TEN MYTHS ABOUT THE STATE— DEBUNKED 🧵 From my book The Polycentric Republic (Routledge, 2025), here are 10 widespread but mistaken beliefs about the modern State, and why they don’t hold up. Download the full preface and intro here, for free: drive.google.com/uc?export=down…

For those who have attempted to paint Kirk as some sort of “white supremacist” or “white nationalist,” I recommend you listen to this video.

This is not Taliban-led Afghanistan, but England in 2025. A police officer calls by to “have a chat” about a lady’s social media comments which, apparently, someone, somewhere, found “offensive.” It looks like satire, but I’m afraid it’s not…

The law and constitution of a society should be a common good, not the plaything of a ruling class.

Deborah Anderson is the American citizen who was confronted by Thames Valley Police over a Facebook post that had ‘upset’ someone. She was told to apologise or face being taken to the station for an interview. Watch Connie Shaw on GB News.

I'll say this for Gay Byrne: in a million years, he never would have stood up and given that speech knowing RTÉ was blacklisting guests whose views it didn't think the public should hear.

Ireland: a country whose government is 100% behind EU’s politically aggressive Digital Services Act, and has proposed and voted for hate speech legislation, is a country “where you can say whatever the f*** you want?” Who’s he kidding?

The Late Late Show Patrick Kielty Jimmy Kimmel Ireland: a country whose government is 100% behind EU’s politically aggressive Digital Services Act, and has proposed and voted for hate speech legislation, is a country “where you can say whatever the f*** you want?” Who’s he kidding?

Not the Ireland I know. Not by a long shot. Speaking as someone who grew up there, it is amazing how un-self-aware Irish people - especially people "high" up in society - can be about themselves, priding themselves on their "progressive" credentials while pushing for regressive

Anyone you disagree with these days is “far right,” apparently. The term is being emptied of any real meaning.

Senator G Craughwell This is utterly unpersuasive. Senator G Craughwell appears to be implying here that anyone who fought on the losing side of ANY past referendum in Ireland is not a fit presidential candidate. And in this particular case, that anyone who opposes abortion should be prevented from even

Now that the left has rediscovered the value of free speech when one of their own comes under pressure, can we look forward to a golden era in which right and left are united behind the cause of free speech?

I'd like to say something to my fellow conservatives. It's something that I hope will speak to old-school liberals as well. We must be people of principle--unwaveringly so. We must be so most fundamentally because it is right. It is morally required. And we are not relieved of

OK here’s the latest statement from Westmidlands police. The video is not a “fake” but the police statement provides more context, albeit from the perspective of the police: “We are aware of reports that we are investigating a child for viewing a social media post. This is

This was my rather optimistic take on the potential of the Covid crisis to reawaken bonds of solidarity. As the crisis unfolded, it became clear that even if it brought out the best in some, it also awoke a lot of cruelty and unthinking conformism parading under the banner of