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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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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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A bridge too far
A bridge too far Ilana Mercer ups the ante Dr. Michael Baden determined that George Floyd died by cop. The courageous onlookers who filmed the snuff film could have told him. The nation’s foremost forensic pathologist was called in to investigate … Continue reading
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Covidus Interruptus, part one
Covidus Interruptus, part one Ilana Mercer, beyond the pleasure principle Ideas about liberty, thankfully, have evolved. Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, received a Nobel Prize for performing lobotomies on his vulnerable, unconsenting psychiatric patients, or victims. Today, he is despised … Continue reading
A Light, Shining in Darkness
A Light, Shining in Darkness Alexandra Popoff, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019, pp. ix-xi + pp. 1-326 + notes, photos, bibliography, index, ISBN 978-0-300-22278-4, reviewed by Frank Ellis I begin with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Popoff, Hitler, Holodomor, Kursk Salient, Lenin, Prokhorovka, Stalin, Stalingrad, Tolstoy, Vasily Grossman
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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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