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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Hold the front page!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 July 2013 You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, UK
Tagged Bradford, bribery, Humbert Wolfe, journalism, Milan, poetry
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The best lack all conviction
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 July 2013 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the … Continue reading
Posted in China, Ireland, Literature, UN
Tagged "The Second Coming", Belfast, Ulster, William Butler Yeats
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Gun running
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 July 2013 They abuse human rights. So let’s give them the wherewithal to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Bahrain, China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UK
Tagged arms exports, human rights, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Zimbabwe
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Never say die
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 16 July 2013 Dum spiro, spero. While there’s life, there’s hope. This is a much-used quotation, … Continue reading
The artist as reactionary
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 15 July 2013 The following interchange is from an interview with English novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature
Tagged Evelyn Waugh, George Plimpton, Julian Jebb, Paris Review
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The art market – an oxymoron
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 14 July 2013 CULTURE “A SALEABLE COMMODITY” Rarely have we come across a point of view … Continue reading
Back to them good ol’ days
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 July 2013 THE FUTURE IS IN THE PAST As we compose this post on our … Continue reading
Why bother?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 12 July 2013 “My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, USA
Tagged "On the Road", Jack Kerouac, nihilism, road trip, the beat generation
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A smoking gun
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 July 2013 Talk about a smoking gun! As we suggested on 5 July 2013 in … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Military, UN
Tagged coup d'état, F-16 fighter jets, Guns not butter, Mohamed Morsi, Potomac, Roman Empire
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Slumming it for Jesus
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 July 2013 Let’s hear it for Jorge Mario Bergoglio! Who he? Well, that is in … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Europe, Italy, Religion
Tagged Catholic Church, immigration, Lampedusa, Pope Francis, St Francis of Assisi, Venerable Bede
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