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When Aristotle repeated the wisdom of the Delphic Oracle of ‘Know Thyself’ he was preceded by a long line of poets, philosophers and other idlers. The phrase spans all languages, all religions. It is one of those quick and helpful philosophical gems which, like the ‘Cogitans’ of Descartes – ‘I think therefore I am’, fits the modern world of fast … [Read on]

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Articles in the Winter Edition of the magazine out today 5th December 2022.

Editorial. “Why did we vote for a Conservative Government which has so spectacularly failed?'”

Ian Cooper. “Our Indian Prime Minister.”

Alistair Millar: “In debt to Chairman Xi.”

Charles Vickers: “Climate change, the biggest fraud of our age or the end of humanity?”

Ivantiny Novak “The Russian People, not just Putin, are responsible for the Ukraine war.”

Graham Daseler: “Why are there so few black African Musicians?”

Jane Kelly: “Reasons for being Cheerful.”

Don Beech:”Is there a root cause for black Violence?”

Che Macarius: The opposite view. “Washington and Nato are the aggressors in Ukraine.”

Being the 40th Anniversary of the Salisbury Review, we publish a selection of articles going back to 1992. Here are a two more.

Brian Ridley. “Doing the Knowledge” Winter 2007

John Deverell. “British involvement in the war in the Yemen.” Spring 2018

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Myles Harris is the editor of The Salisbury Review. Well struck in years, he remembers when hangings were announced in received English by a man wearing a bow tie on the BBC Home Service, midwives rode bicycles, Lady Almoners looked after the deserving poor in hospitals and children were separated by the 11 plus into sheep and goats.

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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. A highly popular journalist, he writes for publications including The Times, The British Medical Journal, The Observer, Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Salisbury Review. He is also contributing editor to City Journal, where he is Dietrich Weismann Fellow. His books include Life at the Bottom, Our Culture, What’s Left of It and Spoilt Rotten.

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Jane Kelly worked for the Daily Mail for 15 years as a leading celebrity interviewer. Among her interviewees were Hillary Clinton, Jack Nicholson, Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Michael Portillo, Tony Benn, Jeffrey Archer, Edwina Curry, Scarlett Johansson, Arthur Scargill, Vanessa Redgrave and Elizabeth Taylor. She has written two books; a biography of Colin Farrell, and Inside – an account of working as a teacher in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London.

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