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  • January 15, 2023 William J. Furney

    Netanyahu Is Threat to Israeli Democracy, Stoking Conflict: Oxford Prof Yaacov Yadgar

    The new coalition government in Israel, and the return of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, sees a lurch to the hard right.

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  • January 8, 2023 William J. Furney

    The Bearable Lightness of Not Being

    Loss and mourning bring meaning to life, allowing for a new appreciation of the things, and people, around you.

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  • December 27, 2022 William J. Furney

    The Misogynistic Taliban’s War on Women

    Any hope the Taliban had of being accepted by the international community has been crushed with their erasing of women from public life.

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  • December 18, 2022 William J. Furney

    What’s Eating Elon?

    The billionaire innovator and new Twitter owner professes to love free speech, but several journalists have felt his wrath and been silenced.

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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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