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Jesus of Nazireth: Hitler and Christ Reborn for Easter

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 ...

The Folly of Molly: Dublin’s “Sexually Abused” Female Statue

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 ...

Adolescence Must Be Grown Out Of

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 ...

TL, DR: Too Lefty, Didn’t Read

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 ...

Turtle Madness

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 ...

Pope Francis in Jerusalem with Jordan's Prince Ghazi

Love Thy Neighbor, Not Thy Invader

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 ...

Laughing All the Way to the Bank

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 ...

Jan Brueghel de Oude en Peter Paul Rubens

Science’s Original Sins

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 ...

Nantes, France

Women Beware Women!

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 ...

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