Friday, December 30, 2011

What I’m reading, final edition for 2011

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Christopher Hitchens is everywhere now that he’s dead. Quite rightly there have been many tributes but the best brief one I have seen – ple...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Anita McNaught on Oscar Kightley and David Fane

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The 42nd in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the November 1996 issue. Anita McNaught was our Auck...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Country matters

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There is a new-born donkey at the end of the next road. The mother is called Lucy even though she is a jenny. And I learn that there are two...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Elizabeth Knox on Marilyn Duckworth

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The 41st in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the August 1993 issue. The portrait is by John McD...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Don’t torment the frog

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The previous post, Phyllis Gant on Ronald Hugh Morrieson , was this blog’s 999th. The first, on 9 December 2008, was a celebration of US com...
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Phyllis Gant on Ronald Hugh Morrieson

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The 40th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the November 1996 issue. The intro read: Phyll...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Fisking North & South: the final episode

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Further to six previous posts – most recently this one which links to all the others – fisking North & South ’s ridiculous claim that “...

Janet Tyler on Duncan Sarkies

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The 39th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the October 1996 issue. The intro read: Duncan...

Lab test

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Charles Moore writes in the Christmas double issue of the Spectator : Last week, I mentioned that our American friends the Frums ca...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Mary McIntyre and chemtrails

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Further to my post about Danyl at the Dim-Post getting all satirical about Shelley Bridgeman’s Herald column on the vast internationa...