Steyn on the World
Thursday, 11 March 2010
In the old days, I used to wake up to the morning paper, neatly folded on a silver salver and presented by my valet along with the kedgeree and the brace of grilled quail. Now I wake up to an inbox of Internet stories forwarded by readers that cumulatively feel...
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Steyn on America
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
This is really one for Jonah. Scaramouche raises an interesting question re today's New York Times. Which is the genuine Thomas L. Friedman column? And which is the parody?
Example A, opening paragraph:
I was changing planes at the new airport in Jakarta the other day, on the way to Stockholm from...
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Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Judging by emails from readers in America, Britain, India, Australia, Europe, Africa and beyond, Vancouver’s Olympic ceremony was a gold medal snoozeroo of politically correct braggadocio impressive even by Canadian standards. A Florida correspondent suggested that Beijing’s decision in 2008 to downplay discreetly its official state ideology might have been...
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Steyn on Britain and Europe
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
It’s supposed to be Sept. 12—that’s to say, the post-9/11 era. For over seven years the entire Western world was forced to live out a kind of geopolitical Groundhog Day in which Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the rest of the gang woke up each dawn to the same eternal Tuesday...
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