The growing success of the British National Party is not due to disaffected Conservative Party supporters but rather Labourites discontented with their party’s leadership, Gary Younge explains at The Guardian.
Not a single head of state who has faced trial for his political actions has ever been acquitted, writes John Laughland introducing his new book, A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein, over on Brussels Journal.
He got rubbed out of history as being no longer desirable or fashionable to the modern world. And who rubbed him out? His supposed best “comrade”, the Socialist Left - that’s who! So writes Tribunus at Roman Christendom.
Not enough money has been spent on the Speaker’s house at the Palace of Westminster, while whole wings and corridors of rooms have been done up like those of a five-star hotel: dead in feel and execrable in taste. So writes Christopher Howse at the Daily Telegraph.
A leaked diplomatic memo from Dublin to Whitehall shows just how governments are conspiring to rig the deck when Ireland votes on the new EU constitutional treaty, from the Brussels Journal.
The conviction is growing in intelligence circles that Osama’s days are numbered, and many within the counterterrorism community are beginning to question some basic assumptions about al-Qaeda and how great a threat it continues to represent, writes Philip Giraldi at @TAC.
A BBC survey suggests that white working-class people feel ignored by politicians . They are certainly ignored by the mainstream churches in this country – and especially by the Catholic Church, writes Damian Thompson at Holy Smoke.
The diaries of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, are published this month. Her publisher and editor, Robert Ellsberg, recalls her life, with its mix of traditional piety and radical politics in The Tablet.
