The “Reformation” despoiled the working classes of their patrimony; it tore from them that which nature and reason had assigned them; it robbed them of that relief for the necessitous, which was theirs by right imprescriptible, and which had been confirmed to them by the law of God and the law of the land. It […]
I have turned this chapter into something like a defence of interviewers, because I really think they are made to bear too much of the burden of the bad developments of modern journalism. But I am very far from meaning to suggest that those bad developments are not very bad. So far from wishing to […]
The thesis of the book is that the Socialist movement does not lead to Socialism. This is partly because of compromise and cowardice; but partly also because men have a dim indestructible respect for property, even in its disgusting disguise of modern monopoly. Therefore, instead of the intentional result, Socialism, we shall have the unintentional […]
Labour – They plan increasing active income tax, rejecting passive income tax. Irony: Passive income taxing was among their main policies. Also they call themselves ‘Labour’ party, so they should support ‘labour’, i.e. less tax on active income (work/labour), more tax on passive income (capital gains). Levelling the ground could possibly lead to lower active […]
It is not merely flippant to say that monks and nuns stood to mankind as a sort of sanctified league of aunts and uncles. It is a commonplace that they did everything that nobody else would do; that the abbeys kept the world’s diary, faced the plagues of all flesh, taught the first technical arts, […]
It’s been more than a half of a year, yet I still have vivid memories on my diving in Reotahi marine reserve near Whangarei. Yes, the water was murky, the current was very strong, but the sea life was amazing. In the shallows there were those underwater “towers” reaching a couple of metres from the […]