“Useful” Nationalists
By Nick Grifford: The 2006 film entitled 300 was the brainchild of graphic novelist Frank Miller and director, Zackery “Zack” Snyder. The story charts the military exploits of a small Spartan army (the eponymous 300) during the campaign against Persian invasion, circa 480 BC. The film is suitably emotive and clearly provides an allusion to invasive Muslim incursions into Europe during the the past few decades, which, in itself, is not unwelcome. However, being Hollywood, there…
A Dangerous Trend
By Colin Liddell: Solon ‘the Wise’ earned his sobriquet when he repealed the laws of Draco in early 6th century Athens. Before then, the laws of Athens had decreed death even for minor offences. Solon realized that if every crime meant death, then a criminal might reason that it would make sense to murder and steal rather than to just to steal; especially if murdering the victim improved the value of the theft and its…