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anticant's arena: 12/01/2008 - 01/01/2009
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008. Nothing new under the sun. I had intended composing a New Year Message for 2009, pointing out that the crisis we are currently involved in is not just political, economic, financial, or military - it is first and foremost a moral crisis: the wholesale abandonment of honesty. Then I remembered that Rudyard Kipling had said all this far better than I could ever contrive to:. The Gods of the Copybook Headings. AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,. So we worsh...
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anticant's arena: 07/01/2009 - 08/01/2009
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009. More cant from Cantuar. There have been eight Archbishops of Canterbury during my lifetime: the sanctimonious Cosmo Gordon Lang; the robustly socialist and community-focused William Temple; the schoolmasterly Geoffrey Fisher; the saintly and subtle Michael Ramsey; the staid and uninspiring Donald Coggan; the misleadingly affable and on occasion steely Robert Runcie; the principled evangelical conservative George Carey; and now the amoebic Rowan Williams. But moustaches or no, the...
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anticant's arena: The world we live in
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Friday, 20 November 2009. The world we live in. A few of today's headlines:. Worried pimp 'called off rabbi's drug-fuelled orgy'. Court hears rabbi so exhausted after days of cocaine-fuelled partying that pimp grew worried and cancelled supply of girls. G ang 'killed victims for their fat'. Four people arrested in Peru. For murdering up to 60 people to sell their fat to cosmetic clinics in Europe, police claim. MPs' standards chief quits over expenses disclosures. Twitter urges Murdoch to be open. Some f...
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anticant's arena: Hail - and Farewell
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009. Hail - and Farewell. 8216;Tis the time for seasonal festive greetings to cheer the bleak midwinter. Warmest wishes to all regular and occasional visitors and posters for a Merry Christmas and a healthy, prosperous and – dare we say it? 8211; more peaceful New Year. And so to bed……. Labels: Ave atque vale. Another worthy Blogger leaves the sphere. Youll be missed, and thanks for the articles. 15 December 2009 at 18:44. 15 December 2009 at 22:28. 16 December 2009 at 06:43. My dea...
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anticant's arena: Down to earth idealist
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009. Down to earth idealist. I recently mentioned that for a while in 1950-51 I lodged in the same Hampstead house with Rowland Kenney, without realising that he came from my grandmother's native Saddleworth, or that he had led a distinguished and varied career including intensive involvement in the early Socialist movement and, during and after the First World War, as a British diplomat. Workman's Cottage to Windsor Castle. Rowland Kenney might well have called his. And then involv...
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anticant's arena: 09/01/2009 - 10/01/2009
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Thursday, 24 September 2009. This brought out my customary ‘Duke of Wellington’ response of “If you believe that, you’ll believe anything”, and reminded me of the song “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story. These kids have obviously convinced themselves that they are the victims of a social disease - the notion that they are, in fact, like everyone else, responsible for their own lives and actions has clearly never entered their heads. No-one is irredeemably stupid unless they suffer from physical b...
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anticant's arena: 10/01/2008 - 11/01/2008
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Monday, 13 October 2008. In general I refrain from commenting on the political and financial scene for fear of bursting a blood-vessel. But the events of recent weeks and days are so ludicrous that they merit notice in the Arena. First, we had the NuLabour infighting and jockeying for position by the would-be ousters of GordiBroon, all of whom – not least the odiously reptilian Milipede – showed themselves as being eager to wound, but too timid to strike. Future historians are unlikely to award him the a...
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anticant's arena: 11/01/2009 - 12/01/2009
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Friday, 20 November 2009. The world we live in. A few of today's headlines:. Worried pimp 'called off rabbi's drug-fuelled orgy'. Court hears rabbi so exhausted after days of cocaine-fuelled partying that pimp grew worried and cancelled supply of girls. G ang 'killed victims for their fat'. Four people arrested in Peru. For murdering up to 60 people to sell their fat to cosmetic clinics in Europe, police claim. MPs' standards chief quits over expenses disclosures. Twitter urges Murdoch to be open. Intell...
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anticant's arena: 05/01/2009 - 06/01/2009
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009. A bigger scandal than MPs' expenses. A friend in Scotland sends me this. He says the phone contained all the codes necessary for access to every part of the Faslane nuclear submarine base. Links to this post. Monday, 18 May 2009. The politics of gnats and camels. It is not just the tribal culture of MPs and peers that is wrong; it is the entire political culture which flourishes in parliament. And not only in parliament – in the country, too. Links to this post. Friday, 15 May 2009.
