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Current Affairs and comment

In Search of Canadian Identity

In Search of Canadian Identity  by Mark Wegierski Canada, which Pat Buchanan once called a “Soviet Canuckistan”, has serious problems combating the ceaseless self-undermining of its military forces and traditions. But it is also having a difficult time defining a … Continue reading

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Victorian Values

Victorian Values by Bill Hartley In May of this year the Guardian featured a story about feminist author Naomi Wolf who had recently published a book called Outrages. The book has been described as ‘the dramatic, buried history of how nineteenth … Continue reading

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Driven to Blackface?

Driven to Blackface? by Ilana Mercer Nkechi Diallo was recently charged with welfare fraud in Spokane, Washington State. Back in 2015, Diallo was better known as Rachel Dolezal. She has since rechristened herself. Rachel Dolezal, if you’re from Deep Space, is … Continue reading

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Ivanka the Terrible, Part 2

Ivanka the Terrible, Part 2 by Ilana Mercer It’s obvious who the odd one out was at the G20 Summit. Allow me to set the scene: Two mature women are in the thick of a policy discussion. The two heavy hitters are … Continue reading

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The Fukuyama Thesis, Thirty Years On

The Fukuyama Thesis, Thirty Years On by Mark Wegierski Initial drafts of this response to Fukuyama’s article go back to November 1989. Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History?’, The National Interest no 16 (Summer 1989), pp. 3-1; and Alan Bloom, et al. ‘Responses … Continue reading

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Leaving Sneddonland

Leaving Sneddonland On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson, Granta, £9.99, reviewed by Stoddard Martin It is unfortunate, if perhaps inevitable, that great creators, not least of music, should morph into personalities to be analysed to death, or beyond. Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner … Continue reading

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Trump Barters for Borders – and Wins

Trump Barters for Borders – and Wins by Ilana Mercer If President Trump doesn’t waver, his border deal with Mexico will be a victory. The Mexicans have agreed to quit serving as conduits to hundreds of thousands of central Americans … Continue reading

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Eternal Recurrence

Eternal Recurrence Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini, 4thEstate, 2019, 342pp, reviewed by Ed Dutton Angela Saini can skilfully encapsulate her subject in a striking yet poignant image, so that the reader feels what this Guardian journalist wants … Continue reading

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In the Court of King Coal

In the Court of King Coal Bill Hartley considers a brace of pioneers Posterity hasn’t left John Buddle (1773-1843) a household name like his contemporary George Stephenson yet when he died it was said that his funeral procession stretched for … Continue reading

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You Are Who You Ate

You Are Who You Ate by Ilana Mercer  South Africa – the case for inter-racial reparations Donald R. Morris’s epic tome, The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation, is the indispensable guide to Zulu history. … Continue reading

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