The Iconoclast
The Last Supper
Though Da Vinci depicted The Last Supper as taking place around a fifteenth-century European table, the more likely Roman setting is portrayed below. The Urantia Book, paper 179. 179:0.1 (1936.1) DURING […]
Jerusalem: Boy, 13, ‘shoots and wounds’ two people, hours after gunman killed seven outside synagogue
From Sky News Two people have been wounded after a 13-year-old boy allegedly opened fire in Jerusalem, hours after a deadly shooting outside a synagogue. Israel’s national ambulance service said it […]
London: Muslims protest outside the Swedish Embassy today
Steve told me about this when we met this afternoon but the Swedish Embassy was a little too far from Trafalgar Square for me to do justice to both events. […]
No ULEZ – London protest about Mayor Sadiq Khan’s fund-raising new tax on Londoners
To Trafalgar Square in London to join the Action against ULEZ expansion gathering. As an official demonstration it was cancelled and Sadiq Khan refused the licence for it to take […]
TANKS FUTURES
by Ralph Berry Tanks dominate all assessments of the Ukraine war. That is because the authorities want us to talk tanks, to the exclusion of all other topics. Tanks are […]
7 killed, several hurt in shooting at Jerusalem synagogue; terrorist shot dead
From the Times of Israel Seven people were shot and killed and at least three others were wounded in a terror shooting attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov […]
Mastering the Future: The Megalomaniacal Ambitions of the WEF
by Michael Rectenwald The fifty-third annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) brought together fifty-two world leaders, seventeen hundred corporate executives, sundry artists, and other personalities to address “Cooperation […]
Student nurse Mohammad Farooq in court on terror charge after St James’s Hospital scare
Turns out his target wasn’t the Maternity unit but an RAF base somewhere in Yorkshire. But he was going to do his shift at work as a student nurse first; […]
The State Department’s Criminals Have Nowhere to Hide
by Steve Hecht The US State Department (DOS) is being exposed by Guatemalan officials as criminal and working against US interests. DOS is frantically covering its tracks and protecting its […]
Radical Muslim leader convicted of recruiting ISIS supporters
From the New York Post A radical Islamic cleric was convicted of recruiting and providing support for ISIS, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on Thursday. Shaikh Abdullah Faisal, 59, […]
A Conservative Pluralism
Conservatives should oppose elite attempts to crush American subcultures. Casey Chalk writes in The American Conservative: Not long ago an acquaintance in the federal government told me he would be visiting […]
Cash Out
by Theodore Dalrymple My relatively scant hair having grown into a porcupine-type mess and having both a video podcast and a dinner party to attend on the same day, I […]
Shabbat Bo Shalom
by Phyllis Chesler How swiftly the narrative proceeds, almost at a breakneck pace. In only three parshiot, (Shmot, Va’eira, Bo), and in only 350 sentences, we find ourselves enslaved in […]
Man, Mohammad Farooq, charged with terrorism after Leeds hospital bomb scare
A 27-year-old man has been charged with a terror offence after he was arrested in the grounds of St James Hospital in Leeds in possession of a firearm and a […]
Bellyaching
by Reg Green The result of an abdominal ultrasound I had a few days ago has arrived. It says my spleen is ‘unremarkable.’ I’ve just sent them some past issues of […]
“Day of the Endangered Lawyer”? How about “Day of the Law-Abiding Judge”? Or “Day of the Honest Press”?
by Lev Tsitrin I learned about the just-passed “Day of the Endangered Lawyer” from an article by a fellow-Russian, Jasmine D. Cameron who is “the senior legal advisor for Europe and […]
