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The Arabs lost in1948 and have since used a motley collection of Circassian, Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and Lebanese Arabs, renamed Palestinians in 1967, to ceaselessly prosecute the original war of rejection
Sep 11 2024
8 mins
It's hard to believe the attention paid to Raygun's Paris absurdities, but there may be deeper lessons in that writhing and posing
Sep 10 2024
10 mins
From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
Christmas DVDs: Philippa Martyr
I don’t tend to watch religious movies at Christmas, principally because I go to real-life church instead. But if you must watch a religious movie, make it Evan Almighty. It’s only reasonably entertaining, but it’s got the best movie portrayal of God I’ve ever seen. In fact, it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen in which God acts the way He does in real life.
Also, I recently saw In The Heat of the Night again – I’d forgotten what a superb film it is; a once-in-a-lifetime combination of tension, laziness, comedy and righteous indignation. Just the thing for long warm evenings and mint juleps.
And if you don’t already own the three-DVD edition of Dylan Moran’s bizarre series Black Books, then I suggest you remedy this, because if you have shattering family experiences at Christmas, this will certainly pour balm on your misanthropic soul (once you’ve slunk home and written them all out of your will.)
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
