Do many women want to be train drivers?
I’m not sure I want much creativity in my train drivers. I prefer them to be slightly plodding, uncreative types
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College idiots calling for ‘Intifada’ have no idea how many innocents have died from that word
This one is for the morons. For the students busily cosplaying at being terrorists on our city’s campuses. The automatons whose new radical-chic uniform is an Arab keffiyeh.
Allan Bloom on the ‘Charmed Years’ of College
In 1987, the political philosopher warned an audience of freshmen of the perils of not thinking for themselves.
Following Napoleon: my exile in St Helena
A lifesize statue of Napoleon stands on the balcony. It takes a few days to get used to him
Americans realise freedom with the occasional bit of offence is OK – we seem to be going other way
Thanks to the first amendment, the right to freedom of speech has been enshrined in law from America’s founding
International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies
A British prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague called Karim Khan is going to try to bring a war-crimes case against an American ally.
The BBC has gone to war on our civilisation
A new trigger warning on Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series reflects dangerous Western self-laceration
‘We Will Fight with Stones in Our Hands’
Months before Israel achieved independence in 1948, Golda Meir came to America, asking for help in the battle for survival.
The triumph of Katharine Birbalsingh
The school’s success is a rebuke to a whole class of malevolent or criminally inept educationalists
Fentanyl-laced drugs aren’t ‘someone else’s problem’
If this country is going to get serious about its epidemic of lost lives, perhaps we should think, “OK, maybe it won’t be you. But it could be someone you love. It could easily be someone you know.”
The Call to Take Up Arms Against Napoleon
In a 1799 speech, the British prime minister warned that ‘the monster’ could not be left ‘to prowl the world unopposed.’
Israel is running out of options
No one, left or right, would be doing anything different from what Netanyahu is doing now