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Britain must recognise Somaliland
Somalia has been a byword for failed statehood and violence for so long that the calm of Somaliland, its neighbour to the north-east, feels almost miraculous. In contrast to Mogadishu, the bustling streets of Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital, aren’t patrolled by grim-faced soldiers. Government offices aren’t huddled behind blast walls and protected by foreign troops. You can wander into a restaurant and enjoy camel steaks (a national speciality) without worrying about al-Shabaab terrorists.
The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7
The Hebrew word has no precise equivalent in English. It signifies a great catastrophe for which human beings are responsible by inaction, error, or irresponsibility. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, which began when an unprepared IDF was taken by surprise by simultaneous Syrian and Egyptian attacks, has often been referred to as a . The October 7, 2023, attack was an even greater mechdal.
Walking in Uprightness
Proverbs 14 Select Verses NASB1995 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, But he who is devious in his ways despises Him. 5 A trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness utters lies. 8 The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way, But the foolishness of fools is deceit. 9 Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is good will. 12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. 22 Will they not go astray who devise evil?...
Your Adversary the Devil
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
Don't trust me, I'm a Gazan doctor
The media need to stop treating medics in war zones as fonts of truth. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In the Spring of 2005, when I was covering the Iraq War for the New York Post, I accompanied a squad of US Army soldiers visiting a sizeable hospital on the edge of the Sadr City area of Baghdad. An Iraqi doctor spotted my ‘press’ vest and took me aside. A handsome man in his late thirties, he spoke good English.
Hating Jews and Israel: The View from London
London—Three days on from October 7, like many other people here in Britain and around the world, I was still absorbing the full horror of that day and the shock of Israel’s revealed inability to defend its population from Hamas’s slaughter squads. Thanks to social media, and in particular Elon Musk’s renamed Twitter, I had seen many of the snuff videos posted by delighted Gazans after they went house to house, car to car, or across the fields in pursuit of victims of all ages.
Go Straight, not Left or Right
Joshua 1:3-5 ESV “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
As We See the Day Approaching
Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’” We read in Psalms 139 that God knit us together in the wombs of our mothers and that in his book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for us, when as yet there was none of them.
The Virgin Suicides
This film stays with me during my toughest times. Touching and thought-provoking story of five teen girls, living in the 1970s in Michigan from the perspective of their neighbours. Colors, acting and soundtrack - for me they are the TOP3 of the movie. They help with creating the worrisome air during the showing. If you like movies about emotions and changes and also you value the esoteric climate - "The Virgin Suicides" should be perfect choice. Sofia Coppola didn't defeat.
Acute phase protein concentrations following serial procaine penicillin G injections in horses
1 INTRODUCTION Positive acute phase proteins (APP) are synthesised in the liver and increase in response to acute inflammation and induction of an acute phase response (APR).1-3 Major APP, such as serum amyloid A (SAA) in horses, are rapid responders and are associated with a 10 to >100 fold increase within 6–12 h of an inflammatory stimulus.1, 2 Moderate APP, including fibrinogen (FIB) and haptoglobin (HAP) in the horse, typically increase within 1–3 days after induction of inflammation.
Acute phase protein concentrations following serial procaine penicillin G injections in horses
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Anne M. Barger and Jonathan H. Foreman should be considered joint senior authors. Abstract en Background Acute phase protein (APP) measurement is used to detect inflammation. Intramuscular (IM) injections could cause tissue injury and induce an acute phase response (APR). Objectives To evaluate the effects of IM procaine penicillin G (PPG) injections on APP concentrations in horses. Study design Prospective longitudinal design.
The Timothy Hunt Witch Hunt
I n 1983, the British biochemist Timothy Hunt discovered cyclins, a family of proteins that help regulate the life of cells. Eighteen years later, in 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Covid lies and turf wars that destroyed our trust
LEAVING the re-opened London Library (masks compulsory throughout, all borrowed books subject to sterilisation) in the late afternoon I walk through a West End so desolate it could be the set for an apocalyptic film. All but a handful of its scores of cafes, restaurants and drinking places have closed, many of them permanently. Not only are there no tourists or theatregoers, but most of the businesspeople have not come back, despite the end of lockdown.
