A newspaper blog worth a visit

I dislike blogs which appear as part of a mainstream media operation, partly as they do not meet the criteria I accept as true independent blogging. But I do read them and here is a cracker, just look at this quote from the finale of yesterday's posting:

Boil down Maritain's political thinking and it is this: it is the common good-- which is whatever theologians or philosophers define it to be -- and not the rights of the individual that is the basis of the state.

If I had to design a one-line recipe for oppression, that would be it -- that you, the individual, must allow your rights to be subservient to what the elite identify as the common good.

And if I had to design a one line recipe to define the philosophy of the EU, it would be the same: that we must allow our rights to be subservient to what the Brussels elite identify as the common good.

I don't like it when the idea comes from the Vatican. And I really, really don't like it when it comes from Brussels.

And what else? It makes me suspicious of why Tony Blair is pushing his conversion to Roman Catholicism so publicly. We know he is trying to manoeuvre himself into being made President of the European Union, once the EU Consitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty, is forced through and the office of president is created. Being a Catholic would no doubt look good on Blair's CV. He's even set up a website for his new 'faith foundation' which reproduces a Newsweek article on the 'truth' of his Catholicism: 'As Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was officially an Anglican. Unofficially, though, he was a practicing Roman Catholic.'

So now we know: the prime minister who broke his word on giving the British people a right to vote on the Continental-Catholic EU Consitution was all the time a practising Roman Catholic, and not the Anglican he pretended to be. So low. So cunning. So, some might say, Jesuitical. Brilliant stuff Mary Ellen Synon, I guess especially as you published under a Daily Mail banner.