Author Archives: leslie

Truth – that’s so yesterday

Posted on February 14, 2015 by leslie

Truth – that’s so yesterday Ilana Mercer considers celebrity journalism Facts are a journalist’s stock-in-trade. He cannot be cavalier about the truth. Nevertheless, Brian Williams, the suspended iconic managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News, embellished liberally about events … Continue reading →

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A very British hero

Posted on February 9, 2015 by leslie

A very British hero Robert Henderson’s take on the Turing biopic The Imitation Game  Main Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke Matthew Goode as Hugh Alexander Mark Strong as Maj. Gen. Stewart Menzies Charles Dance … Continue reading →

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Whence Isis?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by leslie

Whence Isis? Ilana Mercer traces the origins of a death cult For the neoconservatives, ground zero in the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS) is the departure of the American occupying forces without a Status of Force Agreement (SOFA). At … Continue reading →

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Elegy for Minor Emperors

Posted on February 4, 2015 by leslie

 Elegy for Minor Emperors by Michael Davis No one will mourn Caesar Not the stiff-necked night-watchmen at the German border Neither the green nor the black olives Nor the disinherited crown _ The grapes won’t sour on the vine The … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES

Posted on February 1, 2015 by leslie

ENDNOTES, February 2015 In this edition: Clare Hammond records for BIS * Somm issues Sonatas by Prokofiev * Céleste series – Concerti Armonici by Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. With many triumphant performances at Kings Place, the Wigmore Hall, and … Continue reading →

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The Camel Ate My Homework

Posted on February 1, 2015 by leslie

The Camel Ate My Homework  More reflections on a massacre, from Ilana Mercer The Fourth Estate has moved the country into the Third Dimension. The media lie so much, that when stuff happens that scares them, they no longer know … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal

Posted on January 25, 2015 by leslie

A Modest Proposal Ilana Mercer does some lateral thinking He adopted the religion of peace and forthwith proceeded to shatter the peace of his countrymen. In the waning months of 2014, Quebecer Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in the … Continue reading →

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Gender Studies, an Aberrant Ideology

Posted on January 24, 2015 by leslie

Gender Studies, an Aberrant Ideology Steve Moxon lets rip  Jacqueline Rose, Women in Dark Times, Bloomsbury, London, 2014, £20 Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose is feminist cant of such imbecility as to be a leading candidate for the … Continue reading →

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Fantasy Racism

Posted on January 23, 2015 by leslie

Fantasy Racism  Henry Hopwood-Phillips peruses a provocative exegesis Adrian Hart, That’s Racist! How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All, Imprint Academic, 2014, pb, 136 pp, £9.95 Veteran anti-racist campaigner, teacher and film-maker Adrian Hart has watched as … Continue reading →

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Babylon

Posted on January 20, 2015 by leslie

Babylon at the Roof Gardens 99 Kensington High Street, London W8 5SA Babylon was, for us, literally a much sought-after restaurant – it took a few circumambulations of blocks of shopping arcades in Kensington to find it, tucked around the … Continue reading →

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