What is currently taking place in Ukraine is a reminder of why historian Timothy Snyder described the country as having been part of the Bloodlands. He applied it to Ukraine, but also to Belorussia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as to the eastern strip of the actual Russian Socialist Republic that came under […]
As we saw here in Ireland, predictions of mass deaths from the dreaded Covid-19 proved unfounded. Remember Prof Sam McConkey who predicted that Ireland could face between 80,000 to 120,000 deaths from the coronvirus? Though the death toll never reached a tenth of that number, McConkey is still wheeled out for comment regularly by the […]
That, at the end of the day, is what nationalism is: The willingness to give yourself and your life for the country you call home
We need to prioritize the future by thrift and hard work
Farming in the Philippines
All of which leaves the unfortunate people of Ukraine the hostage to Western conceit and Western delusion
Sudden global cooling and the budgeting of eggs
The west is polarised and divided internally, because there is no longer any agreed set of universal values.
If there’s one thing that the West’s mainstream media is certain of, it’s this: that Donald Trump is a puppet of Vladimir Putin, and a stooge for the Russian government. This is a talking point which has been repeated ad infinitum, not only by the media, but by celebrities, and even Trump’s political opponents to […]
You may have thought 2021 was a year of extreme pressure, but geostrategic conflict in 2022 represents a moment of even greater tension
Jan Karski tried to tell the world’s leaders about the Holocaust, but they didn’t want to believe him.
The raw truth of the matter is that a great many progressives now simply do not believe that basic democratic rights should apply to their opponents.