This week on the New World Next Week: all hell breaks loose in Pakistan as Imran Khan is arrested; Ehud Barak joins Noam Chomsky, Woody Allen and others on the defensive as Epstein revelations continue; and Nick Cane and the …
Is America turning into Pakistan?
Let’s start with a game of “Guess the Country”. In this nation, a former head of state announces his attempted return to power, so his opponents set out to block him. In doing so, they revive past sex scandals and …
Joyland is not a trans love story
Why is Joyland being promoted as a “trans love story”? Since its release, the first Pakistani movie to ever be screened at the Cannes Film Festival has been making headlines in the West, where progressives celebrate it for bringing the …
Pakistani child sex abuse is an open secret
The first time Rahim* was raped by a family member, he was six years old. In the early Nineties, three of Rahim’s uncles immigrated from Pakistan to the small town in Southern Ontario, Canada where Rahim’s family lived. He was …
Interview 1784 – Balloon Bombing Baffles Believing Buffoons – #NewWorldNextWeek
This week on the New World Next Week: the balloon hysteria pops but China hysteria is just building; the no-alternative media attempt to revive the old homeland security fraud in the name of partisan flag-waving; and Pervez Musharraf dies at …
The hijacking of Pakistani feminism
My first thought after reading the form to express interest in volunteering at Pakistan’s annual Women’s March was: how many women in Pakistan know what “non-binary” and “cis woman” mean? In a country with a literacy rate of less than …
Imran Khan’s poisonous legacy
Imran Khan, the 20th-century cricketer who reinvented himself as a 21st-century zealot, lives. But what is to become of his country?
Khan was shot last week at a political procession he had convened as part of his reckless agitation to …
The Queen’s war on nationalism
In the room where I write there’s a portrait that might well get me ostracised from certain intelligentsia circles to which — for the time being — I belong. Few would be in any doubt about whom it depicts. Nevertheless, …
