BY HAMISH GOBSON The problem which this past election has revealed is that no party advocates the rule of law as a specific social virtue, even though it underpins almost everything legal that happens in a free society. Without coherent court, police and legal systems, you either have anarchy or tyranny. There is no third way. I mention this also in the context of the … Continue reading Reparations Now! Induced Guilt is Theft
BY PAUL T HORGAN Hannah Arendt was wrong when she used Adolf Eichmann as an example of the concept of the banality of evil. This was perhaps a method of denigrating and trivialising an object of dislike or disgust. We see this all the time when socialists mock and insult the institutions that they despise from the monarchy downwards. Eichmann, Nazi Germany’s top bureaucrat charged … Continue reading The Banality of Evil
BY HAMISH GOBSON Is Paula Vennells the new Nicola Sturgeon? She is undoubtedly one of the most arrogant, untrustworthy, incompetent and conceited women to have flitted across the nation’s consciousness in recent years. Despite that, I think it would be hard to elevate her to the Sturgeon category, for one main reason. Nobody made any money out of the Post Office scandal. All the sub-postmasters’ … Continue reading Paula Vennells & the SNP – Beware the Sordid Parallels
