The Iconoclast

Once upon a time young pupils (aged 12? 13?) in American schools would routinely be tasked with memorizing such passages, and declaiming them with suitable expression. And now? Now they’re […]

From report earlier this week of ISIS activity along the Mexican border, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisors called a “special” meeting at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez. A […]

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This is the result of 20 years of the Judicial Diversity Division of Ministry of Justice, Judicial Group (or whatever they call themselves these days) ensuring that only lawyers who […]

Pvt.  Quinton Ezeagwula on left and the late Pvt. William “Andy“ Long on right News came  today  that the Pentagon has relented and awarded Purple Hearts  to two  Army Privates […]

“Reforms” in the name of egalitarianism, of course. And the word “grammaire” will no longer be mentioned until too late in what will now be a game.. Where will they […]

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And the horrors just keep on coming…

Something from The New Statesman by Auberon Waugh (1975):   Not far from where I live in Southern France there runs a small canal called La Rigole. It is a […]

It was under Ataturk that Hagia Sophia became a museum — it would have been too much to hope that it might have again become a church both for the […]

It appeared in The New York Times on April 11. He talks about a fellow journalist, Tiziano Terziani, about covering Russia and China and Afghanistan and Iraq and South Africa […]

Here. The first one sees the origins of his favoring Iran (does he? only, it seems,  when it comes to Israel. In Yemen, and in Syria, he supports those opposed […]

A whistleblower who repeatedly tried to expose the full extent of child sex abuse in Rotherham has told

Here. And much more, from Ivan Rioufol, on what Larcher — the President of the French Senate — has done in his report, to address directly the well-founded fears of […]