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To Hylas M. W. DAVIS
To Hylas M.W. Davis They don’t know what to make of all this flesh, The clear blue eyes, as nature intended. With no such charm to keep those dark locks fresh Someday he’ll wade the pool to cool his joints. … Continue reading
Down Mexico way DEREK TURNER
Down Mexico way DEREK TURNER reads a fictional evocation of US-Mexican borderline personality disorder The Education of Hector Villa Chilton Williamson, Jr., Rockford, Illinois: Chronicles Press, 2012, pb. 208 “Roads fade out before you reach the line, And the signposts … Continue reading
Clinton II – revenge of the weird sisters ILANA MERCER
Clinton II – revenge of the weird sisters ILANA MERCER’s heart sinks at the prospect of President Hillary Hillary Rodham Clinton has done some “conscious uncoupling” from reality. The term was disgorged by a celebrity, Gwyneth Paltrow, to announce a … Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi, Bill Clinton, George Reisman, Hillary Clinton, Ilana Mercer, Libya, Syria
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Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE
Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading
Subduction HAMISH WOOD
Subduction HAMISH WOOD Elihu fronts the storm. behold, I am vile. something moves. revolutions of the air. rain has this smell. static. the world, too, is electric. the world, too, is moving. then, the Lord answered Job, … Continue reading
To Richard II M.W. DAVIS
To Richard II M. W. Davis Which hooligan would think to scrawl that name Across the soundwalls of the M40? Let sleeping tragedy lie. What a shame They couldn’t stay awake in English class. What’s the half-life now … Continue reading
Failure to return BILL HARTLEY
Failure to return BILL HARTLEY finds that today’s prison staff are sometimes more constrained than their charges The recent abscond of a high profile prisoner from Stanford Hill open prison is nothing new. Each year there are a steady … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hartley, failure to return, jailcraft, open prison, UK prisons
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Crumbling Wall ROBERT HENDERSON
Crumbling Wall ROBERT HENDERSON compares and contrasts two revealing films about high finance Wall Street (!987) Director Oliver Stone The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Director Martin Scorsese Twenty six years lie between Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall … Continue reading
Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS
Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS is impressed by an audacious re-imagining of medieval thought Inventing the Individual – The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop, London: Allen Lane, 2014, 448 pps Larry Siedentop’s introduction gets straight to the point. We have … Continue reading
ENDNOTES – English music renewed STUART MILLSON
ENDNOTES – English music renewed STUART MILLSON relishes four world premieres at the English Music Festival The English Music Festival’s first concert took place in the autumn of 2006. An ambitious undertaking by its founder, Em Marshall-Luck, the Festival set … Continue reading