Several thousand people have marched past Berlin’s Reichstag building to protest “hate and racism in parliament” as newly elected lawmakers from the nationalist, anti-migration Alternative for...
Just came across this excerpt from Newsnight two years ago. It's great fun to see Kirsty Wark trying (and failing) to understand how anybody can hold a belief which does not conform to today's...
Watching BBC1's program *Should I Marry...?".
A strong case is being made for tribal values (family, tradition, honour) being superior to lax Western attitudes....
A real treat in the winning entry to the "Reprogramming" competition. Hope I'm not infringing copyright with my plug for the Speccie, but here's part of the preamble: "In Competition No. 3012 you were...
... discussing the death of the Muslim convert's son who died fighting for ISIS and the process of "radicalisation" which turned a normal decent boy into a killer. Excellent questions: "why?" and...
Tusk triumphant. Points out (warning to Brits) that you can't be half in and half out of the EU. Assume therefore that any EU citizen has automatic right to enter Japan and be to entitled to its...