Saturday Commentary and Review #51

South Africa's Hell, EU's anti-Democracy, Montenegro Divided, Italy's Sharp Right Turn, Irish Castle Re-Wilding

“The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions”, is an aphorism whose origins are unclear but whose meaning is obvious to anyone that is a student of history. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an age of (naive) hope whereby ‘freedom would spring eternal’, and where old systems of oppression would be swept aside thanks to the collapse of t…