David Wall Dead At 67
British ballet dancer and CBE winner David Hall died yesterday from cancer at his family home in Croydon, South London at the age of 67. Wall was famous for being the youngest male principal in the history at The Royal Ballet at the age of 21,...
Saatchi Assaults Wife
Jewish art collector Charles Saatchi has accepted an official police caution for assaulting his wife, the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, after paparazzi photographs showed him grabbing Lawson by the throat at a London dinner table last week...
Is Morocco Today What Spain Was 50 Years Ago?
The Western World looks to the Muslim countries with some trepidation since 11-S. We look askance into the unknown, into “the other” and from a distance, as if we are very far from that reality so unstable and culturally distinct. But the...
A Trip To Tirupati
My thrilling journey to Tirupati began on Saturday 19th of November 2011 with three of mine friends Monica, Siva and Mohindar when we set around 10:00 pm on bikes. It was a cool breezy night which was full of adventure. The route which we took...
Father’s Day
June 16/13
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!” (Lydia M. Child, U.S. Author)
Hopefully, all men will have the blessed grace of being fathers. Being a father is a heavenly endowment, a great satisfaction,...
Renaissance & Nazism As Ideas of Progress
The Renaissance as a reactionary idea of progress
The Renaissance (“rebirth” c. 1348-1648) evolved around a modernist and, therefore, reactionary idea of progress. This statement is not as nonsensical as it sounds. As Roger Griffin...
The Betrayal of History
“Hell hath no fury like an intellectual spurned.” ~ William Shakespeare, very liberally paraphrased
“Dreamworld and Catastrophe” is a cry of anguish disguised as the interdisciplinary analyses of a (neo-) Marxist scholar.
It...
The Chinese Room Revisited
Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to refute the Chinese Room Thought Experiment proposed by Searle in 1980 and refined (really derived from axioms) in 1990. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped...
Tan Twan Eng Wins Scott Prize
The latest £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been won by Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng, for his second novel ‘The Garden of Evening Mists’.
Written by Chris White
Tan-Twan-Eng received the prize from the Duke of Buccleuch...
Anti-Misandry Attack on Queen
Yesterday a 41-year-old Tim Haries campaigning on behalf of the pressure group ‘Fathers4Justice’ attacked the Jubilee oil canvass portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Australian artist Ralph Heimans, which was hanging on public display at Westminster...
