“But you’ve said you’re engaging in prayer, which is the offence.” Statements of prodigious historical significance are often uttered by insignificant people. That remark made by a West Midlands policeman, as he arrested Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life campaigner, in Birmingham last Monday for praying silently near an abortion clinic, has already been watched on video by almost a million people, appalled to discover that Thoughtcrime is now officially an offence in Britain.
Europe is undergoing radical change at an accelerating rate
The “ever closer integration” plan, at the heart of the European project, is unlikely to survive.