Request of the Week
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Dear Mark,
I am not sure why but the media coverage of Fort Hood reminded me of a column you wrote about moderate Muslims - after a famous European writer (?) converted from Islam to Catholicism. Could you reprint it?
Nimmi Morton
Hong Kong
MARK SAYS: My pleasure. And he's actually...
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One Year Ago
Sunday, 15 November 2009
This is by way of a footnote to Election Day 2008, but, after seeing Obama "go toe-to-toe" with Putin and (full bow-wise) head-to-toe with the King of Saudi Arabia and the Emperor of Japan, I think it holds up pretty well a year later:
Before we close the book on...
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Seasons of Steyn
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
It is exacty 90 years since King George V proclaimed that "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" would be observed throughout the British Empire as a commemoration of the cessation of hostilities in the Great War a year earlier. Last year, just before Remembrance Day,...
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Topical Take
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Today at 9pm Eastern John Allen Muhammad will be executed by the State of Virginia. Muhammad, you'll recall, was one half of the two "snipers" who killed ten people in and around Washington, DC seven years ago. His execution is especially timely in the light of last week's slaughter at Fort Hood. As...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 07 November 2009
Half a decade ago - November 2004 - George W Bush won the Presidential election, and his honeymoon ended about 20 minutes later. Here's what I wrote in The Sunday Telegraph:
The big question after Tuesday was: will it just be more of the same in George W Bush's second term, or will there...
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 31 October 2009
One of the things I enjoyed about my Sunday Telegraph days was the way the editor, Dominic Lawson, used to come up with subjects I wouldn't ordinarily have written about. This is a fairly typical example, on a trend that's only accelerated in the last decade:
It was a staple of 1960s sci-fi:...
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