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QR
Vol 1 No 1 (Spring 2007)
Editorial (Radical thinking for changing times) – Derek Turner
The
Wolfe, the buffalo, and our lost ability to make distinctions – Takuan Seiyo
Fourth World –
John Papworth
Taki’s Universe – Taki
Economics – time for root and
branch reform – Rev Peter Challen
Coming to terms with the end of oil – Prof Richard Heinberg
Britain
and the EU – is it time for an amicable divorce? –
Brian Burkitt, Mark Baimbridge and Philip
Whyman
The middle class’s moral miasma – Alexander Deane
Prophets of Doomsday:
why the Greens have failed – Aidan Rankin
Classic QR: Endymion – John Wilson Croker
QR
Vol 1 No 2 (Summer 2007)
Editorial (When real lives become 'lifestyles') – Derek Turner
Wilberforce’s
moral lessons for our times –
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
The Atlantic slave trade
in perspective – Ezra Mishan
HMS Gloucester: present (2006) and past (1941) – Frank Ellis
Taki’s
Universe – Taki
Fourth World – John Papworth
‘Free markets’
and ‘free trade’ – the death of nations – Robert Henderson
The Asianization of
Adam Smith – James Hahn
Marx – a comprehensive refutation at last – Joseph Keckeissen
Humanity
at war with reality – Hadrian Wise
Coffee with Rosa – Takuan Seiyo
We
give them our inches and they take our miles – Warwick Cairns
Of sage and time: Carlyle
revisited – Leslie Jones
Classic QR: Lord Salisbury – Angela Ellis-Jones
QR
Vol 1 No 3 (Autumn 2007)
Editorial (Why migration matters) – Derek Turner
Apostle
of catastrophe - an interview with Kirkpatrick Sale
The road to Damascus - how President Bush could have helped to
make peace in the Middle East George Ajjan
The road from Damascus - why there should be no appeasement of
Assad's Syria Jillian Becker
The philosopher's stone - John Ruskin on education Anthony
O'Hear
The wrongs of 'rights' Matthew A Roberts
Kapital as kapalit
Takuan Seiyo
Orpheus descending - in defence of classical music Em Marshall
Enigma
Variations - the English legacy of Edward Elgar Stuart Millson
When the giants take over - a case
study Luise Hemmer Pihl
Taki's Universe Taki
Fourth World John Papworth
Correspondence
Feedback:
Rules Restaurant
Rendering unto Caesar - classical liberalism and Catholicism
Oskari Juurikkala reviews
Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy (various authors)
The last leopard - change
and permanence in a haunted landscape
Derek Turner reviews The Last Leopard - A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
by David Gilmour
Matthew Flinders - explorer and empire-builder Robin Brodhurst reviews The Fever
of Discovery: The Story of Matthew Flinders by Marion Body
Classic QR: John Wilson Croker on
Frankenstein
QR Vol 1 No 4 (Winter 2007)
Editorial
– Derek Turner on why we need a new kind of ecology
Lost in the fog – how our freedoms are
being eroded by law
Celia Hampton on the state’s encroachments on traditional liberties
The future
of England’s cities – diversity and cohesion
John Courthorpe dissects a strangely revealing government report
on the effects in urban areas of immigration and multiculturalism
Exploring Northern Rock – the stone
that must not be left unturned
James Robertson looks at the real lessons of the bank’s collapse
Nature and
nurture in mental illness -
Robert Plomin on the roots of schizophrenia
A war like no other – but with lessons for
today - Frank Ellis reviews Victor David Hanson’s A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans
fought the Peloponnesian War Putting Humpty together again – the trouble with ‘fraternity’
Robert Henderson reviews Danny Kruger’s
On Fraternity: Politics beyond Liberty and Equality “Look at those idiots go”
