A Well-named Child?
By Colin Liddell: How quaint! Today Prince George, the third-in-line to the throne – behind his father William and grandfather Charles – was christened in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. Interesting the names involved. Of course, the name George is very much part of the Windsors’ family tradition. But it ultimately derives from St. George, whose cross is the flag of England as well as the symbol of the medieval Christian crusaders. St. James’s Palace…
On the Strange Madness of Conservatives
By Frederick Dixon: Demographic change in the West is having a curious effect on some politicians and commentators who would no doubt think of themselves as conservative. “Curious” because it has driven them mad. Obama’s easy victory in last year’s American presidential election was not due to the success of his government, presiding as it did over the sub-prime crisis and the resulting economic near-collapse; by any normal standards Obama should have been a one-term…