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A Writer’s Writer in an Age of Mediocrity
A Writer’s Writer in an Age of Mediocrity Ilana Mercer on H.L. Mencken H.L. Mencken, a contrarian polemicist and consummate critic, who wrote prolifically from 1899 until 1948, may no longer seem relevant, but the fault would not be his. … Continue reading
ENDNOTES, July 2020
ENDNOTES, July 2020 In this edition: late-romantic piano quintets by Franck and Fauré; & a classical music establishment in meltdown, by Stuart Millson The Prague-based Wihan Quartet – winners of the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991 – has … Continue reading
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Tagged Cesar Franck, Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Wihan Quartet
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Love in a Covid Climate
Love in a Covid Climate by Ilana Mercer, spellbound There was a reason why this expatriate missed Canada of late. In particular, the every-day normalcy of its local CTV News. Often so apolitical, Canadians are always less eager to feature … Continue reading
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Tagged Constantin Brancusi, Covid-19, CTV News, Nathan Downer, The Kiss
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Embattled Monuments
Embattled Monuments Ilana Mercer, contra “kerns and gallowglasses” Steve Hilton is a Briton who anchors a current-affairs show on Fox News. Mr. Hilton made the following feeble, snowflake’s case for the removal of the nation’s historically offensive statues: It’s offensive … Continue reading
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Tagged Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lord Acton, President Macron, Robert E Lee, Steve Hilton
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Knee Jerk Reaction
Knee Jerk Reaction From Stuart Millson, standing tall By the end of the 19th-century, the British Empire had achieved a supremacy surpassing that of ancient Rome. The onetime Roman colony at the edge of Europe had become the greatest … Continue reading
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Tagged British Empire, Cecil Rhodes, George Floyd, Oriel College, Rhodesia, Rudyard Kipling
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Watson’s World
Watson’s World Bill Hartley mines an archive John Watson was a colliery viewer working in the Northumberland coalfield in the middle of the 18thcentury. His journals, written from 1750-55, came into the possession of the Mining Institute in Newcastle but … Continue reading
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Tagged John Watson, Mine Viewer, Mining, Northumberland Coalfield
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Canaille Play with Madness
Canaille Play with Madness Ilana Mercer reports from “occupied” Seattle On June 9, I tweeted out the following: “Seattle’s East Precinct has fallen, as Police Chief Carmen Best orders Seattle Police to evacuate. The occupiers, aka the ‘peaceful protesters,’ declare … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, Edmund Burke, George Floyd, Jacob Frey, Jenny Durkan, Seattle
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Pedal Power
Pedal Power The Vice of Kings: how Socialism, Occultism and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse, Jasun Horsley, London, Aeon Books, 2019, 323pp., reviewed by Ed Dutton When ‘national treasure’ Jimmy Savile died in 2011, copious revelations emerged about … Continue reading
The Fronde of Youth
The Fronde of Youth by Stuart Millson For many years, Sir Mark Tully was the BBC’s “voice of India”. His despatches from the sub-continent, where, in old colonial terms, “he went native”, represented the highest standards of broadcast journalism – … Continue reading
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Tagged Jacobabad, John Jacob, Kipling, Mark Tully
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The Failure of Canadian Conservatism
The Failure of Canadian Conservatism Mark Wegierski, writing on the 153rd anniversary of Canadian Confederation This essay is partially based on Mark Wegierski’s paper, ‘An Ineluctable Direction of Progressive Development?: The Ongoing Failure of the Right in Canada’ (read by … Continue reading →
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