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I am the last of the famous international playboys. — Morrissey, song of the same name
Reggae music is vile. — Morrissey, 1980s interview
It began as one of those pub conversations about culture and art. You know how it is: Four or five guys (no chicks, please; they tend not to know much about music, and they are a distraction) not so much shooting the breeze as machine-gunning it. (more…)
Spain’s Right-wing populist Vox party, which began polling at over 20% only five years after its foundation.
Spain’s Right-wing populist Vox party, which began polling at over 20% only five years after its foundation.
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The 2004 Spanish general elections, held three days after the Madrid train bombings, only gave the main anti-immigration party 0.1% of the votes. And that was a long-standing record! However, votes are not always a good instrument to measure the support that ideas enjoy among the population, since the System uses several tricks to falsify the popular will. (more…)
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Patrick Le Brun joins Greg Johnson to discuss changes in the French National Front, Macron’s policies promoting the deindustrialization of France, the Catalan independence referendum, Breton nationalism, (more…)
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Greg Johnson talks to Patrick Le Brun about the players in the upcoming French presidential elections, the factors that might influence the outcome, and things that you can do to help meme Marine Le Pen into power.
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Michel Houellebecq
Submission: A Novel
Trans. Lorin Stein
London: Heinemann, 2015
Michel Houellebecq es uno de los novelistas más finos, de los actualmente vivos. Su novela más reciente, Sumisión, está ahora en inglés. (more…)
Marine Le Pen and her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
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Michel Houellebecq patrí v súčasnosti k najlepším románopiscom. Jeho posledný román Submission práve vychádza i v angličtine. Po jeho prečítaní sa potvrdilo moje dlhodobé podozrenie, že Houellebecq je mužom Pravice – či už si to prizná alebo nie.
Houellebecq je dlhodobo jedným z najdrsnejších kritikov liberálnej dekadencie a pokrytectva. (more…)
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Michel Houellebecq
Submission: A Novel
Trans. Lorin Stein
London: Heinemann, 2015
Michel Houellebecq est l’un des meilleurs romanciers vivants aujourd’hui. Son roman le plus récent, Soumission, est maintenant sorti en anglais. Il confirme mon soupçon de longue date que Houellebecq est un homme de droite, qu’il l’admette ou pas devant nous, ou même devant lui-même. (more…)
