Tag: change,

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.