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Father and Son

Edmund Gosse was brought up in the 1850’s, in ‘entire resignation to the Will of God and not less entire
disdain of the judgement of man.’ Christie Davies, tells the moving story of an upright family who today would be persecuted for their beliefs by social workers.
 

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Votes for Jesus

Paul Gottfried


The most interesting aspect of the continuing race among eight or ten (I’ve forgotten the number) GOP presidential contenders may be what has not happened. Contrary to early predictions, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has not wrapped up the nomination two years before the general presidential race scheduled for November 2012. Romney was working toward the GOP nomination even before he got into the race in 2008 – and then lost in the stretch to Arizona senator John McCain. While still governor in the very left-of-centre state of Massachusetts in 2007, Mitt, the son of former Michigan governor George Romney, carried out a breathtaking about-face in positioning himself for the Republican primaries. He moved across the political spectrum, from somewhere near Barack Obama on social issues, immigration and a state-run medical program, to what looks like a made-to-order right-wing position-package aimed at conservative primary voters... Read Full Article

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Only One God but Oil
Srdja Trifkovic
Interventionists and their neo-conservative twins on both sides of the Atlantic were jubilant as Libyan rebels took Tripoli. From now on ‘the right question for the United States and its allies isn’t whether to help oppressed people fight for freedom. It’s “when’’’ declared the Washington Post on August 24th. The answer to that question is right now, opined former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, who wishes to effect regime change in Syria. According to Lord Owen, former British Foreign Secretary, ‘we have proved in Libya that intervention can still work and a precedent for the future is now set. Who, today does not thrill to the spectacle of freedom in Tripoli?’ Fouad Ajami enthused in the Wall Street Journal. The spectacle in the streets of Tripoli was no more thrilling than that of young men brandishing Kalashnikovs, flashing V signs, and smashing kitschy statues anywhere else in the world: and thrill is a poor substitute for policy...
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The adjective ‘social’ abolishes or contradicts the word that succeeds it. This is not quite true; no one can claim that social housing, whatever its undesirable effects, is not housing of a kind. 
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Reputations — 34

Erwin Schrödinger: Nature and the Greeks

Brian Ridley


Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Laureate, one of the founders of quantum theory, was born in Vienna in 1887 of mixed Austrian and English family. He is famous for his cat, which, according to quantum theory, can exist in a state that is both dead and alive. Schrödinger, even though he had invented the cat, naturally regarded this as nonsense, and joined Einstein in having grave doubts about quantum theory being an adequate theory of physics. In spite of its resounding success in predicting the results of measurements on sub-microscopic particles, in some cases to remarkable accuracy, unease about the theory persists to the present day... subscribe

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Mr Valiant for Truth

Readers of this Review will be sad to learn of the death of Ray Honeyford whose articles, appearing in the early years of the Review’s publication, had so many far-reaching consequences for everyone involved. Ray Honeyford was an upright, conscientious secondary-school teacher, who believed it to be his duty to prepare children for responsible life in society, and who was confronted with the question how to do this, when the children are the offspring of Muslim peasants from Pakistan, and the society is that of England. 

Honeyford’s articles honestly conveyed the problem, together with his proposed solution, which was to integrate the children into the surrounding secular culture, while protecting them from the punishments administered in their pre-school classes in the local madrassah, and opposing their parents’ plans to take them away whenever it suited them to Pakistan. He saw no sense in the doctrine of multiculturalism, and believed that the future of our country depends upon our ability to integrate its recently arrived minorities, through a shared curriculum in the schools, and a secular rule of law that could protect women and girls from the kind of abuse to which he was a distressed witness.
    
Everything Ray Honeyford said is now the official doctrine of our major political parties: too late, of course, to achieve the results that he hoped for, but nevertheless not too late to point out that those who persecuted him and who surrounded his school with their inane chants of ‘Ray-cist’ have never suffered, as he suffered, for their part in the conflict. Ray was eventually forced to retire, and the teaching profession lost one of its most humane and public-spirited representatives. 

This was one example of a prolonged Stalinist purge by the educational establishment, designed to remove all signs of patriotism from our schools and to erase the memory of England from the cultural record. Readers will be grateful for the life of this exemplary, heroic and profoundly gentle man, who was prepared to pay the price of truthfulness at a time of lies.         

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Conservative Classic — 45 
Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man

Christie Davies

Malcolm Bradbury was one of the greatest humorists of the last half of the twentieth century and The History Man is his most famous novel. It is a work of incisive social comment and at times it has a black, even disturbing side to it. Malcolm Bradbury was an academic expert on Evelyn Waugh and presumably influenced by him, but whereas one can often laugh without doubts at Waugh’s innocent victims of injustice, there are scenes in The History Man which are very close to tragedy...subscribehttps://sites.fastspring.com/salisburyreview/instant/thesalisburyreviewshapeimage_33_link_0
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