Strange Tales from a Strange Time: Nixon, Ailes, Cameron, Murdoch

By: Phoenix Woman Friday July 22, 2011 6:00 pm

Watching the fall of Rupert Murdoch play itself out has brought back old, old memories. Memories of the only political scandal I’ve experienced in my homeland that comes even close to what’s been unfolding in the UK right now: Watergate. And to judge from this British piece and this Canadian one, I’m not the only person to be thinking of Watergate in connection with all of this.

Come Saturday Morning: This and That

By: Phoenix Woman Saturday November 27, 2010 6:45 am

Just a few odds and ends and random observations from the currently frozen tundra of Saint Paul: – The UK publication The Spectator, a longtime institution among both British and North American conservatives, was forced to apologize for lobbing false anti-Semitism accusations against Mohammad Sawalha, the president of the British Muslim Initiative. – Last September, [...]

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