What Happened to Class
What Happened to Class? When I was growing up in the UK, class was an accepted feature of the social world. It wasn’t so [...]
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12, 2024
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11, 2024
Pooh
Pooh This is an ‘unpublished book review’ from late 1964?? It would have been something to submit it to the Carleton Miscellany that year, [...]
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10, 2024
All Souls
All Souls Some might expect that a blog headed All Souls will be concerned with All Souls College at the University of Oxford. While that [...]
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09, 2024
Penelope
Penelope There have been several books published recently that retell a familiar classical story, especially some of the Ancient Greek myths. I became entranced [...]
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07, 2024
The Railway Children
The Railway Children Remembering children’s books is a serendipitous exercise. In my case, some are established favourites, and so Pooh, Rat and Mole and [...]
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05, 2024
Lincoln Rhyme
Lincoln Rhyme Twenty-five years ago, I saw a film advertised, a thriller with actors Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. I might not have paid [...]
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04, 2024
What’s Going On?
What’s Going on? Browsing in the library is a dangerous pastime. I exercise this foolish endeavour in the Dickson Public Library in Canberra. Like [...]
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04, 2024
Xanthippic Dialogues
Xanthippic Dialogues Roger Scruton has to be one of the most fascinating, frustrating and thought-provoking of modern philosophers. Along with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Jonathan Glover [...]
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03, 2024
Lacey Flint
Lacey Flint For much of my life, I have read, and read and read, detective stories. I’m quite unable to understand why this is [...]
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03, 2024
