There never was a "progressive majority". Polly Toynbee is queen of an empty realm
Polly Toynbee, queen of "progressive" pieties gets a pasting from Harry Cole. The "progressive majority" never existed.
- 10 May 2011
Israel: The Vienna of our Time
Israel is vital to Western interests throughout the Middle East - it truly is the Vienna of our time.
- 10 May 2011
Happy Independence Day to Israel
Israel celebrates its 63rd birthday. The Commentator says: Many Happy Returns!
- 10 May 2011
Unlike Iraq, Libya’s a quagmire because our war aims were defined by liberal-left prejudices
The Iraq war was much better executed than the Libya operation. That’s because George W. Bush knew what needed to be done, and just did it.
- 9 May 2011
Reform the House of Lords
Conservatives shouldn’t let so-called ‘progressives’ corner the market when it comes to constitutional reform.
- 9 May 2011
Rights groups in moral confusion over bin Laden, and much else besides
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and company have lost the plot on the bin Laden killing.
- 9 May 2011
Friendly Fire: Britain and Israel
David Cameron assures us of his 'unshakeable commitment' to Israel's security. Why then does he not see the obvious Islamist threat emerging from the Arab Spring and Hamas?
- 8 May 2011
Updated: Islamists torch church in Cairo – 12 dead, hundreds injured
The toll of dead and injured continues to rise as yet another anti-Christian “pogrom” raises fears over direction of post-Mubarak Egypt.
- 8 May 2011
Let’s make fun of Germany and France… But then learn from their mistakes
What do German hand wringing over bin Laden's death and French economic woes have in common? They speak to civilisational decline.
- 8 May 2011
Britain must end anti-Semitic bigotry over Israel: Open letter to the Prime Minister by Melanie Phillips
David Cameron says Britain is Israel's friend. A prominent British writer asks how endorsing Palestinian racism is the mark of a friend.
- 8 May 2011
The Yes to AV campaign was annihilated because it was mired in dishonesty
The Yes to AV campaign was run by people who didn't really believe in their product. No wonder 68 percent rejected them.
- 7 May 2011
Time for a Key Change
It should be our mission to make life easier, not harder for educational organisations - if only, to use the over-egged slogan, for the sake of the children.
- 6 May 2011
"I’m no friend of Bin Laden, but..."
This was how a regular BBC panelist began her sentence condemning the killing of Osama bin Laden last night. Let's clear up a few misnomers on this issue.
- 6 May 2011
Oh Canada...
Canadian politics has become a straight fight now between the socialist left and the capitalist right. Some are even claiming that two-party politics has returned to Canada.
- 5 May 2011
The Hamas-Fatah accord: where will it lead?
A renewed Hamas-Fatah agreement spells danger for the peace process and for Fatah as a party.
- 5 May 2011
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