By William J. Furney You have to turn on laptops and tablets as you go through the twin layers of security at Istanbul’s jaded and soon-to-be redundant Ataturk Airport, to
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By William J. Furney Surely one of the overarching ironies in the long-running and sorry saga that is Brexit is that the prime minister who is attempting to deliver the
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Letter from America By William J. Furney Someone was smoking in a toilet on the upper deck of the world’s largest passenger plane as it rocketed its way at close
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By William J. Furney The alleged murder of a Saudi journalist at a Turkish consulate is, if proven, one of the more shocking events of modern times, and would show
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By William J. Furney Power does strange things to people. It’s like a potent elixir and one more powerful than any hallucinatory drug, because it seems as though once you
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By William J. Furney Mustafa Kassem is a taxi driver in New York who was visiting his wife and young son and daughter in Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of
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By William J. Furney It’s a peculiarity that Donald Trump’s government has recently announced it’s cutting almost all United States aid funding to Pakistan and a United Nations relief agency
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By William J. Furney Many people of driving age seem to react with horror at the thought of their vehicular autonomy being snatched away from them as the prospect of
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By William J. Furney Priests of the Roman Catholic church have caused misery, torment and destruction all over the world, leading to lives upturned, ruined and lost. These “men of
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By William J. Furney If you’re on a plane and your tray-table won’t come down because it’s perched at a perilous angle on your enormous gut, wouldn’t it be a
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