I recently attended a screening of Christopher Nolan’s Second World War epic, Dunkirk. The movie is excellent, deeply immersive, unsettling, and nerve shredding. In actual fact, such was the tension, my movie going companion strained a…
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In his recent essay, After Europe, Ivan Krastev details the historical fault lines that will tear the EU asunder. In his judgement, Western Europe and Eastern Europe are too culturally divergent; different historical experiences shapes…
The other day someone argued that Communism was still a relevant system of government. I wrote this short story in reply. The Communists have decided to create their society and cure their ills brought on…
Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System is an important and timely book by Alexander Betts & Paul Collier. Every European is aware of the state of the current refugee system. Depending on the severity of…
The righteous energy that inspired the sadistic priests of that infamous festival of hate – the Spanish Inquisition – is present in Sturgeon’s own 21st century crusade. I’m currently reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 19th century classic,…
In the wake of another terrorist attack, we must ignore the self-pity and graveside mourning of the left and be strong to our values and promote them with unashamed confidence. In fact, we need to…
The Manchester attack is an incomprehensible tragedy orchestrated by a craven coward but our history demonstrates a nation with an adamantine resistance to outside threats. Our redoubtable perseverance is not an innate greatness of our…
We are peculiar us Scots; only because we are so varied as a nation. The people of Glasgow, with an industrial working class tradition, are culturally different from the deeply Christian Western Isles; the Borders…
The SNP’s Immigration Problem The SNP are stacking-up an armoury of grievances to support their ideological objective of dissolution of the Union. Since Brexit, Scotland’s unmatched matron of mischief has cast another ingredient into her toxic…
Mark McConnell Explores Transhumanism, an International Movement Intent on Immortality Immortality is Part of Our Design To be a Machine, Mark McConnell, Amazon Immortality is an idea novel to homo sapiens; we have sought a…