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		<title>We would find ourselves with an atomised society in which no one felt he had any duty to anyone else</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2020/03/we-would-find-ourselves-with-an-atomised-society-in-which-no-one-felt-he-had-any-duty-to-anyone-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, back in 2004, Anthony Daniels (perhaps better known as Theodore Dalrymple) picked up a book by André Maurois, published in 1931, called L&#8217;Amerique Inattendue. Maurois, who had taken a position teaching French literature at Princeton, preferred the character of the Americans in adversity to that in triumphal materialistic optimism: I felt distinctly uncomfortable [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The tattoo has a profound meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple was once consulted in the prison in which he worked by an inmate who was the proud father of two: I asked him whether he still saw them: continued contact with their biological offspring being something of a rarity among the imprisoned paternal community. Instead of answering me directly, he rolled up his [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>All because of a failure of nerve</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2017/06/all-because-of-a-failure-of-nerve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple was recently accosted by a canvasser for the local Labour Party candidate: The canvasser was a pleasant lady, and I stopped to discuss educational policy with her. Both main political parties think that more money should be allocated to schools. I said that I did not believe that the abysmally low level of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What tears the mask off the face of the past</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2015/03/what-tears-the-mask-off-the-face-of-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one who reads Qutb’s Milestones could doubt that the destruction of ancient monuments is perfectly in keeping with Islamist thought, Theodore Dalrymple says: It was one of the founding texts of modern Islamic fundamentalism (if that is not an oxymoron) and is worth studying not for itself but for the light it sheds on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Beguiled by Europe</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/beguiled-by-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are building in Europe not a United States, but a Yugoslavia, Theodore Dalrymple says: We shall be lucky to escape violence when it breaks apart. I passed over the fact that Europe is, so far, the consequence of peace, and not its cause; that multilateral agreements between countries have always been possible without the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Silly Questions</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/silly-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple discusses silly questions: When I was a small boy adults used to say to me, ‘If you ask a silly question you’ll get a silly answer.’ This irritated my nascent sense of logic: for if I genuinely did not know the answer to my question, how could I possibly be expected to know that it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern French Architecture</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/modern-french-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple is not in favour of the guillotine &#8212; except prophylactically for modern French architects: They should, of course, be given the choice between the guillotine and the fate of the architects of St Basil’s Cathedral and the Taj Mahal. The latter had their eyes put out so that they would not build anything [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Words and phrases have hinterlands</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/words-and-phrases-have-hinterlands/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/words-and-phrases-have-hinterlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words and phrases have hinterlands, Theodore Dalrymple says: In the late 1970s, people in Britain who received money from social security would say ‘I get my giro on Friday.’ (The giro was in effect a cheque.) Nowadays, however, they almost always say ‘I get paid on Friday.’ This new form of words is very revealing, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Past</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/time-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple looks back: From time to time, for reasons that I cannot explain, an episode returns to me from when I was almost sixteen. I was hitch-hiking in Scotland with a French friend; it now seems almost incredible that two boys of such an age should have been allowed by their parents to fend [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>British Degeneracy on Parade</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/08/british-degeneracy-on-parade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting for Theodore Dalrymple to weigh in on the British degeneracy on parade in his homeland: The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population during the current riots has not surprised me in the least. I have been writing about it, in its slightly less acute manifestations, for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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