By William J. Furney Many people are fascinated by the occult, and all too terrified too, and for most that’s about it: a bit of a play-around at Halloween and
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High Noon for Wild West Social Media as Europe Draws Pistols
By William J. Furney Europe has had its fill of swashbuckling, cavalier social media firms who are undermining — even “destroying” — democracy in the very place it was born.
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Britain’s Long, Hot, Torturous Summer
By William J. Furney The British people are not happy. Perched on the northwestern edge of the great continent of Europe from which the civilised world, and democracy, sprung, they
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Fear of Flying Is Irrational, Yes, But It’s Still Valid
By William J. Furney Whether humankind was designed or developed from a petri dish-like swamp, it’s a safe bet that either the creator or evolving genes didn’t envision that some
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Young and Worried: Teenage Anxiety Is On the Rise (And What to Do About It)
By William J. Furney It may seem as though there’s never been a better time to be a teenager. Constantly connected with all their pals and all the world’s information
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World Is Unforgivably Indifferent to Syrian War Even as 400,000 Dead
By William J. Furney Syria is the war without end and one that keeps on giving — to Bashar al-Assad at least. The 52-year-old strongman will have been president of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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