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Stopping the trafficking – or perhaps not Iain Duncan Smith’s think-tank the Centre for Social Justice is examining the issue of human trafficking, which apparently affects 6,000 unfortunates every year. BBC report here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13775276 This is just one of … Continue reading →

The LSE – Held to Account, part 2 Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of Liberty, which supposedly supports freedom of speech, has maintained a studied silence in the case of embattled LSE lecturer and alleged racist Satoshi Kanazawa. But Dr Kanazawa … Continue reading →

R.I. P. Patrick Leigh-Fermor Very sorry, if not surprised, to learn of the death of Patrick Leigh-Fermor, at the age of 96. He did history’s most enviable walk, and wrote about it in two of the 20th century’s greatest travel … Continue reading →

Turkey in Europe? Thanks but no thanks The BBC today reports an exodus of Syrian refugees into Turkey – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13710588 Of course I feel sorry for the refugees – I’d do just as they are doing if I were a Syrian … Continue reading →

Latest article for Junge Freiheit German-spealing readers may be interested in my latest column for the Berlin newspaper Junge Freiheit (3 June).  It deals with Ken Clarke’s unfortunate differentiation between rape and “serious rape”. Derek Turner, 8 June 2011 Free … Continue reading →

Poems by Alfred Tennyson Reviewed by John Wilson Croker (from Spring 1833) EDITOR’S NOTE: The original QR always disliked the new poetry that emerged in the first half of the 19th century as a reaction against the  stately poetry of … Continue reading →