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Douglas Murray is impressed and encouraged by Now or Later, a new play by Christopher Shinn at the Royal Court in London. This review first appeared on the New Culture Forum

As I write this, news is emerging of an apparent plot to burn-down a London-based publishing house, and its publisher.

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Portrait of the Artist as a Hate Figure

by Helen Szamuely. This review first appeared on the New Culture Forum

Visitors to the Wyndham Lewis exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (now ended) would have found works by a painter of genius. Some of them would have looked very familiar, others less so, but all entrancing and many can be viewed either in the NPG or Tate Britain collections. Anyone who has gone beyond and decided to read some of Wyndham Lewis’s writings would have found an unusual and very interesting novelist and a man with strong and individual views, beautifully formulated, on art, politics and the world around him in general.

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Blame bad rules, not capitalism

by Eamonn Butler

WITH turmoil in the world’s markets, politicians and commentators have been demanding more regulation and control of the financial sector. Their reaction is entirely predictable - but entirely wrong. 

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Nanny Brown's Bad Year
by Mark Baillie
Providence Journal (Rhode Island, USA), 31 July 2008

LONDON -- YOU MAY have missed the first anniversary of an unelected socialist ruler, his 42-day detention of terror suspects, his tax on the poorest and his record 2,823 new laws.
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From Russia with very little love

by Helen Szamuely

The Royal Academy exhibition ‘From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870–1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg’ had been advertised for many months and keenly awaited. Then, in December the Russian authorities suddenly raised a fuss.

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Welcome

The Salisbury Review 

The Salisbury Review, now twenty five years old, seeks to convey the ideas and concerns of genuine conservatism and carries articles on all aspects of public life, social policy and the arts.


Edited to a high standard with serious book reviews, it also includes discussions of issues from around the world and various articles on subjects which are not generally aired in the mainstream press.

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Doorstepping in Wakefield
Written by Alexander Story   

In the good old days, before the world woke up to the dangers of fundamentalism, when the dot com bubble was still expanding, and when New Labour was still an interesting phenomenon, Wakefield, Yorkshire, was immutably Labour.

Wakefield returned a Labour MP every year since 1935. In 1997, David Hinchcliff, a popular local Labour man, was re-elected to Westminster with a vast 14,000 majority. The council, that same year, was practically all red. The ‘International’ still echoed in the council’s corridors. Fast-forward 11 years to the local election of May 2008 and ...

 

 
Will Obama Follow California?
Written by Russell Lewis   

'As goes California so goes America’ or so they say. At first blush that might seem like a message of hope. The Golden State has long seemed to many the nearest thing to paradise on earth. It has mountains, beaches, sunshine almost every day and temperatures in the seventies and eighties. Some experts believe that there is more oil and natural gas offshore there than in Saudi Arabia. And in addition to these natural endowments there has been the stupendously successful high-tech Silicon Valley. In Hollywood, it boasts the world’s entertainment centre. And it has some top-notch universities like Stanford and Caltech. To cap it all, it is ruled by the popular film star governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Yet the Golden state is in deep trouble. It is swimming in a Pacific Ocean of red ink as the economist Arthur Laffer put it, with half a trillion dollars of outstanding bonds, making it the most indebted state in the Union — and Moodys has already down rated those bonds twice. These are just pointers to something badly adrift. What has gone wrong?  ...

 
Editorial

The extraordinary scenes that attended the state funeral of Jade Goody last April (for what is a state funeral if it is not crowds lining the route since dawn, a flower strewn cortege, coverage on all TV channels, a eulogy by Max Clifford, and the public condolences of both Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition) remind us that this is the decade when western civilisation will fail. Coming a few days after the G20 conference in which the savings of millions of honest people were thrown to the inflationary winds, it and the passing of a woman idolised for being foul tongued, illiterate, having a robber and a drug addict for a father and a violent criminal for a husband, mark the triumph of the modern public lie. This example echoes even more strongly in the recent mock turtle regrets of our politicians over their misuse of taxpayers’ money.

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Toadyism Triumphant
Written by Oleg Gordievsky   

About ten years ago, as I was tuning in to various Russian radio stations, I first started hearing the name of a mysterious Vladimir Vladimirovich. Initially I thought the broadcasters must be referring to the poet Mayakovsky, who committed suicide in 1930, but I quickly realized that they were talking unctuously about Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was appointed pretty much out of nowhere in August 1999 by President Boris Yeltsin to be the prime minister.

I was struck by the way the radio, television, newspapers...

 
Estonia, the Russians and Us
Written by Christie Davies   
Estonia emerged in 1991 from the long night of socialism to become a free and democratic country with a modern economy. It deserves our support against its overwhelming Russian neighbour, who ruled Estonia before the Estonian war of independence 1918-20 and re-occupied it again in 1940-41 and 1944-91 with a brief interval 1941-44 when the invading German army displaced them. Yet there is much carping about Estonia from within the UN and the EU and from leftists and equality-mongers. Their whingeing focuses on the difficulties and alleged discrimination faced by Estonia’s large Russian minority, 350,000 strong, over a quarter of a population of only about 1,300,000. Another connected problem has been ...
 
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