us for a Social Credit Score System

Slowly, but surely, the first social credit score systems are being introduced in Europe. But rather than being met with outrage, there seems to be a remarkable indifference among many Europeans. Did the rules of social media condition us to embrace such systems?

May 18, 2022
We Do Not Need To Be ‘Woke’ Since We Never Fell Asleep

We Do Not Need To Be ‘Woke’ Since We Never Fell Asleep

It is crucial that in times of uncertainty and difficulty we are able to talk about the problems we face and to outline the common vision that tackling them will require. — Judit Varga

May 18, 2022
Bold Questions about Voter Fraud in 2020

Bold Questions about Voter Fraud in 2020

A new film by Dinesh D’Souza exposes organized abuse of the mail-in ballot and early voting system in order to tip the election. However, this scenario remains hypothetical; to win the debate, D’Souza needs to address a list of weaknesses with his film.

May 16, 2022
Something Rotten in the Kingdom of France

Something Rotten in the Kingdom of France

French paradox: no one wants to give Emmanuel Macron a majority, but all the projections in seats suggest that he will have a comfortable majority. It has been a long time since France has not been in such an absurd, not to say grotesque, political situation.

Live Not Like Flies

Live Not Like Flies

The resonant echoes of our island story in public rituals, though a little pantomime-ish, reconnect us to our past. They help us feel the burden of our role as custodians of a national inheritance, so that Britain’s most precious features, while subject to repair and improvement where possible, are carried to future generations. In this sense, a country’s rituals are a sign of respect for the past, not blind deference to its every jot and tittle.

May 15, 2022
Ludicrous Immigration Management—French Style

Ludicrous Immigration Management—French Style

The absurdity of the French administrative situation may lead to giggles all over the world, but the phenomenon described in the Senate report is quite serious and is due to the country’s inability to adopt a clear and firm migration policy.

Labour Isn’t Listening

Labour Isn’t Listening

Starmer can’t stop insisting he’s a patriot, and that he wants to ‘make Brexit work.’ But these superficial gestures belie the same old policies, now served up in the most cynical and disingenuous ways possible.

May 14, 2022
The Hubris of ESG Ratings

The Hubris of ESG Ratings

The green-social-justice movement is about to make sure that our downslope from prosperity to industrial poverty becomes even steeper.

May 13, 2022
The Rise of the Socialist Welfare State

The Rise of the Socialist Welfare State

In practice, the merger between mainstream Keynesian economics and welfare-state policy was exactly what drove most of Europe into its current state of stagnation.

May 11, 2022
The EU’s Crisis of Faith is Failing Victims of Persecution

The EU’s Crisis of Faith is Failing Victims of Persecution

This was an opportune moment for the EU to recommit to the protection of freedom of religion or belief by reinforcing the existing EU instruments aimed at doing so and highlighting cases concerning minorities where this right has been violated. Yet, it did the exact opposite.