Abroad
News from outside the UK
Globalise the Intifada
Saturday saw the deputy leader of a major UK political party - The Greens' Mothin Ali - join a pro Iranian regime demonstration in London calling to "globalise the intifada," among proudly displayed portraits of Ayatollah Khameini, as the party gained Gorton and Denton but lost…
Milei's Work Reforms
On 12 February, Argentina’s Senate approved a Milei-backed labour reform bill allowing workdays of up to 12 hours under new flexibility mechanisms. While not yet law, it is widely expected to pass the lower house despite Peronist opposition. Predictably, parts of the left…
Chagos Betrayal
With U-turn number 3167, Labour’s proposed treaty to transfer Chagos to Mauritius has now been pulled from ratification, at least for the time being. That pause is welcome, but it is an indictment that Starmer ever pushed this far. Chagos is a remote chain of islands in the…
Free Jimmy Lai
Tomorrow will see the closing arguments in the sham trial of Hong Kong democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai. The 77-year-old has been kept in solitary confinement since December 2020. His preferred foreign lawyer, Tim Owen KC, was barred from representing him under…
Putin - "not a bad guy"
In an interview on the weekend with Tucker Carlson (the "journalist" who provided a platform for Putin's ahistorical rant on the eve of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine), Trump's de facto envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, shared that he doesn't regard Putin as a "bad guy" and that he…
A Tale of Two Failures: Europe's Authoritarian Shift and Trump's Compromised Peace
Vance's scathing speech in Munich last week was just what the doctor ordered for a continent increasingly sliding towards authoritarianism. Unfortunately, Europe wasn't listening. Vance began by reminding those present that the principles of liberty and free speech are common…
Congratulations Canada
Yesterday bore the welcome news of Justin Trudeau's resignation as leader of the "Liberal" Party of Canada, and the calling of an election for 24th March. As the longest-serving leader in the G7, Canadians have suffered under his corrupt authoritarian regime since 2015. Since…
The Rule of Law- one for them and one for us
In the latest political drama to come out of the US Biden has pardoned his son Hunter for offences relating to drug and firearm use, after publicly promising he would not do so. Social commentators have been rapid in their response- one of Biden’s X posts from earlier this year…
Trump- the lesser of two evils?
With the dust beginning to settle on Trump's impressive political comeback across the pond and Labour's embarrassing u-turn reaction at home, we can begin the business of taking stock and looking forward to what is ahead. Unfortunately, our Libertarian namesake in the US polled…
Kowtowing to Communists
This anti-slavery day, while the Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF) was hosting awards to raise awareness of modern slavery, our foreign secretary visited Beijing. There Mr Lammy cosied up to the Chinese Communist Party- arguably the most successful authoritarian regime on…
Milei and Maduro- socialism vs Liberty in Latin America
Yesterday yet another election was stolen by a despot: Maduro in Venezuela. Predictably, the social media left have come out in force to pretend an absolute majority of citizens voted for a government which has butchered their freedoms and living standards. In contrast, 5000…
For their freedom and ours- why arming Ukraine is the Libertarian position
Penal colony FKU IK-3 is located near Kharp, a village of some 6000 people in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia, just north of the Arctic Circle. There, on the 16th of February 2024, Alexei Navalny- the last significant opposition figure remaining within the borders…