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I’m Afraid You Can’t Do That Hal

Posted on November 26, 2025 by leslie

I’m Afraid You Can’t Do That, HAL. By Hadrian Wise. There is no more vivid dramatisation of the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence than the moment in 2001: A Space Odyssey when the ship’s computer, HAL, refuses to open the … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, November-December 2025

Posted on November 11, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, November-December 2025 In this edition: Siegfried Wagner conducts his father’s music  *  Sir Adrian Boult conducts Berg and Vaughan Williams  *  A Miracle in the Gorbals  *  Clare Hammond plays 20th-century British music Not content with bringing devoted listeners … Continue reading →

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Occupational Hazard

Posted on September 14, 2025 by leslie

Occupational Hazard, by Bill Hartley There has been a great deal of press coverage of late concerning the Justice Department’s attempt to reduce the prison population. This has tended to shift focus away from the level of violence in the … Continue reading →

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Militarisation of the Left

Posted on August 28, 2025 by leslie

Militarisation of the Left The Red Brigades: The Terrorists Who Brought Italy to its Knees, 2025, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Oxford etc, John Foot, hb, 450 pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones “An oppressed class that does not strive to learn to … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, September-October 2025

Posted on August 13, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, September-October 2025 In this edition: Vintage Elgar * An Evergreen symphony *  Sir Andrew Davis – ‘King of kings’ * Community music-making * E.J. Moeran – a man for a season, by Stuart Millson ‘We have such food, such … Continue reading →

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Britain on the Brink

Posted on July 24, 2025 by leslie

Britain on the Brink, by Stuart Millson In 1940, with the massed-armed forces of Nazi Germany over-running Western Europe, the French General, Weygand, faced with his country’s defeat, declared: “The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, July-August 2025

Posted on June 28, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, July-August, 2025 In this edition: vintage recordings – de Falla, Bliss – from the SOMM label; a tribute to conductor, Ronald Corp OBE, by Stuart Millson Siva Oke’s SOMM label continues to enlarge its archive of classic, or more … Continue reading →

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A Song that Descended from the Heavens

Posted on June 17, 2025 by leslie

A Song that Descended from the Heavens by Darrell Sutton For those who wish to study the astrological content of Manilius’ Astronomica, it is derived from two sources: its Latin text and a much later published English translation. For the … Continue reading →

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More Light

Posted on June 9, 2025 by leslie

More Light Bernd Roeck, The World at First Light; A New History of the Renaissance, translated by Patrick Baker, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2025, 1144pp, hb, reviewed by Leslie Jones According to Sir Francis Galton, “The ablest race … Continue reading →

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Fire in the Hole

Posted on May 16, 2025 by leslie

Fire in the Hole By ‘Gas Bill’ Perhaps the greatest threat to life in the British coal mining industry was gas explosions. The total casualty figure attributed to this source between 1837 and 1927 was 3,500. Following loss of life … Continue reading →

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