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Monday, 22 September 2025

Upton Sinclair on the politician's paymasters

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S everal good, relevant and topical quotations from the American  muckraking journalist and author Upton Sinclair have been featured on here...
Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Sixteen years of blogging and still not finished yet!

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T his is the third article to highlight an anniversary for this blog, which was launched on September 9th 2009. T he first one marks the maj...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

A few more words about John Buchan's Greenmantle

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S everal of John Buchan's books have been featured and/or referenced in a variety of articles on here. I didn't expect to have anyth...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Defence Against the Dark Arts Part XXXI: Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books

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E ven though they don't contain  material suitable for quoting on here, I felt that  the Rupert Bear books deserved a mention because o...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Honest politicians really are doomed!

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T his is another post in the topical series that features alarming and pessimistic politics-related quotations. T hese words from Taylor Cal...
Wednesday, 16 July 2025

More alarming words from Taylor Caldwell

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T aylor Caldwell has been referenced in several articles, including a recent one that features some of her alarming words about wars . H er ...
Monday, 30 June 2025

More about stories as painkillers

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O ne of the many articles inspired by Rudyard Kipling and his words  quotes something he said that made a big impression when I first came a...