It is not the point to put wild and visionary questions about whether the world has been vastly improved by the War 1; whether Utopia or the New Jerusalem have come out of the War; to ask in that apocalyptic fashion what has come out of the War. We have come out of the War, and […]
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 […]
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
We are diving on our tiny house reef right in front of our Sunshine Bungalows resort in Amed, Bali. Nothing special, somebody would say. For us it was great. We could dive without any hassle right from our bedroom. Potápame sa na malinkom útese priamo pred naším rezortom Sunshine Bungalows v Amede na Bali. Niekto […]
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses. They are much nearer to each other than either is to my own ideal – of breaking up […]
I am very glad that my persistent efforts not to learn Latin were to a certain extent frustrated; and that I was not entirely successful even in escaping the contamination of the language of Aristotle and Demosthenes. At least I know enough Greek to be able to see the joke, when somebody says (as somebody […]