The Strange Case of the Illyrian Emerald: A Christmas cracker
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The DVDs Quadrant writers and readers recommend for holiday viewing.
Let’s not pretend that people smugglers are the problem. They are just a symptom. Nor are asylum seekers to blame. The real problem lies with those among us who have neither the will nor inclination to protect our borders.
Grants, conferences, and awards for artists who know the value of faith, morality, and liberty could counter the present cultural support system that helps almost exclusively the illiberal Left.
They all meet at the corner of Napier and Gertrude. The shouting man, the keening woman, the transexual prostitute, and the woman in the pink dressing gown.
In the case of Assange, as with NedKelly, there is the guiding hand of the lone mother, the dysfunctional childhood, the hatred of authority.
Just about the last thing I felt like watching at the end of a long day was an American cop show praised for its realistic portrayal of the foul-mouthed black drug dealers of Baltimore’s welfare housing estates and crooked white unionists on the city’s docks.
The best enjoyment from DVD-land this year for me has been the purchase of the old production of Edward the Seventh, and keeping in the historical vein, Bright Star, John Keats and his attachment to Fanny Brawne, was superb.
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.
We love box-sets of TV series at our house, and the Christmas holidays is a great time to catch up on some you may have missed. Here’s some suggestions.
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