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 truth to the stories, →
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 rewards. Yes, it may →
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 the crimes would contribute →
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 is a counterforce readily →
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 country where electricity is →
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 in living standards between →
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 a future far beyond →
The dream of the kingdom of bliss, Utopia, the problem has haunted humanity for centuries. How do you build a society where everyone is caring and respects each other? How do you go about it? Perhaps there is only one →
Revolutions usually lead to misery, even if they are sometimes celebrated afterwards. The most famous of them all is the French Revolution (1789), which ended in a veritable bloodbath, social and cultural suicide, and the eventual declaration of Napoleon as →
