“T: Is life nothing but a fight with evil? C: Lord, no! The fight is to defend the good – to defend such good things as freedom and free fellowship, and, above all, to defend the home. Now, what is the home? It is the place where children are born and reared. And there is no miracle more wonderful than the creation of a child. That is why I so detest the idea of birth-prevention which means the suppression of the miracle.”

G.K. Chesterton in an interview with W.R. Titterton, in Titterton’s GKC: A Portrait (1936), the first Chesterton biography, reprinted in part at least in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say someone like Jeffrey Epstein could only be a well-connected insider rather than a depraved and marginal freak in the strange modern Big Brother at the Playboy Mansion ethos of endless laws and regulations restricting our liberty combined with libertine social and especially sexual permissiveness.

“This is hilarious. Anti-Israel whack jobs shut down Ottawa’s Pride Parade… that’s not the hilarious part (tho it’s fun to watch intersectional rock paper scissors)…the hilarious part is @globeandmail headline: ‘Pride parade cancelled after *coinciding* with pro-Palestine rally’”

Jonathan Kay on X 24/8/25 [https://x.com/jonkay/status/1959774800488153489] (my favourite bit being “intersectional rock paper scissors”)

“If you leave your children a world where you never stood up, they’ll inherit one where they can’t.”

Emailed as an image and without attribution by a friend Sept. 8, 2025

In my latest Loonie Politics column I take aim at the 20th-anniversary Harper revisionist rationalizations that he never intended to implement conservative policies, just build a winning party… which he didn’t even do anyway.

“The statistician is trying to make a rigid and unchangeable chain out of elastic links.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 23, 1927, quoted in “Statistics” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)

“Now this modern refusal to undo what has been done is not only an intellectual fault; it is a moral fault also. It is not merely our mental inability to understand the mistake we have made. It is also our spiritual refusal to admit that we have made a mistake.”

G.K. Chesterton quoted in stand-alone box without further attribution in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)

“An Eskimo woman is old at forty. An American woman is not old at forty. In fact, she’s not even forty.”

“An explorer” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)