Freedom

Make no mistake Cuba’s regime is a vicious dictatorship with an atrocious record on human rights violations. American politicians such as Bernie Sanders should be ashamed for painting a rosy…

There is no such thing as freedom from risk. We live in a world full of hazards, big and small, and the risk which we are prepared to embrace at…

What happened last night is not normal. President Lukashenko’s regime hijacked a passenger airliner as it flew over Belarusian airspace by faking a bomb threat on the plane to force…

The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment, familiar to moral philosophers. Participants become involved in the following piece of unrealisable nonsense. You are invited to imagine an out-of-control trolley, racing…

The government is considering allowing pubs to block people from entry if they have not received the Covid vaccine. They are only in the initial stages of deciding whether they…

Men, dressed as women, read stories to children in a Sacramento public library, prompting a debate among American conservatives. This debate was interesting as it did not concern the presidential…

I do not know about you, but it occurred to me back in March that there were two viruses gripping the country. One had inserted itself via the usual methods…

The passage of the new ‘National Security Act’ in China last week is a direct assault on the established international order. The Security Act – which introduces a raft of…

We are presently witnessing the converging effects of three seminal achievements of the British government of 36 years ago. Taken together they point to a dystopian not-so-distant future the important…

This month we celebrate 100 years since the birth of one of the giants of the 20th century: Karol Józef Wojtyła, whom history will remember as Saint John Paul II, the…