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Current Affairs and comment

Slate’s Slanders

Posted on November 12, 2018 by leslie

Slate’s Slanders By Ilana Mercer When Slate Magazine went after President Trump’s former speech writer, Darren Beattie, it chose to libel this writer, as well. That’s a bully’s calculus: if you can, why not ruin the reputation of another individual, just for … Continue reading →

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The Disunited States

Posted on November 7, 2018 by leslie

The Disunited States By Ilana Mercer “We are one American nation. We must unite. We have to unify. We have to come together.” Every faction in our irreparably fractious and fragmented country calls for unity, following events that demonstrate just … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, November 2018

Posted on November 5, 2018 by leslie

ENDNOTES, November 2018 In this edition: In Remembrance, from the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Percy Sherwood’s Double Concerto from EM Records, Orchestral Works, by Ruth Gipps. A century ago this month, The Great War– the “war to end wars”, … Continue reading →

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Escape to the Country

Posted on November 1, 2018 by leslie

Escape to the Country by Bill Hartley There is elation in the town of Darlington because the local cattle market may be moving. Darlington might be best known as an old railway town but its roots lie in agriculture, serving … Continue reading →

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The Euro FifthColumn

Posted on October 27, 2018 by leslie

The Euro Fifth Column By Stuart Millson With five months to go before our country disengages from the EU, a millionaire-funded, pro-Brussels movement is obstructing the democratic Brexit process. With the ratification of the EU Withdrawal Act by Parliament earlier … Continue reading →

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The Caravan Cometh

Posted on October 27, 2018 by leslie

The Caravan Cometh By Ilana Mercer The latest “caravan” community planning to crash borderless America is not part of Latin America’s problems; it’s escaping them. So say America’s low-IQ media. And Latin America’s problems are legion. The region, “which boasts … Continue reading →

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Rise of the Dominacrats

Posted on October 22, 2018 by leslie

Rise of the Dominacrats By Ilana Mercer Throughout Brett Kavanaugh’s ordeal, Democratic women and their house-trained houseboys had attempted to derail the decent part of the process, rendering a U.S. Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearing a mean-spirited, undignified and gossipy … Continue reading →

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Behold, Fake History

Posted on October 18, 2018 by leslie

Behold, Fake History Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, Sarah Churchwell, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018, £20, 356 pp., h.b., reviewed by Leslie Jones According to Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature in the School of Advanced … Continue reading →

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Dante’s Wake

Posted on October 12, 2018 by leslie

Dante’s Wake Ian Thomson, Dante’s Divine Comedy; A Journey Without End, Head of Zeus, £18.99, 2018, reviewed by Stoddard Martin Age after age has found Dante speaking to and for them. Ours may be another: we shall see. At present it … Continue reading →

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Indelible in the Hippocampus

Posted on October 6, 2018 by leslie

Indelible in the Hippocampus By Ilana Mercer One of many cringe-making moments in Christine Blasey Ford’s protracted complaint before the Senate Judiciary Committee—and the country—was an affectation-dripping reference to her hippocampus. “Indelible in the hippocampus” was the memory of supreme … Continue reading →

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