Lionel Shriver Is Out of Line
B efore she was accused of thought- crime, the London-based American writer Lionel Shriver was best known for her 2003 bestseller, We Need to Talk about Kevin, an epistolary novel about a mother’s efforts to understand why her son had carried out a Columbine-like school massacre. She has published five novels since Kevin, to wide acclaim, but it was a keynote speech she gave at an Australian literary event in September that made her the most unlikely celebrity of 2016.
Against statelessness
On the 7th July, the Guardian, the BBC and the Daily Mail all reported the sad case of Darrell and Darren Roberts, two brothers in their twenties, born and raised in the UK, who now face deportation to two different Caribbean countries that neither of them has ever visited. They are to be deported because despite being born in Britain, never living anywhere else, and being orphans taken into Social Care at the age of 13, they are not British Citizens.
We have been here before
Somewhere in a Chinese laboratory a masked, white-suited scientist picks up a glass flask of pale liquid. It slips from his gloved hand, shattering on the workbench. The camera cuts to an airport, tinny announcements sounding in the distance. A plane takes off, a man of Asian appearance frowns and touches his head. A second later, he stumbles and falls to the ground. We see an outstretched hand, its fingers still. A flurry of passport stamps follow: Berlin, Singapore, New York and many more.
The Italian model
Did Chinese migrant labour in the fashion industry bring Covid-19 to Europe? As Britain struggles to prepare for what is predicted to be the peak of the Covid-19 virus in mid-to-late April, many people fear the country will suffer horrors on the scale of those endured by Italy in recent weeks. However, that country and its Covd-19 experience should not necessarily be seen as a predictive model for the UK.
Beirut: Blood on the Streets
Last month in Beirut I was caught up in a physical attack on Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American journalist, by pro-Syrian thugs. It was my first visit to the Lebanese capital – as the guest of the New Opinion Group, an anti-Syrian NGO.
Underrated: Anti-tank weapons
“Anti-weapons” are much better value for money than aircraft carriers Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck “Anti-weapons” are rarely appreciated by the public. Tank, aircraft and ship crew may be the heroes of screen and fiction, but that role is rarely extended to those who man anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, and who lay mines. Instead, the focus is on resistance by similar weapons: other tanks, aircraft and warships.
History’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme
Very few of the ever-growing number of books about the recent and current world financial crisis try to identify the ultimate causes of this astounding implosion of the longest, strongest and most widespread economic boom in history. Any such analysis by officials became impractical because it became mired in the uneven exchange of allegations between the politicians and the private financial sector. The political class locked arms from across the spectrum to blame private sector “greed”.
Jeremy Corbyn and the Jews
eremy Corbyn, the hard-left leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party and likely future prime minister if Theresa May's Conservative government continues to flounder, is once again embroiled in a furor about anti-Semitism. Corbyn's remarkably sanguine attitude toward Jew-hatred has been a contentious issue in Great Britain ever since he took over the Labour Party in a shock party vote in 2015.
Jeremy Corbyn and the Jews
eremy Corbyn, the hard-left leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party and likely future prime minister if Theresa May’s Conservative government continues to flounder, is once again embroiled in a furor about anti-Semitism. Corbyn’s remarkably sanguine attitude toward Jew-hatred has been a contentious issue in Great Britain ever since he took over the Labour Party in a shock party vote in 2015.
Oxfam's sex scandal won't surprise anyone who has worked in a war zone
Jonathan Foreman is the author of "Aiding and Abetting: Foreign Aid Failures And The 0.7% Deception" and a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute for the Study of Civil Society in London. The opinions in this article belong to the author.
The Acosta of Freedom
Floyd Abrams Free expression threatened? By Donald Trump? I guess you could say so.When a president engages in daily denigration of the press, when he characterizes it as the enemy of the people, when he repeatedly says that the libel laws should be “loosened” so he can personally commence more litigation, when he says that journalists shouldn’t be allowed to use confidential sources, it is difficult even to suggest that he has not threatened free speech.
Our Worst Ex-President - Commentary Magazine
In 1976, when Carter tossed his hat into the ring for the presidential nomination, the Democratic party was still deeply riven by the long, bitter debate over the war in Vietnam. Carter’s response was to soar above these divisions, downplaying both ideology and issues. Instead, he put himself forward as a man of piety and character who would restore a high tone to government in the aftermath of Watergate and related scandals.
