Entries by Mark Gullick

Caliphate for the UK?

In December of last year, Gaza’s oldest mosque was largely destroyed by Israeli air-strikes. The Omari mosque dating back to the seventh century and named for Umar ibn al-Khattab, Islam’s second caliph, and so is much mourned. It is worth noting in passing that Islam does not separate religion and state as the West does, […]

Evaluating Empire: A review of Nigel Biggar’s ‘Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning”

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning Nigel Biggar William Collins, 2023 The controversy over empire is not really a controversy about history at all. It is about the present, not the past. Nigel Biggar The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. P. Hartley, The Go-Between. The White population of the USA are wearily used to […]

A House Divided: Schizocracy

A house divided cannot stand. Matthew 12:22. With election season approaching on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, political rhetoric will increasingly favor certain themes, and even certain words, in an attempt to entrance and ensnare the public. In the UK, where the government quite blatantly uses NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) both internally and when addressing […]

The Unfair City of Dublin

‘In Dublin’s fair city’, runs the first line of the Irish folk song Molly Malone, ‘where the girls are so pretty’. Dublin lives up to that description, or at least it did. Since its prime, however, and victim as it now is to a nationwide political program in which its famously friendly people had no […]

Hunting GB News

The two seismic elections of 2016, Donald Trump’s Presidential victory and the British “Brexit” referendum, were linked by the common thread of a phenomenon they served to expose. Trump’s win and the ensuing resistance in his own administration showed the existence of a “deep state” that could be mobilized against an undesired political outcome in […]