When I was still a boy, there was a saying, now rather out of fashion, used by critics to blast politicians or other figures of authority whenever they had formulated yet another foolish policy, to the effect that “Next they’ll be wanting to bring back Hitler!” As Easter Sunday this year ...
How is it possible to “sexually harass” a statue? You’d have to ask Dublin City Council, who have just declared an innovative new experiment in protecting a supposedly “vulnerable” local sculpture from getting her bronze breasts rubbed for good luck by foreign tourists. By employing a ...
New figures demonstrate British people are far less likely to donate cash to charity than they once were. No wonder. I don’t know about you, but my idea of a charitable enterprise would be giving food to the starving or shelter to the homeless, not painting colored nails on firemen to make them ...
I must say I agree with Taki’s recent assertion on these pages that nobody reads anymore: It certainly explains my own books’ dismal sales figures. Further confirmation of this lamentable observation arrived in the shape of a March survey finding 40 percent of people in the U.K. had not read a ...
As a small child, one of my favorite cartoon characters was that brave sword-fighting shell-bearer Touché Turtle, whom I used to prance around the garden pretending to be, hitting other equally violent neighborhood kids with toy plastic blades as I went. It now transpires this habit made me ...
As I write these words, the Pope lies gravely ill in hospital, even less capable of breathing than George Floyd once was, and probably every bit as doped up. Perhaps Pope Francis will pull through—it wouldn’t be the first miraculous resurrection in Christian history—although given current ...
They say that laughter is the best medicine. Personally, I prefer penicillin. If you found that joke funny, then I may very well just have saved you from suicide. If you didn’t, then I may very well just have driven you to it. Prescribing jokes to sick people sounds like a bad joke in and of ...
All knowledgeable persons are knowledgeable alike. All ignorant persons are ignorant in their own way. So I discovered during the days when, as a former high school English teacher, I once encountered a student who honestly thought Tolstoy had written a book called Anna Kournikova. But then, I also ...
If there was a street near you that was filled with Muslim immigrants raping all the women, who would you blame? The Muslims, or the street? The French city of Nantes is currently in the grip of what is generally known as an “immigrant crime wave,” a phrase that obscures which particular ...
