If this is how the Democrats campaign, maybe the Republicans will win after all
With great glee, the Huffington Post reports, Multiple Right-Wing Figures Pranked Into Thanking The Devil For Supporting Trump Several prominent pro-Trump voices have been pranked into thanking “Iblis”...
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Ne laissez jamais une crise se perdre
As President Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said in 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” The...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
Yet there has never been a more pressing time to engage with these issues in the classroom. If I were a teacher of Religious Studies, I would find it difficult to justify ignoring the question of the...
View Article“The background and motive of yesterday’s attacks were unclear”
The above is a quote from a Times article with the title “Three dead after knifeman goes on rampage in Bavarian city of Würzburg”. At least three people were killed and several more injured in an...
View ArticleIn Lebanon, the leaves are falling off the magic money tree
This excellent article in the US Spectator by Paul Wood is two weeks old. That probably means all the prices he quotes should by now have an extra zero at the end. The vividness of his portrayal of...
View ArticleHere we go again
BBC News 17:16 BST: Taliban take over Presidential Palace – reports Conveniently, Afghanistan has had its own Samizdata tag for nearly twenty years. It is interesting, if depressing, to look at the old...
View ArticleWhy have a US government at all?
Mark Steyn wrote the other day, Indeed, what difference would it make if it closed down its military? Obviously, it would present a few mid-life challenges for its corrupt Pentagon bureaucracy, since...
View ArticleThe carers
I am not usually one for issuing trigger warnings, but this video of an unhappy two year old child is genuinely disturbing: New York, where two-year-olds are forced to wear masks all day in nursery. I...
View ArticleWhy the tabloids are the choice of adults
The Daily Mail reports, EXCLUSIVE: Suicide bomber who died when his device blew up outside Liverpool hospital was pizza chef, 32, who fled Middle East and converted to Christianity at cathedral ‘he...
View ArticleThe Islamic Republic of Iran leads the way in getting more women into STEM
Campus magazine, a Singaporean publication aimed at students, published this article on 15th December 2021: The Paradox of Gender Inequality in STEM Education. It was one of many pieces that pointed...
View ArticleDoes aid to evil regimes cement them in power? Should we do it anyway?
When I was young I read many earnest articles saying that international aid should be directed towards eradicating the long term causes of famine and poverty rather than short term fixes for specific...
View Article“The attacker was shot dead by a passerby”
“Four people killed in Israeli stabbing attack”, reports the Times: At least four people were stabbed to death in southern Israel today before the attacker was shot dead by a passerby, in one of the...
View ArticleIf it is OK to hit someone who insults your wife, is it OK to hit someone who...
The controversy on Will Smith hitting Chris Rock after the latter made a distasteful joke about his wife’s hair loss is interesting because it cuts across party lines. Though most politicians have made...
View Article“By refusing to take part in this collective operation”
Idrissa Gueye is a Senegalese footballer who plays for his country and for the French side Paris Saint-Germain. On Sunday 15th May, Paris Saint-Germain played Montpellier. On that day, players in the...
View ArticleThe Lady of Heaven did not stay long
It is a film that is “more interesting on paper than in practice”, according to this review: This British-made epic earns a significant accolade: it is the first film to put the “face” of the prophet...
View ArticleThe president offers his condolences, but that’s enough about you
The president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, offered his condolences over the massacre of worshippers at a church in Owo, Nigeria. News Letter reports, Forty people were killed in the attack at the...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York, condition unknown
“What’s on your mind?” asks the WordPress dashboard at the top of the little box where you put your content. This. This is on my mind. Salman Rushdie getting stabbed. Back in the 1990s I bought a copy...
View ArticleCan you see the parallels between Saigon and Kabul now, Mr President?
Reporter #1: “Is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?” President Biden: “No. It is not. Because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000 – well-equipped- as well equipped as any army in...
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