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Iran to Board the Trump Train?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 15 May 2025; Hits: 713

2025-05-15

Il Presidento has moved on from Saudi to Doha, with much signing of agreements and general adulation (none of which includes Netanyahu's Israel, once the master of the USA - Trump must be feeling remarkably confident).

Even Iran it seems now wants a piece of the action, and if granted that would be a complete about-face from previous form of decades.

Will a decisive break from the past really emerge from all this?

It Matters Not to Free Men What Tyrants Write on Paper

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 14 May 2025; Hits: 653

2025-05-14

This follows on from this previous article, and a separate appeal for assistance (I don't normally carry appeals for donations because my job is to inform and not to raise money, even for worthy others - I have to have a policy on this for consistency and reputation and that is my policy).

Martin Geddes is personally involved (not as a parent) in a case of child abduction, under colour of law in an apparently legal process, but which upon critical examination can appear to break all the rules in the legal rulebook.

"What many believe to be a system of neutral adjudication is, in reality, a machine that can be co-opted to launder unlawful actions through a veneer of procedural legitimacy"

He brings us up to date with this case.

What Actually Did Go Wrong, and at Who's Hand?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 14 May 2025; Hits: 723

2025-05-14

Historian David Starkey isn't just a national treasure, he's perfectly capable of reviewing the broad sweep of history to pinpoint the points of fundamental change in practical legal government.

We may now be accustomed to the idea of "legal" equating to "compliance to somebody else's rules" or even nowadays "corrupt enforcement of invalid rules" but it was not ever thus. So where did it all go wrong?

"What has happened to the very meaning of the word 'Democracy'?"

"Anglo-Saxon England was astonishingly well administered"

"If that Magna Carta had survived we would have gone the way of Poland ... "

"It establishes that wonderful idea of the Middle Ages ... that you pay taxation in return for the redress of grievance ... "

"It works because it's a very lightly modified version of the English Constitution ... "

" ... we were able to take it [our Constitution] for granted ... because it was so successful ... "

Believe me, you don't want to miss this!

(104 minutes)

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Trump Breaks with Netanyahu?

Details: Category: Defence; Published: 13 May 2025; Hits: 718

2025-05-13

Scott Ritter reviews White House policy towards the Middle East.

It doesn't get much bigger than this:

(33 minutes)

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Reminder - The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 13 May 2025; Hits: 684

2025-05-13.

We have reported on this Bill back in February, but it hasn't gone away.

Since time immemorial, parents have been responsible for bringing up their children, because for better or worse the family is the bedrock upon which the human race has depended, and has thrived.

Yes, other arrangements are possible but the human bond between child and parent is the one thing that gives the child the confidence to explore, to grow, to learn, to make mistakes safely, and to recover and learn from them.

The State wants your child for indoctrination ("Climate emergency", "Mad Bad Vlad", "All-powerful State", Money is controlled by Central Banks on behalf of he People, "MPs work for their constituents", "The Courts deliver Justice", Central control is best, etc), which is why we have compulsory schooling. Another reason is that the State wants parents out at work, not at home nurturing children - production is all. Schools may be many things but they are not a substitute for loving parents, however good they may be.

The difference is that parental love is an unconditional and possibly life-long commitment, where the buck always stops with the parent. The school's only obligation is to those who fund them, and to the law of the land (which takes precedence). The school's needs may not align with those of their pupils and their parents.

State schools in particular are of necessity a one-size-fits-all type of institution, run not by parental love but by rules and regulations, serving not the parents but the State which funds them. Until state funding follows the parents this will not change, but don't hold your breath.

Indeed State schools are essentially primarily run by an artificial intelligence codified today as rules on paper, tomorrow within an AI.

Jesus is recorded in the Bible neatly encapsulating the difference between love and law when he was asked what was the "greatest commandment", and his answer cut to the heart of it.

"If passed in its current form, this Bill ... will change the relationship between family and the state for ever"

Michael Charles reviews the pernicious effects of this Bill for TCW Defending Freedom.

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