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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Euro vision.

Friday, 26 February 2010

Denis Boyles: Governments run on money, and the wonderful thing about the euro up until now has been that the government of, say, Greece, ran just as inefficiently on German euros as it did on Greek ones. Eventually, as common sense would suggest, it all must chug to a stop and fall apart.

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Monochronos.

Monday, 22 February 2010

Monochronos – a previously unpublished poem by Hugh Chisholm.

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Listening to the Dead.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Anthony O’Hear: I have no wish to polemical here. I want simply to suggest that, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the most rewarding antidote to the mindlessness of the present, whether it be the insufferable complacency and narrowness of our leaders, or the banality and parochialism of the worlds of television and celebrity, is entry into the conversation which began with Homer – and which has continued (more or less) ever since, until perhaps now.

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On the Dread and Dislike of Science.

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

By George Henry Lewes IN THE STRUGGLE OF life with the facts of existence, Science is the bringer of aid; in the struggle of the soul with the mystery of existence, Science is the bringer of light. As doctrine and discipline its beneficence is far-reaching. Yet this latest-born of the three great agents of civilisation—Religion, [...]

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