The Iconoclast
Lords and Flies
by James Como It’s been a while since I’ve read the magnificent Golding allegory I allude to in my title, but last weekend my high regard for it was renewed. […]
Catholic school prompts uniform row by banning Muslim girl from wearing a headscarf
From the Birmingham Mail. The reaction of the Muslim community ‘leaders’ is interesting. Whether they are calling for an immediate chance of policy or are presenting a conciliatory reasonable front […]
Bourbons of the Press Straggle on in Defeat
by Conrad Black It was a brilliant inauguration, and the continued scrapping and strafing between the administration and the bedraggled, sodden mass of the press continues the execution of a […]
Interlude: The Talladega College Marching Band Strut Their Stuff At the Inauguration of the 45th US President
Showtime!
Don’t frustrate Brexit, Davis warns MPs
Up-sum of David Davis’ Commons statement: Article 50 legislation within days Bill will be straightfoward, short and simple as possible Timetable to trigger by March still stands Or to put […]
Paris mosque to remain closed amid claims it became a ‘breeding ground for ISIS jihadists
Obama Out
Requiem for a Lightweight by G. Murphy Donovan “Character is destiny.” – Heraclitus Critics often make for strange bedfellows. Louis Farrakhan and Cornell West are examples. Both argue that Barack […]
Iran backers met more than 30 times with senior Obama admin official
Adam Kredo writes in the Seyed Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and head of its national security council, was hosted at the White House 33 times, according to recently updated […]
Professor Kishwar Rizvi and “Misinformation About Islam”
by Hugh Fitzgerald “There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in Western media tend to perpetuate stereotypes that Islam is a violent religion and Muslim women are oppressed.” — […]
For Israel, Uniqueness Must Always be Affirmed
by Louis René Beres The Memorial Wall at Yad Vashem – the Wall of Holocaust and Heroism – has four separate sections, ranging (and rising) from the Shoah to Rebirth. […]
Sweet & Sour Paris Peace Conference
by Nidra Poller Given a choice, monsieur the diplomat, between two International Peace Conferences-Kazakhstan for Syria or Paris for the Middle East- which would you prefer? Would you like to plough […]
Can Trump contain Obama’s Middle East fallout?
by Matthew M. Hausman The inauguration of Donald Trump signals the end of the most hostile presidency in the history of American-Israeli relations, and yet many liberal Jews are sad […]
Making Britain Great Again
by Michael Curtis The winds of political change are blowing in the UK as they are in the United States. In both countries the kaleidoscope of the political world is […]
A Modern Macchu Picchu
by Theodore Dalrymple In the second section of the Guardian for 16 January, there is an article about a building in Peru that has ‘just earned… the title of best […]
Obama’s Apparatchik Still Runs Riot in Guatemala
US Ambassador Jets Constitutional Reforms, Backs Marxists by Steve Hecht US Ambassador Todd Robinson (left) and US Embassy Guatemala) Donald Trump has taken office, but Barack Obama’s agenda continues at […]
Interlude: Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, or, a Reminder of Just Why It Makes So Much Sense to Move that US Embassy To Jerusalem
Ofra Haza, sweet singer, born in Israel as the daughter of Jews who ultimately escaped the seven hells of dhimmitude that they had endured as near-slaves in Islamic Yemen, and came to […]
