Mystical truth and palpable absurdity
George Orwell wrote in 1984, ‘The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable…
Mediocranny – the legacy of DEI
There are so many lessons to be learned from the case of ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay. Perhaps the crux of…
To survive, Europe must change
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s wonderful novel The Leopard tells the story of a Sicilian prince and how his aristocratic life faced…
Revelation of ignorance
During a call-in show with the late Christopher Hitchens, many years ago, a lady asked a simple but discerning question.…
The Sound of Freedom, a revolutionary act
During times of universal deceit, wrote George Orwell, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Our time can certainly be…
Affirmative action is racism
Asian American students win a victory against the woke left
Afghanistan’s fall and the flaw of unadulterated idealism
Two years since America’s calamitous and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning it over to the Taliban, the country has experienced…
Ageing Senate reveals frail US republic
The late Christopher Hitchens improved on Gore Vidal’s phrasing, citing the ‘bright autumn of my senescence’ in a 1994 book…
The Dutch farmers’ stand against green tyranny
‘The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it…
Politicising death: the US obsession with race politics
The death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, is being spun as the next George Floyd. Neely died after he was…
The merchants of gender activism
Nietzsche wrote in his notebooks, reflecting on the decay of civilisation that his acute senses have registered, that, ‘We are…
Ban these books!
The curious and eager nature of some to desperately find something to be upset about, like an overexcited bloodhound, is…
The anti-anti-racism movement?
It is something of a rare delight to write positively about race relations in recent years. As such, these stories…
The poison of ersatz victimhood
In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…
Why did medical authorities reject vitamin D?
I hope this does not count as boasting, but I wrote, rather exasperatedly, about the lack of promotion of vitamin…
Biden: the merchant of hypocrisy
It seems to be a scientific law, like gravity, that whatever trespasses the US Democrats accuse the Republicans of, it…
Delilah is banned, what’s next?
Delilah is a 1967 chart-topper first sung by the Welsh dragon Sir Tom Jones. The song topped the charts in many…
The Menu: delicious satire on the emptiness of consumerism
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.’ For…
From prince to toad
A few years ago, Prince Harry was one of the most popular British Royals. As a boy, he lost his…
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
In the novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi gave a heart-wrenching account of her experience as an English teacher in the…
The pandemic pushers need to stop
During the WHO press conference on global health issues on November 9, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that since…
Eco-crazy: where does this end?
One of the few bright spots during the early phase of the Covid pandemic was the sight of a smiling 99-year-old…
Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states
Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…
Environmental extremists: iconoclasts without a cause
It is self-evident that even among those of us who are not religious, there is an instinct towards the numinous…
‘Woke’ poisons everything
If the intention of Woke acolytes is to make everything a lot worse, they should be given a gold star…
