Brendan O’Neill in Spiked assesses the recent death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. O’Neill laments Haniyeh’s posthumous depiction in many media outlets as “pragmatic” and “moderate”. Haniyeh was nothing more than a mass murderer, O’Neill writes, responsible for countless deaths of Jews, Palestinians and others – i.e., a monster.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.