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Xenophobia The thinking person's phobia Posted on UTC 2025-09-20 13:09 Words: 484; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for April Beware the expert class Posted on UTC 2025-04-01 02:01 Words: 384; reading time: 1 minute Icon An icon for the new media age Posted on UTC 2025-03-01 17:00 Words: 992; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for May Calm and contented | Doris Day | Seen recently in passing Posted on UTC 2019-05-01 02:01 Words: 293; reading time: 1 minute A well-known opera – but which? Guess. Posted on UTC 2018-11-02 09:32 Words: 447; reading time: 2 minutes Warm beds and elevated feelings Sublime thoughts, openly expressed. Posted on UTC 2018-09-30 22:33 Words: 3,909; reading time: 17 minutes Folk Devils and Moral Panics Just don't mention the war – even if you manage to remember it. Posted on UTC 2018-06-22 11:22 Words: 1,503; reading time: 6 minutes 20 June 1914: blasting and blessing Whipping up an artistic storm as the thunderclouds gather. Posted on UTC 2018-06-18 17:33 Words: 5,086; reading time: 23 minutes Leftist bias at Google? Surely not! Seek and ye shall find… Posted on UTC 2018-06-02 09:12 Words: 116; reading time: 1 minute Serious advice for all men Scouting for Girls or Boys. Some words for the innocent: Be prepared. Posted on UTC 2018-05-23 08:23 Words: 1,406; reading time: 6 minutes Dr Groddeck will see you now Our Easter special: a psychoanalyst's view of Jan Davidszoon de Heem's Still life with bird's nest. Posted on UTC 2018-04-01 07:22 Words: 2,249; reading time: 10 minutes Two Swiss railway station waiting-room murals Witnessing the collapse of civilisation. Perhaps. Posted on UTC 2018-01-02 10:17 Words: 2,469; reading time: 11 minutes Cooking the goose and the gander What's sauce for the MSM goose is sauce for the Breitbart gander. Posted on UTC 2017-12-11 17:46 Words: 463; reading time: 2 minutes On your own Time for a stiff upper lip. It is, after all, the only anti-terrorist weapon you have. Posted on UTC 2017-03-24 13:59 Words: 1,088; reading time: 4 minutes Quote and image of the month for February Quote: George Steiner, Real Presences, 1989. Image: the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Posted on UTC 2017-02-01 01:02 Words: 365; reading time: 1 minute Blacking up for beginners The harmless pleasures of byegone days. Posted on UTC 2017-01-15 11:27 Words: 1,235; reading time: 5 minutes Judge Judy, the Divine Comedy for our times The TV programme is a moral compass among the lost souls of modern America. Posted on UTC 2016-12-20 13:15 Words: 1,653; reading time: 7 minutes Esprit de corps in elected bodies Lurches to the left of me, lurches to the right, here I am: stuck in the middle with you. Posted on UTC 2016-11-01 09:17 Words: 859; reading time: 3 minutes A victim remembers A gentle encounter behind the tarpaulin. Posted on UTC 2016-10-22 09:30 Words: 783; reading time: 3 minutes Those formative years The truth never hurt anyone. The compact guide to developing a thick skin. Posted on UTC 2016-10-06 16:02 Words: 1,045; reading time: 4 minutes Wishful thinking There are practical limits to making allowances, however worthy. Posted on UTC 2016-09-15 16:15 Words: 502; reading time: 2 minutes The Bastille Spirit The Green Fairy is not your friend, Brendan. Posted on UTC 2016-07-17 08:08 Words: 869; reading time: 3 minutes Classic books The great unread, a mountain to be climbed? Or shall we just skirt round the outside, like sensible people do? Posted on UTC 2016-07-16 10:45 Words: 2,675; reading time: 12 minutes Renaissance mechanics Skilful recreations of some classical paintings as garage workshop scenes. Posted on UTC 2016-07-14 09:37 Words: 39; reading time: 1 minute Sharing the risk We agree with Mark Steyn on almost everything — just not this. Posted on UTC 2016-01-09 17:00 Words: 1,067; reading time: 4 minutes Suspending disbelief in modern life The operatic guide to the week's news in which we do not go quietly into that good night. Posted on UTC 2015-12-04 13:44 Words: 676; reading time: 3 minutes Enlightenment redux Brendan O'Neill calls on us to fight for the Enlightenment. Don't bother: it's dead and gone. Posted on UTC 2015-11-19 13:53 Words: 5,442; reading time: 24 minutes Antisocial media The definitive guide to staying sane in the social media age. Posted on UTC 2015-11-12 15:27 Words: 995; reading time: 4 minutes The bad old days Thank goodness they have gone! Forced gender assignment, a complete lack of ethnic, religious or sexual diversity. Posted on UTC 2015-10-23 09:11 Words: 382; reading time: 1 minute The good old days The good old days of life on the land before the curse of industrialisation. Posted on UTC 2015-10-04 09:33 Words: 721; reading time: 3 minutes
