Source: spiked
by Freddie Attenborough

“Four men have been arrested after an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein was projected on to Windsor Castle on Tuesday night – the same evening the US president arrived in the UK for his second state visit. Led By Donkeys, a ‘centrist dad’ campaign group, claimed responsibility, posting an image of the projection on Instagram with the caption: ‘Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle.’ Whatever we might think of Led By Donkeys, the arrests should worry us all. A group of activists beamed a satirical image on to a public building, poking fun at the leader of the free world over his friendship with a convicted paedophile. The police then decided that this was a breach of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 – a law designed to deal with poison-pen letters. Clearly, this is not what parliament remotely intended when the law was passed.” (09/18/25)

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/18/free-the-donkeys/

Source: The Dispatch
by Erwin Chemerinsky

“If there is to be a check on Trump’s unconstitutional and illegal actions, it must come from the courts, because neither those around him nor Congress have shown any inclination to rein in the president. But although the lower courts have frequently stopped unconstitutional actions, the Supreme Court has repeatedly reversed these decisions to align itself with Trump’s unprecedented exercises of presidential power.” (09/18/25)

https://thedispatch.com/debates/supreme-court-trump-executive-authority/

Source: Law & LIberty
by Ian Crowe

“James Grant demonstrates the significance of the principles that brought Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox together — and the issues that split them apart.” (09/18/25)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/politics-and-friendship-in-the-age-of-revolution/

Source: The Daily Beast
by David Litt

“Who could understand the power of being the persecuted underdog better than the president who won’t stop claiming he’s the persecuted underdog?” (09/18/25)

https://archive.is/BkfJU

Source: Washington Post
by Henry Olsen

“Charlie Kirk’s funeral Sunday will be a historic moment for conservatives. Kirk’s widow, Erika, President Donald Trump and his allies will understandably want to use the event to call out a tide of left-wing intolerance and violence. But they need to strike the right tone — or they risk squandering Kirk’s legacy.” [editor’s note: Value, and therefore “squandering,” is subjective. It’s becoming pretty obvious that the value MAGA sees in Kirk’s “legacy” is Kirk as a potential Horst Wessel. “Squandering” it, from their POV, would be failing to maximize its utility for achieving authoritarian ends – TLK] (09/18/25)

https://archive.is/o7RoV

Source: Antiwar.com
by James Carden

“At two key moments over the past 20 years, during 2004’s Orange Revolution and, a decade later, during the Maidan uprising, Ukraine’s nationalist political elites, at the urging of the American foreign policy establishment, sought to marginalize, stigmatize and eventually disenfranchise the substantial bloc of ethnic Russian citizens living in the country’s east and south. That such an eventuality was possible (if not likely) was foreseen some 35 years ago by the last decent foreign policy president we’ve had, George H.W. Bush, who crafted a post Cold War policy based on (1) a refusal to rub Russia’s diminished fortunes in its face and (2) a wariness of re-awakening the poisonous sectarianism that so marked the politics of Eastern and Central Europe at mid-century.” (09/18/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/james-carden/2025/09/17/ukraines-embrace-of-suicidal-nationalism/