Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. AT the beginning of the 1980s, teacher John Cunliffe was working in Kendal, in the Lake District, and decided to write about a character who toured the area visiting his friends and helping them out of a jam. The result was the stop-motion […]
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It’s almost the end of the year, and almost your last opportunity in 2023 to support The Imaginative Conservative. Our journal is now more than thirteen years old. Perhaps you have traveled with us since that day in 2010 when we embarked on our mission is to preserve the transcendentals, the “permanent things” that constitute the glory of Western Civilization. […]
Perhaps the new “Hunger Games” film’s success is due as much to its realism about human nature as it is to the fact that it’s a familiar product whose origins lie in the time before the full conquering of Hollywood by wokeness. The movie critic John Podhoretz once recalled a woman coming out of a […]
Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick fired back when she was criticized for attending Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix earlier this month. Patrick posted pictures and videos on Instagram from the annual event, which she attended with her sister. Turning Point USA is a non-profit that promotes conservative viewpoints on college campuses and beyond. […]
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. A BUNCH of woollen mouse-like creatures which communicate only in whistles would seem an unlikely subject for a classic children’s TV series. But thanks to the magic of Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin and Mrs Firmin’s knitting needles, the Smallfilms production Clangers was one of the […]
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There is a world of difference between the dark arts and the art of darkness. Truth be told, there is more than a world of difference; there is a hell of a difference and a hell of a distance. It is the difference and the distance between heaven and hell. The dark arts are evil […]
The Miracle of the Bells doesn’t claim to be great literature, but it is a richly-drawn story about faith and Hollywood, a time capsule of a bygone era that retains its inspirational charm. The Miracle of the Bells by Russell Janney (510 pages, Forgotten Books, 1946) Back in 1947 it was possible for a Catholic novel to […]
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