An Austrian engineer has left behind a legacy of empowering Americans in the exercise of their constitutional right to self-defense. The Associated Press reported that Gaston Glock, developer of the Glock handgun and founder of the company that manufactures it, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. According to the company website, its late […]
TEL AVIV, Israel — Call it a small spark of light in the wake of one of the darkest days in the country’s history. On Oct. 7, Hamas militants carried out a rampage across southern Israel, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians near the border with the Gaza Strip. One of the worst […]
World War II: The First Culture War, by Robert Oulds; The Bruges Group (2023) I’M OLD enough to remember when the Second World War was relived daily in the playground, with less popular kids deployed as Germans. Three decades after the conflict ended, the Battle of Britain and D-Day lingered in boys’ imagination, as they read […]
This is…golly. So many adjectives spring to mind – amazing, gobsmacking, horrifying, terribly sad, infuriating, frightening…they all work and dozens more like them. This shouldn’t be happening. AZ: “I am happy to come to America…” Give this a watch from start to finish—From people here alone to work, to guys in Gucci—Hundreds of single adults […]
The NY Times published a lengthy opinion piece yesterday under the headline “When the Culture Wars Came for Dog Training.” If you click on the link you get a different much less interesting headline “My Year of Being Extremely Online About Dogs.” The story is told from the point of view of the author, Alicia […]
This is the second of two essays by Lieutenant General Jonathon Riley on the lessons the modern-day world can learn from Napoleon’s successes and ultimate failure. These follow on from his review of Ridley Scott’s historically inaccurate film published on Saturday. Yesterday’s Part 1 examined strategy, past and present. Today’s focuses on the limits of power them and now. ‘IT […]
Ridley Scott’s film ‘Napoleon’ prompted us to ask military historian Jonathon Riley, author of two key books on Napoleon and a former commander of British forces in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan, for a review. His damning and fascinating account of ‘the most historically inaccurate film I have ever seen’ is here. But what does an understanding of Napoleon’s successes and ultimate […]
BEN Pile’s recent report ‘Clean Air, Dirty Money, Filthy Politics’ lifts the lid on how a few super-wealthy individuals influence public policy, and how the Guardian newspaper, in spite of repeated declarations to the contrary, receives funding from billionaire Gates to the tune of £92 per reader. The BBC, while constantly boasting about its public service role […]
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