May 2006
March 2006
USA: Legalize the 'Illegals'
There is no immigration crisis — other than the one created by a small but vocal stripe of opportunist politicians, media demagogues and freelance xenophobes.
May 2005
Immigration isn't the issue: Brendan O'Neill
Among the political class, ‘the immigration issue’ has become code for their own fear and loathing of the white working class.
April 2005
ei: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz: The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel vs. Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is a well-known lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School, a prolific author, and makes regular appearances in the media
Jonathan Freedland: Reviled as outsiders
"This is so wrong. We should be on the same side."
Jewish MP pelted with eggs at war memorial
The sheer ignorance never mind the lack of respect is shocking. They have no idea where their freedom came from and who gave it to them.
Lecturers may boycott Israeli academics
Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government's actions in the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK's leading lecturers' union.
March 2005
Kevin Meyers: At last the light is shone on the IRA
No event in Northern Ireland in recent years has distilled the abominable and corrupted reality of life under the peace process as the murder of Robert McCartney. Half beaten to death, one eye gouged out, his throat cut, and then gutted like a fish...
Making learning uncool: The establishment disses education as much as hip-hop ‘playas’.
It wasn't Jay-Z who grabbed headlines by declaring that 'learning history is a bit dodgy'. That was the former education secretary, Charles Clarke.
February 2005
Johann Hari: Don't let the Livingstone row blind us to the real and growing threat of anti-Semitism
It seems that human rights abuses committed by Jews provoke more rage than abuses committed by others
Sunday Times: Putting the fear of God into Holland
The Dutch have rejected liberalism in response to Islamic immigration. Some say they are now too hardline. So what can the rest of Europe learn from their crisis?The Dutch have rejected liberalism in response to Islamic immigration. Some say they ar
Amygdala on Professor Juan Cole:
Virulently anti-American, and negative...Oh, wait....
January 2005
How I became a Jew
What unclean thoughts do I have about Islam and our Arab neighbours? What are my thoughts when I see devout Muslims on our streets in traditional dress, speaking poor English? Am I not looking at myself?
In praise of blasphemy
A multicultural society needs not more taboos but more tolerance for taboo-breaking
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