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ENDNOTES, 27th July 2016
ENDNOTES, 27th July 2016 In this edition: Three summer festivals – JAM on Romney Marsh * Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the BBC Proms * Brass, Welsh voices and the Royal Philharmonic at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff The lonely, low-lying landscape … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Godunov, Britten, Owain Arwell Hughes, Proms, Stuart Millson, Welsh Proms
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Wedge Issue
Wedge Issue 91-95 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1R 5BX Em Marshall-Luck enjoys a pizza Situated almost opposite a house in which Benjamin Disraeli used to live, Wedge Issue is a trendy, hip young establishment at the slightly down-at-heels yet undoubtedly rising … Continue reading
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Tagged Clerkenwell Road, Em Marshall-Luck, Pizza, Wedge Issue
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Words of Wisdom, in a Time of Troubles
Words of Wisdom, in a Time of Troubles Darrell Sutton reviews a new exegesis of Islam Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, 3rd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2014), xxxvii, pp 979. These are unhappy times. The dawning of … Continue reading
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Tagged Darrell Sutton, Ira M Lapidus, ISIS, Islamic Fundamentalism, Sufism
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Overthrowing your Leader
Overthrowing your Leader Bill Hartley on how not to stage a coup The recent coup attempt in Turkey reinforces the idea that the last people to be undertaking a military coup are the military. One might assume that soldiers have … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hartley, President Erdogan, Turkish Military
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A Referendum and the Murder of an MP
A Referendum and the Murder of an MP Gerry Dorrian condemns conflation On Thursday June 16, 2016, the increasingly acrimonious campaigns to remain and leave the European Union in the next week’s referendum fell silent at the news that … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain First, EU referendum, Jo Cox, Thomas Mair
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America – Sick of Dog-Whistle Politics
America – Sick of Dog-Whistle Politics Ilana Mercer accuses the President of racial particularism Just wait. In the fullness of time, Donald J. Trump will be blamed for “creating the atmosphere” that led to the Texas cop massacre of July … Continue reading
Charlotte Brontë’s Governessy Effusion
Charlotte Brontë’s Governessy Effusion Duke Maskell contemplates class and circumlocution Good English is a class language, and that is its fatal defect. The English writer is a gentleman first and a writer second. (Raymond Chandler) Or, if he is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Bronte, Duke Maskell, Jane Eyre, Quarterly Review
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Pilgrimage to Poland, part 2
Pilgrimage to Poland, part 2 Mark Wegierski returns to his roots Twelve years ago, I had been invited to the celebration of a 60th wedding anniversary in Czestochowa, which was the first time that I saw the city, and its world-famous … Continue reading
The Problem of Hegemony
The Problem of Hegemony Gerry Dorrian on The New European “What first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?” Debbie McGhee, the magician’s wife, was famously asked by Mrs Merton, as played by the late Caroline Aherne. So famously, in fact, that her reply, … Continue reading →
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