Thomas More Institute

Category Archives: World Affairs

Published on
31 October 2011

Democracy, The Good and OccupyLSX

Posted in Civil Liberties, Ethics in Business, Moral Philosophy, Public Policy, World Affairs

From a Guest Blogger: And so we enter another week of the ‘OccupyLSX’ protest outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Once again the protest is in the headlines as not only Dr. Giles Fraser but also the Dean Graeme Knowles have resigned their posts. Meanwhile ‘evil’ capitalists are still beavering away just as ‘feckless’ protestors […]

Published on
27 October 2011

Common Cause on the European Union’s Flaws

Posted in British Politics, Europe, Political Economy, World Affairs

The parliamentary debate which occurred on Monday, upon a non-binding motion proposing that a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU be held, has been widely portrayed as a debate internal to the Conservative party, with its leadership and frontbench squaring up to those on the backbenches. More specifically, the issue has been portrayed […]

Published on
16 September 2011

The European Crisis-Management Project

Posted in Ethics in Business, Europe, World Affairs

From a guest blogger: Since its inception one of the principle reasons regularly served up for ever more integration in the European Union (as now is) has been, in the wake of two World Wars, to prevent armed conflict by making war ever more unattractive and impossible to conceive. As integration progressed, it was decided […]

Published on
15 September 2011

Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and the Just War principle

Posted in Africa, Freedom, Human Rights, Islam, Military Ethics, United States of America, World Affairs

The world has just marked with due solemnity and regret the tenth anniversary of terrible terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Much has been written in recent days analysing the legacy of the events to date. The most notable 9/11 outcome has perhaps been armed intervention in Afghanistan by NATO and […]

Published on
13 May 2011

Tough Moral Questions: Torture and the bin Laden Shooting

Posted in Human Rights, Islam, Middle East, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, United States of America, World Affairs

The slaying of Osama Bin Laden by US Navy SEALS earlier this month has generated much commentary in the media, and provides us with an opportunity to assess the quality of our public discourse on moral matters. Since the reported rumours that ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ yielded information which may have contributed to tracking down bin […]

Published on
10 May 2011

We Can’t Ignore the Tear in the Union Jack

Posted in British Politics, Civil Liberties, World Affairs

The Scottish National Party (SNP) have won a clear majority in elections to the devolved Edinburgh legislature, and will become the first party ever to form a majority government through it – a remarkable result given that the Scottish Parliament uses a system designed in part to prevent the election of majority governments. Considering that […]