China & Russia Are Winning the New Space Race Brandon Weichert, RealClearPolitics

Bypassing Parliament: Westminster, The Royal Prerogative And Bombing Yemen – Binoy Kampmark

There is something distinctly revolting and authoritarian about the royal prerogative.  It reeks of clandestine assumption, unwarranted self-confidence and, most of all, a blithe indifference to accountability before elected representatives.  That prerogative, in other words, is the last reminder of divine right, the fiction that a ruler can have powers vested by an unsubstantiated deity, the invisible […]

EU’s Beleaguered Immigration Policies Will Be the Sword Which It Falls on – Martin Jay Strategic Culture Foundation

The refugee flows are nothing new. And the games that poorer, weaker countries play by using them, have also been around for a while. The Belarus border is just the most recent in a long list of examples how Brussels cannot fight back countries who use refugees as a weapon against the EU’s failed hegemony […]

Finnish MP Criminally Charged After Quoting Bible In Opposition To LGBT Event – Jonathan Turley

Finland may be viewed as “the happiest place to live” but not if you value free speech. A major free speech case is brewing in the country after Member of Parliament (and former Interior Minister) Päivi Räsänen was criminally charged after tweeting a quotation from the Bible in opposition to her church’s sponsorship of an LGBT […]