BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN My great-grandfather was completely deaf (or pretended to be so), yet he managed to help keep the Conservatives in power for many years, despite a brief interlude under Ramsay MacDonald. His daughter, my grandmother, was also profoundly deaf. In her later years, she walked around with a portable microphone linked to her hearing aids, which she innocently placed in the middle of … Continue reading Embracing Deafness
BY JACK LAU U.S. intelligence agencies are encouraging American research universities to develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from Chinese state-affiliated research institutions, as U.S. suspicion toward China spreads to academia. Since last year, FBI officials have visited at least 10 members of the Association of American Universities, a group of 62 research universities, with an unclassified list of Chinese research institutions and … Continue reading Chinese Target UK Universities
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN When Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn holds his rallies, he not only entices the old, battered diehards of Britain’s far-left – those from Militant to the Socialist Workers Party to Left Unity – he also attracts considerable numbers of youthful political virgins, who have never joined a political party before. I have concluded that these people are wandering inadvertently into socialism; swallowing assumptions … Continue reading What Drives Corbyn’s Young Lemmings?
