Tag: politics

Fairy Tale of the Demon Virus

Once upon a time, there was a king who ran a small country. He wasn’t the sharpest tool in the box, but he was lucky to have a smart priest. And he once asked this priest a question, how to maintain absolute power if people regularly do their own thing and don’t want to listen?

America Elections in Black and White

In what is more than the usual differences regarding political ideologies between two candidates with fundamentally different personalities, the United States presidential election is essentially the culmination of a war of White and mixed-race cultures, influential French philosopher and author Éric Zemmour said in a political talk show on French news channel CNews.

When insults had class

Today the emphasis is on the riches in parliamentarians bank accounts. Not so long ago the ruling class were notorious for the richness of their language. Newspapers owners who really did challenge could also hold their own in any bout of verbal jousting.