The Mobility Crisis - Commentary Magazine
Many of us surely sense this even if we do not know all the facts and figures. There is a divergence between what many Americans want to believe about their country and what they know to be true about the way they and their friends and family live now.
Dunkirk Undone - Commentary Magazine
But enough about Brexit. What about Christopher Nolan’s new movie about Dunkirk? Dunkirk is undoubtedly a blockbuster with a huge cast—Nolan has rather splendidly used 6,000 extras rather than computer cartooning to depict the vast numbers of Allied troops trapped on the beaches—and a superb score by Hans Zimmer.
The Anti-Beauty Myth - Commentary Magazine
Twenty years later, feminists are still railing against the eternal human urge to prettify American women spend 15 minutes more each day on “personal grooming” than American men do. If this fact, gleaned from time-use studies, elicits a shrug rather than a surge of self-righteous indignation, you probably have not been following the ongoing feminist effort to punish pulchritude.
On "The New Groove II" - Commentary Magazine
For good and for ill, a massive and indispensable reference work is up-to-the-minute in every way. For musicians who take ideas seriously, the publication of the long-awaited second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians will likely be remembered as the biggest story of 2001.
The Jewish Future, Part 1 - Commentary Magazine
Dark clouds always seem to hang over the Jewish people, and today’s include old problems like anti-Semitism in Europe and new ones like Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. But to me the future seems bright. I do not believe the Islamic Republic will exist in 2065. Even the superpower Soviet Union fell after three-quarters of a century, and the ayatollahs are now in year 36 of their revolution.
The Three Failed Promises of ObamaCare - Commentary Magazine
Why it’s in trouble even as it just begins. No matter the degree of disastrousness of its October debut, no matter the efforts of Republicans to derail it, there is little or no chance that ObamaCare can be stopped before the president leaves office in January 2017. The Affordable Care Act and its complicated and costly system of mandates, regulations, and subsidies will now shape our health-care system.
Making Use of Donald Trump - Commentary Magazine
Since launching his presidential campaign in June, Donald Trump has become the biggest—what seems like the only—political story in the country. Why? The media. They hold the billionaire television star to a different standard from that of other candidates, Democrat and Republican. It’s a double standard that Trump exploits for personal gain and that the media exploit for ratings and political ammunition against Republicans. Forget Barack Obama; Donald Trump is the one the media have been waiting for.
Theresa May has been found out but might reinvent herself - Reaction
The dissection and even derision Theresa May has been subject to since almost losing the election she unnecessarily called are in stark contrast to the peculiar lack of critical attention she received both when she first became Prime Minister and (especially) when she was Home Secretary.
Terror and the Failure of the Liberal Imagination
he real lesson of the recent terrorist attacks in the UK is not that all open Western societies are frighteningly vulnerable. It is not that our homegrown terrorists have finally realized that low-tech attacks using vehicles and knives are easy to carry out and hard to prevent. Nor is it that our population is impressively courageous in the face of such attacks.
Immoral Equivalence - Commentary Magazine
n March 2004, a group of Israel Defense Force soldiers founded Breaking the Silence, a nongovernmental organization ostensibly seeking to hold the military to its own stated standards of warfighting conduct. In theory, such a group could serve an important role in checking abuses. In practice, however, Breaking the Silence is something different.
Comey’s People - Commentary Magazine
In April, COMMENTARY asked a wide variety of writers, thinkers, and broadcasters to respond to this question: Is free speech under threat in the United States? We received twenty-seven responses. We publish them here in alphabetical order. The EditorsFloyd Abrams Free expression threatened? By Donald Trump?
Deplorables for Dummies - Commentary Magazine
Williams is a prominent feminist legal scholar with degrees from Yale, MIT, and Harvard. Unbending Gender, her best-known book, is the sort of tract you’d expect to find at an intersectionality conference or a Portlandia bookstore. This is why her insightful, empathic book comes as such a surprise.
Orchestras and Nazis - Commentary Magazine
he story of European classical music under the Third Reich is one of the most squalid chapters in the annals of Western culture, a chronicle of collective complaisance that all but beggars belief. Without exception, all of the well-known musicians who left Germany and Austria in protest when Hitler came to power in 1933 were either Jewish or, like the violinist Adolf Busch, Rudolf Serkin’s father-in-law, had close family ties to Jews.
The Iraqi Army Is Much Improved. But Challenges Lie Ahead.
