All good things must come to an end. I’m not talking about Europe here, though a great many commentators, mostly of a more conservative bent have been predicting and bemoaning …
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Egypt is a country of magnificent past, depressing present, and uncertain future. I’ve left the land of the Nile early this morning, having to wake up at a rather ungodly …
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I think I’ve finally put my finger on what really shits me about “cultural appropriation†– besides the fact that the whole concept has been so completely stupidified by the …
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If the British PM Theresa May is smart, she will call an early post-Brexit election over the next few months instead of waiting until 2020. The political landscape has changed …
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Travis Rieder is a moral philosophy and bioethics professor at Johns Hopkins University. In his new short book, “Towards a Small Family Ethicâ€, he posits that if we want to …
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(I’m really sorry about the cover photo; a bad local made me do it, and then he wanted money from me) Apologies to all the Daily Chrenk readers for the …
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Like most decent buildings in Cairo, the grand Egyptian Museum dates to British colonial times. Like many British colonial buildings, it doesn’t seem to have seen much work since then. …
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My trendy early-adopter Gen Y and Millennial friends will be shocked to learn that I’ve never used Uber before. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the disruptive technology and all, …
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Egypt. The five letters that evoke timeless exoticism and fascination. The pyramids and the Sphinx. The land of the Pharaohs and of the Nile. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Western imperialists. …
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Every city in reality is two cities: the centre and the periphery, uptown and downtown, inner city and suburbs, the richer middle and upper class parts and the poorer working …
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As Glenn Reynolds would say, “fundamentally transformed”: Others could say, “population replacement”. One could rather flippantly note that between 1940 and 1945 Germans worked very hard to minimise the first …
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You’ve heard it here first: it’s Sunday night in Berlin, and brown-shirted storm troopers are marching through the streets once again, torch in one hand and swastika flag in the …
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It’s been two and a half weeks in Europe now, three countries, about dozen cities and towns ranging from 3.5 million to 1000 inhabitants in size, in the course of …
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You don’t see me too often defending Donald Trump, but what’s fair is fair. The left keeps slamming Trump (rightly) for being a conspiracy monger, forgetting to mention that the …
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I walk along the edge of the field towards the hedge of trees. Hidden behind the hedge is a caravan park, and behind the caravan park a sports centre. In …
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One of my favourite Twitter accounts is @SoMuchGuardian, which highlights the self-parodying output of this trendy inner city leftie rag. One of the most recent opinion pieces, for example, is …
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Zoe Strimpel at “The Daily Telegraph†has had a different Paris experience than me: It was 1am and we were just leaving dinner at a friend’s house behind Montmartre. We …
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Or maybe not. Like weather, a European army is something that everyone keeps talking about but no one does anything about. One could argue that the whole European project since …
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Should Peter Costello come back to politics and save the Liberal Party? So says the radio host Neil Mitchell, while rallying about the “current lot†of “amateursâ€: Peter Costello has …
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