– the decline and fall of American conservatism - Mark G. Brennan reviews Shots Fired, a posthumously
published collection of Samuel Francis’s columns
The politics of postwar education - Leah Curtis reviews Roy Lowe’s
The Death of Progressive Education – How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom Taki’s
Universe - Taki on billionaires he has known
Fourth World - John
Papworth on being an Archbishop
Robert
Southey – patriot or apostate? - Leslie Jones reviews W A Speck’s Robert Southey: Entire
Man of Letters Froude Today – A Thinker for All Seasons - John Coleman tells
us why James Anthony Froude is still relevant
Reverdie – A poem
by Hamish Robinson
American classic – to the mysterious mountain - Stuart
Millson explores the American classical tradition
Replay: Cinematic Classics - Derek
Turner revisits the 1992 film Les Visiteurs
Classic QR - John
Wilson Croker’s 1821 review of Italy by Lady Morgan
QR Vol 2
No 1 (Spring 2008)
Editorial – Derek Turner on Islam
A visionary reactionary –
an
exclusive interview with cult US novelist Tito Perdue
The future of England’s
cities: identity and politics – the second installment of John Courthorpe’s analysis of the effects of immigration
on England’s cities
The adventure of the disappeared subprime minority borrower -
Takuan
Seiyo on bad money and bad racial politics
Kosovo: EU-sponsored ethnic cleansing -
Edward
Spalton stands up for the Serbs
To gunners, guardsmen and riflemen -
Frank Ellis visits the British troops
in Iraq
Phonics: our stolen educational birthright –
former Thatcher adviser Prof Alice Coleman
on illiteracy
Keeping an eye on the paranoid –
Helen Lewis on ‘conspiracies’
real and imagined
Everyday economic power to help local causes and local democracy –
Prof
Margrit Kennedy on complementary currencies
Corporate virility and townscape degradation –
Bill
Hartley says that supermarkets are ruining our towns
The fields beneath: the last of Middlesex –
Johanna Rhiannon Johnson on Heathrow’s planned third runway
Opera wars: politics by proxy
– Michael Keith Smith on early opera
Lee Pefley: sociopath and sage – Derek Turner on Tito Perdue’s
novels
Taki’s
Universe – Taki on what NASA is beaming into space
Fourth World – John Papworth on Africa’s travails
Replay:
Blade Runner – Mark Wegierski on the science-fiction classic
Correspondence – Steve Moxon,
Ian Holt, Antony Flew
QR Vol 2 No 2
(Summer 2008)
Editorial – Derek Turner on “open societies”
The European Union: an obsolete
model for the 21st century
Sir Richard Body on the EU's democratic deficit
Riding to
the rescue of the embattled Polish countryside
Sir Julian Rose describes how the EU and agribusiness menace traditional
farming
Mars and Venus – worlds in complementary opposition
Prof Michael Levin
reviews Steve Moxon’s The Woman Racket
Cameras, corporations and censorship
– England’s public-private tomorrow
Nigel Hastilow on surveillance and
free speech
Immigration and the future of England’s cities – four scenarios
“John
Courthorpe” concludes his three-part analysis of the possible effects of immigration on England's future
The
meanings of fitnah – Wilders’ wake-up call Roger Kershaw
Triumph
of the unprincipled – our arrogant and ignorant political class
Keith Sutherland reviews
Peter Oborne’s The Triumph of the Political Class
The endangered essence of Englishness
Angela Ellis-Jones reviews Peter Mandler’s
The English National Character Villian or hero? – Joseph R McCarthy's controversial
career
Prof Dwight Murphey reviews M Stanton Evans’ Blacklisted by History – The Untold
Story About Senator Joe McCarthy
In praise of distance Johanna Rhiannon Johnson
Garibaldi
– Soldier of Liberty?
