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Except to him…? After all, that compass clearly guided Harry to abandon royal life in the UK for celebrity life in the US. Service and duty or trapped? What’s more, he then got on US television and hailed the godsend Meghan was for rescuing him from the gilded cage he sees his brother William and… Read more.
Ukraine finally launched its highly touted counteroffensive on August 29. But the whole world is already hailing it as a stunning success. Not least because, over the past 5 days alone, Ukrainian soldiers recaptured territory in eastern Ukraine that took Russian soldiers 5 months to capture. Ukraine’s forces have continued to press their counterattack in… Read more.
Podcast Episode 88 Everyone expected the competition between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to become the next British prime minister to be pioneering. But it turned out to be pioneering in ways no one expected. Meanwhile, nothing has betrayed the British hallowed sense of tradition quite like the ruling Conservative Party forcing Britons to abide… Listen.
This blog is replete with my anti-monarchist views. But those views date back to my childhood. That’s when I developed an innate sense of resentment at seeing my compatriots take greater pride in the “Queen’s Honours” (like knighthoods and OBEs) than in our national independence. But I am heartened that Barbados is leading “Commonwealth countries”… Read more.
No. For starters, crime is not soaring. It’s at historic lows. In fact, the incidence of everything from murder to rape and petty theft was five times higher in the 1980s and early 1990s than it is today. Perception vs. reality But thanks to social media, so many crimes get viral coverage, almost every crime… Read more.
Here’s to the normal you’ve been wishing for… Read more.
Frankly, the way the British media are hailing Meghan and Harry’s return this week, not just William but even Charles can be forgiven for feeling rather like the good son in “The Parable of the Prodigal Son”. But, even though it’s Sunday, I suspect some of you may not appreciate (or even get) that Biblical… Read more.
John Fetterman gave his first televised interview to MSNBC on Wednesday since suffering a stroke on May 13. Everyone expected him to answer the one question now hounding his campaign: When will he debate Dr. Mehmet Oz, his Republican opponent for this midterm’s Pennsylvania Senate seat? But, instead of answering it, Fetterman played the victim… Read more.
Their rivalry Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging a genocidal war in Ukraine that is making strange bedfellows of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his predecessor Petro Poroshenko. After all, just weeks before Putin launched it, Zelensky was accusing Poroshenko not just of treason but of attempting to flee justice to boot. Poroshenko is one of… Read more.
