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		<title>The pleasure of games on boards.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[' I'd just finished an exhausting and stressful TV show that saw me reviewing one or more video games every episode, and those video games had all merged into one violent, brown, ugly whole. I was completely and utterly numbed by them. I'd had enough. I wanted to play a different kind of game. After hunting down all the great board games of my youth (Space Hulk, HeroQuest, Warhammer Quest) I flung myself into an online community to find out what board games were out there right now. There was no flesh and blood person I could speak to about board games at that point. I had to type words at strangers in Baltimore or Ontario or Berlin. I had to seek out little points of light, distant illuminated tables, wherever I could find them. The scene, over here in the UK at least, was as good as dead.']]></description>
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		<title>Ten notes from a British Europhobe to a Continental Euroclone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Blackburn: Like a Muslim permitted by taqiyya to lie about his true beliefs and intentions, so you are permitted to prevaricate about the purpose of the project. That’s another reason we have grown to hate the EU in Britain: we know we were lied to when we joined. It’s not a fantasy, it’s a fact that can be clearly demonstrated from the official documents. We were told we were joining an economic free trade community, not being suckered into eventual unification into a single state.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Victorians were indeed substantially cleverer than modern populations&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Victorian era was characterized by great accomplishments. As great accomplishment is generally a product of high intelligence, we tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were actually cleverer than modern populations....In the present study we used the data on the secular increase in simple RT described in a meta-analysis of 14 age-matched studies from Western countries conducted between 1884 and 2004 to generate estimates of the rate of IQ decline. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Gove Reader.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 08:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Blackburn: 'It just happens that many of the books proposed are not just grown-up but “old” and “old” is always categorised as bad by certain people, even some who want youngsters to develop the reading habit. ']]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Europe Day – and night.</title>
		<link>http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/05/europe-day-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson: The EU was 'a political experiment gone wrong. Do you know what that experiment was? The experiment was to see if Europeans could be forced into an even closer union — despite their wishes — by economic means because the political means failed.']]></description>
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		<title>Camus, the Mediterranean man&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['In this respect, Camus was quitessentially French, but he saw himself not only as a Frenchman but also as a man of the Mediterranean, a spiritual heir of Saint Francis who, as Camus put it in an early manifesto on "Mediterranean culture" (included in the supplementary material to this volume), "turned to nature and naïve joy." But "nature and naïve joy" could not survive in the climate of "soulless violence" that descended on Algeria, the land of Camus's birth and the very root of his being...']]></description>
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		<title>The virtue of patricide.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 11:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Wall: 'It is hard to imagine a Russian iconographer saying that in art one must kill the father. There the tradition, and its continuity, is of the essence. It is only when form is under dynamic interrogation, when art is turning itself inside out, when the new is in radical conflict with the old, that spiritual parricide appears to be in order. Modernism negotiates a crisis of form. The old realism had become, according to Brancusi, ‘a confusion of familiarities’, and the word familiarity is linked morphologically to the word family. So if you want to attack that effectively you will need to go for the head, which is to say the paterfamilias. So shall we modify Picasso’s statement and say, in modern – and certainly modernist – art one must kill the father, because the father still commands that kingdom which represents our ‘confusion of familiarities’? His is the old formality that must be broken up by those excluded from the Salon, the Young Turks of innovation and dissent stirring out there on the street.']]></description>
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		<title>Writers Museum, Dublin: tat and ephemera.</title>
		<link>http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/04/dublin-writers-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Sansom: 'A truly great International Writers Museum might contain, say, W.H. Auden’s slippers, Clarice Lispector’s eyebrow pencils, Albert Camus’s goalie gloves, and one of Marianne Moore’s tricorne hats. A Writers Museum of Stylistic Devices would include Pinter’s silences, various Oulipian devices, and a hands-on working exhibit featuring Elmore Leonard’s stripped down dialogue mechanics. And the Writers Natural History Museum – a cross between the Pitt-Rivers, the Wellcome Collection, and a good old-fashioned Kunstkabinett – would feature a vast collection of livers, tear ducts, bile salts, anal cysts, and beards displayed according to weight. In the meantime, the Dublin Writers Museum is probably as good as it gets.']]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;For more than 30 years, every French government has lost every election.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/04/for-30-years-french-government-lost-election/</link>
		<comments>http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/04/for-30-years-french-government-lost-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['For more than 30 years, every French government has lost every election. With a single exception, you have to be over 50 today to have voted in the last election, in 1978, when the incumbent majority held on to power: Nicolas Sarkozy managed to get a conservative majority re-elected in 2007 only because he profiled himself, dishonestly, as a new broom and as a rebel against the roi fainéant, his former mentor Jacques Chirac.']]></description>
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		<title>The dull sword of Clegg.</title>
		<link>http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/04/dull-sword-clegg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Blackburn: 'This Snooper’s Charter, which received no attention whatsoever in the UK media, was “transposed”, i.e. incorporated into English law in 2009. Thus we are already being snooped on. Both the Labour government’s planned database and the Coalition’s are merely expensive add-ons to what already exists.']]></description>
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