Andrey Zubov is a brave and honest man. As one of Russia’s leading historians and political scientists, he dared to speak out against the annexation of the Crimea in 2014, comparing Putin’s invasion with Hitler’s Austrian anschluss. He was temporarily…
Mr Putin’s messianic pretensions as saviour of Russian civilisation have deep religious and historical roots. Yet our western secular world tends to filter out religion and pre-Enlightenment history as irrelevant. Hence our surprise at the Hitleresque attack this week, reminiscent…
Bans on conversion therapy are being passed feverishly in countries around the world following a United Nations directive against the ‘inherently degrading and discriminatory’ practice. Canada, France, Germany and twenty-eight of the United States of America have passed bans, with…
Politics, as everybody ‘knows’, is a dirty business. No place for Christians, so the argument goes. Or should we say that’s the very reason why Christians should be involved? This week in Brussels, Romkje and I have been coaching young aspiring politicians…
No one these days dares speak against sustainability. After all, who’d want Greta Thunberg to get on their case? Unless, of course, we’re talking about relationships. For here we touch on one of society’s big hypocrisies. Our governments and industries…
