dougiem

Jeannette Bougrab’s partner was murdered at Charlie Hebdo 10 years ago—in the name of values, she said, ‘that we’ve forgotten to defend.’

If the UK wants to enjoy the side benefits of that boom then we need to tie ourselves to America.

Let’s all give a big shout-out to the “Globalize the intifada” crowd. You got your way! Congratulations. Hope it feels good.

As a new year dawns, Alan Bennett reminds us what it means to live through the calm before a storm.

I warned nearly a decade ago that our Continent was headed to destruction. Our leaders carry on regardless

‘In the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, we have tonight the peace of the spirit.’

When the world’s most successful writer honored Harvard with a commencement speech, she reminded us all what imagination can do.

It is especially important not to do Mary’s talk with the Archangel Gabriel in a ‘character’ voice

For the past 45 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government in Iran has been the main destabilizing force in the region, against pretty stiff competition.The ayatollahs have colonized vast swaths of the Middle East, though you won’t hear the dolts on American college campuses hollering about that.

The great novelist told the class of 2005: Education isn’t about success. It’s about humility.

It’s troubling that Britain should have welcomed the leadership of a sordid, terrorist-supporting statelet

I just can’t see how any person in their twenties or thirties is expected to get on the property ladder