Don’t blame Corbyn for the rise of anti-Semitism

Suddenly, every critic of the Labour Party and especially its leader Jeremy Corbyn is holding forth on the scourge of anti-Semitism....

Operation Midland: Treating fiction as fact

Thankfully, it seems that Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into an alleged establishment paedophile ring, has...

The crusade against Ted Heath: Dancing on people’s graves

People are finally starting to express some serious concerns about the injustices committed by the British Inquisition Against Historical...

No, it’s not ‘just like slavery’

Whenever someone declares, ‘it’s just like slavery’, it is useful to remind yourself that the only thing that is ‘just like slavery’ is...

Mother loses child because of her beliefs

At first I thought that I had misread the report that a 7-year old boy had been taken away from his mother because a judge ruled that the...

Why the Armenian genocide still haunts the world

The genocide inflicted on the Armenian people a century ago continues to haunt the world. Last Sunday, Pope Francis referred to the 1915...

In defence of privacy

In the twenty-first century, the privacy of individuals, groups and institutions is continually being tested, by a variety of forces that...

The real clash is within civilisations

The aim of this slim volume of essays, The Clash of Civilisations? The Debate: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, is to commemorate the...

Knee-jerk reaction as nuclear hysteria engulfs German society

Almost instantaneously the catastrophe that devastated Japan was transformed into an immediate existential threat to the German way of...

Possibilities for fear remain endless

In the contemporary vocabulary of public life, the term climate change signals the idea of an alarming threat, which in turn demands that...

Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie

The devastation unleashed by the mega earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last Friday is one of the greatest disasters the country...

Treating human beings as little more than carbon

Below a picture of 12 black babies, the caption warns: ‘Babies in Dakar, Senegal.’ Then, with a literary sigh of relief, the subtitle to...

New King Herods target babies as potential polluters

It is reported that the British government-sponsored Sustainable Development Commission believes that curbing peoples’ right to reproduce...

Why the British elite is so scared of babies

Most normal adults regard a new baby as an object of love and affection. Traditionally, a new life has been seen as a blessing, as a...

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