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The West Speaks
interviews by Jerry Gordon |
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the Mary Jackson category.
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Sorry, C J
UK readers will probably remember a TV sitcom called "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin". Starring Leonard Rossiter, also of "Rising Damp", and, as is less well known, "Le Petomane", this series is partly known, at least by me, for the line : "Progress! There's ...Read More...
Posted on 03/22/2006 9:18 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Hell freezes over
Something sensible in The Guardian, albeit on a frivolous subject. This makes a change, because The Guardian usually says silly things about serious subjects. Thanks to Harry's Place for alerting me to the Lucy Mangan's fatwah on the iPod:
It's not enough that I have to feign interest in people's ...Read More...
Posted on 03/22/2006 5:39 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Good Lords!
Common sense from the House of Lords:
Dozy bint
A school which was told it unlawfully excluded a Muslim pupil for wearing a traditional gown has won its appeal at the House of Lords.
The Court of Appeal had said Denbigh High School had denied Shabina Begum the right to manifest her religion ...Read More...
Posted on 03/22/2006 5:14 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Sense and nonsense in "The Times"
Sense from Libby Purves on the revolting French youths:
Much employment law is good and necessary. People have families, mortgages, commitments. It is not fair for richer and more powerful people to treat them cavalierly. But what the French proposal opens up is the idea that if you are under 26 ...Read More...
Posted on 03/21/2006 5:09 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 20 March 2006
EU-topia
I loathe the EU and all its works. Fortunately The Telegraph generally agrees with me. Here is Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MP:
Two years from now, the European constitution will be in force - certainly de facto and probably de jure, too. Never mind that 15 million Frenchmen and five million swag-bellied ...Read More...
Posted on 03/20/2006 3:55 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 19 March 2006
Zut! We're overrun by les rosbifs
Remember 1066? It's payback time. From the Sunday Times:
THE Duke of Westminster’s purchase of a famous Paris flea market is the latest rout in what is being decried on the French side of the Channel as a British invasion.
“Not only have you stolen ‘our’ Olympic Games, you ...Read More...
Posted on 03/19/2006 7:36 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 18 March 2006
Rabbits, lodgers and commercial travellers
In the interests of decorum, one website is restricting the use of profanity to "poker-faced pun(s)". What would Edward II think of that? For my part, I cannot abide double entendres, especially if somebody slips one in without you noticing. But if one pops out by mistake, what can ...Read More...
Posted on 03/18/2006 9:06 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 17 March 2006
Hobbyhorses and elephants
The expression "ride a hobbyhorse" was recently the subject of some confusion, indignation, metaphor mixing and not a little mirth. (Is "hobbyhorse" one word or two? I've seen both "hobbyhorse" and "hobby horse" many times. Today I am going to plump for one word ...Read More...
Posted on 03/17/2006 5:43 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 14 March 2006
Veil of tears?
Naked capitalism comes to China. From The Telegraph (where else?):
Chinese brides traditionally married in red, the colour of happiness. Then white weddings were introduced from the West, with women posing in ivory silk, supported by grooms in black tie.
The latest fad, though, is simpler - the ...Read More...
Posted on 03/14/2006 6:47 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 14 March 2006
Cheats
I suggested in an earlier post that the internet is a good servant but a bad master. This story in The Telegraph about plagiarism at Oxford confirmed my view. I was actually quite shocked to read it:
Plagiarism at Oxford appears to be rife among both undergraduate and postgraduate students, ...Read More...
Posted on 03/14/2006 5:01 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 12 March 2006
A nation of greengrocer's
Educational standards are continually rising, politicians tell us. Every year, more and more students pass A levels and GCSEs, and more of them are getting top grades. And of course more people are going to university. Soon 50% of young people will go to university, or "uni" as it is ...Read More...
Posted on 03/12/2006 6:09 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 11 March 2006
Profumo naff hair
"What have I done?" said Christine:"I've ruined the party machine.To lie in the nudeIs not very rude,But to lie in the House is obscene."
