Theodore Dalrymple

6 days ago | newenglishreview.org | Theodore Dalrymple

By Theodore DalrympleOften on Saturdays, outside a small supermarket in the town in which I live in England, stands a swarthy woman in her 30s who wears a black scarf around her head. She is not Muslim but Moldavian, probably of gypsy background. She tries to sell a publication called The Big Issue to rather reluctant passersby and has an insinuating and obsequiously whining manner that is no doubt intended to arouse pity but—in me, at any rate—arouses only deep irritation and dislike.

1 week ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

The Week’s Most Iran-Gets-a-Nuking, Academic-Lies-a-Puking, and Rappers-Start-a-Duking HeadlinesWAR AND PIZZATime was all an increase in customer activity at a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant signified was that Bill and Hillary Clinton wanted another fresh young child to rape down in the basement. Last week what an uptick in orders indicated was altogether more geopolitically significant: Israel was about to bomb Iran.

1 week ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

Often on Saturdays, outside a small supermarket in the town in which I live in England, stands a swarthy woman in her 30s who wears a black scarf around her head. She is not Muslim but Moldavian, probably of gypsy background. She tries to sell a publication called The Big Issue to rather reluctant passersby and has an insinuating and obsequiously whining manner that is no doubt intended to arouse pity but—in me, at any rate—arouses only deep irritation and dislike.

1 week ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

For any of you out there hoping against hope that Israel might stop the bombing of Iran, forget about it. Israel, along with Uncle Sam, who now wears a blondish haircut, will not stop until there is regime change in Iran. As oil prices go through the roof, Israel will continue to destroy an unarmed nation with help from America. The Iranians aside, the biggest loser in this one-sided war is Putin, who now has only China and North Korea as close allies.

2 weeks ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

The Week’s Most Poo-Down-the-Throat, Child-Suicide-Note, and Greta-in-a-Boat Headlines NON-PC PURSUITS In our brave new multiculti world, we are always being sermonized upon the importance of “inclusion.” So it is hard not to feel sorry for the officers of England’s Derbyshire Police Force, who were only doing as instructed and attempting to make minoritarian brown Police Constable Shafarat Mohammed feel one of the majoritarian white gang by including him in their back-office game of “Snog,...