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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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Endnotes STUART MILLSON

ENDNOTES STUART MILLSON In this edition: Debussy, Delius and Ravel from Midori Komachi  *  Ritual dances and processions by Joaquin Turina  *  Sir William Walton on Chandos  *  English song on Romney Marsh Midori Komachi, violinist, is a highly-ambitious and … Continue reading

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Bernard’s razor HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS

Bernard’s razor Essays and Reviews 1959-2002 Bernard Williams, University Press Group, 2014, £24.95 HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS finds a digest of decades-old asides and insights surprisingly to his taste A book of over 400 pages of radios talks, public lecture notes, journalism … Continue reading

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Prima donna M. W. DAVIS

Prima donna M. W. DAVIS   When the President appeared on TV she stood, purportedly out of respect; but a handful of onlookers could see the flash of something malicious in her   eyes—pride, an unnerving loyalism. The squeaky new … Continue reading

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Religion as Elementary Error, by LESLIE JONES

Religion as Elementary Error   by Leslie Jones In a persuasive passage in Religion and Intelligence, anthropologist Dr Edward Dutton considers the category question[i]. He cites T. Rees’s definition of science, to wit, “thoughtful, sincere research”. As Dutton points out, this … Continue reading

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Oblivion’s grace DEREK TURNER

Oblivion’s grace DEREK TURNER In the deadness of Dove Wing Mrs. Martindale waits – For a Balt with an assortment of jars. She’s a bird that has fallen, Crashed into this place, This carpeted cage without bars. Stunned into quiescence, … Continue reading

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Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON

Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON rescues a larger-than-life character from undeserved obscurity   In an extreme reaction against the Puritanism that preceded it, the English Restoration was characterized by all that the gentlemen of … Continue reading

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Liam Guilar – medievalist and modernist M. W. DAVIS

Liam Guilar – medievalist and modernist Rough Spun to Close Weave Liam Guilar, Ginninderra Press: Port Adelaide, Australia M.W. DAVIS is captivated by the precise but passionate imagery of a poet who draws from the Middle Ages as much as … Continue reading

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Displays DEREK TURNER

Displays DEREK TURNER Black-brown stinking sty Rising green Camomile.   Bright Red Arrows fly – Great writings Scraped high.   This breathless July – Do these things Signify?  

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Joan Rivers – antidote to PC totalitarianism ILANA MERCER

Joan Rivers: antidote to PC totalitarianism ILANA MERCER salutes a personality who has somehow lived on into the post-personality era WARNING: If you suffer from spineless conformity; a deformation of the personality often euphemized as political correctness—quit reading this column, … Continue reading

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