I don’t much like red lines and am suspicious of the motives of Leftists and Libertarians intent on drawing them all over the place: Wrong take on 9/11? … Syria? … Russia? … Covid-19? Dude, that’s you off my list … Read More »
Today is the holiest of the year for non-Orthodox Christians. Millions will pay tribute to a man they say was the Son of God, sent to earth in human form to preach and work miracles then go as foretold to … Read More »
Touched on in my post of March 2 – Gaza to Rochdale – was a sensational New York Times “scoop” on rape, allegedly weaponised by Hamas on October 7. This image opened the NYT story – “Screams without words”: How Hamas … Read More »
Two posts back I called him the “silver-tongued bruiser o’ Dundee”. Here, on a late night show ten years before being returned as the Right Honourable Member for Rochdale, he responds to the audience member – and political editor – … Read More »
It’s rare for me to have a good word for Piers Morgan, a combative corporate media interviewer in his way reminiscent of Jeremy Paxman, while I often cite approvingly Professor Mearsheimer. A leading exponent of political realism, his prescient warnings … Read More »
These are momentous times. Lenin’s remark – “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen” – never rang truer. Take the past week. We saw – some of us literally – an extraordinary act of sacrifice by … Read More »