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An Interim Report Even though Christianity is perhaps the most persecuted religion in the world, and the severity of the living conditions of oppressed Christians is getting worse by the year, the topic hardly ever gets substantive coverage in the global news media. For those of us well-acquainted with the

Review Essay of John Lloyd’s Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot:The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence (Polity Press, 2020) Published six years after the 2014 independence referendum in which 55 per cent of Scots voted against independence, this review of John Lloyd’s Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot was delayed as a

If truth is the first casualty of war, then the collapse of political illusions must be the second. War and its outcomes are never certain. Hence, from Thucydides to Clausewitz, connoisseurs of the phenomenon have counselled against recourse to it unless informed by clear and achievable goals. Violence clarifies. In

We talked with Zsolt Németh in the room of the House of Parliament from the balcony of which, in 1956, Imre Nagy addressed the crowds gathered below in Kossuth Square, and from which Mátyás Szűrös declared the Republic on 23 October 1989. Flying high in front of the balcony is

The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding across Ukraine has triggered a tsunami of EU sanctions on Russia, unleashing seismic disruptions across the global economy, currency arrangements, and the infrastructure of global financial payments systems.11 European Commission, ‘Sanctions Adopted Following Russia’s Military Aggression against Ukraine’,2022, https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-finance/international-relations/restrictive-measures-sanctions/sanctions-adopted-following-russias-military-aggression-against-ukraine_en. See also European Commission, ‘European Commission Calls

How does Austria feel about the four Visegrád states? And vice versa: How do the Visegrád states feel about Austria? These two questions, having never really been answered, have hovered over Central Europe for many years. Of course, they immediately lead to the next two unanswered questions: What is Central

Germany’s new government is in trouble after barely six months in office. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democratic Party are sinking in the polls and losing regional elections. What comes next? HUMILIATION IN THE NORTH On 8 May, voters in the northern German Bundesland (federal state) of Schleswig-Holstein delivered

In August 2008, Vladimir Putin provoked a war with Georgia by giving its president, Mikhail Saakashvili, the poisoned choice of either losing two ‘breakaway’ regions of his country to pro-Russian separatists and Russian ‘peacekeepers’ illegally present there or of risking an attempt to recover them by military action. Saakashvili chose

How do democracy and the rule of law relate to each other? This is a very important and interesting question both from a political and a theoretical perspective, and the recently deceased Sir Roger Scruton’s work offers crucial insights into this dilemma. Scruton wrote on a great number of important

A Review of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for AmericanConservatism by Matthew Continetti ‘The right’ is a term that, as we are currently reminded by the travails of Republicans in the US and Tories in Britain, covers a multitude of sinners. And the longer the period under inspection, the bigger