It was a few nights before Christmas and I was in Manchester. It was late. I stepped out of the taxi into the cold night air and headed to where the driver had told me the hotel reception was located. I walked into the reception and my spectacles immediately steamed over. The room was very […]
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Looking over Luzhou City in Sichuan Province from the fifteenth-floor balcony of my apartment I was wondering, after over twenty years of coming to China, what was wrong with this country. Then it hit me. I could see four main streets from my apartment, all right in the heart of the city with shops, bars
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The veteran BBC broadcaster John Simpson has been busy recently defending the BBC’s decision not to label Hamas a terrorist organisation, despite the horrific pogrom it unleashed on 7 October and despite calls for the BBC to change its stance made by politicians, journalists and the public. According to Simpson, ‘terrorism’ is a loaded word
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(Photograph: Surrey County Council News, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Don’t be fooled by the UK constabulary’s failure to engage when it comes to jihad – that peaceful, ‘inner struggle’ afflicting Muslims as they agonise over Weetabix or Cheerios at the breakfast table; it’s just that plod understands the nuances of these matters
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Like everyone else I did not pay much attention to the SNP conference which took place nearby me in Aberdeen. The turnout was poor with plenty of empty seats. But this isn’t the SNP’s main problem, nor indeed is Humza Yousaf. The real problem is Scottish nationalism has become a movement of fantasists. In 1989
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“Look what you made me do!” So often goes the stereotypical line of the domestic abuser after being ‘forced’ to grant his wife her umpteenth black eye for failing to come to heel. I can’t help but reflect on that sick form of manipulation when observing the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war. Much like the
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The word ‘anti-semitism’ for what took place in Israel on October 7th is a wonderfully convenient word all round. It is a boon, of course, to Islamists and their Western sympathisers because it blends October 7th into the long history of Christian anti-semitism that concluded (let’s hope it concluded) in the Holocaust. It hints that, if Islamists deliberately
(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Presumably saving all their bangs for the impending war between Israel and Hamas, the SNP conference in Aberdeen ended with the usual whimper about seeking independence if they had a mandate to do so. This is the safest promise that could be made, akin to
They say it’s all downhill after 40, but in my case it was more of a freefall. While I’ve never been particularly athletic, I’d always been active: a professional juggler for over a decade, with swimming and a little (very) amateur boxing thrown in for good measure. Everything was fine until I hit the big
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Ross Clark in The Spectator reckons that Pope Francis has gone ‘full Greta’ over his recent document Laudate Deum, which he presented to the current and ongoing Synod of Synodality in Rome. He could well be right. Popes issue several types of documents with different levels of authority, including Encyclicals, Apostolic Exhortations and Papal Bulls.
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