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Football at its finest
This season, the English Premier League is living up to its often touted tag of being the best in the world. English clubs have created European football history by taking all four final spots in the continent’s two major competitions. Liverpool pulled off a stunning second leg comeback against Barcelona at Anfield to guarantee their spot in the Champions League final. A day later, Tottenham miraculously overcame Ajax. As if those exploits weren’t enough, Arsenal won in Valencia and Chelsea beat Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday to reach the Europa League final. It is the first time all four finalists in Europe’s top two competitions have come from one nation. Ridiculous comeback after ridiculous comeback. Who has been writing the script for the Champions League this season? This...
May 11, 2019

Football at its finest

Football at its finest
This season, the English Premier League is living up to its often touted tag of being the best in the world. English clubs have created European football history by taking all four final spots in the continent’s two major competitions. Liverpool pulled off a stunning second leg comeback against Barcelona at Anfield to guarantee their spot in the Champions League final. A day later, Tottenham miraculously overcame Ajax. As if those exploits weren’t enough, Arsenal won in Valencia and Chelsea beat Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday to reach the Europa League final. It is the first time all four finalists in Europe’s top two competitions have come from one nation.Ridiculous comeback after ridiculous comeback. Who has been writing the script for the Champions League this season? This season...
May 11, 2019

Football at its finest

Trump has upended diplomacy
DONALD Trump has changed the nature of Western diplomacy. He only knows how to play hard ball. This has led to disastrous decisions including his establishment of a US embassy in Jerusalem and his precipitate abandonment of America’s low-key but important role in Syria. But it has also had benefits. In particular, Trump has cleared the air on issues around which other democratic governments have been pussyfooting far too long. He called out fellow NATO states for their blatant failure to spend a minimum of two percent of their GDP on their military. He has challenged the EU over trade and publicly backed the UK’s breakaway from Brussels, promising the British a favorable trade deal. He happily traded insults with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un which led to the first ever...
May 10, 2019

Trump has upended diplomacy

Iran comes clean, sort of
In an unusual bout of frankness, the regime in Tehran has announced it is no longer sticking to the terms of the 2015 Geneva nuclear agreement. In reality, despite the investigations of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, there has been good intelligence that hardly had the ink dried on the laughably named “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” Iran was flouting its terms. The much-vaunted agreement to lift sanctions saved Iran from imminent economic collapse. It was supposed to be Barack Obama’s big foreign policy triumph. It was in fact a disaster. Secretary of State John Kerry was bamboozled by Tehran’s negotiators. France, Germany and the UK wanted the deal so they could profit from desperately-needed contracts to rebuild Iranian infrastructure, not...
May 08, 2019

Iran comes clean, sort of

Erdogan tries a new electoral fix
Turkish voters in Istanbul who chose an opposition mayor instead of the government nominee now have a second chance to get it right. Whether they are grateful for the opportunity remains to be seen. At the end of March they rejected Binali Yildirim the candidate from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party and chose instead Ekrem Imamoglu from the main opposition, the CHP. However, his victory was narrow, a mere 13,000 votes. AK party chiefs demanded recounts. But when these failed to reverse the result, they appealed to the country’s Supreme Electoral Council. This week that body, which is dominated by members of the governing party, ordered by seven votes to four that the election should be re-run. AK officials had originally challenged the outcome alleging...
May 07, 2019

Erdogan tries a new electoral fix

The Iranian regime on a warning
John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, has announced that the dispatch of an aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf is designed to send “a clear and unmistakable message” to Iran. Yet on the face of it, this is nonsense. It is by no means unusual to have US warships in these waters. Yet Washington appears to be acting on intelligence that the ayatollahs in Tehran are planning some new international outrage. Bolton did not go into specifics but warned that the latest military deployment demonstrated “to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force." It seems possible that Tehran’s privileged elite, the Praetorian Revolutionary Guard may be planning some...
May 06, 2019

The Iranian regime on a warning

Outing the hate-mongers
Facebook has announced the banning of several individuals who it characterized as being “dangerous” political figures for their rhetoric. These people include Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan. They were banned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for not complying with the company’s standards. The banning is what the Wall Street Journal called the company’s “most sweeping” action “yet against online provocateurs”. Far-right extremists need to be shut down, silenced, muted. They should not be allowed to spew their hatred in any social media outlet. Facebook is within its rights to evict these accounts, even if they’ve done nothing criminal. As a private company, Facebook can monitor its own content and make...
May 05, 2019

Outing the hate-mongers

Billion-dollar movies
“Avengers: Endgame” has made box office history by becoming the fastest-grossing film in its opening run. Endgame grossed an estimated $350 million in North America and $859 million overseas its first weekend, easily surpassing the previous opening-weekend records in both categories held by “Avengers: Infinity War” by more than 30 percent each.Endgame thus has made box office history by taking a record-breaking $1.2 billion in global ticket sales in its opening run. The Disney blockbuster became the fastest film ever to break the $1 billion barrier, doing so in just five days.At this rate, there’s no telling how much Endgame will eventually make. The 2009 film Avatar currently holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time, taking $2.79 billion in ticket receipts...
May 04, 2019

Billion-dollar movies

Time to go
Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called for an investigation into who shot dead one of his supporters in the May Day protest in Caracas on Monday. Perversely, this is a hopeful sign in this struggling society. Though there were earlier slayings of opposition protesters, Guaidó’s demand for an enquiry into this latest death shows that this is a dangerous confrontation that has yet to tip over into the levels of violence, when deaths on either side, no longer merit proper concern and attention.As the protests against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro continue to mount, the opposition leader, whose self-declaration as president has been widely recognized by outside countries, with the notable exceptions of Russia and China, shows he is backing the rule of law.Power does...
May 02, 2019

Time to go

The long-overdue Muslim Brotherhood ban
Though social media make it easier for them to push their malign messages, terrorist groups around the world still attempt a degree of political respectability by setting up supposedly harmless front organizations. The Provisional IRA, which waged a vicious campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland, had Sinn Fein which supposedly deplored violence and wanted only peace. Yet a Sinn Fein leader once famously announced after the Good Friday agreement ended decades of brutal conflict that “The Boys”, as he affectionately called them, “hadn’t gone away”. And he went on to say of his party’s participation in the political process, that Sinn Fein had an Armalite rifle in one hand and a ballot box in the other. The political establishment, certainly in Britain, takes the...
May 01, 2019

The long-overdue Muslim Brotherhood ban

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