September 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 9
A Way Forward for Palestine?
Premature Obituaries for the US
The Air Raid Shelters on the Road to Masada
Ukraine on the Brink
Putin’s Rasputin
Scotland’s Walk on the Wild Side
Contents
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Sir: Brian Wimborne (June 2014) correctly points out that Palestinians […]September 1, 2014
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Those predicting the end of America's primacy on the world stage need to remember that Jimmy Carter was succeeded by Ronald Reagan. The American democratic system tends to see weak presidents begetting strong ones, so there is reason to hope Obama's ineptitude will be remediedSeptember 1, 2014
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Reprised from 2014: "One soldier had a mauve handbag which clashed with the pillar-box red of polished toenails peeking from sandals most likely not of military issue. Reservists, perhaps, they were Israel in miniature, the snapshot of a nation that has somehow incorporated the frivolous signs of a peace it has never known with the uniformed expectation of the instinct to survive"October 9, 2023
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An old joke used to say the Soviet Union was […]
September 1, 2014
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The view from Moscow is of Russia as “a unique civilization" unable to fit into European or Asian boxes. In this context, the Neo-Eurasianism of Aleksandr Dugin (left) is the legitimating, ultra-nationalist ideology of a regime bent on dominating its neighbours while bringing its own citizens to heelSeptember 3, 2014
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As the campaign for independence nears its climax at the ballot box, Scotland is an increasingly self-referential and insular land. The polls suggest secession will be defeated, but that likely result will banish neither the divisions nor delusions of a society where superficiality is a guiding principleSeptember 6, 2014
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Throughout most of his first term, Americans seemed convinced that their president was pursuing foreign policies borne of prudence, rather than implementing ideologies shaped by the Sixties radicals who were his mentors and inspiration. Now they know betterSeptember 14, 2014
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Glenn Beck is one of those conservatives that US liberals love to hate. When you see, as I recently did, how his words and ideals resonate with Americans in what leftists sneeringly dismiss as 'flyover country' it is very easy to understand why the left has declared him a public enemySeptember 8, 2014
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For the last half-century, some sections of Australian public opinion […]
September 1, 2014
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This morning's news of massive anti-terror raids in Australian cities is a reminder that the threat of bombings and mayhem, shocking as they are, represent no more than symptoms of a religious tribalism's threaten to the fabric and functioning of the nation-stateSeptember 18, 2014
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I’m just a soul whose intentions are good, Oh Lord, […]
September 1, 2014
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The climate-change industry is prepared to accept no thesis but that of a planet warming at a dangerous, nay, catastrophic clip. But what if temperatures are about to fall, as history and the current hiatus suggest? That would be a genuine catastropheSeptember 22, 2014
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Under the benign, philanthropic guise of protecting our flora and fauna, activists work tirelessly to restrict land use and stifle growth. These aren't accidental byproducts of the green crusade but the deliberate and specific goals of tax-exempt NGOs eager to see Australia bow before their global agendaSeptember 25, 2014
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Bess Price, the Northern Territory activist and politician, has emerged […]
September 1, 2014
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On January 24, 1941, Australia’s Prime Minister Robert Menzies began […]
September 1, 2014
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The political campaigner Ray Evans, who died in June, was […]
September 1, 2014
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Emeritus Professor John Bigelow delivered this eulogy at the memorial […]
September 1, 2014
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Two plays to read. One dusty on the shelf; the […]
September 1, 2014
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I have been watching Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s elegant history of […]
September 1, 2014
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Short Takes Alan Gould 12/3/09 In two expensive minutes […]
September 1, 2014
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The sermon for that Sunday took the Gospel account of […]
September 1, 2014
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I: Scrub That Braunschweig, the artist, uses, employs, must have, […]
September 1, 2014
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A crowd had gathered in the conference hall at Central […]
September 1, 2014
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French Designs on Colonial New South Wales by François Péron, […]
September 1, 2014
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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works Alexander Pushkin, translated […]
September 1, 2014
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Elizabeth Morrison’s large and handsome book tells the life-story of […]
September 1, 2014
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In Memoriam David Armstrong (May 2014) Friendship’s pointless if […]
September 1, 2014
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Hospital Poems Discovery I write stories about […]
September 1, 2014
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Desert Archaeology – version for reading on 8 February at […]
September 1, 2014
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Double Rainbow Swimming in the summer rain Raindrops dimpling […]
September 1, 2014
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Along the Track Two nankeen kestrels with honey wings […]
September 1, 2014
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Doorways Counting my blood, I click, puncture a waiting […]
September 1, 2014
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Kermit’s Smile So much conveyed from a green sock […]
September 1, 2014
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Sidney Cyril And Cecil In 1952 my mother loved […]
August 30, 2014
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George Henry Bragge (1861−1935) He didn’t join his brothers […]
September 1, 2014
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Sawfly Larvae On eucalypt or portulaca sawfly larvae browse […]
September 1, 2014
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The Craic in the Bar Irish backpackers in the […]
September 1, 2014
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The Hustler Manny’s Pool Hall Cleveland 1962 Kirk had […]
September 1, 2014
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