By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2025
In mid-November 2023, just six weeks after the Iran/HAMAS pogrom in Israel on 7 October 2023, Gianni Vernetti wrote a brief article for the Italian publication La Repubblica reflecting on the corruption of the entire United Nations system that had been revealed by the organisation’s reaction. A rough translation of the article is given below.
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 September 2025
The United Nations has been ostentatiously uncaring about Israeli rape victims, and this is to be expected since the anti-Israel disinformation network, of which the U.N. is such a crucial node, has engaged in a vast campaign of denialism about the sexual violence perpetrated on 7 October 2023 by HAMAS and the other units of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The same explanation applies to the silence of the women’s and “human rights” activist groups.
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025
Muhammad al-Sudani has been Iraq’s Prime Minister since October 2022. He was installed at Iran’s behest after a year-long political logjam following the 2021 Iraqi elections. The political fronts for Iran’s terrorist-militias lost those elections, but Tehran picked the Prime Minister anyway.
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 February 2025
When Septimius Severus became Roman Emperor in 193 AD, his wife, whom he had married in 187, was Julia Domna, a native of Emesa (now Homs), meaning Rome had its first Syrian Empress.
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on April 20, 2015
There are few people in British public life more destructive, especially among the young, than Russell Brand, not least because of his poisonous advice that people should not vote. When I first saw him proffer this advice on Newsnight—where I could not believe he had been invited and then taken seriously—it seemed to me a form of vandalism, using his prominent and comfortable position to urge those less comfortable to throw away one of the few levers they had to make their lot better.
But now I find the only way I could cast a ballot in the upcoming Election is if there was an option for “None of the Above”. I can only differentiate myself by noting both the very considerable gulf in our audiences, and thus responsibilities, and that I do not seek to advise anybody, only explain my own personal decision. Continue reading
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