Comment: national decay

By Richard North - 29 March 2024

On the holiest day of the year, according to Christian calendar, illuminated signs celebrating the Muslim fasting period of Ramadan are festooning Oxford Street, the premier shopping street of London and hence the UK. They will remain there over the Easter weekend, having been switched on earlier this month by the Muslim mayor of London,… View Article
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Ukraine: fantasy warfare

By Richard North - 28 March 2024

Published yesterday with some fanfare on Twitter is a longish exposition on Ukraine from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), with the full document (16 pages) available for download. Authored by Nataliya Bugayova and the stalwart Fred Kagan with, Kateryna Stepanenko, this is headed: “Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success” and sets out… View Article
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Media: future of the Beeb

By Richard North - 27 March 2024

There is an old joke where Yasser Arafat comes to New York to speak at the United Nations. Afterwards, he is invited to the White House to meet Ronald Regan. While the pair are waiting for the photo-shoot to be arranged, they engage in some small talk. Regan asks Arafat whether his hotel was comfortable,… View Article
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Society: multi-cultural reality

By Richard North - 26 March 2024

With the onwards march of transgenderism, it is a given that anyone who has stridently to assert that they are women probably means that they aren’t. Much the same could be said of social cohesion, even if in slightly different terms. Essentially, if your government requires a full-time advisor on social cohesion, who feels the… View Article
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Terrorism: the next target

By Richard North - 25 March 2024

There are many issues crowding the news agenda at the moment, but the Russian situation is not yet ready to loosen its grip. I was, for instance, intrigued by Con Coughlin’s contribution in the Telegraph, written under the headline: “Putin must now realise he’s been fighting the wrong war”. The deadly attack in Moscow, says… View Article
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