Wales is now the first country in the United Kingdom to enforce a system of presumed consent to use of a person’s organs for transplant. The introduction of this legislation has set a dangerous precedent for the UK. Interestingly it was assisted by supine ‘faith leaders’ whose nauseating appeasement of oppressiveRead More

Of the fourth estate, Thomas Carlyle once vividly observed ‘Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all’. Now that clergy, nobles and commons are competing for celebrity status, all that remains of independentRead More

I have closely followed the gun control debate in the US from the outside and, as a European, I am trying to make sense of it because I know that at stake is not just the gun legislation but also the American Constitution, with what it represents as the mostRead More

Below is my translation of an interview I found very interesting with former Soviet dissident and political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky by Alessandra Nucci, published in the December 2012 issue of the Italian periodical Radici Cristiane. What he says provides a very useful background to understand what lies behind the European UnionRead More

As a defamer of his fellow Jews, Noam Chomsky is in a class of his own. “Hitler’s conceptions,” he once wrote, “have struck a responsive chord in current Zionist commentary.” Israel, he added, is guilty of planning a “final solution” for humanity, an apocalypse from which “few will escape.” The world-famous MITRead More

Under the Human Rights Act, paedophiles must now be allowed unsupervised meetings with their own children; apparently, to prevent them would be a breach of their right to a family life. Most reasonable people would say that by committing these appalling crimes they have forfeited such rights. However, contributors toRead More

Many people believe abortion was legalized because of thousands of backstreet abortions, leading to the tragic deaths of women; that the abortion campaign was part of the feminist movement; that the 1967 Abortion Act was the work of radicals who wanted to help poor overburdened mothers. None of this isRead More

We are by now familiar with Atheist stunts: the man who recorded his lack of consent in the baptism register (long after the original ceremony); the bus advertisement announcing, Theres probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life. More recently, celebrity Atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens haveRead More

“Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day… Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains.” – Khaled Mashal, Hamas leader “.. the vote for Hamas was actually a voteRead More

“If they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” – Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah commander “I say this without fear: for those who believe in freedom and dignity, we are all Hezbollah now.” – Norman Finkelstein, Jewish anti-Zionist That any human being could proclaim hisRead More