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Current Affairs and comment

Reflections of a Noble Savage

Posted on December 28, 2016 by leslie

Reflections of a Noble Savage Gerry Dorrian goes cold turkey What is Wrong with US?: Essays in Cultural Pathology, Eric Coombes & Theodore Dalrymple (eds.), Imprint Academic, 2016, reviewed by Gerry Dorrian A drugs-worker in 2009, I posted Theodore Dalrymple’s Spectator … Continue reading →

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Government is the Cause of “Brexit-Trump Syndrome”

Posted on December 6, 2016 by leslie

 Government is the Cause of “Brexit-Trump Syndrome” Stephen Michael MacLean delivers some home truths The Powers that be never fail to demonstrate why they have earned the enmity of the average citizen. Bound up in a cocoon of self-satisfaction and self-denial, … Continue reading →

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Polish Canadians, Searching for a Voice (Part 7)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by leslie

Polish Canadians, Searching for a Voice (Part 7)  Sociologist Mark Wegierski continues his analysis Can an authentic, Polish-Canadian identity endure given the decline of the Polish language in Canada? In the statistics of the Canada Census over the last few … Continue reading →

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Transgressive Technologies

Posted on November 5, 2016 by leslie

Transgressive Technologies Mark Wegierski examines the key issues There are a number of highly transgressive technologies on the horizon of development, which may prove to be the most fundamental challenges ever to the notion of a more stable human nature, … Continue reading →

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Trump Awakens the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Posted on November 5, 2016 by leslie

Trump Awakens the Entrepreneurial Spirit Stephen Michael MacLean endorses The Donald Businessmen don’t understand politics. Success in the marketplace doesn’t necessarily follow in the political arena. Early criticism of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign were variations on this theme, from the … Continue reading →

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Burnt by the Sun

Posted on November 3, 2016 by leslie

Burnt by the Sun Bill Hartley is on planet propaganda Russian cinema brings to mind heroic Soviet era films such as Battleship Potemkin, imbued with socialist realism and designed to get the official seal of approval and inspire the masses. Such … Continue reading →

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Jobshop

Posted on October 27, 2016 by leslie

Jobshop Duke Maskell recalls Thatcher’s Human Resource, Personnel Function If someone wants to sell you a fizzy drink he’s not fool enough to sell you sweet, carbonated water. He sells you an image of yourself drinking it. Images of ideal … Continue reading →

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“Crooked” Hillary’s Crooked Predecessors

Posted on October 25, 2016 by leslie

“Crooked” Hillary’s Crooked Predecessors Gerry Dorrian recalls a rigged election Donald Trump has caused consternation with his claim that he may not accept the result of the US presidential election if it doesn’t go his way. Is this his characteristic … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Churchill Moment

Posted on October 11, 2016 by leslie

Trump’s Churchill Moment Stephen Michael MacLean pursues an instructive parallel Donald Trump ‘explained’ Churchill to me. And, after the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate, Churchill reciprocated the favour. The fame of Sir Winston Churchill, who served in several Cabinet offices and … Continue reading →

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The Establishment versus the Individual

Posted on October 7, 2016 by leslie

 The Establishment versus the Individual Gerry Dorrian buries the remains  Snobbery and hatred have always led the powerful to seek to hobble those that they see as beneath them. Currently nothing embodies this more than the elitist and oligarchic response of … Continue reading →

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