When virtue-signalling liberals proclaim “we are all immigrants” they must know it isn't true. Most white Britons have roots going back 6,000 years. So why do they say it? asks politics professor James Alexander.
In aiming to be a meritocracy, we inevitably create a parallel 'mediocracy' – where the meritless club together against the meritorious, says Prof James Alexander. This is the key to understanding our politics.
Human rights law is not about protecting us from Big Brother, says Dr David McGrogan. It's more like Big Brother's 'Little Brother', helping him expand the state’s reach into every nook and cranny of our lives.
David Bell says his tribe on the 'progressive Left' abandoned him during Covid as it lurched into authoritarianism. But he moved to Texas and found a new community with those who love freedom.
With the rise of woke authoritarianism it's not that we are not becoming more like China, argues Dr David McGrogan, but that we are becoming more like ourselves as the dark inner logic of secular modernity pushes through.
The problem with the United Nations' vision of 'human rights', as set out recently by the High Commissioner, is that it amounts to the right to do exactly what you're told and never vary from it, says Dr. David McGrogan.
A Spanish priest is facing up to three years in prison on "hate crime" charges for his heated words about Islam. "There is no longer any true right to free speech in Spain," he said.
The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
Many on the 'new Right' propose that we should be 'Left on the economy and Right on culture'. This is not really possible, argues Dr David McGrogan: a state addicted to intervening in the economy will intervene everywhere.
The Munk debate on the 'crisis of liberalism' missed the plot, says Bruce Pardy. "No one mentioned Covid restrictions. No one mentioned the weaponisation of the legal system. No one mentioned government censorship."
