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29 Mar 2016

Loving the Octopus

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Image taken from PZ Myers' blog Pharyngula   The strangely beautiful and beautifully strange octopus has many attractive features...
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26 Mar 2016

Ethnopluralism

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Thomas Huxley's map of racial categories from  On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind   (London,...

Brussels

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Carl Court / Getty Images (2016) As Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of Breitbart London, rightly says in the wake of the Islamist a...
25 Mar 2016

On Sexual Apathy and the Case of Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps

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Pamela looks at Hannay as she removes her stockings -  but he only has eyes for his sandwich. Commentators often note the frigi...

On Women and Fish in The 39 Steps

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Lucie Mannheim as Annabella Smith and Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps  (1935) Starring a very dashing R...
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24 Mar 2016

Tickets Please (On the Buses with D. H. Lawrence)

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Pat Ashton as überclippie  in the ITV comedy  On the Buses   Literary scholar Brian Finney cleverly identifies a loose classic...
19 Mar 2016

Dancing Barefoot (with Reference to the Case of Alice Howells)

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From Zarathustra to Patti Smith , there has long been a perverse fascination with the thought of young women dancing barefoot...

Identity is the Crisis Can't You See

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Cover of the English translation by David Schreiber  (Arktos, London, 2013)  Markus Willinger's Die identitäre Generation  is...
17 Mar 2016

Barefoot in Bloomsbury (The Case of Virginia Bodoin)

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Agnes Ayres: the American actress best known  for  her role  in The Sheik  (1921)  alongside Valentino  I have to confe...
12 Mar 2016

Luis Quiles and the Transparency of Evil

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Louis Quiles: self portrait and Twitter profile picture twitter.com/perterpunk  The work of Spanish artist Luis Quiles brilliantly ...