It’s gay pride week here in Northern Ireland, an event which will culminate in the Gay Pride parade due to take place next Saturday in Belfast. For almost 15 years now the homosexual community has been coming out to tell us all how proud they are to be gay. This has always been a source […]

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I visited the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh today for the first time, in a building opened in 2004 and described as “the most modern legislature in the world”. On a tour of the building, it became apparent to me that this was a pertinent symbol of government abuse and disgrace.
When Catalan architect Eric Miralles […]

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By now you will have seen video from the camera and heard sound from the microphone that inadvertently eavesdropped on the US President and UK Prime Minister at the G8 summit this week. I have a few observations, such as that we’ve learned a few interesting things about the President of the United States.
First, […]

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While we prefer to keep this blog focused on the issues, there is room here to spotlight an upcoming project that I’m personally very excited about. It seems that, after a wait of 33 years since the idea first surfaced, Ayn Rand’s classic novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is going to the big screen - not […]

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“Guns kill people in the same way that spoons made Michael Moore fat.”
-Anon

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I was in the middle of writing an article about something else when this ripsnorter landed in my news stack: the Henley Centre has published the results of its annual single-question survey regarding individualism, and the results are SWEET! I put my unfinished post through the shredder and started to read.
Michelle Harrison, head […]

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