Dr Leslie Jones reviews Lucy Riall’s Garibaldi – Invention
of a Hero
Replay - Derek Turner on Apocalypse Now
Fourth World – Rev John
Papworth on the Transition Towns movement
Correspondence – Ivor Higgins, Duncan Macdonald and
Edward Frostick
Artwork by
Gary Woods
QR
Vol 2 No 3 (Autumn 2008)
Editorial: Desire lines and direction finding Derek Turner The
credit crunch – the logical conclusion of free trade thinking
Robert Henderson Sums
that won’t add up – the true costs of mass immigration (review of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
by Philippe Legrain)
Prof Ezra MishanWaking the dragon –
how the West should deal with China "Sinologist" Utopian
evolutionism (review of What is Intelligence? by James R Flynn, Twelve
Galton Lectures edited by Steve Jones and Milo Keynes, and Future Human Evolution by John Glad)
Dr Leslie Jones
Political over-correctness in psychology (review of Why Beautiful
People Have More Daughters by Alan S Miller and Satoshi
Kanazawa)
Manuel Geggus On
being an atheist conservative Jillian Becker
Friedrich Nietzsche
on elitism Hadrian Wise A
thoroughly modern military – a general’s knowledge (review of
Soldier
– An Autobiography by General Sir Mike Jackson)
Dr Frank Ellis
Incredible ‘freaks’
– how Victorian science and culture shaped each other, (review of Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery
in Britain edited by Marlene Tromp and Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth Century Britain by Janis McLarren Caldwell)
Claire Charlotte McKechnie
Vaughan Williams – the progressive Em Marshall Kalamitsi
(poem) Hamish Robinson
Replay: Pat Garrett
and Billy the Kid William Hartley Replay: The Seventh Seal Derek Turner
Taki’s
Universe, on Britain and multiculturalism
Taki Theodoracopulos
Fourth World, on the BBC John Papworth
Correspondence
– Prof Alice Coleman, Prof Michael Levin
and Luise Hemmer
Pihl Artwork by Gary Woods
CONTENTS OF QR Vol 2
No 4 (Winter 2008)
Editorial: Obamania: the morning after Derek Turner The glorified globamadrama:
act one, fake one?
Helen Lewis
The
wages of globalism
Robert Henderson The Governator
and the widsom of clouds
Keith Sutherland
Beyond memory's reach - the particularities of English radicalism Allan Pond William Cobbett: dimensions of patriotism
John Stevenson
History
on a continuous loop (review of Robert Kagan's The Return of History and the End of Dreams)
Frank Ellis
Clueless in Lagos Takuan Seiyo
Untitled
Rainer Maria Rilke
There's
no place like Rome (review of Cullen Murphy's The New Rome: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America)
Edward Dutton
Edouard
Drumont - a psycho-biography (reviews of Gregoire Kauffmann's Edouard Drumont and Renee Poznanski's Propagandes
et Persecutions: La Resistance et le "Probleme Juif" 1940-1944)
Leslie Jones
Extraordinary
popular delusions for the modern age (review of Warwick Cairns' How to Live Dangerously - Why We Should All Stop Worrying
and Start Living and Richard Wilson's Don't Get Fooled Again - The Sceptics's Guide to Life) Robert Henderson
The common pursuit of true judgement (reviews of Ian Robinson's Untied Kingdom and Holding
the Centre) Hadrian Wise
Replay: The Wicker Man Derek Turner
Replay: A Canterbury Tale Stuart Millson
Taki’s Universe Taki
Fourth World John Papworth
Correspondence – Sir Teddy Taylor
and
Raymond Moss
Artwork by
Gary Woods
QR Vol 3 No 1 (Spring 2009) Editorial: Rebuilding and restitution Derek Turner
Morphology and memory – an interview with
Rupert Sheldrake Muslim captivity and the retreat of Pax Britannica (Part I)
Roger KershawA voting strategy
for the European elections J Alan SmithGlobalism 2.0: locating reverse racism (review of Locating Race:
Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship by Malini Johar Schueller) Matthew A Roberts Greek
lessons – how the cradle of the West became multicultural
Ioannis Kolovos
One
“human family”? Darwin on race (review of Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest
for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore) Leslie Jones
Movable cultures and Victorian
