The Iconoclast

From the Times and the Daily Mail The founder of a hardline Islamic lobbying group accused of making derogatory remarks about Jews and spreading conspiracy theories was invited to speak to civil servants, it has emerged.  Sufyan Ismail, 45, is the founder of Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND),  ...Read More...

From the Guardian Shamima Begum, who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, remains a serious threat to national security and should be deprived of her UK citizenship, the supreme court has been told. Extracts of MI5 assessments of the dangers posed by the return of those ...Read More...

Narrator extraordinaire Ann Osmond reads from Requeim for a Femals Serial Killer and author Phyllis Chesler discusses her work and answers questions here.     ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald As is well known, the most anti-Israel of our Presidents is Jimmy Carter, the perennially grinning author of Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which contains such tossed-off malevolence as this: “Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian ...Read More...

From the Mail on Sunday At least four ISIS brides are following Shamima Begum's lead in challenging the government's decision to strip them of their British citizenship in a bid to return to the UK. Begum's future is set to be determined tomorrow as Judges at the Supreme Court will rule whether ...Read More...

Edwardian era target from a former MOD range and training area, now a bird sanctuary.  ...Read More...

Joe Biden has one great chance to emancipate himself from the extremists in his own party and work with moderate Trump supporters and NeverTrumpers among the Republicans. by Conrad Black There is a pathway to significant success for a President Biden. It is hard to detect, given the questionable ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Malawi will be the first African state to place its Israeli embassy in Jerusalem. It makes sense. Malawi has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1964. When other African states were bribed or pressured by the Arabs to break relations with Israel after the Six-Day War, ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis The Stately Homes of England, how beautiful they stand to prove the upper classes have still the upper hand.  Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt and frequently mortgaged to the hilt is inclined to take the gilt off the gingerbread. At a moment when Britain is disquieted ...Read More...

Why is our leader putting us to sleep with sophomoric bunk about recessing backwards into lobotomous socialism and pseudo-environmental self-impoverishment? by Conrad Black This week, I clicked on to a link sent by a correspondent and watched and listened to Justin Trudeau telling us how his ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald In its venomous coverage of Israel, the British newspaper The Guardian has for years been the print equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn. Recently Israel dismantled a group of seven Bedouin tents and eight animal pens on land the Bedouins did not own and that the IDF has used for live-fire ...Read More...

by Reg Green The death on November 20 of Jan Morris, called punctiously by the English newspaper The Times. the fifteenth best British writer since World War II, has led to a flood of admiring comment and the full panoply of obituaries. Anyone interested in what a full life is should read the ...Read More...

From the Daily Mail and the BBC An Isis fantatic has been jailed for eight years after sharing a video of him yelling 'attack, attack,' at the Royal Festival Hall in an extremist WhatsApp group - after claiming he was only practising dog commands. Shehroz Iqbal, 28, from Gants Hill in Ilford, was ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald As is well known, Mahmoud Abbas has for the past seven months refused to accept the taxes that Israel collects on Palestinian imports on behalf of the PA. This is the second time he has refused to accept the transfer of those taxes. The first time was when Israel insisted on ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Some comments in the media on the recent and still officially unresolved election amount to expressions of relief that despite the bitter campaign, the demoralizing complexities of the coronavirus pandemic, and the widespread fatuous practice of deliberately misinterpreting President ...Read More...