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KINGS PART 1
YEARS AGO ENGLISH PAL DAVID ROBERTS, husband of Anita, the latter Innes Ireland’s secretary, recited to me a poem recounting England’s rulers from William I (the Conquerer to some; the Bastard to...
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KINGS PART 2
WE’RE IN THE MIDST OF TOM JOHNSON’S LRB REVIEW of the Burt/Partington book Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State. Here in Part 2, we continue the tales of Neds II and III and…....
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WHAT DESPOTIC HYPOCRISY!!
I FEEL SORRY FOR OWNERS OF TESLA cars vandalized by people increasingly irate with actions of Elon Musk. But to label the vandals “domestic terrorists” while at the same time pardoning hundreds of...
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A USED CAR AFTER WHICH I LUST
“THE ASTON MARTIN CYGNET,” this fabled sports car manufacturer said back in 2011, “was designed as a luxury solution to urban mobility.” A city car that’s “Elegant and distinctive whilst individual...
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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
WHAT A MARVELOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR SATIRE: The dust is far from settled about what The New York Times, March 25, 2025, is calling “an extraordinary leak of internal national security deliberations,...
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GOODBYE, E.P.A.; HELLO, E.D.A.
THERE IS IRONY GALORE IN THE NEW U.S. Environmental “Deregulation” Agency having originally been established by Richard Nixon on December 2, 1970, “to protect human health and the environment” (this,...
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GRIMM TALES
NO TYPO HERE. THE BROTHERS GRIMM: A BIOGRAPHY is a book by Ann Schmiesing given a review by Colin Burrow “Ogres Are Cool,” London Review of Books, March 20, 2025. Here are tidbits gleaned from this,...
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MOZART AND TRUMP—PRODIGIES WITH KEWL COIFS
ONE MIGHT THINK THE ARROGANCE OF EGO WOULD HAVE LED ME TO ASSOCIATE Trump and Beethoven. But no, prodigious musicality seals the deal: It’s Mozart and Trump—separated at birth by 190 years! Above,...
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LEST WE FORGET
BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 2025, OFFERS AN INTERVIEW with historian Laurence Rees; his topic, “the history of the Nazi regime yields warnings—but that frighteningly few people are interested in...
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MAINTAINING DIVERSITY
THE UTTER IDIOCY OF DOGE has added yet another tooth on its chainsaw. It’s described by Drs. Iago Hale and Michael Kantar in “Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?,” The New York Times,...
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