Has anyone noticed that in all the riot of opinions about the riots, one usually loud voice has been completely silent? Everyone has something to say. Even those who, unlike me, have not been beating the drum about the rising culture of uneducation in Britain for more than a decade, have suddenly found something to say. Sometimes it was even ( Read more... )

...shows the nobility of his character and the excellence of his mind. And people are surprised ( Read more... )

The High Council of the Judiciary (Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, or CSM) is a constitutional organ of the Italian state that has no parallel in Britain and America. Presided by the President of the Republic, it is both the professional body and the high governance court for the whole order of judges, from the lowest to the highest level ( Read more... )

My experience is that the Pope's decision to form an Anglican grouping - not yet a Rite, but the difference is slight - has unleashed a vicious avalanche of anti-Catholic hatred such as I had not seen in quite a while. Catholic blogs are suddenly awash not only with Protestant and Anglican, but, more to the point, with atheist and Christian-hating ( Read more... )