Month: June 2021
The age of big-government Conservatives
It is a development that has been under way for some time: the traditional left/right political divide is no more. A poll this week shows how a supposedly [...]
Covid, lockdown and the Nuremberg Defence
Between 1945 and 1949, Nuremberg, in the German state of Bavaria, was the scene of a series of military tribunals, carried out to prosecute Nazi war criminals [...]
The end of the world as we know it
"It’s the end of the world as we know it” sang R.E.M. in 1987. The American rock band was pondering the many disasters they were supposedly facing at the [...]