The Cold War, the Muslim Brotherhood and what happened next: part 1
This week, regular readers will have noticed my potted history of the Muslim Brotherhood from 1928 to the present: ‘How the Muslim Brotherhood expanded in Europe’ (parts 1, 2 and 3). One name occurs...
View ArticleThe Cold War, the Muslim Brotherhood and what happened next: part 2
This week, regular readers will have noticed my potted history of the Muslim Brotherhood from 1928 to the present: ‘How the Muslim Brotherhood expanded in Europe’ (parts 1, 2 and 3). Yesterday’s...
View ArticleIt’s Complicated…
Jane Fae on the Facebook gender option revamp: Two cheers for Facebook, who have just expanded their personal gender options from the somewhat limiting binary of male and female to an eye-watering 50...
View Article#FirstWorldProblems Are Going Down The Pan…
…literally, as Emma Brockes relates: Many years ago, I went to Venice to interview Meryl Streep about her role in The Devil Wear’s (sic) Prada. The film festival was on and the city overrun with...
View ArticleThe proposed TTIP: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
The proposed TTIP was French newsweekly Marianne‘s cover story this week. Strange that it’s a big topic in France and less so here. The TTIP entry on Wikipedia covers both sides of the treaty but...
View ArticleGary Blasi Is Shocked, Shocked, To Find Hypocrisy Is Going On…
…over the proposal to criminalise sleeping in cars in some US areas: One finds the “vehicularly housed” in virtually every neighborhood, including my own. But the animus that drives anti-homeless laws...
View ArticleWho Could Really Disagree With This Proposal?
Cherisse A Scott rails against Tennessee law proposal SB1391: It’s all too easy for politicians to demonize a mother before we get to the root causes of her lived experiences. And it is too easy still...
View ArticleFirst They Came For The Mildly Scornful, And I Didn’t Speak Up…
“Americans don’t do cynicism, sarcasm or negativity generally,” the journalist Max Davidson wrote, advising Brits how to make it big in the US. “There is an innocence in their outlook that you either...
View ArticleYes, And This Is Why Hoaxes Can Happen…
The family of a three-year-old girl, whose story of being asked to leave a KFC because the youngster’s facial scars were “scaring customers” went viral, are facing down claims that the entire thing...
View ArticleGun Control Isn’t Working? The Answer Must Be More Gun Control!
Residents of Chicago were agonising again on Monday on what ails their city after another weekend of chaotic gun violence… Well, I think the answer’s Democrats. And, to a certain extent, Chicagoans....
View ArticleGary Younge Hails The Promised Dawning Of The Socialist Utopia!
… the possibility that America’s third largest city might elect a union leader over an establishment Democrat marks a broader national shift towards progressive city politics. Across the country, from...
View ArticleOxford Dodged A Bullet Here…
Helen Price, writing in the ‘Guardian’ last year, about turning down Oxford to go to Yale: Cash-starved UK universities cannot compete with the funding opportunities offered by US colleges, whose...
View ArticlePicking Soft Targets Again, Jessica?
Jessica Valenti in CiF on burkhas…wait, sorry, my mistake, school uniform: In the last few weeks, almost 200 students – almost all of them female – at Tottenville High School in Staten Island, New York...
View ArticleHey, Michelle, What Do You Think Of Hashtag Campaigns Now..?
Hungry schoolchildren in the US are blaming the First Lady for their stomach-churning canteen lunches by hashtagging them under #thanksMichelleObama. Students have posted their photos of mystery slop...
View ArticleAirbrushing The Past…
…because of hurt feelings: When the government called on them to leave their homes and fight overseas in two world wars, the men of Greenwood answered – black and white alike. And when they fell in...
View ArticleSome Cause/Effect Comprehension Problems In The Left Wing Press…
The report, which was released on Monday, has been in the works since 2013, when Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey asked for help in figuring out why officer-involved shootings were...
View ArticleYet More ‘Gentrification’ Whinging…
Samantha Gillison on living and eating in New York: Once upon a time, as Gore Vidal observed, New York City was a delightful place to live – especially if you were an impoverished foodie. Legendarily...
View ArticleSomething Does Indeed Need To Change…
…how about ‘acceptance of personal responsibility’ for starters? Ian Mercer, originally from Preston, said he was astonished that his 26-year-old son had been able to amass a large haul of guns. “How...
View ArticleCan We Trust The Official Story?
Ah, America, obsessed with guns, dumb, damn Yanks, always quick on the trigger: An Idaho rancher has been killed in a gun battle with deputies who planned to shoot one of his bulls after it had been...
View ArticleDon’t Mention The (Entirely Fictional) War!
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday called on Amazon.com Inc to remove “irresponsible and offensive” subway advertisements for a new television show featuring Nazi-inspired imagery. The...
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