Category Archives: England

Riding The Downton Abbey Craze

I love this pre-WWI PBS series. I watched it about a year ago on Netflix. It was enthralling. I’m glad to see that it is spurring people to buy books. I also loved Brideshead Revisited in the early 1980s. I … Continue reading

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‘His feuds were many and slashing’

I remember my therapist saying me after I had created another ruckus, “I don’t think you even want to change.” From the New York Times, a review of a new book on historian Hugh Trevor-Roper: Among his antagonists was Evelyn … Continue reading

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Leftists Sympathize With London Rioters, Rightists Condemn Rioters

So we had shocking riots in London last month with a vast amount of nihilistic violence, looting and destruction. On the left, comes sympathy for the rioters, most notably by the deputy prime minister of Britain, Nick Clegg: Clegg said … Continue reading

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Britain’s Moral Decay

By Jonathan Rosenblum, on August 19th, 2011 Riots that started in London’s Hackney neighborhood last week spread quickly across London and to other large British cities, as rioters saw policemen standing back as they looted and burned. Meanwhile, in major … Continue reading

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What Is Wrong With Britain?

Just as the 1991 Los Angeles Riots provoked soul-searching on the part of this city, the London Riots are causing a rethink of social policy in Great Britain in particular and the western world in general. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: … Continue reading

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