NO ONE LIKES “DUNKIRK” – Apart from the movie-goers, that is. First, the movie reviewer at “USA Today” whinges about “the fact that there are only […]
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SNYDER IS A DISGRACE – I used to have some respect for Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian who wrote the rather good “Bloodlands: Europe Between […]
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Hamburger with big fires
The 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht is not until November, but thousands of black-clad thugs have already been running through the streets of Hamburg, setting fires, […]
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Trump, the Polish Patriot
In a few short months, Donald Trump has already done more for the security of Poland than Barack Obama did over eight years in office. […]
Continue reading »PIRATES OF THE CARAPEAN – The Magic Kingdom gets a slight makeover: At Disneyland, pirates can still drink, pillage and fight. But the swashbuckling tradition of […]
Continue reading »R.I.P. HELMUT KOHL – Someone once said that if Hitler fell under the proverbial bus or was assassinated in 1939, historians today would be likely […]
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13 Reasons Jeremy Corbyn is a Scumbag and a Moral Midget
In little less than a year, Jeremy Corbyn went from being a political joke with a -40 per cent net favourability rating, against Theresa May’s +35 per cent, […]
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The one where Poland became an anti-terrorist meme
Poland is in the news again, by not being in the news. Scan Twitter for the mentions of Poland and you will get a stream […]
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Nothing to do with something
Another day, another terrorist attack. And the hills of social media are alive with the sounds of often well meaning people telling us how this […]
Continue reading »FROM PARIS TO PARIS, VIA HARVARD – Perhaps one of the funniest of the left’s hyperventilations in reaction to Donald Trump withdrawing the United States […]
Continue reading »RIP ZBIG BRZEZINSKI – Zbigniew Brzezinski was the first US Administration official I ever knew by name as a child, no doubt because he was […]
Continue reading »HISTORY IS A TERRIBLE THING, LET’S CHANGE IT! – This is truly disturbing: A Henry County commissioner requested a few months ago that a local […]
Continue reading »NOTHING TO DO WITH SOMETHING – A doctor and an imam walk into a television studio… Appearing on Sunrise this morning, Dr Jamar Rifi and […]
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In defence of suburbia
As my friends know only too well, I read. A lot. Amongst the books I read I find many good and great that are pleasure […]
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Bulldozing the “liberators”
How do we remember the dead? How do we remember the war dead? How do we remember the controversial war dead? In Europe, history is […]
Continue reading »HAPPY MAY DAY, WASN’T COMMUNISM JUST SWELL? – After creating the disturbance in the Force with its op-eds this week in favour of climate caution […]
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May Day, November Day
It’s May the 1st, and so I can’t help but remember the May Day marches of my Polish childhood; all that sea of red, big […]
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What ANZAC Day means to a transplanted Pole
Having come to Australia in 1988 I am what some refer to as a “new Australian”. As such, unlike most of my Australian readers, I […]
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No longer Turkish Delight
President Erdogan sometime ago (in)famously (and approvingly) compared the constitutional “reforms” he desired to those of Hitler’s circa 1933-4. Thanks to a small majority of […]
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Spicy Sean does Hitler
A piece of free advice: if you are thinking of invoking Hitler in any political argument, you should pause, take a deep breath, count to […]
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