Friday, 26 December 2014

Pussy Galore ... can scarcely be taken for standing for 'the eternal feminine'

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In every  story it is, of course, a different woman, each given a flip, thowaway, double-entendre -type name such as Pussy Galore, Honeychil...
Friday, 28 November 2014

To be fair, Joseph isn't stupid; he's barmy.

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The Government seems to be in mess. The country is full of intelligent Jews. Why, therefore, must Mrs Thatcher employ three really stupid on...
Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Constantinople is the great capital, the city, the attraction and the hope of all the Hellenes

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In 1844, the Prime Minister Collettis in a speech to the constituent assembly revealed the place of Constantinople in Greek hearts and minds...
Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Europeans who regarded a country as a career rather than a cause

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Like the Mavrocordato, the Testa refused to be imprisoned in one nationality. They were an extreme example of a once common phenomenon: Eur...
Monday, 24 November 2014

The insane Socrates of the National Assembly

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The sweeping away of the existing order had left people biddable and lacking in direction, he said, and easy prey for imposters posing as i...
Monday, 3 November 2014

England was the country that God had got to first, properly

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Poor, poor Treece, thought Emma; for she loved to sympathise, Poor man, he has tried to show us all that foreigners aren't funny; but t...
Saturday, 18 October 2014

You could see he was an Englishman first and a Christian second

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Arthur Box-Bender was seeking to make himself agreeable to the domestic prelate '... not a member of your persuasion myself but I'm...