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The Fire of Joy by Clive James; Picador, 2020 CLIVE James, eyesight impaired by surgery, was unable to read when he began composing The Fire of Joy, and he knew he was not far from death. This 300-page book is a semi-autobiographical salute to his great original love – poetry. He knew the 80-ish poems in the book […]
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Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power by Ramesh Thakur; Brownstone Institute, 2023 ‘THE years of living with oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance.’ One undoubted hero is the author of these words, Ramesh […]
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The Prisoner of Windsor by Mark Steyn; Stockade Books (April 2023) LAUGHTER is the balm of life, and if you are in need some of that balm I cannot direct you to a funnier book – one that makes you laugh out loud – than Mark Steyn’s novel, The Prisoner of Windsor, which he describes as a sequel to The […]
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World War II: The First Culture War, by Robert Oulds; The Bruges Group (2023) I’M OLD enough to remember when the Second World War was relived daily in the playground, with less popular kids deployed as Germans. Three decades after the conflict ended, the Battle of Britain and D-Day lingered in boys’ imagination, as they read […]
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