Author Archives: leslie

Virgiliana

Posted on April 6, 2021 by leslie

Virgiliana The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (2nd Ed.), edited by Fiachra MacGorain and Charles Martindale, Cambridge University Press: 2019. Pp. i-xvi,1-549, reviewed by Darrell Sutton Arguably the most illustrious writer of Latin literature, Virgil’s classic, the Aeneid, is central to studies … Continue reading →

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Canadian Conservatism, a Coroner’s Report

Posted on March 31, 2021 by leslie

Canadian Conservatism, a Coroner’s Report by Mark Wegierski Canada today, despite its great over-all wealth, is a society of contrasts. While the problem of Quebec separatism which was so central in Canadian history since the 1960s may be fading, new … Continue reading →

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American Foreign Policy Destroyed South Africa

Posted on March 29, 2021 by leslie

American Foreign Policy Destroyed South Africa by Ilana Mercer Certain national-conservative governments in East Europe should be natural allies to conservative policy makers, stateside, if such unicorns existed. Vladimir Putin’s, for example. Before his death, from the safety of exile, … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, APRIL 2021

Posted on March 27, 2021 by leslie

ENDNOTES, April 2021 In this edition: Robin Holloway and Peter Seabourne, Piano Trios, Symphonies by Robert Simpson, reviewed by Stuart Millson Met Stars in Concert, soprano Sonya Yoncheva, streamed from the Baroque library at the Schussenried Cloister, Ulm, Germany, 27th … Continue reading →

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L’heure espagnole

Posted on March 25, 2021 by leslie

L’heure espagnole Reviewed by David Truslove ‘My only mistress is music’, Maurice Ravel once remarked. Considering he was a private, even secretive composer who avoided relationships, his comic opera L’heure espagnole, with its central good-time girl, offers a rare glimpse … Continue reading →

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Home is over Jordan

Posted on March 25, 2021 by leslie

Home is over Jordan Failed Führers ; A History of Britain’s Extreme Right, Graham Macklin, Routledge, London & New York, 2020, reviewed by Leslie Jones Introduction Failed Führers presents portraits in writing of ‘six principal idealogues and leaders’ from an … Continue reading →

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Wussification of the West

Posted on March 14, 2021 by leslie

Wussification of the West by Ilana Mercer Herewith, the latest in the saga of Dr. Seuss. The New York Times reports that “Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because of their use of offensive imagery.” None other … Continue reading →

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#MeFirst Coven comes to Congress

Posted on March 8, 2021 by leslie

#MeFirst Coven comes to Congress by Ilana Mercer The media scrum framed the Trump impeachment circus, round II, as an “emotional” affair. Headlines homed in on the “emotion” surrounding the trial. “It Tears at Your Heart. Democrats Make an Emotional Case … Continue reading →

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Jobs not Snobs

Posted on March 6, 2021 by leslie

Jobs not Snobs by Bill Hartley They still dig coal in the North East, just. The company responsible is Banks Mining which operates open caste sites. Banks protests in vain that whilst the country needs coal, then better it should … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, March 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021 by leslie

ENDNOTES,  March 2021 In this edition: Elgar’s Italian maestro. Stuart Millson recalls conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. When Worcestershire’s Edward Elgar emerged from what has been described as provincial obscurity into the realms of the European romantic mainstream, it became clear that … Continue reading →

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