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Vaulting Ambition, Thwarted

Posted on November 5, 2015 by leslie

Vaulting Ambition, Thwarted ANGELA ELLIS-JONES reviews a timely political memoir A Different Kind of Weather, WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, 2015, Constable, ISBN 978-1-4721-1975-9, £20 As an undergraduate at Oxford in the late 1970s, on visits to the Union I enjoyed looking at … Continue reading →

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The NAZI Concentration Camps

Posted on October 24, 2015 by leslie

The NAZI Concentration Camps Leslie Jones considers three complementary accounts Sarah Helm, If this is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women, Little, Brown, 2015, 748 pp Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps: the End of the … Continue reading →

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Homespun Conservatism

Posted on October 11, 2015 by leslie

Homespun Conservatism  Allan Pond assesses a thought provoking thesis Peter King, Keeping Things Close: Essays on the Conservative Disposition (Arktos, 2015; ISBN 978-1-910524-42-8; pp.95 ) The author of this slim volume of essays is described on the back cover as … Continue reading →

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Running on Empty

Posted on September 25, 2015 by leslie

Running on Empty Robert Henderson enjoys Derek Turner’s Displacement In his last work Sea Changes Derek Turner presented a large canvas on which he painted both the predicament of the illegal immigrant and a Britain afflicted with a paralysing political … Continue reading →

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Joseph Goebbels, Chronicler of a Catastrophe

Posted on September 4, 2015 by leslie

Joseph Goebbels, Chronicler of a Catastrophe Stoddard Martin transcends the tyranny of fact There are possible revelations to be inferred from Peter Longerich’s exhaustive biography of Joseph Goebbels, but when I started out on his long, rich account I had … Continue reading →

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Intelligence Matters

Posted on August 1, 2015 by leslie

Intelligence Matters Charmian Brinson & Richard Dove, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees 1933-50 (2014) Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2015, Notes, Name Index, pp. 239, ISBN 978 0 7190 9079 0. Reviewed by Dr Frank … Continue reading →

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Keep it in the Family

Posted on July 21, 2015 by leslie

Keep it in the Family Ed Dutton assesses a pioneering thinker The Life History Approach to Human Differences: A Tribute to J. Philippe Rushton, Helmuth Nyborg (Ed.), 2015, London: Ulster Institute for Social Research, 369pp. £20 (paperback), £5 (e-book). J. Philippe … Continue reading →

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The Return to the Great Tradition

Posted on July 12, 2015 by leslie

The Return to the Great Tradition Critic Michael Davis welcomes a classic collection The Walled Garden by Andrew Thornton-Norris, the Leckhampton Press, 2011 In the short manifesto introducing his new collection of poems, The Walled Garden, Andrew Thornton-Norris writes, “The … Continue reading →

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A Message of Hope from the Land of the Southern Cross

Posted on July 4, 2015 by leslie

A Message of Hope from the land of the Southern Cross Jarred Vehlen reviews Andrew Huntley’s new collection of poetry  From Tradition and away from Tradition: Poems, 2001-2014, by Andrew Huntley, Extra Castra Publications, 2014 For generations men have spoken … Continue reading →

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New Light on the Magical Realist

Posted on June 4, 2015 by leslie

New Light on the Magical Realist Dimitris Yeros photographing Gabriel García Márquez Dimitris Yeros, foreword by Edward Lucie-Smith, Bielefeld: Kerber, 2015, 136pps., 36 Euros, www.yeros.com Dimitris Yeros is a justly celebrated photographer and artist based in Athens. Edward Lucie-Smith is a highly-regarded … Continue reading →

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