Local headlines here in New York State recently have been dominated by corruption in the state legislature. The speaker of the lower house, the State Assembly, has had to resign his position after being arrested last month on federal corruption charges. The arrest was deeply unsurprising. ...
I can't see any reason he shouldn't be honored like other Presidents, and I would dearly like to see someone, sometime stand up to these self-righteous ...
It's been a while"blimey, 12 years"since I did an FAQs column, so here are a few from the email bag (in responding to which I am as usual far behind, sorry sorry). How's your health? (I had an engagement with cancer three years ago.) Excellent, thanks. I check in every six months ...
Always, lurking behind the geostrategic scenery of the modern world, always there are the ...
A couple of years ago on this site I wondered "Why Isn"t Racism Cool?" Why, I asked, has the state ideology of the West not generated its antithesis, as historical trends are supposed to do? The Kultursmog of white ethnomasochism and xenophilia, of "diversity" and ...
Ms Lynch is a sort of twofer version of Eric Holder " another Social Justice Warrior from the Ivy League affirmative action ...
The Reverend Al Sharpton is off on a trip to Blighty to address the Oxford Union and members of parliament. I guess Barney the purple dinosaur wasn't ...
It is now nearly a hundred years since H.G. Wells remarked in his book The Outline of History that: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." It was an odd thing to write in 1920, when the dust was still settling from a stupendous orgy of mutual ...
Much as I hate to give the Obama administration credit for anything at all, I must say, I'm glad our politicians stayed away from this phony, bogus ...
The age of Krapp. There went another year swirling down the plughole"one of the best ever, according to one salaried commentator. I don"t know about that. It was the year I turned 69. Salacious connotations aside, what interests a Samuel Beckett addict is that it was the age of Krapp ...
