Who Is Willing To Say It?

We are in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The real estate prices went 20% up in one year. The cost of renting is growing in a similar manner. Yet our political heavyweights play games with words working hard not to address the real problem. They all talk about (non-)affordability, first-buyers, property ladder. They never […]

Dandelion And Thankfulness

“What nonsense all this is; do you mean that a poet cannot be thankful for grass and wild flowers without connecting it with theology; let alone your theology?” To which I answer, “Yes; I mean he cannot do it without connecting it with theology, unless he can do it without connecting it with thought. If […]

How To Succeed In The World

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. — Voltaire

On Servile State By Belloc

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 […]

On The End Of War

The many men so beautiful And they all dead did lie; And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. — S. T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Bravery And Human Irony

For it is another example of the human irony that it seems easier to die in battle than to tell the truth in politics. — G. K. Chesterton

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