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Deconstructing Darwin
Deconstructing Darwin Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by A.N. Wilson, published by John Murray, 2017, £25, hardback, reviewed by Gerry Dorrian Some of literature’s most unreliable narrators can be found in the field of biography. How appropriate, then, that A.N. Wilson devotes much … Continue reading
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Tagged AN Wilson, Charles Darwin, Eugenics, Francis Galton, Malthus
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We Will Bury You
We Will Bury You (1) Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Anne Applebaum, Alan Lane, 2017, £25, reviewed by GERRY DORRIAN Marx wasn’t sure what to do about the peasants. Although he railed in Capital against the “corvée” or rent-in-kind that reduced … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Applebaum, Holodomor, Lenin, Marx, Red Famine, Vsevolod Balitsky
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Catalonia, on the Brink
Catalonia, on the Brink Gerry Dorrian considers the roots of the current crisis Political geography tends to fracture across historical fault lines. In 2015, the University of Oxford’s DNA map of Britain revealed the continuing existence of the millennium-old Landsker … Continue reading
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Tagged Catalonia, Franco, Primo de Rivera, Stalin
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Fighting for England
Fighting for England Gerry Dorrian describes what drove the EDL As well as being Senior Lecturer at King’s College, London, Dr John Meadowcroft is the university’s Director of Postgraduate Research in Political Economy, and he has taught on the LSE … Continue reading
Reflections of a Noble Savage
Reflections of a Noble Savage Gerry Dorrian goes cold turkey What is Wrong with US?: Essays in Cultural Pathology, Eric Coombes & Theodore Dalrymple (eds.), Imprint Academic, 2016, reviewed by Gerry Dorrian A drugs-worker in 2009, I posted Theodore Dalrymple’s Spectator … Continue reading
“Crooked” Hillary’s Crooked Predecessors
“Crooked” Hillary’s Crooked Predecessors Gerry Dorrian recalls a rigged election Donald Trump has caused consternation with his claim that he may not accept the result of the US presidential election if it doesn’t go his way. Is this his characteristic … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005 General Election, Donald Trump, Gerry Dorrian, Hillary Clinton
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The Establishment versus the Individual
The Establishment versus the Individual Gerry Dorrian buries the remains Snobbery and hatred have always led the powerful to seek to hobble those that they see as beneath them. Currently nothing embodies this more than the elitist and oligarchic response of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Martin Heidegger, Remainers
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The Problem of Hegemony
The Problem of Hegemony Gerry Dorrian on The New European “What first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?” Debbie McGhee, the magician’s wife, was famously asked by Mrs Merton, as played by the late Caroline Aherne. So famously, in fact, that her reply, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gerry Dorrian, Gramsci, Hegel, Hegemony, Kant, The New European
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A Referendum and the Murder of an MP
A Referendum and the Murder of an MP Gerry Dorrian condemns conflation On Thursday June 16, 2016, the increasingly acrimonious campaigns to remain and leave the European Union in the next week’s referendum fell silent at the news that … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain First, EU referendum, Jo Cox, Thomas Mair
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First in Beauty, First in Might
First in Beauty, First in Might Gerry Dorrian shoots the messenger How to Judge People by What they Look Like, by Edward Dutton (ebook), £5.00, 2017, 106 pp (standard paperback page equivalent), Available from Amazon, reviewed by GERRY DORRIAN It … Continue reading →
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