The Iconoclast
Our Appetite for Psychological Banality
The Reverend Thomas Malthus was an English clergyman at the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th Century who put forward an idea that was to have […]
ISIS Bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 poses a Global Airline Security Threat
British Academics Need Healing
The United Kingdom has many attractions, Wimbledon, strawberries and cream, and political parties that talk to each other. What a pity that it also has far too many self-righteousness and […]
The English Show their Sense of Justice
Facebook and the internet are certainly bringing the intrinsic decency and sense of fair play of the British into prominence, as well as their refined use of language. In […]
Dudley Council defeats Dudley Muslim Association’s court challenge over Hall Street mosque land
A nice bit of earlier than expected good news from the
The News We’ve Been Waiting For: Merced Knife Attacker was Faisal Mohammed
I don’t know why they waited several days to release the name, but we have it now. Your suspicians were correct. Attacker “smiled” as he slashed victims at UC Merced […]
The Enemy is ISIS
A specter, that has taken material form, is haunting the world, the specter of Islamic terrorism, embodied by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or Daesh in […]
Are Killers Ordinary Men?
The nearest large town to where I live when I am in France is called Alès. Having once been a centre of coal-mining, it is not very beautiful, unlike most […]
The Presidential Campaign and America’s Public Emptiness
Once upon a time, Ralph Waldo Emerson called sensibly upon Americans to embrace “plain living and high thinking.” Conspicuously, this earlier call for an enhanced personal and social equilibrium has […]
Violent Confrontations Between Germans and Immigrants
And between Germans and the left-wing politicians and newspaper editors they feel are selling their country down the river. Since this is a war of civilians on civilians, it is not […]
WEAPONS CACHE Found Hidden at Swedish Migrant Center
‘Explosive device’ may have brought down Russian airliner over Egypt, UK officials say
Did ISIS plant a bomb? The Guardian reports.
Polish Football Fans Unfurl 50-Foot ‘Stand And Defend Christianity’ Banner At Premier League Match
Raheem Kassam writes at supposed racism at matches, and has displayed banners mocking Islamic jihad.
Erdogan’s Ballot Stuffing “Victory”
Ahmad Chalabi –the friend who aided in Preserving the Babylonian Jewish Heritage
Ahmad Chalabi 1944-2015 Source: Image by © Patrick Robert/Corbis Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial secular Shiite Iraqi nationalist leader, passed yesterday at the age of 71. He left behind a mixed […]
Tea and Stoicism
When two Englishmen meet, said Doctor Johnson, their first talk is of the weather. This may have been so in his day, but I suspect that these days they are […]
