Commemorating Muhammad Shahrur

Islam and humanity: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Muhammad-Shahrur,-reformer-of-Islamic-thought-loathed-by-extremists,-has-died-48890.html

The War on Christians

https://csi-usa.org

Here is my Christmas Day piece for Quadrant Online: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/christmas/2019/12/the-war-on-christians/

Christmas Greetings to Palestine's Persecuted Christians

Reputed site of our Lord's Manger [Photograph: Daryl McCann]

An important read: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15318/persecuted-palestinian-christians

Firefighting in an Australian hillside suburb

(Photographer: Daryl McCann)

Thanks to the intrepidity of the aerial firefighters, this bushfire did not cross a main road (to the right of the photographs) and burn down our suburb.

One morning, as Ian McEwan was waking from anxious dreams...

Cockroach-icity must be in the eye of the beholder 

I read a lot of Ian McEwan's at one point, and my feeling was that WE would one day be judged for promoting his work as "heavyweight". McEwan linking himself to a genuine heavyweight, Franz Kafka, is seriously not fair to Kafka. Kafka, more than any other writer I know, was prescient about the oligarchical state swallowing up capitalism/reality/individuality et al. McEwan has been a beneficiary of this process - think of all the state-funded talkfests our author has attended, state-funded prizes he has been awarded, state-subsidised schools that have bought his texts, state-prescribed curricula compelling young people to read his work - and now HE is calling Brexiteers/the People cochroaches for asking Big Brother to back off a little, so they might have a more autonomous life and enjoy a picnic or two.  Read Metamorphosis and then take a look at David Martin's  https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/12/ian-mcewan-does-la-cucaracha/   

The Insane WaPo: Could Boris Johnson lose his own seat?

The insane Washington Post disgraces itself once again: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-boris-johnsons-home-turf-voters-are-turning-out-with-one-objective-boot-him-out/2019/12/12/139aef80-1c66-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html

The Deep State's Contempt For Democracy

Here is my latest article, now liberated from behind Quadrant's subscriber wall (although a subscription to Quadrant would make a great Christmas present): https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/12/the-deep-states-contempt-for-democracy/