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Down with America!

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“Down with America” is the title of a recent song by the popular Belgian musician Raymond van het Groenewoud. Written in Dutch and published by EMI , “Weg met Amerika” (”Down with America”) will be available in record shops as of next week, and was played on Belgian state radio last Thursday and Friday. [...]

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Tags: Europa · Literature & the Arts

Hollywood ruins classic Scottish film

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HE gave the world arguably the most iconic Scottish film ever made but a US remake which adds a swarm of killer bees and changes the sex of a pagan lord has proved too much for Robin Hardy.
The original director of The Wicker Man has called in his lawyers to have his name taken [...]

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medieval English invented rap?

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“Ample proof that rap has been around for 500 years.” Sorry, blacks, you can’t even claim rap as your own!
John Skelton lived from the 1460s until 1529. He came after Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir Thomas Mallory. He preceded Spenser and Shakespeare. He was a young man when Mallory’s “Le Mort d’Arthur” was published, and [...]

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Tags: History · Literature & the Arts

Shakespeare the Rebel

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A code-breaking book which aims to change the image of William Shakespeare and reveal him as a subversive who embedded dangerous political messages in his work is to be published in Britain.
Far from being an ambitious entertainer who played down his Catholic roots under a repressive Elizabethan regime, Shakespeare took deliberate risks each time he [...]

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“nationalistic hip hop”?

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A bit of weirdness out of Germany…
Again and again the lyrics of Bushido and his gangsta rapper homies openly flirt with fascism. “Salutiert, steht stramm, Ich bin der Leader wie A,” (Salute, stand to attention, I am the leader like ‘A’), raps Bushido. The ‘A’, of course, stands for Adolf. A rap collective [...]

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Tags: Literature & the Arts · Multiculturalism

The Winter of Constantinople

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The latest album by HERR, whose popularity among fans of Martial and Neo-classical music is growing steadily, has just been released on the Cold Spring Records label. Steeped in tragedy and legionary heroism, ‘The Winter of Constantinople’ is a musical odyssey which recreates the penultimate 1453 siege of the Byzantine capital beside the shimmering waters [...]

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Chesterton’s secret people

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A nasty Politically Correct article accusing the great Gilbert of “unsavoury xenophobia”, among other things…
Far from being an outcrop of Tory thinking, Chesterton’s idea of England’s “secret people” originated as part of this dispute within Edwardian socialism and the radical Liberalism of that time. Chesterton and Belloc came to be known as “Distributists”, [...]

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NEW FROM THE RISING PRESS

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We are now pleased to offer the following titles by the well-known Croatian author and New Right thinker, Tomislav Sunic:
‘Cool Croatia’
by Tomislav Sunic
PRICE: £5 / $7 (INCLUDING POSTAGE)
This book contains a collection of excellent articles taken from ‘Chronicles’ magazine, dealing with issues such as Maastricht and the EU, political correctness, Croatia, globalisation, communism, liberalism
and the [...]

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Futurism & the Vortex of London

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C.R.W. Nevinson’s pre-war association with the Italian Futurists profoundly affected his art but led to an irreparable split with the rest of the English avant-garde. [...] The Futurists’ philosophical basis lay in revolt and in the total rejection of the past. Marinetti, described as ‘The Caffeine of Europe’, was setting out to rid European art [...]

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D.W. Griffith’s legacy

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Ninety years ago today, at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles, 2,500 people watched the premiere of The Clansman, a 12-reel saga of the Civil War and Reconstruction directed by the Kentucky-born filmmaker D.W. Griffith. Later retitled The Birth of a Nation, the movie climaxes with a horde of Negroes besieging a cabin full of whites. [...]

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new Celine translation

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This reactionary, lower-middle-class sensibility probably has a lot to do with my fondness for Celine — more than I’d be comfortable acknowledging, perhaps. My love for Celine started from the fact that he, alone among “great” 20th century writers, never showed off, never played the pedant or wrote to impress the annotators.
Sly? Celine invented sly. [...]

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