April 2015 Volume LIX, Number 4, No. 515
In Defence of Brian Sewell
What Passes for Wisdom
Liberal Democracy vs. Liberal Democrats
Getting No Respect: Blue-Collar Voters
The Urgency of Truth: The Writing of Simon Leys
Points of the Compass: Copenhagen and Mariupol
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Brian Sewell Sir: In complimenting Dr Douglas Hassall (March 2015) […]April 1, 2015
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It's not as if there aren't enough grim testaments to bad ideas and bad policy, from the growth of ISIS to Europe's many afflictions and the leadership vacuum of Obama's bumbling, without folly's march reaching our own shores. Alas, that is not the caseApril 1, 2015
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The modern left loves and worships such words as 'debate' and 'deliberation', but their use is mostly for ornamental purposes. Why should anyone seriously debate with an opponent who represents what is historically indefensible and moribund?April 20, 2015
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That the leading lights of the left hold the working class in disdain, if not outright contempt, is evident with every plea for steeper power prices, more taxes and sneering assaults on the traditional family. John Howard understood this simple fact, which Tony Abbott cannot afford to forgetApril 7, 2015
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Fame is not always proportional to merit: if it were, […]
April 1, 2015
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Askold Krushelnycky writes from Ukraine: The supposed ceasefire in Ukraine […]
April 1, 2015
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With subtlety influenced by millennia of Persian statecraft, Tehran has been steadily expanding its regional influence through a combination of diplomacy and a continual expansion of Shiite non-state actors, predominantly militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and now Yemen. As to the US, the mullahs aren't losing sleepApril 22, 2015
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On April 24, 1815, just off Russell Square in Bloomsbury, […]
April 1, 2015
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Sydney, it is said, now has a rival to the Sydney Opera House. Whether or not the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at Ultimo for the University of Technology Sydney is an iconic masterpiece, and Frank Gehry the world’s greatest architect, time alone will decide. One thing is undeniable: Ultimo will never look or be the same.April 12, 2015
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Given the secularisation of Western society and the impact of postmodern theory on the academy, the significance and importance of Christianity, both historically and in terms of its continuing value and importance, are being undermined and trivialisedApril 28, 2015
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Our Constitution says it all for all of us: it […]
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A news item in September 2013 reported that a family […]
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Early in February I launched Jennifer Compton’s book of poetry […]
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In one of his Rumpole of the Bailey episodes, John […]
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Truman Capote cheated. With his 1966 book In Cold Blood, […]
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You cannot will spontaneity. But you can introduce the spontaneous […]
April 1, 2015
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To see the overlooked aspects of anything takes a peculiar […]
April 1, 2015
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The best way to experience the site of Gallipoli is […]
April 1, 2015
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As a young biologist, I began my career studying a […]
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Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. […]
April 1, 2015
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Max Ophuls was among the most interesting of the famous […]
April 1, 2015
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Brady, we’re told, is a child of great potential. His […]
April 1, 2015
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Paul Hasluck: A Life by Geoffrey Bolton University of Western […]
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Blind Moses: Aranda Man of High Degree and Christian Evangelist […]
April 1, 2015
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Saudi Arabia is building a 1000-kilometre wall to protect itself from the Islamic State -- a bricks-and-mortar exercise in irony, as it is the Saudis who nurtured, financed and encouraged the same firebrands and zealots they are now frantic to excludeApril 17, 2015
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Remembering Belloc by James V. Schall St Augustine’s Press, 2013, […]
April 1, 2015
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I remember precisely my “meeting” with General Sir John Monash, […]
April 1, 2015
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Birds Bathing A friend reports watching “a conflagration of birds […]
April 1, 2015
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The Rime Of The Ancient Gooney Bird The fish were […]
April 1, 2015
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The Saturday Evening Post Those Norman Rockwell covers back […]
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Wittgenstein’s Beetle My mind is like a beetle in a […]
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Ten Meditations on a Crowd 1 An unfussy parliament, it […]
April 1, 2015
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A Little Wine I remember you, Dario, courteous, long-faced croupier […]
April 1, 2015
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A Survivor I love to wander in the Museum of […]
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The Fish Pond (Visiting the Little Sisters of the Poor, […]
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Mansa Musa’s Hajj (1289 AD) When the richest man in […]
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C. Chaplin: Retirement Counsellor “In the end, life is a […]
April 1, 2015
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Tired Wings With the first turn of the ceiling-fan winter’s […]
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