An Afghan national has pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, appeared at Warwick Crown Court on Friday, changing his plea from not guilty to guilty for an incident that occurred on July 22. Mulakhil, of no fixed address, had previously denied abducting a child, three counts of rape of […]

The first Trump administration was fairly restrained, as it included plenty of old-school Republican adults in key positions. They kept the QAnon types and other crazies at bay. But the January 6 riots and Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election gave a preview of tawdry things to come. His second term doesn’t even […]

Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo provide a useful overview of the frauds we have covered over the past many years in their City Journal story “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” (the City Journal headline is itself a quote from a confidential source). The financial support for Islamist terrorism seems to be […]

An Indian fighter jet pilot has been confirmed as dead after his plane crashed in front of spectators at an airshow in Dubai. The Indian Air Force said: “IAF deeply regrets the loss of life and stands firmly with the bereaved family in this time of grief.” The Indian HAL Tejas crashed at around 2:10pm local […]

With The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn has produced a biography valuable to both political novices and serious students of the conservative movement. Laymen will gain from the introduction to Meyer, a once influential but now largely forgotten mid–20th century editor at National Review, and to the […]