Author Archives: leslie

The Failure of Canadian Conservatism

Posted on July 5, 2020 by leslie

The Failure of Canadian Conservatism Mark Wegierski, writing on the 153rd anniversary of Canadian Confederation This essay is partially based on Mark Wegierski’s paper, ‘An Ineluctable Direction of Progressive Development?: The Ongoing Failure of the Right in Canada’ (read by … Continue reading →

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A Writer’s Writer in an Age of Mediocrity

Posted on July 5, 2020 by leslie

A Writer’s Writer in an Age of Mediocrity Ilana Mercer on H.L. Mencken H.L. Mencken, a contrarian polemicist and consummate critic, who wrote prolifically from 1899 until 1948, may no longer seem relevant, but the fault would not be his. … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, July 2020

Posted on July 1, 2020 by leslie

ENDNOTES, July 2020 In this edition: late-romantic piano quintets by Franck and Fauré; & a classical music establishment in meltdown, by Stuart Millson The Prague-based Wihan Quartet – winners of the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991 – has … Continue reading →

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Love in a Covid Climate

Posted on June 28, 2020 by leslie

Love in a Covid Climate  by Ilana Mercer, spellbound There was a reason why this expatriate missed Canada of late. In particular, the every-day normalcy of its local CTV News. Often so apolitical, Canadians are always less eager to feature … Continue reading →

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Embattled Monuments

Posted on June 23, 2020 by leslie

Embattled Monuments Ilana Mercer, contra “kerns and gallowglasses”  Steve Hilton is a Briton who anchors a current-affairs show on Fox News. Mr. Hilton made the following feeble, snowflake’s case for the removal of the nation’s historically offensive statues: It’s offensive … Continue reading →

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Knee Jerk Reaction

Posted on June 21, 2020 by leslie

Knee Jerk Reaction From Stuart Millson, standing tall    By the end of the 19th-century, the British Empire had achieved a supremacy surpassing that of ancient Rome. The onetime Roman colony at the edge of Europe had become the greatest … Continue reading →

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Watson’s World

Posted on June 18, 2020 by leslie

Watson’s World Bill Hartley mines an archive John Watson was a colliery viewer working in the Northumberland coalfield in the middle of the 18thcentury. His journals, written from 1750-55, came into the possession of the Mining Institute in Newcastle but … Continue reading →

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Canaille Play with Madness

Posted on June 15, 2020 by leslie

Canaille Play with Madness Ilana Mercer reports from “occupied” Seattle On June 9, I tweeted out the following: “Seattle’s East Precinct has fallen, as Police Chief Carmen Best orders Seattle Police to evacuate. The occupiers, aka the ‘peaceful protesters,’ declare … Continue reading →

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Pedal Power

Posted on June 13, 2020 by leslie

Pedal Power The Vice of Kings: how Socialism, Occultism and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse, Jasun Horsley, London, Aeon Books, 2019, 323pp., reviewed by Ed Dutton When ‘national treasure’ Jimmy Savile died in 2011, copious revelations emerged about … Continue reading →

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The Fronde of Youth

Posted on June 13, 2020 by leslie

The Fronde of Youth by Stuart Millson For many years, Sir Mark Tully was the BBC’s “voice of India”. His despatches from the sub-continent, where, in old colonial terms, “he went native”, represented the highest standards of broadcast journalism – … Continue reading →

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