Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com A future in which the right to life will be profoundly and inhumanely corrupted is on display in a dispute between a British teenager who wants to live and a UK hospital who wants
August 30th, 2023 In the latest figures, Cornwall emerges as the poorest region of England. House prices are high, being inflated by second homeowners and Airbnb. Airbnb records 20,688 active rentals in 2022 and this, along with the demand for second homes, has inflated property prices throughout the county.
righttolife.org.uk The annual March for Life is taking place on Saturday 2 September in central London and its organisers are hoping for the biggest turnout yet. Last year, some 7,000 people made their way down Whitehall to gather on Parliament Square, outside the Houses of Parliament, to
Robert G. Patman University of Otago Strategy, as the great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz once observed, is the process of effectively applying means to achieve clearly defined ends. But good strategy in global politics has proved easier said than done. The post-Cold War era is replete with examples of
August 16th 2023 In a photo op today, Rishi Sunak was filmed assuring a crowd of people that everything was going according to plan (what plan? his famous 5 points are a wish list, not a plan). He uttered the following phrase which usually loses all credibility with the electorate
Autumn Johnson Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. newsbusters.org New research from the United Kingdom confirms what many already knew: artificial intelligence has
We hardly need any more evidence that the pandemic policies of Western governments were a brutal failure, yet, the evidence just keeps mounting. Whether it’s the sheer, fascist-lite brutality of the political-bureaucratic class, with their lockdowns and mandates, or the lasting damage to wider public health which was easily
John Goddard @nonestlex WRONGTHINK I just got fired for wrongthink. Then I find out that my bank account’s been frozen, too. I try to get an Uber back home but no cars will pick me up. How did Uber find out I committed wrongthink? I check my phone and
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Did you know it
righttolife.org.uk Adam Smith-Connor, a 49-year-old physiotherapist and army veteran, has been charged by The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council for silently praying within an abortion facility buffer zone. Financial penalty escalated to a criminal charge In December 2022, Mr Smith-Connor was fined £100 for silently praying outside
Jess Gill mises.org Jess Gill is a British libertarian political content creator. She is the Creative Director of Reasoned U.K. Jess creates political and economics videos on Tiktok and YouTube where she has gained a following of over 30,000. The day after America celebrated its independence and
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
July 31st 2023 In one of my previous letters, I made passing references to the UK NHS system. It is difficult to believe some of the happenings that occur in the NHS. One has to be careful criticising the NHS in the UK as it has achieved the status of
A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director. “What’s the lesson this afternoon?” he asked. “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. “But now it’s switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” The groomer left
July 25th 2023 In Scotland, it was revealed that the SNP government has been responsible for cutting down nearly 16,000,000 trees to clear ground for wind farms. Estimations suggest around 15.7 million trees have been cut down since 2000, the equivalent of 1,700 per day. Scots
July 17th 2023 My apologies for the lack of letters recently, but I have been enjoying the delights of hospitalisation care of the UK NHS. My comments on the treatment can wait until a later date but I can’t resist making a couple of comments. Unbelievably when they came
