Author: mike

In wartime there’s nothing a country needs more for morale than heroes. The conventional thinking is that Flight 93, the Al Qaeda-hijackied airliner that crashed in a field in Philadelphia, was brought down by...

Oh great! New simulations confirm the hypothesis that melting glacier runoff does in fact divert the Gulf Stream for several centuries, producing a paradoxically freezing winter temperatures in Northern Europe during inter-glacial periods. There...

The Carlyle Group counts Bush Snr, John Major, and various other ex-despots and autocratic apparatchiks on its board. It “advises” governments and companies about world events. The Bin Laden family pay it scadloads of...

“The (ultra-Orthodox) stole our country which used to be a social-democracy where religion played a tiny part,” said Tzvi, a secular Beit Shemesh resident. “If they had guns, we would call them the Taliban....

Another testament of what the libertarian NRA dream of a Government-free society of well-armed individuals leads to: ‘I am sick when I see what is happening. There is no discipline here. There is no...

Looks like the American plan to make the British and the UN take on the dangerous task of trying to win the peace in Afghanistan was cunning. The Northern Alliance have started bickering with...

Devoid of B52s, Irish women have other ways to fight sexist religious oppression… The presence of women seemed to infuriate everybody. Iranian newspapers had angrily attacked the move and called for demonstrations. The conservative...

This is a good backgrounder on the strategy planning meetings by the US and British. How do the UK papers manage to get all this good stuff and the US ones just run photos...

Arab! Arab!’ they shouted. Then someone picked up a stone. In seconds a cascade of rocks were being slammed down on to the body, one bouncing off and hitting me in the chest. There...

This is most disturbing. Lego Bible Porn. What will those wacky monotheists think of next? And The Seduction of Lot… And God Breathes Life Into Adam… And Ishmael Is Conceived…