The victorious Iraqi troops who greeted us this winter in the newly liberated town of Bartalla on the edge of Mosul seemed so different from those I remembered from the mid to late 2000s that it was hard to believe they came from the same country. These guys were, to put it in American military slang terms, squared-away, high-speed, and locked-on to the nth degree. They looked, moved, and spoke not just like real soldiers but like professional Western combat troops.
Zoo U - Commentary Magazine
Wade, a sociologist at Occidental College, is not the first to describe the bizarre sexual atmosphere on campus. But she competently covers the terrain. From the “pregaming”—during which everyone has to become drunk before even leaving their dorm rooms—to the “grinding” to the anonymous couplings (which may or may not involve intercourse), Wade takes readers on a detailed tour of the mating rituals of 19-year-olds.
We See You - Commentary Magazine
Media moguls—from the first newspaper publishers to the scions of Silicon Valley—are not the source of the smell, so it is odd that they come in for a book’s worth of opprobrium from Wu. He mostly dislikes the fact that our lives are so commercialized, that someone is always trying to sell us something. For this, he could blame corporations that make useless gadgets, advertising agencies, or capitalism itself.
On the Mosul Front
On the way there, our convoy with its cargo of four British Members of Parliament on a fact-finding mission stopped at a displaced persons camp, one of 20 or so that are scattered around the Kurdistan region.
His Masterful Voice - Commentary Magazine
To be sure, some of the great stage actors of the 20th century made sustained attempts to master the more naturalistic technique of screen acting and establish parallel careers in film. One of them, Laurence Olivier, took the medium seriously enough that he turned himself into a director in order to adapt such Shakespeare plays as Henry V (1944) and Hamlet (1948) for the screen, in the process documenting his own much admired performances.
The Happiest in the World - Commentary Magazine
Her eyes couldn’t keep up. “What a wonderful homeland we have,” the voices rang out. “Our father is Marshal Kim Il Sung,” she mouthed, slightly out of sync with the others, “We are the happiest in the world.” “You,” the teacher shouted, pointing the stick at Moon Young. “Stand up, girl.” She stood, her arms stiffly at her sides, her eyes lowered. He moved toward Moon Young, rapping the stick on the desks as he passed. “You don’t know the words?
Bury Their Future at Standing Rock - Commentary Magazine
No doubt the decision has given some a renewed sense of pride, but whether the administration’s decision was about acknowledging the rights of Native Americans or rather was a final bow to the interests of powerful liberal lobbies in Washington is an open question. And while Standing Rock leaders may be pleased with their success, American Indians will be bearing the devastating economic consequences of this decision for years to come.
Lionel Shriver Is Out of Line
efore she was accused of thought- crime, the London-based American writer Lionel Shriver was best known for her 2003 bestseller, We Need to Talk about Kevin, an epistolary novel about a mother's efforts to understand why her son had carried out a Columbine-like school massacre. She has published five novels since Kevin, to wide acclaim, but it was a keynote speech she gave at an Australian literary event in September that made her the most unlikely celebrity of 2016.
Lionel Shriver Is Out of Line - Commentary Magazine
Shriver had been invited by the Brisbane Writers Festival to discuss “community and belonging.” Instead, Shriver gave a talk about “fiction and identity politics” that criticized the idea of “cultural appropriation” and other forms of political correctness.
When East Meets East - Commentary Magazine
The most obvious way to account for this curious statistic is to note that Jews and East Asians often occupy a similar socioeconomic status in America and so their paths probably cross fairly often. Whether at elite colleges, in Silicon Valley, or on the Upper West Side, the people we marry tend to be those we work with, go to school with, and live near. Marriage is largely about opportunity. But there is more to it than that.
The Party of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism - Commentary Magazine
Surveying the horrifying news from September’s Labour Party conference, one would have been forgiven for thinking that the biggest question facing Britain is a Jewish one. The place of Jews in the party and in Great Britain altogether seemed to dominate the proceedings.
The WikiLeaks War on America
The indefinable international organization known as WikiLeaks was relatively unknown between its setting up in 2006 and the April 2010 premiere it staged at the National Press Club in Washington of the “Collateral Murder” video—a selection of stolen and decrypted gun-camera footage that purportedly shows the unlawful killing of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists by the crew of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.
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