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Current Affairs and comment

Tricoteurs Occupy Bowes Museum

Posted on September 20, 2020 by leslie

Tricoteurs Occupy Bowes Museum by Bill Hartley Barnard Castle has an earlier claim to fame. It’s the home of the Bowes Museum, incongruously perched on a valley side in what looks like a huge French chateau. In the nineteenth century, … Continue reading →

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Arguing with Racists

Posted on September 17, 2020 by leslie

Letter to the Editor: Arguing with Racists Sir   The transformation of the Eugenics Education Society into the Galton Institute has not been as radical as the “political correction” of the Royal Anthropological Institute, let alone the Institute of Race Relations. … Continue reading →

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Cesare Bourgeois

Posted on September 16, 2020 by leslie

Cesare Bourgeois John Gooch, Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943, Allen Lane, London, 2020, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, pp.vii-xxiv + pp.1-410, ISBN 978-0-241-18570-4, review essay by Frank Ellis Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio … Continue reading →

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All over it, like White on Rice

Posted on September 13, 2020 by leslie

All over it, like White on Rice Ilana Mercer critiques Critical Race Theory Critical Race Theory is the supposedly “remedial” lens through which America’s race reality is refracted. Look hard enough and the need for this theoretical concoction becomes abundantly … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, September 2020

Posted on September 10, 2020 by leslie

ENDNOTES, September 2020 In this edition: as the BBC reinstates ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ to the Proms season finale, Stuart Millson recalls the Last Night of the Proms, 1982 Back in the days of Sir Malcolm Sargent, Basil Cameron … Continue reading →

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When Kyle Came to Kenosha

Posted on September 7, 2020 by leslie

When Kyle Came to Kenosha Ilana Mercer, from embattled America Having done an about face against rioting, the sanctimonious Don Lemon, at CNN, giggled and smirked his way through a segment about “racist” white suburbanites, who imagined any decent rioter would … Continue reading →

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The Knee on Floyd’s Neck

Posted on August 24, 2020 by leslie

The Knee on Floyd’s Neck Ilana Mercer, on racism and law Racism consists of impolite thoughts and words. If that’s what racism is, then the knee on George Floyd’s neck does not constitute racism. On the facts, the knee on … Continue reading →

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Napalm d’Or

Posted on August 19, 2020 by leslie

Napalm d’Or Bill Hartley, on Apocalypse Now It’s possible to dress like Captain Willard. There are online retail outlets which stock his tiger stripe camouflage uniform. Whilst the world’s armies long ago abandoned this exotic style, out in the virtual … Continue reading →

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“Systemic Racism” or Systematic Rubbish, Part 1

Posted on August 10, 2020 by leslie

“Systemic Racism” or Systematic Rubbish? part 1 by Ilana Mercer The “systemic racism” refrain is a meaningless abstraction. To concretize a variable, it must be cast in empirical, measurable terms, the opaque “racism” abstraction being one variable, to use statistical … Continue reading →

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We Will Bury You (3)

Posted on August 5, 2020 by leslie

We Will Bury You (3) Ilana Mercer mourns the victims of Communism Socialists and communists are still voted into power; this creed’s savage foot-soldiers, such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa, are cast as pacifists, seekers of equity and justice; … Continue reading →

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