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Where’s America’s right to referendum, secession?
Where’s America’s right to referendum, secession? ILANA MERCER smells hypocrisy hanging over Crimea From a node in the neoconservative network, a Fox News studio, Charles Krauthammer has complained about the eviction of the Ukrainian Navy from the city of Sevastopol, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill O’Reilly, Charles Krauthammer, Crimea, Henry Kissinger, Ilana Mercer, John Kerry, Russophobia, The Factor, Ukraine
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ENDNOTES – Were you not entertained?
ENDNOTES – Were you not entertained? The Royal Albert Hall, March 16, 2014, Sir Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius, based on the poem by Cardinal John Henry Newman: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton, Diana Moore … Continue reading
Higher education is a hard row to ho
Duke University – Wikimedia Commons Higher Education Is A Hard Row To Ho ILANA MERCER says that making love is preferable to making war Who’s the bigger prostitute? Sex kitten “Belle Knox”, alias Miriam Weeks, a promising porn star who … Continue reading
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Tagged Belle Knox, Duke University, glorification of war, Ilana Mercer, Miriam Weeks
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Crowning glory – royal legitimation for Scotland’s squadristi
Crowning glory: royal legitimation for Scotland’s squadristi ROGER KERSHAW analyses the putative ideological conflict between “ethnic Scots” and “ethnic English” The Scottish political lexicon seems to have been enriched by two “F-words” during 2013: Nigel Farage through his attempt at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Salmond, Better Together, ethnic nationalism, Nigel Farage, Nordic Union, North Sea oil, Respect, Roger Kershaw, Scottish independence, SNP, UKIP
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Hollywood: the no-good, the bad and the beastly
Hollywood: the no-good, the bad and the beastly ILANA MERCER watches the Academy Awards Glenn Close’s remarks at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony, captured the delusions of grandeur held by the tarts and tards of Hollywood, and helped by their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Academy Awards, Hunger Games, Ilana Mercer, Michelle Obama
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ENDNOTES – Northern lights, western winds
ENDNOTES – Northern lights, western winds A Swedish symphonist * A Mass of the Western Wynde * Mendelssohn in Reformation spirit * Waltzes with William Alwyn If companies such as Chandos Records had never existed, I doubt if very many … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandos, Endnotes, John Sheppard, Kurt Atterberg, Mendelssohn, Somm, Stuart Millson, William Alwyn
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Russia – the un-Bearable rightness of being
Russia – the un-Bearable rightness of being GREGORY SLYSZ asks what the war in Syria, the coup d’état in Ukraine and the Sochi Olympic Games have in common The current level of Russophobia among Western governments and media has strong … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, gay rights, Gregory Slysz, NATO, Right Sector, Russia, Russophobia, Sochi, Svoboda, Ukraine, Winter Olympics, Yanukovych
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Father to the Man
Father to the Man The Confusions of Young Master Törless by Robert Musil, translated by Christopher Moncrieff, Alma Classics, 2014, 250pp, pb, £6.39 STODDARD MARTIN reviews a new translation of Robert Musil’s Bildungsroman In this year of the centenary of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Robert Musil, Stoddard Martin, Young Master Torless
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