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Colour (and culture) clashes
Colour (and culture) clashes ROBERT HENDERSON reviews a global survey of racial and cultural confrontations Ethnic Conflicts Tatu Vanhanen, Ulster Institute for Public Research, 326 pps, £23 hb, £18 pb This is not a book designed for easy bedtime reading. It is … Continue reading
Famous last words
Famous last words PAUL WOOD remembers how past PMs passed Margaret Thatcher’s death makes me want to sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of Prime Ministers. The Prime Minister whose death I most often think … Continue reading
Twentieth century sociology – made (mostly) in America
Twentieth century sociology – made (mostly) in America STODDARD MARTIN traces the American origins of European social research Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences: Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research Christian Fleck (2007), trans. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, American Jewish Congress, Carnegie Foundation, Christian Fleck, Daniel Bell, Elias Canetti, Erich Fromm, Frances Stonor Saunders, Friedrich Pollock, Gallup, Horkheimer, Lazarfield, Marcuse, Max Planck, Rockefeller Foundation, Stoddard Martin, Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences, Trilateral Commission
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Waving goodbye to Maggie
Waving goodbye to Maggie PAUL WOOD remembers the remarkable woman who shaped his generation I felt very old when I read an interview this morning with Margaret Thatcher’s nemesis, Michael Heseltine, and saw that “Tarzan” is now 80. And now, … Continue reading
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Tagged Churchill, Lord Salisbury, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Wood, villa Toryism
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On “Orientalism”
On “Orientalism” HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS revisits Edward Said’s famous post-colonial polemic and finds it seriously wanting In 1963 Dr Abdel-Malik caused shock waves in the field of Oriental Studies when he claimed that it was ‘Europocentric’, paying insufficient attention to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdel-Malik, Aquinas, Averroes, D. M. Varisco, Dante, de Sacy, Edmund Castell, Edward Said, Henry Hopwood-Phillips, Herodotus, M. H. Kerr, Orientalism, Peer the Venerable, post-colonial, Postel, R. Irwin, R. W. Southern, Ricoldo de Monte Croce, Sadik al-'Azm, Sect of the Saracens, Song of Roland, William of Tripoli
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EpiQR – King John Inn, Tollard Royal & Lucknam Park Hotel, Chippenham
The King John Inn, Tollard Royal The Brasserie, Lucknam Park Hotel, Chippenham EM MARSHALL-LUCK The King John Inn is found down twisting, winding, Wiltshire lanes, in the village of Tollard Royal, not far from the Dorset border. The views afforded … Continue reading
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EpiQR – Aurelia, Cork Street, London W1
Aurelia, Cork Street, London, W1 Em Marshall-Luck The exterior of the “contemporary Mediterranean” Mayfair restaurant, Aurelia, gives a good indication of the top quality food that awaits one within. The establishment is situated on quiet Cork Street behind the Royal … Continue reading
EpiQR – Sienna, Dorchester
SIENNA High West Street, Dorchester EM MARSHALL-LUCK This is an establishment that is really serious about its food – the finest ingredients, locally sourced wherever possible and absolutely fresh; cooked in a way that shows them off at their very … Continue reading
Will the “Pussy Riot” sisterhood storm the Sistine Chapel?
Will the “Pussy Riot” sisterhood storm the Sistine Chapel? ILANA MERCER wonders if the Catholic Church can resist women priests NO TO A ‘SUPERPOWER POPE’ Mercifully, the new pope is not the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Shortly … Continue reading
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Apocalypse Discs – Stuart Millson
STUART MILLSON Quarterly Review Music Editor If I find myself on a desert island, or living in a nuclear bunker, or in a cave in Wales (the latter will have its own generator, so that my collection of CDs and … Continue reading