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Category Archives: Literature
Up north
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Posted in Literature, UK
Tagged Alan Bennett, bright lights, Down south, madding crowds, parish pump, patavini, provincialism, tyke, Up north, Yorkshire
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The Two Cultures
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Posted in Art, Health, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, Science, UK
Tagged haiku, immunology, Sir Peter Medawar, Vincent Van Gogh
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John Lennon
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Posted in Literature, Music, UK, USA
Tagged "The Beatles", Central Park, John Lennon, New York
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Les neiges d’antan
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Posted in Literature, UK, USA
Tagged "Dick the shepherd", "greasy Joan", "Love's Labour's Lost", global warming, London, William Shakespeare
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The heart and soul of the party
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. 27 February 2018 DER UNENTBERHRLICHE Wirklich, er war unentbehrlich! Überall, wo was geschah Zu … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Economics, Germany, Literature, Philosophy, UK, USA
Tagged movers and shakers, office life, Pindar, Pythian Odes, society, the life and soul of the party, Wilhelm Busch
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The Last of England
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. 28 April 2017 “England is no more. That is why this is a good time to … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, Globalisation, Ireland, Literature, Politics, Religion, Scotland, UK, Wales
Tagged "Country Life", "The Long Revolution", A.N. Wilson, Alan Brien, Ars Poetica, Brexit, Clive Aslet, Cobbett, Crabbe, dark satanic mills, E.M. Forster, England, F.R. Leavis, Ford Madox Brown, Garden of Eden, George Sturt, Giles Fraser, Henry James, Horace, King George III, laudator temporis acti, OliverGoldsmith, Perry Anderson, Procrustes, Queen Elizabeth I, Raymond Williams (1921-1988), The Last of England, William Blake
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Revolting robots
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Posted in Australia, Brazil, Economics, Finland, India, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, USA
Tagged Cleveland Ohio, Czechoslovakia, Ford Motor Company, Karel Čapek, Luddites, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Namibia, Ned Ludd, R.U.R, robot, Thomas Paine, UK Coal Miners' Strike 1984-85, universal basic income, Walter Reuther
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IMMIGRATION
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Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Italy, Literature, Politics, Portugal, Turkey, UK
Tagged A Jacobite's Epitaph, Aeneas, Aeneid, Ayn Rand, Brexit, David Cameron, democracy, European Coal and Steel Community, European Parliament, European Union, Herder, immigration, Jean Monnet, Juno, nationalism, Nigel Farage, Plato, populism, racism, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Troy, UK referendum 2016, UKIP, Virgil, xenophobia
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CONTRA UNIONEM EUROPAEAM
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Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Literature, Luxembourg, Military, Philosophy, Politics, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Big Bang, Brexit, Dostoevsky, F.R. Leavis, Henry V, J.G. Herder, Jeremy Corbyn, King Offa, Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, Rena Doulou, St George, Syriza, TISA, TTIP, UK Labour Party, William Shakespeare
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