The Iconoclast
Paris Olympics – Worst Opening Ceremony Ever
By Bruce Bawer The opening ceremonies of Olympic games have always followed the same pattern. A parade of national teams enters the stadium, led by Greece, and followed by the […]
Man who trafficked vulnerable teen girl to factory is jailed
From the Bradford newspaper the Telegraph and Argus. Ebrahim Pandor, 44, and Amjad Hussain, 45, were both sentenced on 31st July for offences committed against her in Kirklees between the […]
Eight Men Charged With Sexual Offending Against A Child
From West Yorkshire Police H/T the indomitable Sammy Woodhouse. They are to appear at Bradford Magistrates Court tomorrow. The offences are indictable so they will be committed to the Crown […]
New video of would-be assassin standing and running across the roof
From @Geiger_Capital on X: New video from the Trump assassination attempt shows Thomas Crooks not stealthily crawling on the AGR roof, but literally running across. The Secret Service either allowed […]
Harris Is Recycling the 2020 Democrat Campaign
By Victor Davis Hanson Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election through a successful tripartite subterfuge. One, Biden never really campaigned. His handlers rightly assumed that the more the public […]
Ouch! Head Count
By Reg Green Trump haters who seized on the possibility (now debunked) that the former president might have been hit by shrapnel not a bullet — as if in some […]
Why is the New Secret Service Director so Angry? Lord Conrad Black with Sebastian Gorka
Ismail Haniyeh causes a problem for Karim Khan
By Lev Tsitrin While the commentators around the world are busy watching the political and military ramifications of the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, asking themselves […]
A Prison Mosaic by Armando Simon: A Sweet and Sour Summertime Read
By Carl Nelson For those of us New English Review habituates, who circle the Iconocast postings like barflies around the office water cooler, Armando Simon is a well-known contributor. As […]
U.N. Court Orders Jews—‘Get Out!’
By Eric Rozenman The U.N. International Court of Justice ruled on July 19 that Israel should get out of “illegally occupied Palestinian territory”—the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and eastern […]
Israel Takes Revenge on Hezbollah for Rocket Attack at Majdal Schams and Hamas Leader for Perpetrating October 7th Pogrom and War in Gaza
By US Army Brig. General (ret.) John Adams and Jerry Gordon This is the 11th SITRep discussion on the 269th day of Israel’s War with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah […]
Profound Christian moment mocked by Olympics
By Conrad Black The opening ceremony to the Paris Olympics contained an element that was ghastly and profoundly offensive in itself, and echoes more loudly as it ricochets around media […]
Testing the Waters
By Ehud Neor More good news from the Seine. After a 1.5-billion-dollar cleanup job, it seems that the waters are now too polluted for the swimming part of the triathlon […]
Think you’ve got a lot of money? How big are financial markets?
By William Corden The average DAILY turnover of foreign currency trades in the financial markets is a staggering $5.3 TRILLION ! That’s $5.3 million millions each and every business day […]
Violence erupts in Southport after child killings
I know I use the Telegraph rather a lot but it is the best of a no-longer-as-good-as-they-were bunch of British newspapers. The information, misinformation, management of information and obfuscation after […]
Southport update
Very bad news from Southport this morning, that a third little girl has died. The three girls have been named, Bebe, Elsie and Alice, 6, 7 and 9. Two more […]
