Furney Times

April 11, 2019 Commentary

No Saving Grace for Assange the Messiah

By William J. Furney In the end, after seven long and isolated years holed up in a tiny embassy of a South American nation in central London, Julian Assange emerged

April 6, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Stoning in the 21st Century

By William J. Furney Of all the forms of capital punishment, stoning is surely the most brutal and howlingly grotesque, and picturing in your mind how the long, bloody and

March 10, 2019 Commentary

Would Jesus Forgive the Catholic Church’s Sins?

By William J. Furney Can the ongoing abuses rocking the Catholic Church get any worse, is the centuries-old institution rotten and therefore toxic — and is there really any path

March 3, 2019 Commentary

Bad Sportsmanship Allowing Transwomen to Compete in Female Games

By William J. Furney When a man becomes a woman, does she lose her undeniable physical prowess? Will she suddenly not be so tall or broad or have so much

March 2, 2019 Reportage / Travel

In Berlin, in Search of Bacon

By William J. Furney At the National Art Gallery in Berlin, no one knew anything about Francis Bacon. Not the frazzled women on the ticket desk, nor the attendant they

February 20, 2019 Commentary / Reportage

The Great French Mutiny: Public Revulsion at the Radical ‘Gilets Jaunes’

By Michel Guilmault As I walked through my French town of Chambery one Saturday afternoon in late January to take part in a demonstration for an action on climate change,

February 16, 2019 Commentary

Let’s Talk About Toxic Femininity

By William J. Furney Western society has it in for men; there’s little doubt about it, and much of the seething vitriol is driven by male-hating female executives at media

February 2, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

A Great Turkey Disconnect

By William J. Furney You have to turn on laptops and tablets as you go through the twin layers of security at Istanbul’s jaded and soon-to-be redundant Ataturk Airport, to

January 19, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Britain’s Brexit Crisis: Let The People Decide (Again)

By William J. Furney Surely one of the overarching ironies in the long-running and sorry saga that is Brexit is that the prime minister who is attempting to deliver the