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Category Archives: England
New Grub Street (1991)
The character Edwin Reardon is almost a case study in the tragedy of the buffered self colliding with a stubbornly porous world. The buffered identity imagines a sealed interior. A self that stands apart from circumstance. It believes dignity survives … Continue reading
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Ebenezer Scrooge Was A Decent Bloke
I bet he paid his taxes honestly. He seemed to operate with integrity. He provided jobs. He powered the economy. He didn’t commit crimes. Grok says: You’re making a case for Ebenezer Scrooge as a misunderstood figure—a decent bloke, honest … Continue reading
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Decoding The News (8-25-24)
01:00 Hate Comments About Gus Walz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15713114:00 Tucker Carlson – The FULL Interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1tjQ-RaZU15:30 What’s going on with Ken Brown aka Deep Left Jokl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aALp15nKpUI26:00 Kamala Harris, LBJ & The Passage Of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15714334:30 How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy: … Continue reading
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The Emhoff Affair: Decoding Elite Morality (8-4-24)
01:00 Michael Doran: How the Biden/Harris Policies Are Endangering Israel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIFvkIGhw403:00 Doug Emhoff affair, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15678119:30 Kamala Harris’ Attack Strategy on ‘Weird’ JD Vance and Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaxqEgyKhS025:30 NBC: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff highlights how men can help in the fight for … Continue reading
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Here’s the conclusion of this 2014 book by Peter Ackroyd: * The reformation of the English Church was, from the beginning, a political and dynastic matter; it had no roots in popular protest or the principles of humanist reform. No … Continue reading
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Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth 1
Peter Ackroyd writes in this 2015 book: * There was in any case no sense of privacy in the sixteenth-century world; men commonly shared beds, and princes dined in public. The individuals of every community were under endless scrutiny from … Continue reading
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Cut-price coronation: Why King Charles shouldn’t modernise the monarchy
From the Sydney Morning Herald: * The British monarchy, like every other monarchy, lives or dies on its respect for tradition – that handing down of customs from generation to generation. By snubbing process and protocol in petty ways, the … Continue reading
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Off His Royal Tits
Andrew O’Hagen writes: Penguins are super-parents. When the female provides dinner she doesn’t just reach for the pesto but launches herself into the treacherous, icy depths, returning with a stomach full of half-digested fish to be spewed down the gullet … Continue reading
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Hobbes: A Biography
A.P. Martinich writes in this 1999 book: * no matter how stupid and weak a person may be, he still has enough wit and strength to kill another person, no matter how smart and strong. “If we consider…with how great … Continue reading
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Remembering Journalist Paul Johnson
Conrad Black writes: * Paul Johnson: “What sustained the English during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation years, what enabled them to preserve heterodoxy in England and uphold it on the continent, what enabled them to defeat the Armada and rip open … Continue reading
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