Piotr Godzisz Birmingham City University In her first state of the union address as president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen called out hatred and pledged to build “a union of equality”. While European institutions have been at the forefront of fighting hate crime and discrimination in and
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org The gigantic mess of 2020 called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn, based on the old movie about a Russian invasion of the US. The idea, I suppose, was that the virus was the invader. The public health lockdowners and fanatics on
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State
With the forthcoming elections coming up in Myanmar (November 8th) the situation is getting interesting. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) will undoubtedly win a majority again, even with 25% of the parliamentary seats reserved for the Tatmadaw (Military). There are some minor parties standing,
Remember “flattening the curve”? It seems like a lifetime ago that we were told that the only responsible approach to the Wuhan plague was to delay the spread of infections so that our hospitals and ICUs wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Jacinda Ardern even held up a helpful cartoon graphic for
Information Satire C. J. Hopkins consentfactory.org C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe. His political satire
The new leader of Canada’s Conservative party may be largely unknown even in the Great White North, but he is working hard to make himself known as a clear alternative to the Liberal incumbent, Justin Trudeau. Erin O’Toole has already positioned himself as the ex-veteran, everyday Canadian
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Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue about why the virus is ignoring them. They keep issuing strange and arbitrary rules that they make up, change by the day, all enforced by
righttolife.org.uk A coalition of 434 human rights organisations have backed an International Manifesto for the Right to Life in response to abortion provision sections in the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19. The plan calls for increased funding and prioritisation of abortion
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here
Interesting times in Myanmar As promised in my last letter, I thought we would have a bit of a change this week. There is so much going on in the UK that I would need a letter a day to do justice to it. Resignations from the health sector, no
Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for, well…nobody’s really sure what. Being (half) black and winning an election, so far as anyone can tell. The fact that Obama went on to preside over Libya becoming a failed state, the rise of ISIS and a murderous secret war-
One of the hallmarks of communist regimes has been their ability to lie outrageously to people who know without doubt that they’re lying. The question is whether the recipients go along with the obvious lies or not. “To assent to obvious lies,” says Theodore Dalrymple. “Is in some small
