The Left likes to claim the high moral ground when it comes to things such as social justice and defending the cause of the poor…
The stepping aside of Fidel Castro provides a good opportunity to recall how Western lefties have tended to idolise various tyrants, especially Communist dictators. The…
After 49 years, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has announced that he is stepping down from power, due to failing health. That is very good news…
There have been some complaints about the new Australian citizenship tests. Evidently around 20 per cent of those taking the test for the first time…
Angelina Jolie has just been voted the best celebrity humanitarian of 2007. With her role as a UN goodwill ambassador she topped the Reuters poll…
The 1960’s revolutionary David Horowitz, who has gotten a bit more conservative in his old age, organised an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on American university campuses…
One leading theme of postmodernism is what is known as the rejection of all metanarratives. PoMo argues that there are no grand stories, no overarching…
Regnery, 2007. There are three worrying trends which make this book necessary. The first is the hatchet job on the term fundamentalism, which had quite…
It was the Spanish philosopher Santayana who once remarked that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. He knew that we could…
Vladimir Bukovsky knows all about dictatorships. He lived in one for over a decade. The former Soviet dissident was expelled from the Soviet Union in…
With the recent military victory of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, we have yet more bad news for the beleaguered nation of Israel. Iran and…
It is the accepted wisdom of our friends on the far left that ‘any enemy of America must be a friend of mine’. That is,…
The welfare state arose just after the second World War and has been a dominant – and growing – feature of the West ever since.…
OK. I promise. No more articles on France. At least for a while. But given all the articles I have penned recently on the demise…
The recent presidential election in France may well be cause for guarded optimism. Certainly the election of Sarkozy is greatly preferred to that of Royal.…
On Sunday the French people voted for center-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy as their next president. Sarkozy, a pro-American conservative, received just over 53 per cent…
If someone says they hate you and plan to kill you, it is wise to take them seriously. Unfortunately, because many did not do this…
Once the greatest nation on earth, Great Britain today is – like much of Europe – heading downhill big time. Back in its heyday it…
It had to come to this. Indeed, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised at how quickly it came. There is now talk of a…
The David Hicks guilty plea can easily be understood: He was brutally tortured to make his confession. The American government is the source of all…