The Iconoclast

Dissecting Obama
by Bruce Bawer Not so long ago, America had a great economy, the lowest unemployment ever for a range of demographic groups, energy independence, an increasingly secure southern border, a […]

Islamic charity in London that praised Iranian terror general closes
From the Telegraph An Islamic centre described as the voice of Iran’s Supreme leader in the UK has closed – just weeks after the Charity Commission tried to take control. […]

Keep Rockin’ Forever, Tina Turner!
by Roger L. Simon I can’t remember the exact date when I first saw Tina Turner. It must have been in the very early ’70s, and it was at a […]

Shabbat Shalom v’ Chag Shavuot Sameach
by Phyllis Chesler and Rivka Haut Once, and for all time, I was privileged to study Torah with Rivka Haut (z”l). At a moment of great loss, I suggested that […]

Rochdale grooming trial restarts after jury discharged
From the Manchester Evening News and the BBC A jury has been discharged in the case of eight men accused of sexually abusing two girls as young as 12 in Rochdale. […]

‘Woke’ Behind the Scenes, Fox News No Longer Worth Watching
by Roger L. Simon Forget about boycotting Fox News for blocking Tucker Carlson, as bad as that was. We’re past that stage. A leaked company handbook—the contents of which were […]

The Anniversary of the Manchester Arena jihad bombing
comes hard on the heels of the jihad murder of Lee Rigby. One serving soldier followed by the deaths of 22 civilians, mostly (and targeted deliberately) girls and women. I have […]

Ontario Bill Would Banish Freedom Of Speech From LGBT ‘Safety Zones’
Thomas Jipping writes in The Federalist: A bill introduced last month in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, would allow the attorney general to bring charges carrying fines of up […]

If Trump Returns to White House, Durham Report Gives Him a Mandate To Clean House Across the Federal Bureaucracy
The report confirms that the Russia collusion inquiry was a shabby and unjustified enterprise, motivated by partisanship and designed to neutralize or destroy the Trump administration. by Conrad Black It […]

Time to Listen to the Hundred Years Old Henry Kissinger
by Conrad Black If the Biden administration had devised a policy at the outset of the Ukrainian war to lead the Western allies in providing Ukraine with all that it […]

Dark Matter
Race hustling in astronomy. by Bruce Bawer In 2017, when then-president Donald Trump responded to the ongoing fever of far-left iconoclasm by predicting that radicals would soon be toppling statues […]

W. Somerset Maugham: the pleasures of a master
On Maugham’s controversy. by Theodore Dalrymple A few months ago I went to dinner with an old friend, a retired professor of great distinction who suffered throughout his career from […]

The Kerala Story now showing in the UK
Well, the Kerala Story showed over the weekend at the Piccadilly cinema in Leicester, the Vue in Manchester and Leeds daily, Cineworld both in Ilford and the O2 Greenwich (aka […]

A Passing Thought
by Carl Nelson A background cause of our current political divide is that a greater and greater percentage of the population is leading institutionalized lives through schools, non-profits, government, and […]

Anniversary tribute to Fusilier Lee Rigby, 10 years on
10 years since Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered on the streets of London by two Nigerian jihadists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, outside Woolwich Barracks in South London. Fusilier Rigby […]

After Pentecost
The Urantia Book, paper 195: 195:0.1 (2069.1) THE results of Peter’s preaching on the day of Pentecost were such as to decide the future policies, and to determine the plans, of […]