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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 – Peter Challen
Coming to terms with the end of oil – 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 –
Rt Rev Dr Rowan Williams
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
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 –
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 –
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
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
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?
Leslie Jones reviews Lucy Riall’s
Garibaldi – Invention of a Hero
Replay - Derek Turner on Apocalypse Now
Fourth World
– 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) Ezra Mishan
Waking 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)
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)
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 Fourth World, on the BBC John Papworth
Correspondence
– Alice Coleman, Michael Levin and Luise Hemmer Pihl
Artwork by Gary Woods
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 wisdom 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 – 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 Kershaw
A voting
strategy for the European elections J Alan Smith
Globalism 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 Inheritance reviews
Futurism 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 Evans
Is 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 Not With a Bang But a Whimper by Theodore Dalrymple
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 Waldrop
Basque 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
On Earth as it is John Huffstot
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