Author Archives: leslie

Aldeburgh Festival 2018

Posted on June 15, 2018 by leslie

Aldeburgh Festival 2018 Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk, concert given on Friday 8th June, reviewed by TONY COOPER The ongoing theme in this year’s Aldeburgh Festival (the 71st) focuses on Britten and America reflecting the year of 1948 when the … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name?

Posted on June 12, 2018 by leslie

What’s in a Name? Lohengrin, Romantic opera in three acts, music and libretto by Richard Wagner, directed by David Alden, orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Andris Nelsons, Royal Opera, Thursday 7th June 2018, reviewed by LESLIE JONES In … Continue reading →

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Antiquity Matters

Posted on June 10, 2018 by leslie

Antiquity Matters Antiquity Matters, Frederic Raphael, Yale University Press, 2017, £20, 376 pp., $26.00, reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN At first glance, this is a work of almost bewildering erudition. Reminded of Roberto Calasso’s Cadmus and Harmony, one prepares to sit … Continue reading →

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Demonising Whites

Posted on June 10, 2018 by leslie

Demonising Whites by Ilana Mercer Melinda Gates, a silly woman with an enormously wealthy husband, has decided to reinvent herself as a venture capitalist with a difference. With her husband’s billions, Mrs. Gates announced her intention to venture into funding … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, June 2018

Posted on June 10, 2018 by leslie

ENDNOTES, June 2018 In this edition: a world première at the English Music Festival; preview of the 2018 Welsh Proms. For those of us driving from the South East, via Wokingham and Henley, the road to Dorchester-on-Thames (home of the … Continue reading →

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Marriage Matters

Posted on June 10, 2018 by leslie

Marriage Matters by Bill Hartley Periodically the question of divorce reform features in the media. The last serious attempt to bring about change was by John Major’s government which apparently ignored what students of constitutional law are taught: that no … Continue reading →

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White Lines

Posted on June 7, 2018 by leslie

White Lines Freud, the Making of an Illusion, Frederick Crews, Henry Holt and Co., New York, 2017, pp 746, HB, US 40$, reviewed by LESLIE JONES Frederick Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California. Once an … Continue reading →

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Pickled in Formaldehyde

Posted on June 5, 2018 by leslie

Pickled in Formaldehyde ILANA MERCER dissects the liberal brain “There are no more civil libertarians left,” warned celebrated attorney Alan Dershowitz. The topic was the left. The location was Tucker Carlson’s TV studio, May 30. Dershowitz, a life-long liberal and … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Sister

Posted on June 2, 2018 by leslie

Shakespeare’s Sister IN BYRON’S WAKE: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour, Simon & Schuster, 2018, £25, reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN What is it about Bryon that provokes such fascination? His self-possession, … Continue reading →

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Glock is Great

Posted on May 28, 2018 by leslie

Glock is Great BY ILANA MERCER The tele-experts assert that to do what he did—kill 10 and maim 13, at Santa Fe High School, in Texas—Dimitrios Pagourtzis had to be insane. Likewise, Nikolas Cruz—killer of 17 in Parkland, Florida—and many … Continue reading →

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