Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Russians don’t understand freedom, they need the Cossack and the whip

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I asked everyone I met what “freedom” meant. Fathers and children had very different answers. Those who were born in the USSR and those born...
Saturday, 23 September 2023

Constantinople is where the pagan world ended, and where Dionysus met his untimely demise

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There would be no global Christianity without this city, which later, under the Ottomans, came to be known as The Abode of Happiness. Consta...
Friday, 22 September 2023

A good ice cream lulls in the mind in the same way, almost, and there is about it the sweet intoxication of virtue

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The Islamic warriors did not see anything to enrage them. The bar did not exist. The women were not 'exposed'. There was just the ma...
Thursday, 21 September 2023

Shi'ites always cut a deal. It was the Sunni fanatics who were the darkest version of the future

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I went to Chateau Massaya and had lunch with the winemaker Ramzi Ghosn. He insisted that Hezbollah were not a problem. Their people made sub...
Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Of the estimated 30 billion food miles associated with UK consumed food, 82 per cent are generated within the country

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Of the estimated 30 billion food miles associated with UK consumed food, 82 per cent are generated within the country, and over half of thos...
Tuesday, 19 September 2023

In France, raising your children as vegan is classed as criminal neglect

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Studies have shown that children raised on a vegan diet are often smaller and have low levels of certain nutrients such as riboflavin and B1...
Monday, 18 September 2023

Anyone worthy of admission to the university would already be fluent in French

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But ever since the decline of Latin, French had been the language of cultivated cosmopolitan elites – and thus the European language par ex...