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"Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.Steven Berkoff
“Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity".A tweet from a parody account retweeted and later deleted by Naz Shah, a Muslim woman who has just been named Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion by the new British Labour Leader, Sir Keir Starmer.
"I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague."Paul O'Grady, formerly the drag artist known as Lily Savage, who says he “definitely” had coronavirus but “just got on with it”, without getting tested.
"The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side."Miss Prism in "The Importance of Being Earnest" is very topical these days.
"Well yes, I have been saved... but in my case it was such a close-run thing that I thought I had better keep quiet about it."
Sir Alec Douglas-Home - how sweet that man was. Definitely the nicest British Prime Minister since at least Baldwin and before that probably Melbourne.
What appealed to West was patriotism—not mindless loyalty, but a critical devotion to the national ideal. She once wrote that every nation should be chauvinistic in the sense that it should believe it has something unique to contribute to the world— but, she added, thank God the whole world was not England or, perish the thought, the Soviet Union!
ReplyDeleteFor Rebecca West, history could not be understood in terms of ideology, of ideas that could be superimposed on tradition. Instead, she allied herself with writers such as Burke and Tocqueville, precisely those thinkers whose worth has risen as Marxism has bankrupted itself. Both Burke and Tocqueville believed in the character of a people, that the French major in being French just as the Americans major in being American. There is no political god, only political legacies that people can extend and improve upon.
Rebecca West and the God That Failed
Carl Rollyson
http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/rebecca-west-and-god-failed
Oh absolutely excellent, Toma.
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