Monthly Archives: March 2014

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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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