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- The Letwin Amendment
- The Art of the Italian Peplum
- The Jews in Fascist Italy
- Ezra Pound & Salò
- On Ben Jonson’s ‘Inviting a Friend to Supper’
- Caspian Kitsch
- The Passion of Yulia Tymoshenko
- GooGoosha’s Golden Globe
- Return of the Rajavi Cult
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The Letwin Amendment
His political ideas are already as antiquated as Noah’s ark. I do not know a single one of the younger men in England who is influenced by them in the slightest degree, though one hears of one occasionally, just as … Continue reading
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The Art of the Italian Peplum
In the forward to his revised edition of The Greek Myths, written in Deya, Majorca, in 1960, Robert Graves sketched a theory: I have had second thoughts about the drunken god Dionysus, about the Centaurs with their contradictory reputation for wisdom … Continue reading
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The Jews in Fascist Italy
And he would shake his head, with the expression of someone who, should they wish to, could even understand such subtleties and complications, but who is just not minded to. Such tiny fine discriminations, intriguing and engaging as they might … Continue reading
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Ezra Pound & Salò
I want to go on fighting. Canto 72 In 1948, the year James Laughlin published The Pisan Cantos, Ezra Pound remained incarcerated in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a Federal Government asylum in Washington, having been found mentally unfit to stand trial … Continue reading
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On Ben Jonson’s ‘Inviting a Friend to Supper’
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Caspian Kitsch
The European song contest is a big and beautiful holiday for some people but for others an occasion to organise political provocation. One must be prepared. Mehriban Aliyeva, First Lady of Azerbaijan So, they built the Baku Crystal Hall on … Continue reading
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The Passion of Yulia Tymoshenko
Judges, in general, are fuckers. Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine, 1994 – 2005 I: The Trial The trial of Yulia Tymoshenko peaked with her arrest for contempt of court in early August. This had been a long time coming, although it … Continue reading
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GooGoosha’s Golden Globe
I: The House of Guli Guli Collections provided a minor if exotic diversion from the Donna Karan and Calvin Klein Spring Collections at New York Fashion Week last autumn. Gulnara Karimova piqued curiosity with a relaxed spin on ethnic tradition … Continue reading
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Return of the Rajavi Cult
I: The Attack at Ashraf At the beginning of April, as popular uprisings ripped through the cities of Yemen and Syria and NATO missiles pounded Gaddafi strongholds in Libya, a specially protected refugee camp was attacked by government troops in … Continue reading
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