The Iconoclast
The Ukraine war
By William Corden If anyone has read “The meeting at Potsdam” by Charles L. Mee, they will recognize immediately the tactics being employed by Mr Putin. Uncle Joe Stalin had […]
Discrimination by Design: The DEI Logic No One Wants to Face
By Theodore Dalrymple One of the things that most surprises me about proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a guide to policy, especially in universities where intelligent people are […]
Forget Parris
By Bruce Bawer Meet Matthew Parris – America fan, Trump-hater, and pillar of Britain’s suicidal Westminster establishment The English writer Matthew Parris, 75, is a graduate of Cambridge and former […]
Will Europe Side With China or the US?
Europe, You Can’t Sit on the Sidelines Anymore By Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to talk today about the role of China, the United States, and the European Union, or […]
Panic Glutton
By Theodore Dalrymple My reaction to world affairs veers between complacency and panic. Either it is the end of the world, or everything will continue as before. I have been […]
Football executive fired after THREE DAYS for social media posts supporting Hamas
From Jewish News – very close to home this. A newly-appointed executive at Dagenham & Redbridge FC has been sacked just three days into the role after vile social media […]
King praises Judaism and Islam in Easter message
I despair. After his Eid/Iftar escapades we did wonder whether we would get an Easter message. From the Telegraph The King has praised the ethics of Judaism and the “human […]
Will Harvard Go Full Hillsdale?
By Victor Davis Hanson Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on anti-Semitism. The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus […]
‘Allah sees everything’: Gaza groups tell Muslims who to vote for
From The Telegraph Pro-Gaza activists are telling Muslim voters who to back in next month’s local elections. A campaign video which declares that “Allah sees everything” suggests which county council candidates […]
Bluebells
The Bluebell Anne Bronte A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or less of power. There is a […]
Green claims; An envelope more hectoring than election propaganda
By Theodore Dalrymple My wife ordered a few printed labels online, and they arrived a week later through the post. I have known election propaganda less hectoring than the envelope […]
Maine Gov. Janet Mills Doesn’t Know It Yet, But She’s an ‘Insurrectionist’
By Victor Davis Hanson I want to wade into a very controversial topic. I want to be very careful. It’s the issue of whether biological men who have transitioned to the female […]
Some Thoughts are More Fun than Others
By Carl Nelson “The 5 C’s of creative writing are content, craft, creativity, clarity, and coherence,” says Google, and mentions “marketability” not at all.” – me After reading the substack […]
European leadership was once strong and admired, but no longer
By Conrad Black Europe was accustomed for so long to an alliance with the United States where the contributions and benefits were so uneven in Europe’s favour that the Europeans […]
Reform Higher Education via the Market
By Roger L Simon President Trump wrote on TruthSocial April 15: “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing […]
‘Mockery of the justice system!’ Islamist hate preacher lifts lid on experience of prison confinement in leaked recordings
From GB News Exclusive recordings of notorious jihadi Anjem Choudary reveal how Islamist prisoners have been “mocking the British justice system for years.” The never-before-heard recordings, obtained by GB News, […]
