‘Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon insisted “wealthy, privileged” people were responsible for the protest campaign, despite polling data indicating a disproportionate number of spoiled votes being cast in disadvantaged areas.’
‘The danger is not that artificial intelligence will turn evil, but that we will forget how to discern good.’
‘“Religious Zionism”…keeps unsettling end-of-history pieties about confining faith and observance to the margins of the public square and smoothing out the nation state’s ethno-religious edges. Yet instead of cool-headed assessments precisely when it holds the keys to governability…the rise of this national-religious bloc of parties is often met by incurious moral hysteria.’
‘The conundrum, as stated above, is that Taiwan is treated by a great part of the international community as if it were a country of its own.’
The Daily Beast has reached new depths of Trump Derangement Syndrome, alleging that Donald Trump’s latest TIME magazine cover was inspired by a 1963 Newsweek portrait of Nazi industrialist Alfred Krupp—based solely on an Instagram ‘like’ by the photographer. TIME has dismissed the claim as ‘completely untrue’ and ‘reckless’.
‘Conservative governments of the Thatcher era recognized the damage the over-reach of the state in the economy could do to ideas of individual responsibility…’
‘Spain, France, and the UK have inherited not only migrants from their former colonies but also the cultural consequences of how those empires were built.’
‘Politico claims herds of antelopes and zebras are hidden away in the back garden of his countryside residence.’
The planned Trump–Putin summit in Budapest has exposed how modern diplomacy is waged through information warfare. Leaks, denials, and anonymous sources have flooded the media, as Brussels and Kyiv intensify efforts to block the meeting—fearing that a deal might emerge outside their control.
‘Taxpayers want European public funds to be used wisely. Supporting maternity and the family would be the most beneficial possible investment for Europe and its future.’
‘Székely suggests the presence of these “fake” obsersvers is evidence that Georgia is following “the example of countries such as Russia”.’
‘Large-scale projects are being implemented to develop digital infrastructure, introduce e-government, and digitalize education and healthcare systems.’
‘One major reason this story is suspect is because of how pointless such a spy ring would be. Getting gossip, including incredibly sensitive info on the internal workings of the Commission and other bodies, is extremely easy. Each week, my messaging apps are drowning in document leaks and the latest stories of who is sleeping with whom and which EP aide is buying drugs off the guy in Strasbourg.’
‘Western Europe is in terminal decline. That’s my point of view, anyway. One informed by two years in the European Union’s infernal capital.’
‘In Budapest, not only have the Hungarians worked to build and restore buildings beautifully, but also to remove modernist intrusions, reclaiming space for beauty.’
‘In a country aiming for EU membership, the Church chose confrontation over passive acceptance of draconian laws. And it won.’
‘Sooner or later…Orbán will no longer be the Hungarian chieftain…It occurred to me that if the Hungarian people choose to forsake the faith embraced by King Saint Stephen…and instead permit themselves to be dissolved into the post-Christian cultural mongrelization represented by the godless, nationless EU, the tragedy will not be Viktor Orbán’s, but their own.’
‘The crisis has made Hungary’s relationship with Israel stronger than ever before.’
‘If we are truly conservatives today, then we must want to revolt against this contemporary, anti-conservative world. Does anyone seriously believe that Burke would want to conserve what we have right now?’
‘The belligerent tone of European leaders reinforces, on the Chinese side, the image of an ideologically aggressive West, expansive and domineering by its very cultural core.’
‘The problem is that the French government is spending too much money. In August of this year, just before the government collapsed, Finance Minister Eric Lombard warned that if the country did not get its act together, it would end up going to the IMF for a bailout.’
‘Scratch below the surface of the immigration crisis and what you find is a volatile combination of fear and disgust, driven by deeper anxieties over corruption and betrayal. At its centre is an imperilled idea of Britishness and cultural purity.’
‘Under Labour Britain has marginalized itself into irrelevance. Not through accident or happenstance but as a deliberate policy choice.’
‘The demise of the great party owes itself in large part to a false interpretation of history. What Mrs Thatcher did was simply to act in the way the conditions of the time demanded.’
‘Had Trump been a Democrat, he would have won the Nobel Peace Prize. It is nothing short of a scandal that he did not win it this year.’
‘When that framework is attacked or discredited, society doesn’t become more tolerant: it becomes more fractured. National symbols, such as the flag, serve not to exclude but to unite. They are the visual shorthand for a shared story.’
AI are minds deprived of almost everything we previously viewed as essential to one. Is this not the very definition of a demon?
‘Beyond the fence on the Serbian side…the AK-47-wielding people smugglers have established military-style camps for the migrants; is it compassionate to support a multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise? Many illegal migrants who successfully break through are forced to continue paying the smugglers under duress; is it compassionate to support a modern form of indentured labour?’
‘What are Western institutions for? To impose left-wing progressive ideologies on the world? If so, how are they any different from the Warsaw Pact or its late successor, the “Russian World”?’
‘The best approach for Hungarian politicians is to try to help Romania find a new path. The globalist path that the country has been on for the past two decades is coming to an end. Romania needs to figure out new ways to engage with a new world. The country can no longer rely on external alliances or foreign financial inflows. It must fight for its future and its prosperity.’