In a survey of 6,000 Jews across Europe, 66% said that anti-Semitism was a problem, 76% that it had got worse in the past five years, and 57% that they had heard or seen someone in the past 12 months claiming that the Holocaust was a myth. (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights/The Guardian) This is …
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Last month, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro unveiled the state’s latest wheeze: a “Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness”. This new arm of government, promises Maduro, will carry out social programmes in the name of “moving beyond the capitalist order”. It comes hot on the heels of another “Orwellian” initiative: the creation of a “Loyalty and Love …
Consols are bonds that pay interest but have no maturity date, somewhat like perpetual annuities. If adopted, they would not fall within the scope of the debt ceiling because there would be no principal that is an obligation of the US Treasury. If no principal ever comes due there is no addition to American government …
During the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya during the early 1950 the British were responsible for appalling abuses, and then covered them up for decades. Up to 100,000 people, many of whom had no connection to the revolt, were interned, and vast numbers subjected to beatings, rapes and even castrations – usually by African guards, …
Of all the attributes one should look for in a President, the process of choosing good Cabinet members and White House staff is the most important. His enemies warned that he had had no administrative and people-managing experience, and here we are having to ruefully agree that they tended to be correct, even if they …
