To assess political parties according to the criteria of truth, justice and the public interest, let us first identify their essential characteristics. There are three of these: • A political party is a machine to generate collective passions. • A political party is an organisation designed to exert collective pressure upon the minds of all […]
I say the word “Anti-Semite” is vulgar and pedantic: that I think will be universally admitted. It is also nonsensical. The antagonism to the Jews has nothing to do with any supposed “Semitic” race—which probably does not exist any more than do many other modern hypothetical abstractions, and which, anyhow, does not come into the […]
The last of the main causes of friction between the Jews and ourselves is lack of charity, and that in the simplest form of refusing to go half way to meet the Jew, and of refusing to put ourselves in the shoes of the Jew so as to understand his position in our society and […]
“Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.” “For Bernard, in fact, true knowledge of God consisted in a personal, profound experience of Jesus Christ and of his love. And, dear […]
A friend of mine wrote a public post recently. About how in the Middle Ages Jesuits were burning people for their new ideas and witches were hunted and killed. The post has ended with how lucky we are that those dark ages are over. Is there anything wrong with what he wrote? I think there is. […]
The Green Party is calling for a one-off tax on large companies making record profits of late due to high inflation fuelled by the pandemic, energy crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Under the windfall tax proposal, the money raised would then support people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. “An excess profit tax would be […]