Is “progressivism” a pathology? After all, “progressives” are nothing if not convinced of their own moral unimpeachability. Yet, as the authors of Pathological Altruism argued, people who are utterly convinced that they are “doing good” can in fact be doing a great deal of harm. Orwell was onto these self-righteous
Many moons ago, I wrote that Jacinda Ardern, Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were the Hermione, Harry and Ron of globalism. Why Is It, When Something Happens, It Is Always You Three? I pondered whom would be the first of the three to be expelled, as it were. Well, we
Murray Leith Professor of Political Science University of the West of Scotland When Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister a few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon assured voters she still had plenty left in the tank. Yet apparently, Scotland’s first minister had been thinking about her own
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk Speaking at a meeting in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, hosted by the Republic of Korea Government’s Ministry of Reunification, a British member of the House of Lords said “without (the) right to life…all other rights are worthless”
Veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald recently took aim at the current establishment mania over “disinformation”. Anyone, Greenwald said, “who claims to be: a ‘disinformation expert’, an ‘anti-extremist expert’, an ‘online safety expert’ is a fraud”. Greenwald probably hasn’t heard of the likes of Siouxsie Wiles, Kate Hannah or Byron Clark,
There’s a wonderful exchange in the Coen brothers’ classic O Brother, Where Art Thou, when the trio of escaped convicts seek shelter with one’s brother. Who promptly betrays them to the police. But Pete Hogwallop (John Turturro) is less enraged by his brother’s betrayal, than by the
February 15th 2023. Nicola Sturgeon resigned today as First Minister of Scotland. The little piece below is suddenly doing the rounds! Nicola Sturgeon resigned at 11 am today and gave her main reason as burnout. Meanwhile, an SNP official told Politico: ‘It’s a Jacinda Ardern moment. Better to leave
Last Thursday my inlaws and the rest of the ‘far now’ – turned up at our house. They heard the warnings of Cyclone Gabrielle bearing down on them, decided “stuff this” and fled the Hokianga for more pleasant surroundings: Taieri Plains, the “Capitalist Command Centre” (ie: my house) and normal people.
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A priest has been charged for breaching buffer zone rules by praying silently and holding a sign with the words “praying for freedom of speech” near a closed abortion clinic in Birmingham. He also faces a further charge for an “Unborn Lives Matter”
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington
Anne M. Cronin Professor of Cultural Sociology Lancaster University More than 100 years ago, sociologist Georg Simmel wrote that secrecy is a core part of all human relationships. The ratio of secrecy to openness in a society, he argued, can tell us much about that society. I explore this in
Jess Gill fee.org Jess Gill is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. A resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, she is the host and director of Reasoned UK where she makes daily videos on British politics from a libertarian perspective. She is also
How best to deal with mainstream media Hatchet jobs? Recently a Sunday Times journalist interviewed me as his editor told him to feature me in an article about ‘Rise of the conspiracy theorists’ What he texted me the day before the article ran is extraordinary ? pic.twitter.com/mzgsXFX1DJ — Dr
Kath Murray Research Fellow in Criminology The University of Edinburgh The decision to place double rapist Isla Bryson in the segregation unit at Scotland’s Cornton Vale women’s prison, ahead of sentencing, has sparked a political crisis that looks unlikely to abate soon. Following a backlash, Scotland’s first
February 6th 2023. On the Politics Live BBC TV programme at lunchtime today, Emily Thornberry Labour’s shadow attorney general let slip a comment that shocked me. She either meant something different or didn’t realise what she was saying. She said that the same corporate tax rate should apply
Molly Kingsley brownstone.org Molly Kingsley is a co-founder at UsForThem, the parent campaign group formed in May 2020 to advocate against school closures. They have since been joined by tens of thousands of parents, grandparents and professionals across the UK and beyond, advocating for children to be prioritized in
