Colin Wilson: The Persistence of Meaning
Some literary names – Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, G. K. Chesterton, Oswald Spengler, T. S. Eliot, Raymond Aron, Eric Voegelin, William F. Buckley, Russell Kirk, or RogerScruton – have immediate resonance with conservative readers, as well they should. Some others the same readers might benefit from knowing although the occasion for familiarity, for a variety of reasons, has never offered itself. In every area of interest a small range of “core authors” tends to form the common reading and to serve for shared reference; it is as idiosyncratic readers that the like-minded are perhaps most useful to one another, as when they pass along bits of lore peculiar to their own cognizance, picked up by happenstance, that others, for entirely understandable reasons, have missed.
EU Elections in France – Some Background
It is time to take a cursory look at the European elections scheduled for June 7. I’ll use Le Figaro’s seriesof articles – there are at least 25 of them – as a guide, but other more interesting and subjective points of view can be found at the pro-sovereignty blogs.
While slide shows are usually just photos of celebrities,this one is informative as well, showing the major architects of what we call today the European Union. Two themes emerge from the captions: the fundamental roles played by France and Germany in the creation of this behemoth, and the early advocacy by the founders of a supranational Europe. Begun as a defensive measure, soon an economic agreement, it wasn’t long before the underlying ambition to create a political, hence anti-national, entity was explicit. This political ambition would be fiercely opposed by Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, were they here.
Another Day, Another Fraud
Berlaymonster has done some fine digging,
Instead of being sacked, Eurocrats are being compensated for fraud, all because the investigating office is useless.
14 EU fonctionnaires investigated for suspected injury benefit fraud have been awarded an extra 3000 euros each from the taxpayer, after it transpired the EU’s fraud watchdog failed to tell the accident-prone civil servants that they were to face criminal proceedings in Italy.
What the flipping heck!
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