(Photo: Grok xAI) This article was originally published in Danish on March 9, 2026. It is disheartening to see the reaction of the so-called right wing to Israel’s (and its American vassals’) unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. One can seriously doubt whether there is sufficient intelligent life on the nationalist wing at all. There are many aspects to […]
At Republican antisemitism confab, Tucker Carlson is the villain…
When I think about Ian Brady, I think about a bench. Ian Brady was a British serial-killer who raped and murdered five children in the 1960s. And what about the bench? It had no direct connection with Brady. It was simply a memorial put up beside a footpath by the parents of a son who […]
The English author John Le Carré is best known for his novels of Cold-War espionage. His most famous character, George Smiley, has the following to say on the subject: The obsession of the two great economic systems with each other’s identity, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses had produced by the 1970s a state of mutual watchfulness […]
Dying young. It turns performers into legends and politicians into footnotes. For proof of that, just compare James Dean (1931-55) with John Smith (1938-94). Seventy-one years after he died in a car-crash, the actor James Dean is still famous, still at the heart of a devoted cult. Thirty-two years after he died of a heart-attack, […]
Politicians lie. That’s a toxic truth of life across the world and through history. But the British politicians Robert Jenrick and Nadhim Zahawi will never lie on one very important matter. They’ll say that their proud patriotism and devotion to popular service will not alter one iota after their defections from the Conservatives to the […]
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