In Memory of the Victims of Communism
By Jez Turner: Communism has executed, slaughtered, massacred and starved hundreds of millions to death worldwide. From the time of the Russian Revolution onwards: through Bela Kuhn; Rosa Luxembourg; the American-backed Stalinist invasion of Europe; the anti-communist resistance movements that fought a savage guerrilla war against the Soviet hordes; the Cold War; the Hungarian Uprising; the Prague Spring; through to the thawing of the Cold War and its final collapse, Communism – whether in Europe…
The Root Of All Evil
By Heordreedenn: There is a thought experiment – at least I hope it’s a thought experiment – concerning the best way to boil a frog. Apparently if you just chuck the hapless amphibian into a pan of boiling water it realises immediately that all is not well and jumps out at once. But if you put it in a pan of cold water, and heat it slowly, it never notices what is happening, or at least if…