Today’s view of democracy is not about government by the people in general, but about a specific form of democracy. It is based on the principle that all adult citizens have the right to vote, and →
The reason why the Ukrainian war uses very little aviation, apart from drones, is that both sides have strong air defences. And the air defence in this case is mostly Russian, and much of it goes →
We have all heard rumours that foreign aid goes to dictators and their luxurious lives, or to pointless infrastructure projects that are abandoned after a few years. And while we intuitively understood that there was some →
I have a business idea for a dictator: Take over Sweden. Kick out all the vagrants. Put the native children in engineering programmes, lower the tax burden, simplify the regulations, wait 30 years, and reap the →
We are hearing increasingly horrific stories of how brutal Pakistani gangs have been raping minors in the UK for many years, and the police have often ignored the incidents on the grounds that raising awareness of →
Conservative Light has become the dominant opposition to the strong socialist forces in the country. It is a bourgeois movement that claims to stand against the expanding state and its progressive social experiments. Simply put, it →
Sweden’s economic success and low energy prices in the latter part of the 20th century were based on hydropower and nuclear power. Energy was cheap, which facilitated all kinds of business activities. Now, living in a →
Post-modern liberalism has abandoned many of its core principles, originally a merchant ideology with economic freedom on its agenda, much of which centred on enriching the country and its people. Reforms resulted in a huge increase →
For a long time, the thought recurred: ‘When Americans elect a black president, then true equality will have been achieved.’ This phrase almost became a metaphor for a distant vision, something that, though possible, belonged to →
