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The Other "Ozymandias"
Horace Smith's warning to modernity.
A Brief Defence of Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"
This is the second defence of particular Romantic poems I promised in my prior discussion of William Blake’s “London.” I strongly recommend reading my…
A Brief Defence of William Blake's "London"
Readers might have noticed my occasional study of the Romantics, which began with my survey of the movement for The Mallard magazine in March. In this…
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A Reintroduction to The Grumbling Times
British Politics, Paradigms, and Present Rigmarole
Hesiod's Ages of Man
Thoughts on Marble Arch
Hesiod and Ovid's Ages of Man
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On Temporal Bifurcation
Lethargic rapidity, frenetic lethargy and other seeming contradictions.
Hesiod and Ovid's Ages of Man
Overviews and analysis of unconventional linear histories.
John Constable Appreciation Zone
Selected works of the legendary English landscape painter.
Scuttling About in the Husk of Greatness
Notes on the past of the Conservative Party conference venue in Manchester.
Group B: Motorheaded Heroism
A short case study of the heroic in modern guise.
Brief Considerations on Entropy
The fundamentals of cosmic and temporal entropy.
Thoughts on Marble Arch as a Lesson for the Artist
The story of the construction of Marble Arch (or should it be the Marble Arch?) is well worth recounting. One reason for this is its obscurity to the…
The Grumbling Times in 2023
The day this post is released marks a year since my first article for The Mallard was published. Consequently, I thought it would be a good time to…
British Politics, Paradigms, and Present Rigmarole
Be careful what you wish for.
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The Grumbling Times
An island of grumbling in a sea of madness.
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Mallard #13, 'The Future Soon'
Pulp Liberalism and the Cinematic Universe
Mallard #17, 'Summer Nights'
Regime Change in Local Government
Mallard #18, 'Regime Change'
Notes From the Bleak Midwinter
Mallard #22, 'Provenance'
Vorticism: a BLAST Towards an Alternate Modernity
Mallard #23, 'Progress'
Lessons From Romanticism: The Tragic Hero in an Age of Betrayal
Mallard #24, 'Ides'
Wyndham Lewis and The Tyro
Mallard #25, 'Blast!'
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On Parliamentary Sovereignty
We Need a New Edward Watkin
Project 22 competition winner
The Republican Question
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The Exhibition (Review)
The Dualism of Contemporary Archaeology
Towards the Radical Scrutonians
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