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There it was. The same people who had been telling Americans for the past decade that ‘silence’ in the face of violence is ‘complicity,’

Two years after October 7, Israel has defeated its enemies. The West is still surrendering to them.

Be careful what you wish for. I am referring to some Republicans who are starting to see a silver lining in the socialist’s mayoral run.

Slow Horses has an outstanding cast. But its plotlines and characters have tended to follow all the modern commandments.

If words do have an effect, then why are so many people in positions of power so incredibly careless with the words they use?

It was moving to watch Keir Starmer announce this week, from a corridor in Downing Street, that his government has decided to recognise a state of Palestine. Starmer took this bold action at the same time as his French, Canadian and Australian counterparts.

The American Left has a long history of celebrating or excusing purveyors of mayhem.

Sometimes good can come out of tragedy. So it seems that in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk this country might finally come to terms with certain violent extremist groups in our midst…

There is a passage in Milan Kundera’s novelisitic essay ‘Testaments Betrayed’ where he writes about the nature of history. Man walks in a fog, Kundera observes. He stumbles along a path and creates the path as he walks it. When he looks back, he can see the path, he may see the man, but he […]

Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.

I have only been to Alexandria once, some years ago, when Hosni Mubarak was still in power, but it struck me as a sad city. Of course the library was not the library. The lighthouse was not the lighthouse. The city was not the city.

Could you be persuaded to say something you knew not to be true? Most of us would probably say “Absolutely not. Never.” But the evidence is that even a small amount of social pressure can make adults say things they know to be untrue.