My Honour is Loyalty
As the days draw in around Autumn and move towards Winter, we in Britain, Europe and the Northern Hemisphere begin to think of the way Nature sheds its old forms. Travelling in its inexorable way towards closure, it’s entirely appropriate that we should be reminded of past lives and times, as if by some hidden hand, we also find ourselves commemorating the dead from two world wars. Nevertheless, in recent years a controversy has broken…
Is Anti-Semitism a Racket?
By A.K. Chesterton: Editor’s note: This article comprises the first chapter of a book entitled, ‘The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism’, written in the form of an exchange of letters between A.K.Chesterton and a Mr Joseph Leftwich, a Jew. The book was published in 1948 prior to the formation of the state of Israel and therefore while all references to that land use the term ‘Palestine’, the modern reader might wish to substitute the term ‘Israel’. Throughout…
A Brief History of Democracy
By Kasredin: During the nineteenth century there was a struggle in this country and elsewhere to achieve real democracy – or, as it was then termed, universal suffrage. There was a groundswell of opinion that every man should have the vote, and some people even felt that women should not be excluded. Parliamentary democracy took a long time to gain popularity. The first parliaments were held in the thirteenth century, and were basically a way…