Recent protests in Ukraine against government decisions affecting key anti-corruption and defence institutions may look like dangerous dissent undermining national unity and the war effort. In…
Read moreThe 250th anniversary of American independence today is a timely occasion to reflect on the human journey from dependence to independence and to interdependence – among individuals, communities and nations. Many Americans…
Read moreAny nation, big or small, can become a great nation. Some nations think they are great, or strive to restore ‘greatness’. But what really makes a…
Read moreThe Dutch will go orange-crazy this coming Monday. Canals in Amsterdam will overflow with boats crammed with orange-clad merrymakers. Music will fill streets festooned with orange…
Read moreFreedom – of speech or of worship, from want or from fear – was both celebrated and contested on various fronts this week, reminding us that the…
Read moreEver since Constantine in the fourth century, nations and empires have been tempted to define themselves as ‘Christian’. But can a nation or an empire be…
Read moreThis month marks twenty-five years since the first Weekly Word was sent out in February 2001. When this column began, Europe stood at the dawn of a new…
Read moreThe slogan ‘Never again’ evolved after World War Two rooted in the vow to prevent the recurrence of the Holocaust’s horrors. It has been broadened over time…
Read more“Europe is being transformed beyond recognition, hollowed out culturally and overrun by hordes of Muslim migrants in an irreversible process of civilisational decline”. So prominent voices…
Read moreThe emergence of an isolationist-yet-imperial United States under a fascist and autocratic administration is not as ‘unAmerican’ as we might like to think. All our lives…
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