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Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE
Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading
Subduction HAMISH WOOD
Subduction HAMISH WOOD Elihu fronts the storm. behold, I am vile. something moves. revolutions of the air. rain has this smell. static. the world, too, is electric. the world, too, is moving. then, the Lord answered Job, … Continue reading
To Richard II M.W. DAVIS
To Richard II M. W. Davis Which hooligan would think to scrawl that name Across the soundwalls of the M40? Let sleeping tragedy lie. What a shame They couldn’t stay awake in English class. What’s the half-life now … Continue reading
Failure to return BILL HARTLEY
Failure to return BILL HARTLEY finds that today’s prison staff are sometimes more constrained than their charges The recent abscond of a high profile prisoner from Stanford Hill open prison is nothing new. Each year there are a steady … Continue reading
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Crumbling Wall ROBERT HENDERSON
Crumbling Wall ROBERT HENDERSON compares and contrasts two revealing films about high finance Wall Street (!987) Director Oliver Stone The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Director Martin Scorsese Twenty six years lie between Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall … Continue reading
Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS
Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS is impressed by an audacious re-imagining of medieval thought Inventing the Individual – The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop, London: Allen Lane, 2014, 448 pps Larry Siedentop’s introduction gets straight to the point. We have … Continue reading
ENDNOTES – English music renewed STUART MILLSON
ENDNOTES – English music renewed STUART MILLSON relishes four world premieres at the English Music Festival The English Music Festival’s first concert took place in the autumn of 2006. An ambitious undertaking by its founder, Em Marshall-Luck, the Festival set … Continue reading
Waiting to die on the government’s watch ILANA MERCER
Waiting to die on the government’s watch ILANA MERCER lambasts a bloated and cruel bureaucracy Why would a talented, dedicated cardiologist choose to be confined in a medical gulag, weighed down by incompetents, his wages capped; his rewards incommensurate with … Continue reading
ENDNOTES – Tosca by Numbers LESLIE JONES
ENDNOTES – Tosca by Numbers Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Royal Opera House, 13th May 2014, production by Jonathan Kent: the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Oleg Caetani, with Oksana Dyka as Floria Tosca, Roberto Alagna … Continue reading
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