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Temper, temper

Monday, December 1, 2008

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) Ross W. Duffin W.W. Norton, £9.99, p196 . When William Gardiner lamented in 1832 that ‘the Deity seems to have left music in an unfinished state’ he was referring to a seeming paradox of tuning: if you start from C and keep adding fifths, twelve […]

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Devil May Care

Saturday, May 31, 2008

‘Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming’, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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A free album? I don’t buy it

Monday, October 15, 2007

Radiohead’s In Rainbows, considered. — For Stop Smiling

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Liberation or catastrophe?

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Sir Michael Howard’s Liberation or Catastrophe? (Hambledon Continuum, £25) is an emphatic commentary on the West’s continuing struggle to deal with the basic legacy of the Enlightenment: ‘the freedom to starve’. Beginning with the rise of nations, Sir Michael analyses a century-long global war which destroyed the old European order and witnessed a maelstrom of […]

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Now I have to pretend to like graphic novels, too?

Monday, August 20, 2007

A review of Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. — For Stop Smiling

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God is NOT Great

Monday, June 11, 2007

by Christopher Hitchens, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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How Bond got his balls back

Monday, November 20, 2006

(and then nearly lost them again) Casino Royale, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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British Neocon manifesto

Thursday, August 24, 2006

The British Moment, by the Henry Jackson Society, reviewed. — For The Brussels Journal

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What Terrorists Want

Saturday, July 1, 2006

by Louise Richardson, reviewed. — For The Atlantic Affairs.

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Guardians of Power

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The ‘myth of the liberal media’, investigated by Medialens – and reviewed by me. — For The Atlantic Affairs

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