Author Archives: leslie

The Rise of UKIP and the Right

Posted on April 3, 2013 by leslie

The Rise of UKIP and the Right ALASTAIR PAYNTER wonders whether UKIP is now the real conservative party The assumed certainties of national politics have in recent times begun to look rather less assured. The stolid three party status quo … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Lexicon of Love, part 2

Posted on June 2, 2012 by leslie

The Lexicon of Love, part 2     Herewith, by popular demand, some further football expressions and other miscellaneous items from the “beautiful” game: “Good engine”, denotes an exceptionally fit and energetic player, capable of “putting in a good shift”. … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Leave a comment

The lexicon of love

Posted on March 31, 2012 by leslie

The lexicon of love   Soccer is rightly considered the beautiful game but some of the language used to describe it is strikingly (forgive the pun) ugly. Herewith are some choice examples; “Agricultural”, adjective used to describe a crude but … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Philofax

Posted on March 11, 2012 by leslie

Philofax Supporters of Israel routinely call Israel’s critics anti-Semitic, as “historian” Karl Radl reminds us (Semitic Controversies, “The Insane Philo-Semitism of the Quarterly Review”, 11th January 2012). Radl thinks that the assignation anti-Semitic should be used more sparingly. For example, … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

News of Jack, part 2

Posted on November 25, 2011 by leslie

News of Jack, part 2 Safeguarding JFK and his family was evidently one of the most daunting tasks ever performed by the American secret service (The Kennedy Detail, Discovery, 20th of November). President Kennedy realised that his popularity depended on … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged | Leave a comment

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon

Posted on November 15, 2011 by leslie

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon Britain’s Sex Gangs (Channel 4, Monday 7 November) confirmed what unhappily we already knew, that vulnerable white girls some as young as eleven are being sexually exploited by gangs of men of predominantly Pakistani … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged | Leave a comment

The Lost Samurai

Posted on October 13, 2011 by leslie

The Lost Samurai The London School of Economics has published the findings of its internal review into Satoshi Kanazawa’s provocative Psychology Today blog posting “Why are black women less physically attractive than other women?” Accompanying the account of this review, … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Leave a comment

The LSE – Held to Account, part 2

Posted on June 11, 2011 by leslie

The LSE – Held to Account, part 2 Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of Liberty, which supposedly supports freedom of speech, has maintained a studied silence in the case of embattled LSE lecturer and alleged racist Satoshi Kanazawa. But Dr Kanazawa … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Leave a comment