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Higher education is a hard row to ho
Duke University – Wikimedia Commons Higher Education Is A Hard Row To Ho ILANA MERCER says that making love is preferable to making war Who’s the bigger prostitute? Sex kitten “Belle Knox”, alias Miriam Weeks, a promising porn star who … Continue reading
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Tagged Belle Knox, Duke University, glorification of war, Ilana Mercer, Miriam Weeks
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Crowning glory – royal legitimation for Scotland’s squadristi
Crowning glory: royal legitimation for Scotland’s squadristi ROGER KERSHAW analyses the putative ideological conflict between “ethnic Scots” and “ethnic English” The Scottish political lexicon seems to have been enriched by two “F-words” during 2013: Nigel Farage through his attempt at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Salmond, Better Together, ethnic nationalism, Nigel Farage, Nordic Union, North Sea oil, Respect, Roger Kershaw, Scottish independence, SNP, UKIP
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Hollywood: the no-good, the bad and the beastly
Hollywood: the no-good, the bad and the beastly ILANA MERCER watches the Academy Awards Glenn Close’s remarks at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony, captured the delusions of grandeur held by the tarts and tards of Hollywood, and helped by their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Academy Awards, Hunger Games, Ilana Mercer, Michelle Obama
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ENDNOTES – Northern lights, western winds
ENDNOTES – Northern lights, western winds A Swedish symphonist * A Mass of the Western Wynde * Mendelssohn in Reformation spirit * Waltzes with William Alwyn If companies such as Chandos Records had never existed, I doubt if very many … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandos, Endnotes, John Sheppard, Kurt Atterberg, Mendelssohn, Somm, Stuart Millson, William Alwyn
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Russia – the un-Bearable rightness of being
Russia – the un-Bearable rightness of being GREGORY SLYSZ asks what the war in Syria, the coup d’état in Ukraine and the Sochi Olympic Games have in common The current level of Russophobia among Western governments and media has strong … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, gay rights, Gregory Slysz, NATO, Right Sector, Russia, Russophobia, Sochi, Svoboda, Ukraine, Winter Olympics, Yanukovych
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From dinosaurs to Doric
From dinosaurs to Doric The Making of the Middle Sea – A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World Cyprian Broodbank, London: Thames and Hudson, 2013, £34.95 [Greeks] live in a small part … Continue reading
PERSPECTIVE – Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom Dir: Justin Chadwick, Cert 12A, 146 min ROBERT HENDERSON watches the much-hyped Mandela biopic There are two films currently on release with a very high PC approbation quotient: 12 Years a Slave and Mandela: A Long … Continue reading
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Tagged ANC, apartheid, Idris Elba, Justin Chadwick, Nelson Mandela, Perspective, Robert Henderson, SACP, The Long Walk to Freedom
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Warming shots
Warming shots Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future James Delingpole, London Biteback Publishing, 2012, pb., 312pp EDWARD DUTTON reviews a fiery broadside against Greenery The title Watermelons grabs the reader’s interest. … Continue reading
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Tagged Climategate, Edward Dutton, Greens, James Delingpole, manmade global warming
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Right royal retribution
Right royal retribution The King’s Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, London: Abacus Books, 2013, 383pp, pb. EDWARD DUTTON finds he is hooked on an obscure but fascinating chapter in English … Continue reading
Dimocracy
Dimocracy Democracy and Political Ignorance – Why Smaller Government is Smarter Ilya Somin, Stanford University Press, 2013, 280pp ROBERT HENDERSON is unimpressed by an earnest screed against uninformed politics Does the ignorance of voters matter in a system of representative … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy and Political Ignorance, Dimocracy, Ilya Somin, Robert Henderson
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