The Iconoclast
A piece of Chinese life
By William Corden We’d had dinner in Guangzhou with a mainland Chinese friend who was CEO of a listed Hong Kong real estate company; my wife knows quite a few […]
Ouch! Rumble in the Semi-Literate Jungle
By Reg Green As the volcanic debate continues to spew its detritus I remember a long ago article by George Plimpton, the Paris Review co-founder, that described how some of […]
Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary compares himself to Kevin Keegan at terror trial
From Sky News and the London Evening Standard Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has compared himself to Kevin Keegan, telling his trial that he is so famous he will be forever […]
Remembering Sacrifice in New York
By Bruce Bawer Igrew up in New York City, in Queens, in a neighborhood that few people outside of the borough have ever heard of: Middle Village. It’s relatively unknown […]
Sensible Right on course to win in Europe and US, even if UK is out of step
By Conrad Black The European elections, the first round of the French elections to the National Assembly, and the latest developments in the US presidential election are all movement in […]
Democrats Turn the Old Donald Trump Into an Underdog Fighting Gallantly and Successfully Against Shameful Abuses
By Conrad Black In the last week, the gigantic fraud of the Biden presidency has collapsed with dramatic suddenness. Since a debate format is not one that enables a participant […]
Leeds terrorist hospital worker ready to ‘kill as many nurses as possible’ with bomb found guilty
From Leeds Live Mohammad Farooq, 28, has been standing trial at Sheffield Crown Court, where he was unanimously found guilty of the single charge on Tuesday. He had previously admitted […]
The Lies We Have Lived Through
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of […]
Before 23-939 Trump v. US, only judges were above the law. Now, presidents are, too — to Justice Sotomayor’s hypocritical chagrin
By Lev Tsitrin As the Supreme Court ruled, by a 6-to-3 majority, that presidents have absolute immunity for their official acts, Justice Sotomayor gasped for just enough air to write a dissent […]
Conservative candidate Rabbi ‘abused and intimidated’ at local mosque
This has been picked up by a national newspaper more quickly than I expected, which is a pleasant surprise. From the Telegraph A rabbi standing as a Conservative candidate was “abused and […]
On July 1, Let’s Recognize Canada’s Past Achievements and Potential for Greatness
By Conrad Black July 1 has come again and naturally raises thoughts, however cursorily, of what Canada has been in the 157 years since Confederation was launched on July 1 […]
Is This How God Works?
By Roger L Simon Some who have been reading my newsletter know that lately I have taken to spelling the supreme being as G-d with a hyphen as part of […]
Female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in coordinated attack in Nigeria,
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said […]
Glastonbury – shame on you.
As festivals go I have never had the desire (or not since the early 70s when it was Glastonbury Fair and the acts included david Bowie and Fairport Convention) to […]
Erdogan the Magnificent: neo-Ottomanism begins to take shape
By Nikos Akritas Is President Erdogan of Turkey laying the groundwork for an invasion of Syria? Putin has recently heralded Erdogan as a key player in peace efforts regarding the […]
OUCH! Nighty, nighty, sleep tighty
by Reg Green “In a country of three hundred million are these two the best we can find?” I complained agitatedly after the debate. “Calm down. I’m sleeping like a […]
