A POLL for GB News suggested that only 14 per cent of those aged between 18 and 24 would volunteer to fight in a ‘necessary war’. It suggests that Generation Z think the recent grim predictions of conflict have nothing to do with them. ‘Not my war and not my fight’ was the message. This attitude […]
Nothing has provoked such a division of opinion as the current Israel/Gaza war – on the background to it, its execution and resolution. Today we publish two considered but different perspectives on these issues and the necessary or inevitable conclusions each leads to. HOW can Palestinians who have a genuine grievance against Israel as usurpers of their homeland be expected […]
Nothing has provoked such a division of opinion as the current Israel/Gaza war – on the background to it, its execution and its resolution. Today we publish two considered but different perspectives on these issues and the necessary or inevitable conclusions each leads to. MANY years ago Dean Inge, a great Anglican priest and scholar, summarised the case against pacifism […]
This may be a first signal that the Gazans have had enough of Hamas — and that Hamas can’t hide it with threats any longer. A crowd of mostly Palestinian women and children protested outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, in a town roughly halfway between Gaza City and the embattled Khan Younis. […]
THE environmentalist George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian, has belatedly entered the conversation regarding the unprecedented farmers’ protests in Germany and Holland against fuel price hikes and other damaging penalties in the name of Net Zero. According to Mr Monbiot, while it appears to be a populist movement, it is in fact being stage-managed by the ‘far right’ and the […]
The Biden administration’s War on Things That Work ran into a significant setback in the courts recently. At the start of Biden’s second year in office, he directed the Department of Energy to issue new “efficiency standards” for a variety of home appliances and plumbing fixtures. They went after everything from gas stoves and toasters […]
The Ann Arbor Public Schools board advanced a resolution that calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The resolution encourages teachers to discuss the war in classrooms. This is thought to be among the first times that a U.S. public school system has made such a statement about an international conflict. Tensions are running […]
No episode in the American past is more susceptible to such manipulation—manipulation rather than debate—than the Civil War. On the historical question permit me to be blunt and unequivocal. There can be no doubt that slavery was central to all that divided the northern and the southern states, and that slavery was ultimately responsible for […]
For quite some time now we’ve been keeping a close eye on the border region between Pakistan and India. The two nuclear powers have never gotten along well, with frequent skirmishes breaking out over disputed territory. But as of yesterday, Pakistan has experienced a flare-up with a different neighbor. Iran has launched attacks on what […]
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has a new column today highlighting something else to worry about. He points to a recent analysis of North Korea by two individuals with decades of expertise on the subject. Their names are Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker: I’ve seen many false alarms since I began covering and visiting North […]
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