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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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