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Inner smile , a hit by UK band Texas , which formed in Glasgow in 1986. And if Mr Ghost thinks it's Old Fogey Night again, the second c...

Unfortunately, I do not have all the names of the deadly victims of the shooting rampage. These are the ones I found: Michael Pearson, 21 Am...

Just a street in Puteaux , west of Paris, on a Friday afternoon... Via François Desouche , we learn that the mayor actually gave permission ...

Today there was such a fucking shitload of depressing news again, a.o. the European Court of Human Rights ordering Italian schools to remove...

Cambridge University is going to allow burkas at graduation . Via The Sun , November 3: "Cambridge University issued a clarification to...

From Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws , October 28: A Moroccan koranic reader, a certain O.G., has been arrested for the murder of 18-year o...

Nice ballad from Editors , a UK indie group formed in Birmingham in 2002. The Uprising , a Muse hit aired first in August of last summer. F...

Via the Dutch website Het Vrije Volk : A school in the Tingbjerg neighborhood in Copenhagen, set alight by young muslims in 2008. TINGBJERG:...

Longtime reader Mark posted in the comments section of the last but one post to this very spot on Orange County Steyn column : OBAMA A TOUGH...

French society is disintegrating. The number of no-go areas for the police, euphemisitically called ZUS, or Zones Urbaines Sensibles (sensit...

Great Things , good and upbeat 1995 single from Britpop band Echobelly . Picked from the album On it reached #13 in the UK singles chart th...

Over at The Brussels Journal , Belgian philosopher/economist Martin de Vlieghere , of the Belgian/Flemish pro free market think tank Workfor...

This is just another week with such a torrent of ominous news that once again, I can't get rid of that gathering storm feeling. But one ...

Seven prominent French islamologues have written a letter to messrs. Caracciolo and Maroni, Italian ambassador to France and Italian Interi...

Scene: Paris, Quartier barbès, Rue Myrha. A Friday in October. Suddenly the street is blocked, just like that, WITHOUT permission from the a...

I actually was on the verge of posting L7 's Pretend we're dead when, upon researching their career a bit, I found out they were the...

From the 'you got to be kidding me' department. Or, rather not, since the US now has a president who has appointed the likes of Cass...

A.) TURKS ALREADY INSIDE THE EU: Scene: "Friendly" interland soccer match Belgium-Turkey. Place: King Baudoin Stadium, Brussels. D...

A quick snapshot I thought I'd just share. Mind you, I didn't take it. I'm not that good a photographer. The fella who did is a ...

Brilliant poppy hit from Julian Cope , Try try try (1995). Of course, the guy is as mad as a hatter. Now for some Wagner , more precisely Si...