Postcards from Palookaville

Other than the sackloads of requests that ref21 should `Fire Levy Now!' (you hum it; we'll try to play it), many others have been asking if we can provide insights into the man behind the recent spate of blogposts that seem to have been drawn directly from Finnegans Wake . So, for your edification...

So Levy is still crowing over the `Rumble in the Rhondda'? Any fair minded viewer will see that the ref, C J Mahaney, should never have given me the standing count at that point. The bout was clearly fixed by the Tafia.

So Levy is still crowing over the `Rumble in the Rhondda'? Any fair minded viewer will see that the ref, C J Mahaney, should never have given me the standing count at that point. The bout was clearly fixed by the Tafia.

....but a dream within a dream. So wrote Poe, words that have a peculiar relevance, given all the oohing and aahing about the profile of Al Mohler in Christianity Today . Some have felt the need to make it clear that Dr Mohler does not represent them as evangelicals; others have pointed towards the...

....but a dream within a dream. So wrote Poe, words that have a peculiar relevance, given all the oohing and aahing about the profile of Al Mohler in Christianity Today . Some have felt the need to make it clear that Dr Mohler does not represent them as evangelicals; others have pointed towards the...

Francis Beckwith offers a typically helpful and respectful commentary on the recent Christianity Today profile of Al Mohler on his website, which has moved to new premises here .

Francis Beckwith offers a typically helpful and respectful commentary on the recent Christianity Today profile of Al Mohler on his website, which has moved to new premises here .

Reading the most recent post of Levy (known back in Blighty as `the unthinking man's Derek Thomas' -- though I have always thought that Derek Thomas himself fulfilled that role quite adequately) reminded me of the radical writer and critic, William Hazlitt, who, in an essay entitled `On the Feeling...

Reading the most recent post of Levy (known back in Blighty as `the unthinking man's Derek Thomas' -- though I have always thought that Derek Thomas himself fulfilled that role quite adequately) reminded me of the radical writer and critic, William Hazlitt, who, in an essay entitled `On the Feeling...

The trial of outspoken Dutch politician, Geert Wilders,is a great example of the kind of problem ( crisis being such an overused and overhyped word) faced by liberal democracy: a man on trial for stirring up hatred again Muslims by using his freedom of speech. It is, of course, arguable that it is...