“We can now only avoid Socialism by a change as vast as Socialism”
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In March 2020, I wrote an article here in Strasbourg that revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and NGOs funded by George Soros. That report concluded that “NGOs have an increasing influence on and within international institutions, particularly within the human rights protection system” and that […]
the message is not a cruel or a harsh one: It might be said to be a Catholic message, in fact, and a mild rebuke, whether intended or not, to Martin Luther. Salvation does not come, on Crockett Island, through faith alone. Faith alone is not enough.
In 2020, the average cost of an “available, staffed prison space” was €80,445 per prisoner.
Reading Pandemic2, there is a sense that the world needs healing on many levels
Long before David Attenborough brought his soothing voice to the explication of animal behaviour for the BBC Life series, the North American television public had been introduced to the majesty and oddities of the natural world through Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. I remember lying on my stomach in my grandparent’s living room watching programs about lions and […]
It might have been the weight of expectation that a heavy-hitter like Piers Morgan was going to tackle the cancel culture and shrieking social media narration that has enveloped society which has left me feeling more than a little disappointed. I am not necessarily a Piers Morgan fan but I don’t find him objectionable […]
It is not surprising that cultural and political theorists like influential Slovenian philosopher, Salvoj Žizek, are already mapping out the societal changes they believe, or hope, will follow the socio-economic devastation of successive lockdowns. It is clear that governments all over the world have bought time at a cost unprecedented in peacetime. There will be […]
An Austrian film called The Trouble with Being Born is winning high praise from critics at film festivals. It received a special jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year. On Rotten Tomatoes, it scores 100% amongst critics. It’s a “hidden gem”, according to Hollywood Reporter. “A powerful and revelatory achievement,” wrote a critic for Screen […]
The Tyranny of Merit is not the sort of book that you expect to emerge from a lecture theatre at that den of wokeness, Harvard University. But the author, Michael Sandel, is one of its best-known professors, a rock star intellectual who fills auditoriums around the world with engaging and challenging lectures on justice. What makes […]