For a week now the city streets of Sweden have been ablaze, yet I bet most of you have never heard of this. And if…
The huge vacuum created by the growing secularisation of the UK in particular and the West in general cannot of course remain as is. It…
In 2009 Jamie Glazov wrote an important volume entitled United in Hate. In it he spoke about how the political left in the West has…
Back in 1948 TS Eliot wrote about “the common tradition of Christianity which has made Europe what it is”. In the essay, Notes Towards the…
One of the saddest set of words one can read in Scripture is when it says that God has departed from a person or a…
The front page of today’s Australian has a very revealing – if not alarming – article. And the most revealing phrase came in its first…
There is good and bad multiculturalism. The good kind aims for diversity amidst unity. That is, it seeks for common social values, and encourages newcomers…
Not a week goes by it seems when the American President does not say something or do something which seems to provide further evidence of…
The Netherlands is a nation long known for its emphasis on tolerance and liberal thinking. However those qualities are being put to the test at…
Doubleday, 2009. In this important volume a number of important issues are explored concerning the present state of Europe, chief of which is how fifty…
It’s been a long time since I walked the streets of Europe. Being here again both raises memories and creates contrasts. In one sense things…
A small news item caught my attention today. It was about yet another Hollywood celeb pontificating on climate change, urging us to act immediately or…
One keeps coming back to the dictum attributed to GK Chesterton: “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing.…
Amongst the favourite terms blithely thrown around by the various radical social activist groups are “tolerance,” “acceptance,” “inclusion,” and “love”. Sounds pretty good. But the…
That filmmakers take a bit of artistic license with their products is nothing new. It happens quite often. Indeed, films purporting to deal with historical…
Most people know about Hitler’s plan to create a master race and to weed out the unfit and inferior races. His horrible plans resulted in…
One leading theme of postmodernism is what is known as the rejection of all metanarratives. PoMo argues that there are no grand stories, no overarching…
Vladimir Bukovsky knows all about dictatorships. He lived in one for over a decade. The former Soviet dissident was expelled from the Soviet Union in…
OK. I promise. No more articles on France. At least for a while. But given all the articles I have penned recently on the demise…
The recent presidential election in France may well be cause for guarded optimism. Certainly the election of Sarkozy is greatly preferred to that of Royal.…