William J. Furney, Author at Furney Times

June 30, 2018 Travel

On Top of the World, and Star-Gazing, in Tenerife

By William J. Furney Why are observatories painted white? Wouldn’t a natural shade of green be better, so they’d blend in with the environment and not stick out like an

June 30, 2018 Commentary

The Great Flood and Turning the Tide on Europe’s Migrant Crisis

By William J. Furney This week European Union leaders met to thrash out critical issues threatening the integrity of the 28-member bloc and apart from the ongoing disaster for the

June 26, 2018 Commentary

Rabid Feminists’ Misandry and Out-of-Touch Views Are Making Feminism a Very Dirty Word

By William J. Furney If a journalist goes on television and boldly declares during a debate about beauty pageants that “nothing will change until hairy and fat women are allowed

May 28, 2018 Commentary

Branson Hopes Cosmic Adventure Will Be Ace — But Will Space Tourism Fly?

By William J. Furney Richard Branson is playing tennis four times a day. The wealthy British businessman, who is nearing 70, is doing this, we are told, to get fit

May 26, 2018 Commentary

Is Brexit Britain Broken?

By William J. Furney There’s less than a year to go before the United Kingdom crashes spectacularly out of the European Union, the flawed yet progressive organisation that has been

May 20, 2018 Commentary

Assange, Out of Options and Cut off from World, Must Leave Embassy ‘Prison’

By William J. Furney In the end, all he had left was the internet. And then they took that away. And installed a jamming advice so he couldn’t pick up

May 15, 2018 Interviews

The Big Questions | François Rimbau: Religions People Are a Deviant Form of Spirituality

French stage and film actor François Rimbau talks to Furney Times for the first in the Big Questions series exploring what it means to be human. At what age would you

May 12, 2018 Commentary

Ireland Votes in Historic Abortion Referendum — But Is Life Disposable?

By William J. Furney It has become unfashionable to say you support the life of the unborn that’s gestating in the womb. If the potential mother, or father, or both,

May 4, 2018 Commentary

Donald Trump Saves the World

This commentary was revised on 12/06/2018, from the original publication date of 04/05/2018, to reflect current events. By William J. Furney Barack Obama, dear-darling of the Left, was, it turns

May 1, 2018 Interviews

PETA: Shock Is Only Way to Wake People Up About Animal Cruelty

By William J. Furney Animal rights group PETA does “extraordinary things to draw attention to cruelty to animals”, says the shock-stunt organisation’s UK director, Elisa Allen. The 36-year-old German-born London

April 26, 2018 Insight

Atheism: The True Embrace of Reality

Paula Kirby shares her journey from devout Christian to firm atheist, embracing evidence over faith and the importance of living life fully.

April 26, 2018 Travel

The Seven-Hour Dinner

This is a story based on actual events. By William J. Furney Anyone who has been to France knows how almost impossibly chic and sophisticated the French can be. It’s

April 26, 2018 Reportage

Turkey, the European-Asian Problem Child That Wants to Join the EU Adults

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL Journalists locked up for life, half the country’s judges fired, Wikipedia blocked, social media frequently suspended — and on it goes in President Erdogan’s continuing crackdown after