Columns & EssaysPolitics & Current AffairsFugue for TinhornsSteyn on GOP delusions and a Conservative "terrorist"... Steyn's Song of the WeekOf Rain and WrecksMark remembers Gordon Lightfoot... Mark at the MoviesThe Passion Of The ChristThe Gospel according to Mel... Shaidle at the CinemaPather PanchaliUpon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali... Steyn on CultureThe Prisoner of WindsorA remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first. My new book is both a sequel to and a contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic of 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda... The War on Free SpeechSteyn Sues OfcomHappy Victoria Day to all Mark's fellow Canadians... Ave atque valeBall's BearingSteyn remembers Tim Ball, hounded into penury and death by the deadbeat Michael Mann... The Bachman BeatTal Bachman: Two Centuries of Rugby, Part IIIIt's a fine autumn day, 1823. A new school year has begun at Warwickshire's Rugby School. Among other things, that means the students have have begun to play the in-house ball game again during free time, just like every year for as long as anyone can remember. The rules never change. They will be the same this year as they were last year—which is to say, the same as they were ten, twenty, fifty years before. And given that Queen Elizabeth I's royal grocer Lawrence Sheriff founded the school in 1567, maybe two hundred plus years before. No one really knows... Laura's LinksThe Shrinking WorldLaura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet from Swedish non-blondes to Saudi Jewrabia... Rick's FlicksThe War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck!Rick McGinnis on a classic war movie with Kenneth More and Dana Wynter... ![]() |
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