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Reform, in Name Only
Reform, in Name Only Bill Hartley returns to prison Along with other departments, the Ministry of Justice was required by the coalition government to undertake budget cuts. Prisons were particularly hard hit and according to the Prison Governors Association there … Continue reading
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Tagged Ministry of Justice, Prison Reform, William Hartley
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Dem’s Dystopia
Dem’s Dystopia by Ilana Mercer How does one distill the worldview of the Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination? Outrace each other on racial righteousness? End Anglo-America? Welcome the World? Evict the unborn? Speak Spanish; English is your second language? … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Ilana Mercer, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
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Perfidious Albion
Perfidious Albion The United States’ Entry into the First World War: the Role of British and German Diplomacy, Justin Quinn Olmstead, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018, hb, 206 pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones In 1914, the majority of Americans wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonel House, Edward Grey, Justin Quinn Olmstead, Lusitania, Woodrow Wilson
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Something Missing in Propertius
Something Missing in Propertius by Darrell Sutton Readers can be perplexed by the arguments that textual critics employ when they emend the wording of ancient writers. Critics’ trains of thought are not easy to follow at times; but assiduity is … Continue reading
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Tagged A E Houseman, Homer, Propertius, The Iliad
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ENDNOTES, August 2019
ENDNOTES, August 2019 In this edition: Pergolesi, A Neapolitan Stabat Mater; the film music of Gerard Schurmann, reviewed by Stuart Millson From the extraordinary across-the-centuries choral archive that is the ICSM/CHRONOS record label, comes one of the most surprising and dazzlingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Gerard Schurmann, Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
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Obituary – Feliks Wegierski,
Obituary – Feliks Wegierski by Apolonja (Pola) Maria Kojder Feliks Wegierski was born in Dzialdowo, in north-western, pre-war Poland, in 1923. He showed an early aptitude for sketching and drawing, and carved small wooden toys for his eight siblings (three … Continue reading
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Borders are Beautiful
Borders are Beautiful by Ilana Mercer In a previous post we posed the following question: “Do we still have a country, when every single passive, non-aggressive act taken to repel people crossing into our country is considered de facto illegal, or … Continue reading
Poland, in World War II
Poland, in World War II by Mark Wegierski During the more than seven decades following the end of World War II, an ongoing stream of disinformation from various quarters e.g., the former Soviet Union and left-wing British circles, has clouded … Continue reading
Do We Still Have a Country?
Do We Still Have a Country? by Ilana Mercer How do you know you don’t have a country? Simply this: Every single passive, non-aggressive act you take to repel people crossing your borders is considered de facto illegal, or inhumane, or in … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Liberal Theory, Country, Nation, Night Watchman State
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Color-Coded Theory
Color-Coded Theory by Ilana Mercer A CNN profiler was speaking about the El Paso shooting, on August 6, in which 22 people were murdered by an angry white man. She blamed the killer’s sense of white privilege. Mass murder carried … Continue reading →
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