Apologies for the silly title of this post. It is an attempt to link two themes - the 1963 sex scandal and bad haircuts.
My ...Read More...
Posted on 03/11/2006 7:24 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 10 March 2006
Profumo
John Profumo died today, aged 91. He is best known for the forty years he spent as a charity worker at the refuge centre, Toynbee Hall:
To the residents of Toynbee Hall, he was "a saint"
Yes, that's right - his charity work. And Monica Lewinsky is best known for her efficiency as a White ...Read More...
Posted on 03/10/2006 5:04 AM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 9 March 2006
Loving cup
Ladies, or indeed gentlemen, do not fall in love with a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This snippet from The Telegraph explains why. (And no, my use of the word "snippet" has no bearing on the matter in hand.)
Scientists have developed an electronic wine glass that ...Read More...
Posted on 03/09/2006 7:21 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 8 March 2006
Soul of wit
Ben MacIntyre in The Times has some choice words to say about telegrams:
Mark Twain once received the following telegram from his publisher: NEED 2-PAGE SHORT STORY TWO DAYS. Twain replied: NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES TWO DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS DO 2 PAGES.
Twain was making ...Read More...
Posted on 03/08/2006 6:50 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 8 March 2006
Piggy in the middle
Alice Thompson in The Telegraph argues that "you should be rich or poor under this Government - otherwise you're stuffed":
If you are living on benefits, smoke, drink, have out-of-control children and like shoplifting on the side, then the Government can help.
It will provide you ...Read More...
Posted on 03/08/2006 5:22 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 7 March 2006
Cartoon fun
Posted on 03/07/2006 5:53 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 7 March 2006
Sudokalist
According to The Times, you can make yourself more intelligent by means of "brain exercises":
TACKLING the Times crossword or Su Doku may drive you to distraction — and could transform your intelligence.
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...Read More...
Posted on 03/07/2006 4:19 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 6 March 2006
Moral tourism
Harry's Place alerted me to this article by David Thompson, in which he argues that "cultural equivalence is neither compassionate nor fair. It's merely pretentious moral tourism for middle-class lefties. Like the Guardian's Madeleine Bunting." The whole article is worth reading, but ...Read More...
Posted on 03/06/2006 6:30 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 5 March 2006
Teaching grammar to suck eggs
I was once in a café somewhere in North London. They were very short staffed, and the waitresses were rushed off their feet but doing their best to cope.
A prominent left wing intellectual tore a strip off one poor girl, who, through no fault of her own, was a little late ...Read More...
Posted on 03/05/2006 6:48 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 3 March 2006
The yogh's on you
There are probably many important things to say about the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell. For US readers not in the know, however, possibly the only important thing to note is the way his first name is pronounced. It is pronounced so as to rhyme with "fingers". "Ming-iss", ...Read More...
Posted on 03/03/2006 10:02 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 3 March 2006
Dining in the dark
In an earlier post I stated that the German language does not lend itself to humour. This is a generalisation, of course, but it is probably fair to say that it does not lend itself to puns. You could probably put this latter generalisation to the test, by counting the number of homonyms. But sticking, ...Read More...
Posted on 03/03/2006 7:36 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 3 March 2006
Happy endings
Remember the ending of Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. "
Depressing, isn't it? Hardy got it wrong, it seems, and should have made it a bit jollier. Ben MacIntyre ...Read More...
Posted on 03/03/2006 6:17 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Wit's end
The comedian, Linda Smith, died today aged 48. To be honest, this was the first time I heard that she had cancer. She was very funny, though I didn't usually agree with her politics:
Voted the “wittiest living person” by radio listeners in 2002, Smith became one of the small band of women ...Read More...
Posted on 03/01/2006 9:15 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 25 February 2006
Harvard loses its wildebeest
This piece by Gerard Baker may be of interest to anyone concerned about the rise of political correctness in American universities. Baker argues that, with the resignation of Harvard's President, Larry Summers, the "closing of the American mind" is one step nearer.
TWENTY YEARS AGO ...Read More...
Posted on 02/25/2006 11:53 AM by Mary Jackson
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