Here is a depiction of Moses, or Musa.

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Here are a few principles. They are the agreed principles of the partners in Bapton Books. It strikes us - as Borno State, in Nigeria, burns and Islamists hold hostages at (of course) a kosher shop in Paris and in Dammartin (where is Jeanne d’Arc when she’s wanted) - as important to state them anew.

(Yes, we quite realise many of you begin bricking ( Read more... )

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Commentaire serait superflu.

Nous sommes tous Charlie Hebdo.

Imagine a book. Imagine a book to which the contributors, to give a very brief and partial list, included GK Chesterton and Anatole France, Kipling, Arnold Bennett, AC Benson, Elgar and Debussy, the Aga Khan and Marie Corelli, Thomas Hardy, the painter Fildes and Edmond Rostand of Cyrano fame, Nansen of the Arctic, Mrs Pankhurst, former US ( Read more... )

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The RAR have ended the hostage situation in Sydney. All praise to them.

At the time of writing, the unconfirmed report is that an innocent, as well as the guilty sod Man Haron Monis, is dead. We will and shall remember.

Let us now pause to remember other Diggers, soldiers of HM the Queen of Australia, whose memories were abused and families ( Read more... )

... and no declarations yet, I can now mention again the thing which has most stuck in my gullet over this damned Referendum. The issue of democratic legitimacy:


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Tomorrow, the die shall be cast. One of the four home nations, and that the least populous, shall decide the fate of all; a wee subset of British voters living in Scotland on an arbitrary date shall decide for all Scots in the UK whether their families are to be separated by an international frontier.

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My plea to my fellow Scots is here; a printable PDF version, here.

The ‘Shorter Catechism’ of it is here, and, PDFed and printable, here.

(Those who missed yesterday's 11 September remembrance may find it here.)

If you’re in the UK, and not eligible to vote in the Scottish Referendum (a Cockney charlady hired away by an oil company to live and work in Aberdeen is eligible, for example; a member of Clan Wemyss who was born in Renfrewshire but happens to live in the West of England … isn’t. It’s all very odd and very convoluted), please consider joining me, ( Read more... )