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A semblance of change – UK parliamentary politics then and now
A semblance of change – UK parliamentary politics then and now ALEX KURTAGIC finds underlying similarities between the major British political parties In The Problem of Democracy, Alain de Benoist writes that the term ‘democracy’ is so widely misused today … Continue reading
Manifesto for Sad People
Manifesto for Sad People Edward Dutton Enjoys the Definitive Application of Absurdism Adventures in Stationery: A Journey through Your Pencil Case, James Ward, 2014, Profile Books, Hardback, 280pp. The philosophical school known as Absurdism developed from the belief that life … Continue reading
Mission to Kabul, a Footnote in Weltpolitik STODDARD MARTIN
Mission to Kabul: a Footnote in Weltpolitik Stoddard Martin discerns a curious continuity in German foreign policy The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul: A Secret Expedition to Afghanistan in World War 1, Jules Stewart, I. B. Tauris, London, 2014, HB, … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, Jules Stewart, Oskar von Niedermayer, Otto von Hentig, Stoddard Martin, Wilhelm II
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Endnotes STUART MILLSON
ENDNOTES, September 2014 In this edition: a report from the Proms: William Mathias and Elgar, and composers of the Great War * Coronation music from Somm Records * Classic Sibelius from Iceland. For conductor Mark Wigglesworth, Sir Edward Elgar’s First … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Elgar, Endnotes, George Butterworth, Mark Wigglesworth, Rudi Stephan, Sibelius, Stuart Millson, Vaughan Williams, William Mathias
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EpiQR – River Grille, Bristol EM MARSHALL-LUCK
EM MARSHALL-LUCK River Grille Prince Street, Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QF Situated in the smart and shiny yet austerely façaded Bristol Hotel, the River Grille restaurant faces out on the other side from the gritty main road, overlooking the river … Continue reading
‘The prison house of language’? LIAM GUILAR
‘THE PRISON HOUSE OF LANGUAGE’? Midwinter, Wessex, eight seven eight AD. Metalled men, fur wrapped, steaming still to watch the hawk strike, then urge their shaggy ponies through the snow. Guthrum, refusing a verb’s negation, approaches an unexpected victory. … Continue reading
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Arthur Seaton Approaches Eighty BILL HARTLEY
Arthur Seaton Approaches Eighty Bill Hartley contemplates the decline of a once fractious class Arthur Seaton would be close to eighty by now, that is if he’d survived so long. The Angry Young Man of Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 novel Saturday … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Sillitoe, Arthur Seaton, Bill Hartley, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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Masada on Mount Sinjar ILANA MERCER
Masada on Mount Sinjar ILANA MERCER wonders why no-one is helping the Yazidis The year was A.D. 70. Jerusalem had been sacked, the Temple destroyed. In revolt against the Romans, the Jewish Zealots fled to Masada, a fortress “located atop … Continue reading
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Tagged Ilana Mercer, Iraq, ISIS, Kurdistan, Kurds, Masada, Mount Sinjar, Yazidis
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Belle – slave to ideological fashion ROBERT HENDERSON
Belle – slave to ideological fashion Director Amma Asante ROBERT HENDERSON This is a straightforward propaganda film in the politically correct interest, the particular interest being that of racial prejudice and slavery. It is the latest in a slew of … Continue reading
Robbing Peter to pay Pedro ILANA MERCER
Robbing Peter to pay Pedro ILANA MERCER fingers the immigration hucksters When it comes to the vexation of immigration, the goalposts have shifted in mere weeks. Overnight the barking fest on TV has turned from how much immigration and amnesty … Continue reading
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Tagged George Will, Ilana Mercer, immigration, Jerry Kammer, Nancy Pelosi, Robert J. Gula, US-Mexico border
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