The Iconoclast
What Should President Trump Do For Sub-Saharan Africans?
By Geoffry Clarfield I spent just under twenty years in East Africa doing international development work. Since then, I’m often asked, “Have the billions of dollars that Western countries invested […]
Did the Irish State threaten to undermine the selection of Chair for the Anglo-Irish talks?
By Robert Harris With the release of the governmental files of the Republic of Ireland this week, it emerged that in the selection of the Chair of the Anglo-Irish 1992 […]
Menorah lighting in Essex
By Esmerelda Weatherwax To Romford for the lighting of the menorah candles on the sixth night of Chanukah. The Chabad organisation has a programme of lighting candles across North East […]
Reminiscences occasioned by the passing of Jimmy Carter
By Lev Tsitrin The news of President Carter’s death naturally flooded airwaves and print publications with recollections. Here are mine. To be sure, I was not personally acquainted with the […]
The Great Fake H1-B Controversy
By Roger L Simon Sigmund Freud had a term for it—the “narcissism of small differences”. In this case, Wikipedia explains it well: “… the more a relationship or community shares […]
Devin Nunes Reemerges
By Victor Davis Hanson 2024 proved to be the year of the reemergence of many once and unfairly pilloried public figures. Elon Musk weathered nonstop attacks on his X social […]
Jewish artists claim they have been ‘frozen out of British cultural life’ after refusing to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as ‘genocide’
By Robert Harris This GB News article, based on reporting from the London Times, adds to the reportage over the last year in addressing the troubling anti-Israel sentiment that has […]
A Review of James Bradley’s The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
By Armando Simón I have very strong feelings about this book, but they are contradictory so I will separate what I feel makes this a good and a bad book. […]
Academic Feminists Ponder “Whiteness and Palestine”
By Phyllis Chesler Women’s Studies today–what can I say except: What I’m about to write belongs in the category of “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.” A Women’s Studies list, […]
Ouch! Coming out of the Closet Anytime
By Reg Green I learned this week from the online ‘History Facts‘ that one of the sinecures coveted by British courtiers in the late middle ages was ‘groom of the […]
The Evolution of Marriage
The Urantia Book places great emphasis on the family as the “master civilizer.” The next three papers are all on the family and its importance as the bedrock of civilization. […]
Debating Biden’s Death Penalty Stance
From Theodore Dalrymple President Biden’s commutation of the death penalty for 37 federal prisoners was somewhat inconsistent. He said, in announcing it, that “guided by my conscience and my experience […]
Ireland versus Israel
From Geoffrey Clarfield from the American Thinker Jews first came to Ireland in 1079. But when Britain expelled all of its Jews in 1290, the Jews of Ireland were forced to leave. A […]
Watch: Leeds condemn fans for singing anti-Palestine song in support of Manor Solomon
From the Telegraph where one of the top comments is Every Saturday a despicable bunch of anti semites march through Leeds chanting pro Palestinian (aka terrorist) slogans and they do […]
Christian population declined 90% under Palestinian Authority and Hamas
By Christina McIntosh I came across this article in the Jerusalem Post a few days ago. Violence and coercion has resulted in up to a 90% decline in the Christian population in […]
Terrorist suing Saracen’s Head pubs insists money would go to ‘orphans of Gaza’
From The Telegraph A convicted terrorist who is suing a pub called the Saracen’s Head over its “deeply offensive” name said he would donate any money he won to “the […]
