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."
The British people have had enough of their seemingly endless 'obligations' to impoverish themselves for the sake of others, and belatedly politicians are waking up to this, says J Sorel.
It's 40 years since the Falklands War, when Britain repelled an invasion by Argentina and reasserted its claim on the islands. Britain's claim remains just, and welcomed by islanders as the guarantee of their liberty.
Matthew Crawford explains in UnHerd why our highly educated, apparently rational, left-of-centre elites are so vulnerable to capture by quasi-religious cults, whether wokery pokery, climate hysteria, or Covidian 'science'.
Colin Wright has written a good piece for his Substack newsletter about the hysterical reaction to his brilliant cartoon illustrating how American liberals have taken a hard left turn in the past 15 years.
