The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
Kathleen Garnett If, like me, you are a British patriot then you should vote to stay in the European Union. It is the most patriotic act you can do this year. The Brexiteers bandy around the place as though they own the intellectual rights to British patriotism but let me assure you their rhetoric is …
I was interested to read that Jacob Rees-Mogg has managed to raise Pounds Sterling 5000 for the Brexit campaign by auctioning off “Tea with Nanny”. Ms Veronica Crook was nanny to the Conservative MP for North East Somerset and his siblings. Now, she is employed as nanny to Rees-Mogg's own five children. According to Rees-Mogg, …
Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective not a truth, FB meme The above quote never did appear in Aurelius' Meditations even though it has been attributed to him - but who ever did come up with it hit the nail on the head with regards to the …
Kathleen Garnett Pity the British electorate. For months they had to hear politicians frothing at the mouth about unions – the union between kingdoms that is. Now they’re getting a repeat. No wonder there is so much ennui amongst the British electorate on the whole subject. Which is why we should all be grateful …
Some where, far, far away in a town no where near western Europe a person coined the phrase “illiberal democracy”. It sounds clever. It sounds learned. It sounds credible. A legitimate, benign alternative to the liberal democracies built up in post-war western Europe. It is not. Illiberal democracy is neither learned, nor legitimate and it …
Continue reading Illiberal Democracy? No thank-you. We’re literate not illiterate.
