The Iconoclast

From the Telegraph. Her book has been out about 2 weeks - it's not just about the Grooming gang abuse but it all sounds interesting. I'll buy and read it in due course. Meanwhile from her interview with Julie Bindle something which I had not seen before stands out.  She is telling her side of the ...Read More...

The long-term consequences of Canada having higher tax rates in almost every bracket than the United States are easily predicted and potentially very damaging to this country by Conrad Black It is a well-known and almost uncontested economic aphorism that you will get more of whatever you ...Read More...

TR News and Tommy's Telegram account, plus trusted people with whom he is allowed contact confirm that he is on an isolation wing and thus his contact with other prisoners is minimal. He certainly isn't "strutting around" or sharing the communal ablutions.  The Daily Star Sunday had the story first ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Turkey, a member of NATO and — some still believe — an American ally, has been in the news of late because of its purchase, and then its taking delivery, of the S-400 air-defense missile system from Russia. It did this in defiance of the wishes of the American government, and ...Read More...

I'm a couple of days late with this. From Luton Today, The Sun,The Telegraph and the BBC.  Photograph from the Daily Mail  A Luton man and woman (brother and sister both of Kirkwood Road, Luton) charged with terrorism offences appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 16th July. The pair were ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Former British Ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch On July 17, 2019, the most astute political commentator in the United States, the 72 year old O.J. Simpson, announced he was afraid of what’s happening in America today. He attacked the Democratic party for its failure to ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Nowhere is the collapse of the Democratic Party as a coherent political organization more evident than in the astounding metamorphosis of Robert Mueller. He returned to public notice as special counsel and was instantly heralded by the Democratic media as a virtual Douglas MacArthur ...Read More...

From the Lancashire Telegraph TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after police raided two properties in Burnley and another in Accrington. Early this morning, Thursday, Lancashire Police and Counter Terrorism Policing North West officers executed warrants at two addresses ...Read More...

From the Rotherham Advertiser SIX men have gone on trial accused of 27 child sexual exploitation offences against seven Rotherham schoolgirls. The men are charged with offences including rape, indecent assault and child abduction between 1998 and 2002, all alleged to have taken place in Clifton ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Among the speeches Boris Johnson has been giving to Conservative Party gatherings as part of his campaign to become the next prime minister, one was of special interest because of what he said, and did not say, about immigrants to Great Britain. In remarks at a Conservative ...Read More...

Middle East Forum Sentry Radio: Robinson arriving for his sentencing in London on July 11. In a final interview the day before being imprisoned for nine months on contempt of court charges, British activist Tommy Robinson spoke to MEF Sentry Radio on June 10. The charges stem from his livestream ...Read More...

According to Facebook, St. Augustine is too judgmental. The forbidden quote: Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon. But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald In Nigeria, the war in the north against Christians continues to widen, with Christian girls kidnapped (and some used as sex slaves), Christian villages and churches destroyed, and Christians killed, by both the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, which is largely made up of ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and Sky News A student has been found guilty of trying to kill cyclists and police officers outside the Houses of Parliament. Salih Khater, 30, ploughed his Ford Fiesta into a pedestrian and a group of cyclists who had stopped at a red light in Parliament Square on August 14 last ...Read More...

Ewan Gillings writes in Bournbrook: It seems, once again, the issue of Brexit rears it old and increasingly scarred head in an issue of Bournbrook. Paul Oakley’s new book No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care: A Brexit Memoir concerns the history of the author’s political life; his time spent in ...Read More...