“Male passengers were pushing ahead of women and children.” So observed retired police chief inspector Ed Gurr disapprovingly after he and his wife Liz made it successfully off the sagging Costa Concordia. They were joined by the vast majority of the vessel’s other occupants, including the captain of the ill-fated cruise liner, who is either [...]

Christopher Hitchens, in his last days, had a debate with his friend Ian McEwan about whether Philip Larkin, in his celebrated poem ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, concluded the poem in a ‘horribly dark’ way: “I set the poem up and read it, and when I reached that celebrated end, “A sense of falling, like an arrow [...]

Well, yet another of the people who inspired and influenced me has died. Christopher Hitchens was a towering intellect, ferocious wit, brilliant polemicist, and the kind of writer that is in short supply. His vast knowledge, his sense of humour, the ‘Hitch slap’… damn, I’m going to miss it all. “Beware the irrational, however seductive. [...]

If we don’t pass Obama’s jobs bill… horror awaits, according to Vice-President Joe Biden. Murder. Rape! Watch Joe Biden in this short clip from HumanEvents.com: So now we know. Unemployment causes rape and murder. Isn’t that what the Vice-President is saying? That’s why we must pass the jobs bill, because if we don’t, “murder will [...]

Someday, I’ll sit down and write at length about what Steve Jobs meant to me. From the time I was first exposed to the Macintosh in the mid-80s (when I was still a little boy), I was fascinated by his company, Apple. My first proper personal computer was a Mac when I turned 12, and [...]

The headlines screamed the results of this Columbia University poll over the weekend: “Here’s another reason to fear Facebook” “New survey links drug abuse to Facebook” “Are Social Networking Sites Turning Teens into Substance Abusers?” “Facebook Linked to Teen Drug Use” This annual poll by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse has ruffled [...]