Ian Linden

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Ian Linden |Sameer Hinduja

“Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.” This was Donald Trump, with his customary offensiveness, three weeks ago. Unusually, it was not a flagrant lie — at least as far as his followers (and most Americans) are concerned. The 35% of Africans living in extreme poverty, 43% without electricity,  relying on only the most basic of health services, are becoming even more invisible. Even though “the poor you will always have with you” (Mark 14:7) is a constant rebuke to the West.

1 month ago | thearticle.com | Ian Linden |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Rainer Zitelmann’s article here, Why Trump is right to suspend USAID, does not do what it says on the tin. It does not demonstrate that President Trump’s decision to precipitately freeze some $58 billion in US foreign aid allocated for 2025 was in any sense of the word right — neither morally, nor as an effective economic policy, nor as in the “soft power” interests of the USA. But the article is a telling sign of the times.

2 months ago | thearticle.com | Ian Linden |Sameer Hinduja

Why did Donald Trump win again? Answers abound. But, after two weeks of President Trump’s executive orders, the nagging question still persists. Why and how did he win for a second time ? This isn’t idle speculation if he is to be resisted.

Jan 24, 2025 | thearticle.com | Ian Linden |Ali M. Mahmoud |Sameer Hinduja

Member ratings This article has not been rated yet. Be the first person to rate this article. Clandestine priests smuggled into England, hunted by spies from the royal court and martyred are prominent within English Catholic memory of the 16 th and early 17 th century. Priest-holes, the pejorative term “jesuitical”, and the exclusion of Catholics from succession to the throne, remain a minor remnant of that time.

Jan 20, 2025 | thearticle.com | Ian Linden |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Member ratings Well argued: 0% Interesting points: 0% Agree with arguments: 0% 1 rating - view all Now that President Trump has taken office, his predecessor Joe Biden’s parting shot, warning of the danger to American democracy posed by an oligarchy of the super-rich seems all the more timely. But it is not the only threat. The rule of law is the institutional foundation and safeguard of democracy. Once it is undermined democracy crumbles.