Published on
15 October 2020
Posted in British Politics, Public Policy, World Affairs
Today the fallacy that truth and morals are relative is pervasive and this has led to a pretence in the West that all cultures are a priori to be regarded as equal. This is in part due to loss of faith in the traditional modes of political organisation and cultural norms. There are many examples, […]
Published on
25 April 2020
Posted in British Politics, Culture, Social Commentary, World Affairs
The election of President Trump in the U.S.A., and the successful Brexit campaign here in the U.K., may be seen in retrospect as significant incisions in globalism’s death by a thousand cuts. Covid-19 might just be the last in a series. Globalism has, it is thought by many, played its role in the spreading of […]
Published on
1 March 2020
Posted in British Politics, Europe, Morality in Public, Public Policy, World Affairs
Events like the outbreak of coronavirus should make us pause to think. It is no exaggeration at this point to assert that things appear poised on the brink of pandemic. At the time of writing, the virus has spread globally with fatalities in Iran reaching 19 and whole towns in Italy now in quarantine. Currently […]
Published on
14 February 2020
Posted in British Politics, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, World Affairs
Western military intervention in the Middle East, however well-intentioned its perpetrators may have been – or wished to be seen as – has often caused more problems than it has solved. The Gulf Wars had a disastrously destabilising effect on Iraq and the surrounding regions, and they created the conditions for radical Islamic extremism to […]
Published on
9 February 2017
Our last blog post started by describing 2016 as an atypical year. That year is now over – and it truly was exceptional in various respects. It seems pertinent to reflect with a little hindsight on what happened in the twelve months to 31 December last. Politically, socially, culturally – and even locally here at […]
Published on
8 November 2016
2016 was in many respects an atypical year. In the political arena, two events confounded and unnerved the grandees of establishment media: Brexit, and, in the U.S.A., the Republican nomination for the US presidential election. Donald Trump made headlines with his brash style, irascible temperament and often controversial statements – among which his denouncing of […]
Published on
16 August 2016
Posted in British Politics, Europe, Public Policy, World Affairs
The people of the UK as a whole decided on 23 June to leave the European Union. Brexit won the referendum with 51%+ of the vote, the result was backed by more than 17 million citizens. Turnout was the highest seen since 1992, and the outcome determined by the will of large swathes of the […]
Published on
25 May 2016
Posted in Europe, Social Commentary, United States of America, World Affairs
The outcome of the Austrian presidential election has produced a swift surge in outspoken expressions of relief among the West’s liberal media. Alexander van den Bellen, backed by the Greens and a supporter of further European integration, won by the narrowest of margins, just 31,000 votes in a nationwide poll. His opponent, Norbert Hofer, is […]