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  • May 15, 2022 William J. Furney

    The Humiliation of Vladimir Putin

    Putin’s misadventure in Ukraine has not gone to plan, leaving the crazed dictator humiliated around the world.

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  • May 7, 2022 William J. Furney

    The Standard Model of Particle Physics May Be Broken

    As the revamped Large Hadron Collider at CERN is switched back on, scientists are looking for more clues to the nature of the universe.

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  • April 28, 2022 William J. Furney

    How I Did the Unimaginable and Finally Ran a Marathon (with ‘Easy’ Training)

    A casual Dutch runner with an eye on the big one describes how he trained for and succesfully ran his first marathon.

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  • April 20, 2022 William J. Furney

    Spanish ‘World First’ Octopus Farm to Start Construction Despite Global Protests

    Despite outrage and protests around the world, a Spanish seafood company is due to begin construction of a controverial octopus farm.

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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

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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

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May 15, 2018 Interview

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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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,

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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

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May 1, 2018 Interview

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

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April 26, 2018 Commentary

Atheism: The True Embrace of Reality

By Paula Kirby Until 2003 I was a devout Christian. And I mean devout. I believed absolutely, and my faith was central to my life at that time. Various clergy

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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

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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

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