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Not one of us
Nick Cohen in Standpoint (via): a significant part of British Islam has been caught up in a theocratic version of the faith that is anti-feminist, anti-homosexual, anti-democratic and has difficulties… more →
The gaping silence
Not one of us
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Phil wrote 10 months ago: Nick Cohen in Standpoint (via): a significant part of British Islam has been caught up in a theocrat … more →
The Left! I knew it was them! Even when it was the Bears, I knew it was them.
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smiffy wrote 1 year ago: Question: At a time of unprecedented financial upheaval, when – for the first time in a genera … more →
Christopher Hitchens gets served by AJP Taylor
adumbrations wrote 1 year ago: Christopher Hitchens won’t abandon his position on the war, claiming he’s being proven r … more →
A horror of facing
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smiffy wrote 1 year ago: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? - J.M. Keynes There are times when br … more →
On science alone
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Phil wrote 1 year ago: Like Splinty, I am not inconsiderably annoyed at Private Eye. Oh yes. In the recent ruckus between N … more →
Not enough protest songs
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Phil wrote 2 years ago: Yes, this is a very fine song (and this is a very fine version of it, which I hadn’t seen in 2 … more →
Kerouac, Kierkegaard, Michael Rennie
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Phil wrote 2 years ago: I agree with Andrew Anthony, up to a point: My book is a polemical memoir. It’s not ‘The … more →
Feels like Ivan
Phil wrote 2 years ago: Cohenwatch left this alone, possibly because the numbers are solid and the argument seems pretty rea … more →
Heart of this nation
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Phil wrote 2 years ago: Who’s with me? We have to wake up. These forces of extremism based on a warped and wrong-heade … more →
It's no problem, you can't have it
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: Robert Skidelsky, author in 1975 of a rather nasty biography of Oswald Mosley (on which I’ve c … more →
Just the power to charm
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: Dave: In a post yesterday, I pointed out that Tony Blair – currently in Pakistan to meet presi … more →
The sound of the keys as they clink
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: Back here, I wrote: my children are far closer to being ‘colour-blind’ than I’ll e … more →
Sounds so good in stereo
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: I probably shouldn’t go to National Trust houses. Visiting one this afternoon I was accosted b … more →
Do you think you've made the right decision this time?
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: Like Dave, I’ve got a lot of time for some of the signatories to the Euston Manifesto. And, li … more →
That pretty soldier's hat
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: Steve Bell (via) anticipated Blair’s reaction to the hundredth death of a British soldier in I … more →
With no fear of attack
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Phil wrote 3 years ago: Thanks to Talk Politics, I’ve recently read – or at least glanced at – some remark … more →
Such a waste of energy
Phil wrote 4 years ago: Nick Cohen is getting careless. On the Guardian Web site, a recent Cohen column with the uncompromis … more →
It's no real reason
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Phil wrote 4 years ago: Let us just take this issue of Iraq and expose it for a moment – frankly, the obscenity of the … more →
Tired of being upset
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Phil wrote 4 years ago: Apparently the government’s much more left-wing now than it was a few years ago: much less aut … more →