novels: how materialism caused today’s crisis (review of Portable Property by John Plotz)Claire Charlotte McKechnie
Whatever happened to responsibility? (review of The
Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West) Patrick Keeney Reading gaol – why so many schoolchildren
are imprisoned by illiteracy (review of The Great Reading Disaster by Mona McNee and Alice Coleman)
Sean Gabb
The
epiphany of a bien-pensant (review of The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence by Andrew Anthony) Edward
Dutton
At the Baron Bill Hartley
Seagulls Peter Stark
Second Reading: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Jeff Doorn
Uncollected Folk Roy
Kerridge
Replay
I: Brief Encounter Johanna Rhiannon Johnson
Replay II: Nosferatu Derek Turner
Taki’s Universe Taki
Fourth World John Papworth
Correspondence Edward
Spalton, Gary Woods, Takuan Seiyo
Classic QR John Huffstot Artwork selected
by Gary Woods
QR Vol 3 No 2 Summer 2009
Editorial Derek Turner The not-so-communist Communists – C B Liddell interviews
Kazuo Shii of the Japanese Communist Party G20: River-gypsies and the art of persuasion
Horatio Morpurgo Muslim
captivity and the retreat of Pax Britannica (Part II)
Roger Kershaw
Turkey in Europe – an aspiration
too far Paul Weston reviews Turkey in Europe: A
Bridge Too Far by Philip Claeys and Koen Dillen Hidden
in full view – the racial obsessions of the ‘post-racial’ president Robert Henderson reviews
Steve Sailer’s America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack
Obama’s Story of Race and InheritanceFuturism dissected Leslie Jones
reviews Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism by Christine Poggi
The last word on Hitler
and Hitlerism? Frank Ellis reviews The Third Reich at War by Richard EvansIs
the party over? Allan Pond reviews Richard Berry’s Independent – The Rise of the Non-Aligned
Politician and Oliver Dowlen’s The Political Potential of Sortition
Shuffling off this mortal coil Patrick Keeney reviews Theodore Dalrymple’s Not With a Bang But
a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline Deconstructing a deconstructed discourse
Luise Hemmer Pihl reviews John Schad’s Someone Called Derrida – An Oxford Mystery
An Englishman abroad – William Cobbett
on America
Barbara Biddell reviews Molly Townsend’s William Cobbett on America, 1794-1835
Uncollected Folk – Roy Kerridge
Untitled – poem by Keith WaldropBasque weaving
– Bill Hartley
Second Reading Derek Turner on Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time Replay
Luise Hemmer Pihl on Babette’s Feast Taki’s
Universe Taki Theodoracopulos
On Earth as it is – poem by
John Huffstot
CONTENTS OF QR VOL 3 NO 3 (Autumn
2009)
Editorial
– The politics of possibility Derek Turner
The social injustice of the religious
left Edwin Dyga
Debating with “Ditchkins” Horatio Morpurgo
(review of Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eageleton)
Offshoring and the impoverishment
of nations Larry Eubank
Making a meal of the market Mark
J Brennan
(review of Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R Barber)
Gordon Brown’s Brunei bounce
Roger Kershaw
Grand designs – changing society through civic engineering David Hamilton
A plague on both their houses J
Alan Smith
Thinking about democracy Paul Gottfried
(review of Anti-Democratic Thought,
edited by Erich Kofmel)
Meetings of minds – encounters with an independent thinker Mircea Platon (review of
Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse,
and Other Friends and Teachers by Paul Gottfried)
It looks so simple from a distance... Ann Stevenson
The inevitability of war Frank Ellis (review of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost
the World, by Patrick J. Buchanan)
Friedrich Engels
– scion of the bourgeoisie Leslie Jones
(review of The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary
Life of Friedrich Engels by
Tristram Hunt)
Uncollected Folk Roy Kerridge
Second Reading: Austerlitz
by W G Sebald Peter Stark
Replay: The Small Back Room (1949) Johanna Rhiannon Johnson
Taki’s Universe Taki
Classic QR from 1833 – John Wilson Croker
on Tennyson’s Poems 
