The death of Elizabeth II, while inevitable and expected — she was 96, after all — has still produced a degree of shock in many. This is not unexpected — the monarchy as a whole has a complex legacy, ...
It was the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm who remarked that “for a variety of reasons, Italy is a sort of laboratory of political experiences”. Jonathan Foot’s remarkable The Archipelago: Italy...
I woke up on August 31 to the rather surreal event of The Royal Gazette having published an op-ed column by Khalid Wasi dedicated to a personal attack and slander of myself. While such may be expected...
A Reply to Robert Stewart — On Welfare
While Mr Stewart’s first article focused rather generally on the question of “who pays” and the role of the state, his second article zeroed in on the question o...
A Reply to Robert Stewart – The State within Capitalism
Mr Stewart paints quite a caricature of the operation of the State as regards taxation.
Despite his claims, the majority of the electorate ful...
A little more Marxism . . .
One of the comments left on the online version of my response to Mr Stewart’s extraordinary attack on May Day and Marx responded to my side comment that I think “our unions...
It was with some degree of amusement that I read Mr Stewart’s rather astonishing attack on Karl Marx (May 6, RG), in an attempt to criticise the BIU celebrating International Workers Day. I say astoni...